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Guidance: Exploring Annuities as Funding Tools for Superfund Settlements

Memorandum identifies mechanisms that will facilitate settlements and examines the use of annuities. Explores options for letting potentially responsible parties (PRPs) to use annuities, where appropriate, to fund cash payments in settlements with EPA or in global settlements among PRPs. Issued 4/17/1995.

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