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RCED-93-201R 1 (1993-09-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackkk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-252343 September 21, 1993 150009 The Honorable John D. Dingell Chairman, Committee on Energy and Commerce House of Representatives The Honorable Al Swift Chairman, Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials Committee on Energy and Commerce House of Representatives Our report to you entitled Superfund: Backlog of Unevaluated Federal Facilities Slows Cleanup Efforts (GAO/RCED-93-119, July 20, 1993) discusses the progress that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies have made in evaluating federal facilities to determine if they should be included on EPA's national priorities list (NPL). As requested, this letter supplements the report by providing information on each of the facilities included on EPA's original docket of federal facilities that were identified as potentially contaminated with hazardous waste. For each of these 823 facilities, the letter shows whether or not statutory deadlines were met for assessing the facility and deciding if it belongs on the NPL. For each of the 96 of these facilities included on the NPL, the letter also discusses the progress made, as of October 1992, toward additional statutory deadlines for beginning investigations, signing an interagency agreement establishing responsibilities, and beginning the cleanup. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), requires EPA to compile and update a docket of potentially contaminated federal facilities.' Once EPA places a facility on the docket, the responsible federal agency must begin assessing the facility--performing a preliminary assessment to gather readily available information on the extent of contamination, and, if needed, a detailed site inspection-- to provide EPA the information it needs to evaluate whether GAO/RCED-93-201R, Federal Hazardous Waste Facilities 05% slwoy

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