Federal Hazardous Waste Sites: Opportunities for More Cost-Effective
Cleanups (Testimony, 05/18/95, GAO/T-RCED-95-188).

The federal effort to clean up contaminated hazardous waste sites is
expected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars and take decades to
complete.  Despite outlays of billions of taxpayer dollars so far, only
two sites on the National Priorities List have been completely cleaned
up. Given continuing budgetary constraints, it is critical for federal
agencies to find the most effective ways to use their resources.  During
the current congressional debate on reauthorizing Superfund, it is
important to address the following issues: identifying the full
inventory of federal hazardous waste sites, establishing a
priority-setting process for federal cleanups based on relative risks,
better controlling cleanup costs through better management of cleanup
contracts, and exploring incentives to promote the use of innovative
cleanup technologies.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-RCED-95-188
     TITLE:  Federal Hazardous Waste Sites: Opportunities for More 
             Cost-Effective Cleanups
      DATE:  05/18/95
   SUBJECT:  Cost effectiveness analysis
             Prioritizing
             Federal facilities
             Environmental legislation
             Hazardous substances
             Waste disposal
             Waste management
             Interagency relations
             Environmental policies
             Environmental monitoring
IDENTIFIER:  Superfund Program
             EPA National Priorities List
             DOD Environmental Restoration Program
             DOE Environmental Restoration Program
             
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