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Hazardous Waste Sites: State Cleanup Practices

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Dec. 24, 1998
Report No. RCED-99-39
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Summary:

As of October 1998, about 1,200 of the nation's most contaminated hazardous waste sites were being cleaned up under the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund program. States are addressing thousands of other hazardous waste sites in their own cleanup programs. Some of the state programs, which were originally modeled after the Superfund program, have been modified over the years to encourage more cleanups by site owners and others and to make cleanups more efficient. This report (1) identifies practices that are both used in state programs at sites that may be contaminated enough to qualify for long-term cleanup under the Superfund program and that are believed by State officials to reduce the time and expense of cleanups and (2) presents the views of EPA, environmentalists, and other stakeholders about whether the states' practices may be applicable to the Superfund program.

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