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Superfund: Information on the Status of Sites

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Aug. 28, 1998
Report No. RCED-98-241
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Summary:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to identify severely contaminated hazardous waste sites and include them on the National Priorities List for cleanup under the Superfund program. Over the program's history, the progress of cleanup at listed sites has received both congressional and agency scrutiny. National Priorities List sites generally follow a regular path toward cleanup that includes a study of site conditions and an evaluation of cleanup alternatives, the selection of one or more cleanup remedies, and the design and construction of the remedies. This report (1) determines the progress the Superfund program has made in selecting remedies at both federal and nonfederal sites; (2) verifies the accuracy of the information in the Superfund database on sites' cleanup progress; and (3) determines the number of cleanup projects that cannot be started in fiscal year 1998 because of a lack of funding.

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