| Main Title |
Hazardous waste sites : state cleanup status and its implications for federal policy : report to the chairman, Subcommittee on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives / |
| CORP Author |
United States. General Accounting Office. |
| Publisher |
The Office, |
| Year Published |
1989 |
| Report Number |
GAO/RCED-89-164 ; B-215824 |
| OCLC Number |
21002545 |
| Subjects |
Hazardous wastes ;
Hazardous waste sites--United States
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| Holdings |
| Library |
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Additional Info |
Location |
Last
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| EJBM |
TD811.5.U52 1989 |
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Headquarters Library/Washington,DC |
04/21/1990 |
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| Collation |
96 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Notes |
Cover title. Distributed to depository libraries in microfiche. "August 1989." "GAO/RCED-89-164." "B-215824"--P. {1}. Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents Notes |
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the status of state cleanups of hazardous waste sites not on the National Priorities List (NPL) and whether the cleanups met Superfund Program standards. GAO found that: (1) although 47 states reported about 28,000 known or suspected Superfund sites, many had not identified all of their sites; (2) 42 states reported inspecting about 7,800 sites and 43 reported cleaning up 1,736 sites and had begun work on another 760 sites; (3) six states completed about four-fifths of their cleanup activities, while about one-third of the states did not complete any cleanups; (4) the three most active states established major hazardous waste site cleanup ... |
