Superfund: Duration of the Cleanup Process at Hazardous Waste Sites on the National Priorities List

RCED-97-238R Published: Sep 24, 1997. Publicly Released: Oct 14, 1997.

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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund cleanup efforts, focusing on comparing EPA's estimate of future cleanup times compared with the program's historical performance.

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