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Nuclear Cleanup: Difficulties in Coordinating Activities Under Two Environmental Laws

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Dec. 22, 1994
Report No. RCED-95-66
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Summary:

In cleaning up waste sites within its nuclear weapons facilities, the Energy Department (DOE) must comply with two major environmental laws--the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. The first law regulates the management of facilities that treat, store, or dispose of hazardous wastes and the cleanup of hazardous wastes released from such facilities. The second governs the cleanup of inactive waste sites--that is, sites where disposal is no longer occurring. This report discusses (1) what DOE has done to coordinate its cleanup activities under the two acts, (2) what problems with coordination continue and how cleanup activities have been affected, and (3) how DOE plans to improve the coordination of cleanup activities in the future.

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