Environmental Cleanup: Too Many High Priority Sites Impede DoD's Program

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Label

Environmental Cleanup: Too Many High Priority Sites Impede DoD's Program

Contributor

• GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIV

Subject

• Contaminants
• Costs
• Department of defense
• Environmental Health and Safety
• Environmental impact
• Environmental protection
• Ground water
• Hazardous waste sites
• Hazardous waste sites -- Economic aspects
• Hazardous waste sites -- Economic aspects -- United States
• Hazardous waste sites -- United States
• Hazardous wastes
• Installation restoration
• Pollution abatement
• Public health
• Site investigations
• Soil pollution
• Strategy
• United States
• Waste disposal
• Waste recycling

Language

eng

Summary

Military installations are similar to small cities in term of population, industrial activities, and some types of contaminated sites, However, some cover an area larger than a small state. DOD has operated industrial facilities on its installations for several decades that have generated, stored, recycled, or disposed of hazardous wastes. Many of these activities have contaminated the nearby soil and groundwater. To study and clean up contaminated sites, DOD established the Installation Restoration Program (IRP) in 1975. In 1984, the IRP was made part of the Defense Environmental Restoration Program

Cataloging source

DTICE

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction