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Author: J. Dexter Peach
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Category : Hazardous waste sites
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Author: J. Dexter Peach
Publisher:
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Category : Hazardous waste sites
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Author: United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781720513100
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Superfund: Actions Needed to Correct Long-Standing Contract Management Problems
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Languages : en
Pages : 10
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This report discusses the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to correct long- standing contract management problems in the Superfund program. Superfund, EPA's $15 billion effort to clean up the nation's most dangerous hazardous waste sites, is one of 16 federal programs that the General Accounting Office(GAO) has identified as being most vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse. The program is vulnerable in part because of its extensive use of cost-reimbursable contracts, with potential values of almost $10 billion, and its history of contract management problems. The Superfund program was created by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to clean up the nation's most dangerous hazardous waste sites. The program has been reauthorized twice since then--first, in 1986, by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) and again in 1990. The program's cumulative authorization is $15.2 billion. The scope and cost of Superfund have greatly exceeded initial expectations. The Superfund cleanup list, which originally included 406 sites, currently contains 1,275 sites, and EPA expects the list to grow to 2,000 sites by the year 2000. While the program has had some important accomplishments, especially in alleviating emergency conditions at sites and enforcing cleanup obligations of those who contaminated the sites, cleanups have been completed at only 90 sites. Consequently, we can expect the cleanup effort at present Superfund sites alone will run well into the next century. Superfund's authorization through 1994 will not come close to paying for EPA's projected $40 billion share of cleanup costs for the currently listed sites. (KAR) P. 2/3.
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289090425
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) response to prior GAO recommendations that EPA strengthen its management of Superfund contracts, focusing on recommendations that EPA: (1) control contractor costs; (2) set contractor indemnification and conflict-of-interest policy; and (3) develop a plan to reduce its backlog of unaudited Superfund contracts. GAO found that EPA: (1) still does not require its regional offices to prepare cost estimates of cleanup studies and as a result the regions are too dependent on the contractors' own cost proposals; (2) does require Superfund managers to review contractor invoices for reasonableness, but contracting officials in two of the four regions examined estimated that project managers were conducting invoice reviews for only about half of their contracter's invoices; (3) has not corrected the problem of excessive contractor indemnification and is still not tracking the contractors' efforts to obtain private insurance; (4) established a four-person conflict-of-interest unit to develop agency policy and guidance, but most of the previously reported problems continued to exist; (5) is developing a plan to increase contract audits and has requested increased funding to reduce a backlog, but due to proposed staffing and budget cuts, increased coverage is doubtful; and (6) has acknowledged many of the problems GAO has reported, but has not addressed them sufficiently to actually correct the problems.
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Public contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Author: United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781719102919
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Superfund: EPA Has Not Corrected Long-Standing Contract Management Problems
Author: Richard L. Hembra
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Category : Hazardous wastes
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Author: J. Dexter Peach
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Category : Hazardous waste sites
Languages : en
Pages : 9
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Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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