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Environmental Protection: Information Used for Defense Environmental Management

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date June 11, 1997
Report No. NSIAD-97-135
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Summary:

This report provides information on the Defense Department's (DOD) environmental compliance and cleanup activities, including the extent to which the military is providing required data on the cost and status of compliance projects and the relative risk characteristics that DOD uses to prioritize site cleanups. GAO found that not all the information required for compliance oversight is being provided. DOD components do not provide detailed expenditure data on compliance activities, and DOD's reports to the Environmental Protection Agency did not provide such information as whether compliance projects address existing or expected noncompliance. As for risk, DOD used a relative risk site evaluation methodology in designating 4,472 of 8,534 sites as high risk. GAO's analysis of reported data on 407 high-cost sites--including 266 considered high risk--indicates that DOD includes a range of site characteristics within its high-risk category.

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