United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1994-04-15 monographic deposited born digital GA 1.13:RCED-94-73 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-94-73 P0b002ee1803a15af f:rc94073 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-RCED-94-73 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-RCED-94-73 RCED-94-73 Environmental monitoring Hazardous substances Pollution control Cost analysis Environmental policies Federal facilities Waste management Reporting requirements Government liability (legal) EPA National Priorities List Superfund Program Letter Report RCED 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. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-94-73/html/GAOREPORTS-RCED-94-73.htm GAO/RCED-94-73 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-94-73 Letter Report GAO/RCED-94-73; Federal Facilities: Agencies Slow to Define the Scope and Cost of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanups; Environmental monitoring Hazardous substances Pollution control Cost analysis Environmental policies Federal facilities Waste management Reporting requirements Government liability (legal) EPA National Priorities List Superfund Program