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GAO-04-475R 1 (2004-02-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapyx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ,Accountability * Integrity* Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 February 18, 2004 The Honorable James M. Jeffords Ranking Minority Member Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate Subject: Superfund Program: Updated Appropriation and Expenditure Data Dear Senator Jeffords: You requested that we update the appropriation and expenditure data for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund program as contained in our July 2003 report on the status of the program. Superfund program operations are funded by appropriations from the Superfund trust fund. Historically, a tax on crude oil and certain chemicals and an environmental tax on corporations were the primary sources of revenues for the trust fund; however, the authority for these taxes expired in 1995. The trust fund continues to receive revenues in the form of cost recoveries, interest on the fund balance, fines and penalties, and general revenue fund appropriations that supplement the trust fund balance. As enclosure I shows, total Superfund program appropriations decreased from fiscal year 1993 to fiscal year 2004, in constant 2003 dollars, from $1,903 million to $1,241 million, respectively. Since fiscal year 2000, the Superfund program has increasingly relied on revenue from general revenue fund appropriations. In fiscal year 2004, the appropriation from the general fund was the only source of funds for the program. As enclosure II shows, Superfund program expenditures between fiscal years 1993 and 2003, also in constant 2003 dollars, have fluctuated between $1,727 million and $1,366 million. In preparing this report, we relied primarily on our prior work on EPA's Superfund program, updated where appropriate through discussions with Superfund program officials in EPA headquarters. Because we relied on previously issued work, we did not obtain comments from EPA on a draft of this report. We conducted our work in February 2004 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. 'U.S. General Accounting Office, Superfund Program: Current Status and Future Fiscal Challenges, (GAO-03-S50 (Washington, D.C.: July 31, 2003). GAO-04-475R Superfund Program

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