Год выпуска: 0 Автор: Katherine M. Probst, David M. Konisky, Robert Hersh, Michael B. Batz, Katherine D. Walker Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 1891853392
Описание
One of the most contentious issues in the recent congressional debate about the reauthorization of Superfund concerns how much money EPA needs for its implementation in the years to come. To provide some guidance for this discussion, the U.S. Congress asked Resources for the Future (RFF) to conduct an independent study of the program's future costs. The results of this research are included in Superfund's Future. In this important book, lead researchers Kate Probst and David Konisky provide estimatesof EPA's likely expenditures for Superfund for each fiscal year from 2000 to 2009. The authors estimate the costs for the cleanup of sites currently on the National Priorities List (NPL), the cleanup cost of sites to be added to the NPL, and the day-to-day cost of implementing the Superfund program. They also, as requested by Congress, address the issue of uncertainty in their cost estimates. Much of the controversy about the cost of Superfund concerns questions as to whether the...
