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Funding Needs Of Non Federal Superfund National Priority List Npl Sites
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Book Synopsis Funding Needs of Non-Federal Superfund National Priority List Npl Sites by : Barry Leonard
Download or read book Funding Needs of Non-Federal Superfund National Priority List Npl Sites written by Barry Leonard and published by . This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies & summarizes the funding needs of each non-Federal Superfund National Priority List (NPL) site so that cleanup activities can be initiated, continued, or expedited. It also provides the remedial action prioritization list for each region & any similar nationwide document. The report provides a series of enclosures that show the current Superfund remedial action funding process & the need for additional funding to complete remedial actions.
Download or read book Superfund written by J. Alfredo Gomez and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Superfund program, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) places some of the most seriously contaminated sites on the National Priorities List (NPL). At the end of FY 2013, nonfederal sites made up about 90% of these sites. At these sites, EPA undertakes remedial action projects to permanently and significantly reduce contamination. Remedial action projects can take a considerable amount of time and money, depending on the nature of the contamination and other site-specific factors. This report examines, for FY 1999 through 2013, the trends in (1) the annual federal appropriations to the Superfund program and EPA expenditures for remedial cleanup activities at nonfederal sites on the NPL; and (2) the number of nonfederal sites on the NPL, the number of remedial action project completions, and the number of construction completions at nonfederal NPL sites. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Superfund written by John B. Stephenson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of FY 2009, the EPA¿s National Priorities List (NPL) included 1,111 of the most seriously contaminated non-federal hazardous waste sites. Of these sites, EPA had identified 75 with unacceptable human exposure, 164 with unknown exposure, and 872 with controlled exposure that may need additional cleanup work. This report determined: (1) the cleanup and funding status at currently listed non-federal NPL sites with unacceptable or unknown human exposure; (2) what is known about EPA's future cleanup costs at non-federal NPL sites; (3) EPA's process for allocating remedial program funding; and (4) how many NPL sites some state and EPA officials expect to be added in the next 5 years, and their expected cleanup costs. Charts and tables.
Book Synopsis Superfund by : U.s. Government Accountability Office
Download or read book Superfund written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the end of fiscal year 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Priorities List (NPL) included 1,111 of the most seriously contaminated nonfederal hazardous waste sites. Of these sites, EPA had identified 75 with unacceptable human exposure, 164 with unknown exposure, and 872 with controlled exposure that may need additional cleanup work. EPA may fund remedial actions-long-term cleanup-from its trust fund, and compel responsible parties to perform or reimburse costs of the cleanup. GAO was asked to determine (1) the cleanup and funding status at currently listed nonfederal NPL sites with unacceptable or unknown human exposure; (2) what is known about EPA's future cleanup costs at nonfederal NPL sites; (3) EPA's process for allocating remedial program funding; and (4) how many NPL sites some state and EPA officials expect to be added in the next 5 years, and their expected cleanup costs. GAO analyzed Superfund program data, surveyed and interviewed EPA officials, and interviewed state officials. "
Author :United States Government Accountability Office Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781976296390 Total Pages :82 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (963 download)
Book Synopsis Superfund by : United States Government Accountability Office
Download or read book Superfund written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of fiscal year 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Priorities List (NPL) included 1,111 of the most seriously contaminated nonfederal hazardous waste sites. Of these sites, EPA had identified 75 with unacceptable human exposure, 164 with unknown exposure, and 872 with controlled exposure that may need additional cleanup work. EPA may fund remedial actions-long-term cleanup-from its trust fund, and compel responsible parties to perform or reimburse costs of the cleanup. GAO was asked to determine (1) the cleanup and funding status at currently listed nonfederal NPL sites with unacceptable or unknown human exposure; (2) what is known about EPA's future cleanup costs at nonfederal NPL sites; (3) EPA's process for allocating remedial program funding; and (4) how many NPL sites some state and EPA officials expect to be added in the next 5 years, and their expected cleanup costs. GAO analyzed Superfund program data, surveyed and interviewed EPA officials, and interviewed state officials.
Book Synopsis Analysis of State Superfund Programs by : Susan Bass
Download or read book Analysis of State Superfund Programs written by Susan Bass and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coordinated cleanup efforts between Federal & State agencies address numerous sites targeted by the Environmental Protection Agency¿s (EPA) National Priorities List (NPL), the list of sites with uncontrolled releases of hazardous substances that are the highest priorities for long-term remediation. A key step in enhancing the Federal-State partnership is to understand the States¿ cleanup programs aimed at non-NPL sites. This is the objective of this report, which updates the results of a study initially conducted in 1989 (& updated in 1990, 1991, 1993, & 1995) in cooperation with EPA¿s Office of Emergency & Remedial Response. Tables.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, Risk, and Waste Management Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :126 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (51 download)
Book Synopsis Superfund Program by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, Risk, and Waste Management
Download or read book Superfund Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, Risk, and Waste Management and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :420 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Status of the Federal Superfund Program by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials
Download or read book The Status of the Federal Superfund Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cleaning Up the Mess by : Thomas W. Church
Download or read book Cleaning Up the Mess written by Thomas W. Church and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2001-05-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal Superfund program for cleaning up America's inactive toxic waste sites is noteworthy not only for its enormous cost - $15.2 billion has been authorized thus far - but also for its unique design. The legislation that created Superfund provided the Environmental Protection Agency with a diverse set of policy tools. Preeminent among them is a civil liability scheme that imposes responsibility for multimillion dollar cleanups on businesses and government units linked - even tangentially - to hazardous waste sites. Armed with this potent policy implement, the agency can order the parties who are legally responsible for the toxic substances at a site to clean it up, with large fines and damages for failure to comply. EPA can also offer conciliatory measures to bring about voluntary, privately financed cleanup; or it can launch a cleanup initially paid for by Superfund and later force the responsible parties to reimburse the government. In this book, Thomas W. Church and Robert T. Nakamura provide the first in-depth study of Superfund operations at hazardous waste sites. They examine six Superfund cleanups, including three regions and both 'hard' and 'easy' sites, to ask 'what works?' Based on detailed case studies, the book describes various strategies that have been applied by government regulators and lawyers and the responses to those different strategies by businesses and local government officials. The authors characterize the implementation strategies used by the EPA as prosecution, accommodation, and public works. They point out that the choice of strategy involves setting priorities among Superfund's competing objectives. They conclude that the best implementation strategy is one that considers the context of each site and the particular priorities in each case. Looking toward the reauthorization of Superfund, they also offer recommendations for improvements in the organization of the program and discuss proposals for change in its
Book Synopsis Superfund Program by : United States. General Accounting Office
Download or read book Superfund Program written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up highly contaminated hazardous waste sites. Among other things, the law established a trust fund to help the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pay for cleanups and related program activities. The trust fund was financed primarily by three dedicated taxes until 1995, when the taxing authority expired. EPA continues to discover sites eligible for cleanup under the Superfund program. GAO was asked to examine the current status of the Superfund program, the factors guiding EPA's selection of sites to be placed on its National Priorities List, and the program's future outlook. The balance of the Superfund trust fund available for future appropriations has decreased significantly since 1996, while highly contaminated hazardous waste sites continue to be added to the National Priorities List (NPL), EPA's list of the nation's most contaminated sites. A decline in revenues to the trust fund has led the Superfund program to rely increasingly on appropriations from the general fund. In EPA's fiscal year 2004 budget request for the Superfund program, the general fund appropriation would make up about 80 percent of the program's total appropriation. At the end of fiscal year 2002, the NPL had 1,233 sites in various stages of cleanup. EPA considers many factors in selecting from the sites that are eligible to be listed, the most prominent of which are the availability of alternative federal or state programs that could be used to clean up the site, the status of responsible parties associated with the sites, and the cost and complexity of the cleanup required. As the Superfund program continues to add sites to the NPL and funding sources shift toward general fund appropriations, the effect of EPA's actions to address future program challenges remains uncertain. Because Superfund lacks indicators to fully measure the outcomes of the program's cleanup efforts, EPA has asked an advisory council to develop criteria by which to measure the program's progress. However, it is unclear whether the advisory council will reach consensus on its recommendations, and its findings are not expected until December 2003, at the earliest. Performance indicators could help EPA and the Congress make the difficult funding, policy, and program decisions that the current budget environment demands.
Book Synopsis Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act: a Summary of Superfund Cleanup Authorities and Related Provisions of the Act by : David M. Bearden
Download or read book Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act: a Summary of Superfund Cleanup Authorities and Related Provisions of the Act written by David M. Bearden and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA; P.L. 96-510) in response to a growing desire for the federal government to ensure the cleanup of the nation's most contaminated sites to protect the public from potential harm. The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-499, SARA) clarified the applicability of the statute's requirements to federal facilities, and modified various response, liability, and enforcement provisions. Several other laws also have amended CERCLA for specific purposes, including relief from cleanup liability for certain categories of parties, and the authorization of federal assistance for the cleanup of abandoned or idled “brownfields” where the presence or perception of contamination may impede economic redevelopment. CERCLA authorizes cleanup and enforcement actions to respond to actual or threatened releases of hazardous substances into the environment, but generally excludes releases of petroleum and certain other materials covered by other federal laws. Considering the limitation of federal resources to address the many contaminated sites across the United States, CERCLA directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to maintain a National Priorities List (NPL) to identify the most hazardous sites for the purpose of prioritizing cleanup actions. The states and the public may participate in federal cleanup decisions at NPL sites. The states primarily are responsible for pursuing the cleanup of sites not listed on the NPL, with the federal role at these sites limited mainly to addressing emergency situations. CERCLA established a broad liability scheme that holds past and current owners and operators of facilities from which a release occurs financially responsible for cleanup costs, natural resource damages, and the costs of federal public health studies. At waste disposal sites, generators of the wastes and transporters of the wastes who selected the site for disposal also are liable under CERCLA. The liability of these “potentially responsible parties” (PRPs) has been interpreted by the courts to be strict, joint and several, and retroactive. At contaminated federal facilities, federal agencies are subject to liability under CERCLA as the owners and operators of those facilities on behalf of the United States. Federal agencies also may be liable in instances in which an agency generated or transported waste for disposal at a non-federal facility. CERCLA established the Hazardous Substance Superfund Trust Fund to pay for the cleanup of sites where the PRPs cannot be found or cannot pay. A combination of special taxes on industry and general taxpayer revenues originally financed the Superfund Trust Fund, but the authority to collect the industry taxes expired on December 31, 1995. Over time, Congress increased the contribution of general revenues to make up for the shortfall from the expired industry taxes. General revenues now provide most of the funding for the trust fund, but other monies continue to contribute some revenues (i.e., cost-recoveries from PRPs, fines and penalties for violations of cleanup requirements, and interest on the trust fund balance). The availability of these trust fund monies under the Superfund program is subject to appropriations by Congress. Private settlement funds deposited into site-specific Special Accounts within the Superfund Trust Fund also are available to EPA, but are not subject to discretionary appropriations. Considering the liability of the federal government at its own facilities, the cleanup of federal facilities is not funded with Superfund Trust Fund monies under the Superfund program, but with other federal monies appropriated to the agencies responsible for administering the facilities. However, EPA and the states remain responsible for overseeing and enforcing the implementation of CERCLA at federal facilities to ensure that applicable cleanup requirements are met.
Book Synopsis EPA Strategic Plan by : United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Download or read book EPA Strategic Plan written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency and published by Agency. This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Superfund's Future by : Katherine Probst
Download or read book Superfund's Future written by Katherine Probst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reauthorization of the Superfund law continues to be a major source of controversy among political leaders and environmental activists. Some seek a major overhaul of the statute, arguing that considerable cleanup still needs to be done. Others oppose major changes, asserting that cleanup is almost complete. One of the most contentious issues in the debate is whether the taxes that once stocked the Superfund Trust Fund need to be reinstated. The answer depends in large part on how much money EPA will need to implement the Superfund program. To inform this discussion, the U.S. Congress asked Resources for the Future (RFF) to estimate the program's future costs. The results of this research are included in Superfund's Future, a book that will become an essential reference for all participants in the debate about one of the nation's most controversial environmental programs.
Author :United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :8 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office by : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office
Download or read book Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Hazardous Materials Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :508 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Superfund Reauthorization by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Hazardous Materials
Download or read book Superfund Reauthorization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Superfund by : U S Government Accountability Office (G
Download or read book Superfund written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO studied the extent to which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) increased its hazardous waste site discovery efforts to determine the: (1) total possible number and types of sites that required investigation; (2) status of 837 sites EPA did not include in its 1985 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) inventory; (3) reasons why EPA did not place the sites on its National Priorities List (NPL); and (4) states' efforts to develop comprehensive inventories of their hazardous waste sites. GAO found that, although 130,000 to 425,000 hazardous waste sites qualified for inclusion in CERCLIS, it contained only about 27,000 sites. GAO also found that EPA: (1) offered states little direction, guidance, or money to conduct site identification and had not reviewed any state programs to determine their adequacy; (2) assigned a higher priority to evaluating and cleaning up sites already on CERCLIS than to identifying additional potential sites; (3) limited its grants to states to evaluating reported sites; and (4) had not instructed its regions or the states as to when they should add sites to CERCLIS. In addition, GAO found that 494 of the 837 sites not included in 1985 CERCLIS were still missing from the inventory because the regions: (1) lacked sufficient funds; (2) wanted to first verify the presence of hazardous wastes; (3) believed that they could clean up the sites more efficiently without EPA involvement; or (4) felt obliged to report only those sites eligible for federal cleanup.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Office of Management and Budget. Executive Office of the President Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780160944192 Total Pages :1886 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (441 download)
Book Synopsis 2017 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance by : United States. Congress. Senate. Office of Management and Budget. Executive Office of the President
Download or read book 2017 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance written by United States. Congress. Senate. Office of Management and Budget. Executive Office of the President and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 1886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and describes specific government assistance opportunities such as loans, grants, counseling, and procurement contracts available under many agencies and programs.
