<P> According to a 2015 U.S. Government Accountability Office report, since 2001, most of the funding for cleanups of hazardous waste sites has come from taxpayers; a state pays 10 percent of cleanup costs in general and at least 50 percent of it operated the facility responsible for contamination . By 2013 funding had decreased from $2 billion in 1999 to less than $1.1 billion (in constant dollars). </P> <P> From 2000 - 2015, Congress allocated about $1.26 billion of general revenue to the Superfund program each year . Consequently, less than half the number of sites were cleaned up from 2001 to 2008, compared to before . The decrease continued during the Obama Administration, and since under the direction of EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy Superfund cleanups decreased even more from 20 in 2009 to a mere 8 in 2014 . </P> <P> The preliminary 2018 Trump Administration Superfund budget would cut the program by $330 million out of its nearly $1.1 billion budget, a 30% reduction to the Environmental Protection Agency program . </P> <P> CERCLA authorizes two kinds of response actions: </P>

Who pays for cleanup of toxic sites in the superfund program