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Success for Superfund: A New Approach for Keeping Score
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People living near a contaminated site, those who have financial responsibility for a site, journalists, local officials, and Members of Congress all want reliable and readily accessible site-specific information. Yet, even for the nation's most contaminated sites - those on the U.S. EPA's National Priorities List (NPL) - such information can be hard to come by. RFF researchers Kate Probst and Diane Sherman have completed a new study aimed at developing more meaningful measures of success for the nation's Superfund Program. The report was funded by the EPA's Office of Solid Waste & Emergency Response.
To correct the situation, the authors recommend that EPA create:
- a standardized Scorecard for each NPL site that contains concise, up-to-date information on site progress and key attributes, which should be updated at least quarterly.
- a one-page NPL Report Card that includes a subset of information from the NPL Scorecard containing the most important measures of site progress, plus basic background information; and
- a web-based Superfund Annual Report that summarizes information on progress for all NPL sites and contains other indicators of program performance.
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Success for Superfund:
A New Approach for Keeping Score
News Release
and mockup of a
Standardized
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RFF hosts a workshop to explore the challenges of measuring the economic impacts from reuse of contaminated properties.
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Superfund's Future: How much money does Congress need to appropriate to EPA to implement the Superfund program over the next 10 years? This seemingly simple question has been the subject of years of bitter political and ideological wrangling over whether and how to fund the cleanup of the more than 1,200 contaminated sites on EPA's priority list. Some argued for revamping the entire program to deal with the considerable cleanup work remaining; others insisted the work was almost complete. Congress turned to RFF to come up with the numbers that would be credible to the full panoply of stakeholders--business, lawmakers, and environmentalists.
The result of RFF's analysis was the congressionally mandated by RFF Senior Fellow Katherine Probst and Research Associate David Konisky, with contributions from RFF Fellow Robert Hersh, Research Assistant Michael Batz, and Consultant Katherine Walker. Their conclusion: program costs will not decline before 2006, and then not by much. The study estimated the total cost of implementing the Superfund program to be from $14 to $16.4 billion from FY 2000 through FY 2009.
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