Under the federal "Superfund" law, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to clean up sites contaminated with high levels of hazardous substances that may present a threat to human health or the environment. The full name of the Superfund law is the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, or "CERCLA," 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601-9674. The Superfund law also authorizes EPA to require the parties who are responsible for the contamination to help with the cleanup. The law, however, contains several exemptions which may reduce or eliminate a party's responsibility for cleanup, including the Service Station Dealer Exemption ("SSDE").

The SSDE is intended to encourage service station dealers to accept, for recycling, used motor oil from Do-It-Yourselfer ("DIY") recyclers. You may be eligible for the Service Station Dealer Exemption if you:

• are or were a Service Station Dealer
• collected DIY Used Oil
• transported or sent this DIY Used Oil to the Superfund site after March 8, 1993
• did not mix hazardous substances with Used Oil generated or collected by your facility; and
• complied with EPA's used oil management standards found in the Code of Federal Regulations.

• Use of CERCLA Section 114(c) Service Station Dealers Exemption
• Section 114(c) of CERCLA
• Used oil regulations, 40 C.F.R. Part 279
• EPA's Superfund enforcement website
• Superfund en Español

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