Download or read book Region 8 Needed to Further Improve Interagency Agreement Oversight to Ensure Efficient Summitville Superfund Site Cleanup written by United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Region 8 Needed to Further Improve Interagency Agreement Oversight to Ensure Efficient Summitville Superfund Site Cleanup : OIG Review Report
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Download or read book Region 8 Needed to Further Improve Interagency Agreement Oversight to Ensure Efficient Summitville Superfund Site Cleanup written by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.
Download or read book Report of Review written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of the Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Superfund written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Before the passage of federal environmental legislation in the 1970s and 1980s, Department of Defense (DOD) activities contaminated millions of acres of soil and water on and near DOD sites. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has certain oversight authorities for cleaning up contaminants on federal property, and has placed 1,620 of the most contaminated sites--including 141 DOD installations--on its National Priorities List (NPL). As of February 2009, after 10 or more years on the NPL, 11 DOD installations had not signed the required interagency agreements (IAG) to guide cleanup with EPA. GAO was asked to examine (1) the status of DOD cleanup of hazardous substances at selected installations that lacked IAGs, and (2) obstacles, if any, to cleanup at these installations. GAO selected and visited three installations, reviewed relevant statutes and agency documents, and interviewed agency officials. "
Download or read book Superfund Interagency Agreements and Improved Project Management Needed to Achieve Cleanup Progress at Key Defense Installations written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the passage of federal environmental legislation in the 1970s and 1980s, Department of Defense (DoD) activities contaminated millions of acres of soil and water on and near DoD sites. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has certain oversight authorities for cleaning up contaminants on federal property, and has placed 1,620 of the most contaminated sites -- including 141 DoD installations -- on its National Priorities List (NPL). As of February 2009, after 10 or more years on the NPL, 11 DoD installations had not signed the required interagency agreements (IAG) to guide cleanup with EPA. GAO was asked to examine the following: (1) the status of DoD cleanup of hazardous substances at selected installations that lacked IAGs; and (2) obstacles, if any, to cleanup at these installations. GAO selected and visited three installations, reviewed relevant statutes and agency documents, and interviewed agency officials. GAO is recommending, among other things, that EPA and DoD identify options that would provide a uniform method for reporting cleanup progress at the installations and allow for transparency to Congress and the public. EPA and DoD agreed with the recommendations directed at them. GAO is also suggesting that Congress may want to consider giving EPA certain tools to enforce CERCLA at federal facilities without IAGs. DoD disagreed with this suggestion. GAO believes that EPA needs additional authority to ensure timely and proper cleanup at such sites.
Download or read book Superfund written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the passage of federal environmental legislation in the 1970s and 1980s, Department of Defense (DOD) activities contaminated millions of acres of soil and water on and near DOD sites. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has certain oversight authorities for cleaning up contaminants on federal property, and has placed 1,620 of the most contaminated sites, including 141 DOD installations, on its National Priorities List (NPL). As of February 2009, after 10 or more years on the NPL, 11 DOD installations had not signed the required interagency agreements (IAG) to guide cleanup with EPA. GAO was asked to examine (1) the status of DOD cleanup of hazardous substances at selected installations that lacked IAGs, and (2) obstacles, if any, to cleanup at these installations. GAO selected and visited three installations, reviewed relevant statutes and agency documents, and interviewed agency officials. GAO is recommending, among other things, that EPA and DOD identify options that would provide a uniform method for reporting cleanup progress at the installations and allow for transparency to Congress and the public. EPA and DOD agreed with the recommendations directed at them. GAO is also suggesting that Congress may want to consider giving EPA certain tools to enforce CERCLA at federal facilities without IAGs. DOD disagreed with this suggestion. GAO believes EPA needs additional authority to ensure timely and proper cleanup at such sites.
Download or read book Superfund written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superfund: Interagency Agreements and Improved Project Management Needed to Achieve Cleanup Progress at Key Defense Installations
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 236 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
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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.
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Download or read book Oversight Hearing on the EPA s Cleanup of Superfund Site in Libby Montana written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oversight hearing on the EPA's cleanup of Superfund site in Libby, Montana : hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, September 25, 2008.
Download or read book Value Engineering Final Report OU 4 Site wide Reclamation Summitville Mine Superfund Site Colorado written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
