The United States may not be able to make all hazardous-waste sites as clean as possible. Therefore, priorities must be set for the timing of waste site remediations. This book assesses several of the government's methods of ranking sites for remediation and compares the performance of three such models using input data developed from the same set of waste sites. Because inconsistent methods may be neither effective nor prudent, the book recommends that the government consider developing a unified national approach to setting priorities to replace the current multiple approaches.
National Research Council. 1994. Ranking Hazardous-Waste Sites for Remedial Action. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/4781.
Chapters | skim | |
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FRONT MATTER | i-xviii | |
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | 1-22 | |
1 HAZARDOUS-WASTE SITE PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED STATES | 23-56 | |
2 PRIORITY-SETTING PROCESSES | 57-64 | |
3 CLASSIFICATION OF PRIORITY-SETTING APPROACHES | 65-84 | |
4 EPA'S PRIORITY SETTING | 85-134 | |
5 DOD'S PRIORITY SETTING | 135-176 | |
6 DOE'S PRIORITY SETTING | 177-210 | |
7 STATE PRIORITY SETTING | 211-224 | |
8 COMPARING FEDERAL RANKING MODELS | 225-250 | |
9 TOWARD A UNIFIED NATIONAL APPROACH | 251-266 | |
10 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS | 267-278 | |
REFERENCES | 279-294 |
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