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             UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

                     WASHINGTON, D.C.  20548

                                     FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                     EXPECTED AT 1:00 PM EDT
                                     March 26, 1985

                          STATEMENT OF
          HUGH J. WESSINGER, SENIOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
                RESOURCES, COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC
                      DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

                           BEFORE THE
                 SUBCOMMITTEE ON WATER RESOURCES
                             OF THE
       HOUSE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION


Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee:

     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 coming out with a comprehensive

report on Superfund reauthorization issues within the next few

weeks.

     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.

Specifically, we found that:

     --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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