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 PUBLIC LAW 96-510—DEC. 11, 1980

94 STAT. 2779

or any other assistance appropriate under the circumstances; and (5) either independently or as part of other health status survey, conduct periodic survey and screening programs to determine relationships between exposure to toxic substances and illness. In cases of public health emergencies, exposed persons shall be eligible for admission to hospitals and other facilities and services operated or provided by the Public Health Service. NATIONAL CONTINGENCY PLAN

SEC. 105. Within one hundred and eighty days after the enactment 42 USC 9605. of this Act, the President shall, after notice and opportunity for public comments, revise and republish the national contingency plan for the removal of oil and hazardous substances, originally prepared and published pursuant to section 311 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, to reflect and effectuate the responsibilities and powers ^^ USC 1321. created by this Act, in addition to those matters specified in section 311(c)(2). Such revision shall include a section of the plan to be known as the national hazardous substance response plan which shall establish procedures and standards for responding to releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, and contaminants, which shall include at a minimum: (1) methods for discovering and investigating facilities at which hazardous substances have been disposed of or otherwise come to be located; (2) methods for evaluating, including analyses of relative cost, and remedying any releases or threats of releases from facilities which pose substantial danger to the public health or the environment; (3) methods and criteria for determining the appropriate extent of removal, remedy, and other measures authorized by this Act; (4) appropriate roles and responsibilities for the Federal, State, and local governments and for interstate and nongovernmental entities in effectuating the plan; (5) provision for identification, procurement, maintenance, and storage of response equipment and supplies; (6) a method for and assignment of responsibility for reporting the existence of such facilities which may be located on federally owned or controlled properties and any releases of hazardous substances from such facilities; (7) means of assuring that remedial action measures are costeffective over the period of potential exposure to the hazardous substances or contaminated materials; (8)(A) criteria for determining priorities among releases or threatened releases throughout the United States for the purpose of taking remedial action and, to the extent practicable taking into account the potential urgency of such action, for the purpose of taking removal action. Criteria and priorities under this paragraph shall be based upon relative risk or danger to public health or welfare or the environment, in the judgment of the President, taking into accoujit to the extent possible the population at risk, the hazard potential of the hazardous substances at such facilities, the potential for contamination of drinking water supplies, the potential for direct human contact, the potential for destruction of sensitive ecosystems, State pre-

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