Environmental Contamination - Dod Has Taken Steps to Improve Cleanup Coordination at Former Defense Sites (Paperback)

Original publisher: Washington, D.C.]: U.S. General Accounting Office, 2003] OCLC Number: (OCoLC)52191739 Subject: Hazardous waste site remediation -- United States -- Evaluation. Excerpt: ... The DOD Management Guidance and FUDS Program Manual are silent on Guidance Does Not Cover regulators ' roles in preliminary assessments of eligibility, during which the Preliminary decisions on property eligibility and the need for cleanup are made, in part Assessment of Eligibility because the law requiring consultation with regulators is broad and does and Very Little not mention consultation with the states, only with EPA. The Corps has Coordination Took Place historically regarded preliminary assessments of eligibility as an internal During This Phase matter that does not require coordination with regulators. However, according to DOD, the draft Engineer Regulation, which will revise the FUDS Program Manual, will require the Corps to share information with the states, EPA, and local authorities during the development of the preliminary assessment of eligibility and will solicit their input. According to the results of our survey, the state project managers believe the Corps coordinated with them about 6 percent of the time, and the Corps project managers believe the Corps coordinated with states about 27 percent of the time. ( See table 2. ) As a result, there is no consistent coordination at this stage of the FUDS program. For additional survey results, such as the percent of cases where respondents felt there wasn't any coordination or gave " don't know " responses, see appendix II. Table 2: Extent to Which State and Corps Project Managers Believe the Corps Coordinated with States during Preliminary Assessments of Eligibility in Our Sample State project Corps project managers managers Examples of coordination during the preliminary assessment of eligibility ( percentage ) ( percentage ) Corps informed states that it was starting 6 24 preliminary assessment of el...