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RCED-94-233R 1 (1994-06-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackpa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G~o United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-215824 June 17, 1994 The Honorable Mike Synar Chairman, Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: In 1980, the Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), authorizing the Superfund program to clean up the nation's hazardous waste sites. Since then, the number of sites on the National Priorities List (NPL)--intended to be the nation's most severely contaminated properties--has grown from about 400 to a projected 4,500. As a result, what was once envisioned as a $1.6 billion cleanup program is now estimated to cost an additional $75 billion.' Given the magnitude of the cleanup task ahead, Members of Congress and others have emphasized the importance of ranking hazardous waste sites by their relative health risks and allocating resources accordingly. One alternative to the administration's proposal for reauthorizing the Superfund program, currently under consideration in the Congress, would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to adopt such a strategy. In a letter dated February 23, 1994, you asked us to review the role that risk plays in the Superfund program, both in setting priorities and in determining cleanup remedies. After debate over the program's reauthorization began, you asked us to focus initially on the first of these two 'The $1.6 billion is in nominal dollars, unadjusted for inflation. The $75 billion is in discounted present-worth dollars. The Total Costs of Cleaning Up Nonfederal Superfund Sites, Congressional Budget Office (Washington, D.C.: Jan. 1994). GAOIRCED-94-233R, Relative Risk in Superfund

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