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             UNITED STATES GENERAL  ACCOUNTING OFFICE

                     WASHINGTON, D.C.   20-548

                                      FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                      EXPECTED AT 1:00 P.M. EDT
                                      March 7, 1985
 126382
                           STATEMENT OF
              MILTON J. SOCOLAR,  SPECIAL ASSISTANT
                   TO THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL

                           BEFORE THE
      SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, TRANSPORTATION,  AND TOURISM
                             OF THE
             HOUSE COMMITTEE ON  ENERGY AND COMMERCE


Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee:

     We are pleased to be here today to discuss our  Superfund

work.  We have issued a series of  reports since 1981 on hazard-

ous waste disposal and will be cominq out with  a comprehensive

report on Superfund reauthorization  issues by the end of this

month.

     I will focus today on the extent of  the hazardous waste

problem, on the status of cleanup efforts,  and on the projected

cost of cleaning up the nation's hazardous waste  sites.

     --The Environmental Protection Agency  (EPA) has not yet

       identified all potential sites and  the Department of

       Health and Human Services has not completed health  risk

       evaluations;

     --EPA has completed cleanup at but a few of the worst

       sites and has many more sites to clean;

     --based on available resources, EPA has concentrated  its

       cleanup efforts on the worst sites and has  left the

       cleanup of most sites to the states; and

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