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Environmental Protection: Funds Obligated for Completed Superfund Projects

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 21, 1998
Report No. RCED-98-232
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Summary:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) relies heavily on contracts and assistance agreements for the Superfund program. Superfund contracts are awarded to private businesses to clean up hazardous waste sites, supervise the cleanups done by others, and provide technical and scientific support. In April 1997, GAO reported that EPA had $249 million in unspent obligated funds available for deobligation on more than 6,000 Superfund contract work orders and assistance agreements that were completed before 1997. (See GAO/T-RCED-97-134.) GAO recommended that EPA develop a strategy for identifying, deobligating, and recovering unspent funds. This report (1) determines EPA's progress in recovering the unspent funds on the inactive Superfund contracts and assistance agreements that GAO identified and (2) determines whether any additional funds that expired during 1997 for Superfund contracts and assistance agreements are available for deobligation.

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