Download or read book Common Cleanup Methods at Superfund Sites written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Emergency and Remedial Response and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Common Cleanup Methods at Superfund Sites written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cleaning Up the Mess written by Thomas W. Church and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2001-05-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal Superfund program for cleaning up America's inactive toxic waste sites is noteworthy not only for its enormous cost - $15.2 billion has been authorized thus far - but also for its unique design. The legislation that created Superfund provided the Environmental Protection Agency with a diverse set of policy tools. Preeminent among them is a civil liability scheme that imposes responsibility for multimillion dollar cleanups on businesses and government units linked - even tangentially - to hazardous waste sites. Armed with this potent policy implement, the agency can order the parties who are legally responsible for the toxic substances at a site to clean it up, with large fines and damages for failure to comply. EPA can also offer conciliatory measures to bring about voluntary, privately financed cleanup; or it can launch a cleanup initially paid for by Superfund and later force the responsible parties to reimburse the government. In this book, Thomas W. Church and Robert T. Nakamura provide the first in-depth study of Superfund operations at hazardous waste sites. They examine six Superfund cleanups, including three regions and both 'hard' and 'easy' sites, to ask 'what works?' Based on detailed case studies, the book describes various strategies that have been applied by government regulators and lawyers and the responses to those different strategies by businesses and local government officials. The authors characterize the implementation strategies used by the EPA as prosecution, accommodation, and public works. They point out that the choice of strategy involves setting priorities among Superfund's competing objectives. They conclude that the best implementation strategy is one that considers the context of each site and the particular priorities in each case. Looking toward the reauthorization of Superfund, they also offer recommendations for improvements in the organization of the program and discuss proposals for change in its
Download or read book Technological Approaches to the Cleanup of Radiologically Contaminated Superfund Sites written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coming Clean written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO discussed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) progress in cleaning up hazardous waste sites, focusing on: (1) future site clean-up challenges; and (2) possible clean-up approaches. GAO noted that: (1) EPA and responsible parties have removed significant amounts of hazardous waste from 149 sites on the National Priorities List (NPL) or reported as construction-complete; (2) EPA could better inform the public and Congress on a site's true status if it differentiates between sites that protect human health and the environment and those that require further remediation to achieve their clean-up objectives; (3) the remaining Superfund sites will probably be more costly to cleanup because they are more complex and require more extensive clean-up efforts; (4) EPA, states, and responsible parties will incur significant oversight, operation, and maintenance costs at many former NPL and construction-complete sites where untreated wastes remain; (5) oversight and funding problems will increase as the number of Superfund sites increase; (6) there is no consensus on how much cleanup is appropriate; (7) clean-up methods will depend on how EPA protects human health and the environment and sets clean-up standards at the sites; (8) possible clean-up approaches include uniform national clean-up standards, site-specific risk assessments, and treatment of immediate risks and delay of full cleanup; and (9) each clean-up approach has limitations due to the lack of scientific data and public acceptance.
Download or read book Superfund Cleanups written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses EPAs efforts to conduct cleanups of hazardous waste sites. Focuses on the type & extent of actions taken at those sites where remedy construction is complete & at sites deleted from the SUPERFUND priority list. Also evaluates the challenges EPA will face in managing & monitoring these sites. 20 charts & tables.
Download or read book Superfund written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994-12 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides data on (1) how the EPA used funds obligated for the Superfund program in FY 1987 through 1993; (2) the status of cleanup work at each Superfund site, including federal facilities; (3) the time differences in the cleanup work financed by EPA & parties responsible for the contamination, usually private enterprises; & (4) the extent to which limits on judicial review of EPA's cleanup decisions have eliminated cleanup delays. 15 charts & tables.
Download or read book Superfund written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) completed Superfund hazardous waste cleanup actions, focusing on the: (1) type and extent of actions taken at those sites; and (2) challenges EPA will face in managing and monitoring these sites. GAO found that: (1) significant amounts of hazardous wastes have been removed or controlled at 149 EPA Superfund hazardous waste sites; (2) EPA removal and remedial actions including landfill waste disposal, waste capping, and the use of contamination treatment technology have addressed long-term health risks and significant surface, soil, and groundwater contamination problems; (3) although most cleanup actions involved surface waste treatment, some sites did not require remedial action because EPA already addressed site risks; (4) other groundwater contamination problems required long-term treatment and monitoring; (5) EPA completed 125 separate removal actions at over half of the 149 sites and averted additional site and environmental contamination by removing waste from sites or constructing barriers to prevent access to waste; (6) despite these accomplishments, EPA needs to improve its reporting of cleanup work performed at sites on the National Priorities List; (7) EPA, states, and responsible parties can expect increased demands on cleanup resources because current and future Superfund sites will require complex cleanup efforts and long-term monitoring and maintenance; and (8) although states have increasingly challenged EPA interpretation of legislation requiring them to fund all costs for operating and maintaining completed or deleted sites, recent court rulings have upheld the EPA interpretation.
Download or read book Cleaning Up the Superfund Program written by David M. McIntosh and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing on the Superfund and the EPA's efforts in this area. Everyone -- environmentalists, small and large businesses, and State and local governments -- agrees that the Superfund Program, charged with cleaning up toxic sites, has been a failure and must be reformed. Witnesses: Assoc. Dir., Environmental Protection Issues, GAO; Asst. Dir., Superfund, GAO; Inspector Gen., EPA; Rep. John L. Mica; Florence Robinson, Communities at Risk Network; Commissioner, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; James Nerger, Marisol, Inc.; Jefry Rosmarin, RGE, Inc.; Beckett Bronze Co.; and Gloucester Co.
Download or read book Superfund written by Peter F. Guerrero and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund Information on the Nature and Costs of Cleanup Activities at Three Landfills in the Gulf Coast Region written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Value of Superfund Cleanups written by Shreekant Gupta and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has considered both cost and permanence in choosing among alternatives for cleaning up contaminated soil. But the EPA is willing to pay large sums to incinerate contaminated soil rather than cap it or put it in a landfill. Are the beneftis of inceneration worth it?
Download or read book Guide for Decontaminating Buildings Structures and Equipment at Superfund Sites written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund written by Lawrence J. Dyckman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Total Costs of Cleaning Up Nonfederal Superfund Sites written by Perry Beider and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
