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RCED-96-106R 1 (1996-03-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaclck0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States M )O General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-271417 March 18, 1996 The Honorable John D. Dingell Ranking Minority Member Committee on Commerce House of Representatives Dear Mr. Dingell: Concerned about the shift from the federal government to the states of responsibility for cleaning up hazardous waste sites, you asked us to provide data on the states' ability to take on these tasks and costs. Superfund bills currently before the Congress would cap the number of sites that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could add to the National Priorities List (NPL)--the most hazardous waste sites in the nation--and would restrict EPA's authority to take action at the sites not on the N PL. Under EPA regulation, only sites on the NPL are eligible for federally financed long-term cleanup. If the number of sites that can be added to the NPL is capped, responsibility for the sites that would have qualified for the NPL would revert back to the states, although the current and proposed Superfund laws do not require that the states clean up these sites. To aid in congressional deliberations on the proposed cap on the NPL, you asked us to provide preliminary information on the number of sites that the states could gain responsibility for nationwide under such a cap and the potential cleanup costs for these sites. You also asked us to conduct case studies to (1) estimate the number of sites and the associated cleanup costs for which the states could gain responsibility; (2) provide data on the balances available in the states' cleanup funds to address hazardous waste sites; and (3) obtain the states' views on the impact-of taking on the responsibility for additional sites, given the status of their current cleanup programs. This interim report will be followed by more detailed information and analysis in a report to you later this year. GAO/RCED-96-106R, Impact on States of Capping Superfund Sites /1 a Y 8

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