The name of the federal fund established in 1980 that helps to identify the previous owners (and polluters) of contaminated sites and helps to pay for the remediation of contaminated sites is .

Superfund

Explanation:

Due to inappropriate disposal and management of hazardous substances and sites, The united state environmental protection agency (EPA) established the Superfund program.

The Superfund is a fund that is set aside by the United State government to clean up of a site that is contaminated by hazardous substances. The Superfund can only be used when the polluter of the hazardous site is unknown. The polluter of the site either re-mediate the contaminated site or pay for the remediation of the contaminated site to be carried out by the EPA.

The United State has a total of one thousand and three Superfund sites with Pennsylvania, New Jersey and California accounting for the highest number of Superfund sites.

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