Federal Facilities: Agencies Slow to Define the Scope and Cost of
Hazardous Waste Site Cleanups (Letter Report, 04/15/94, GAO/RCED-94-73).

Environmental laws require federal agencies to clean up hazardous and
radioactive waste contamination at facilities they own or use or once
owned or used.  Agencies' early cleanup experiences indicate that the
overall federal cleanup effort will be enormously expensive and will
require decades to complete.  Published estimates of the government's
cleanup liability now range in the hundreds of billions of dollars and
are still growing.  This report (1) determines the status of federal
efforts to identify facilities potentially requiring cleanup, (2)
estimates future cleanup costs and (3) discusses obstacles to agencies'
progress in these areas.

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 REPORTNUM:  RCED-94-73
     TITLE:  Federal Facilities: Agencies Slow to Define the Scope and 
             Cost of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanups
      DATE:  04/15/94
   SUBJECT:  Environmental monitoring
             Hazardous substances
             Pollution control
             Cost analysis
             Environmental policies
             Federal facilities
             Waste management
             Reporting requirements
             Government liability (legal)
IDENTIFIER:  EPA National Priorities List
             Superfund Program
             
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