§ 214-f.Action to recover damages for personal injury caused by contact with or exposure to any substance or combination of substances found within an area designated as a superfund site

Superfund sites — areas designated as contaminated under the federal Superfund law or New York's Environmental Conservation Law — often aren't officially identified as such until years after nearby residents were exposed to whatever contaminated them. CPLR 214-f addresses the gap that timing creates: a person exposed to substances at such a site may sue within the period CPLR 214-c already allows, or within three years of the site's superfund designation, whichever period is longer.

The section doesn't replace CPLR 214-c's discovery rule; it layers an alternative deadline on top of it. Because the two periods run independently and the longer one controls, a late official designation can extend a claimant's time to sue beyond what CPLR 214-c's discovery-of-injury rule alone would allow — useful in cases where a resident didn't know their neighborhood was contaminated until well after learning they were hurt.

By its terms, CPLR 214-f covers personal injury from contact with or exposure to substances at a designated site; it doesn't extend the same alternative deadline to property damage claims, which remain governed by CPLR 214-c alone. The section belongs to the same family as CPLR 214-c, 214-h, and 214-b, each responding to a specific timing gap in ordinary toxic tort accrual rules.