1. a colorless oily fuming liquid, N2H4, used as a reducing agent and a jet-propulsion fuel. 2. a class of substances derived from this substance by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms by an organic group.
More than 150 companies and government entities could be asked to cover their share of the cleanup costs. On Nov. 18, the EPA submitted a nearly $1.4 billion cleanup option for the Portland Harbor Superfund site to the National Remedy Review Board, which serves as a peer review panel for Superfund projects.
In 2010, we reported that EPA's estimated costs to clean up existing contaminated sites exceed the Superfund program's current funding levels and that some sites have not received sufficient funding for cleanup to proceed in the most cost-efficient manner.