Environmental Cleanup at Navy Facilities:

Risk-Based Methods

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Size: 156 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1999

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Committee on Environmental Remediation at Naval Facilities, National Research Council
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The fiscal and technological limitations associated with cleaning up hazardous waste sites to background conditions have prompted responsible parties to turn to risk-based methods for environmental rememdiation.
Environmental Cleanup at Navy Facilities reviews and critiques risk-based methods, including those developed by ...
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Front Matter	i-xii
Executive Summary	1-14	(skim)
1 Introduction	15-34	(skim)
2 Review of Risk-Based Methodologies	35-67	(skim)
3 Strengths and Weaknesses of Risk-Based Methodologies	68-82	(skim)
4 Uncertainty in Risk-Based Methodologies	83-110	(skim)
5 Conclusions and Recommendations	111-132	(skim)
Appendix A Survey of State Risk-Based Decision Making	133-136	(skim)
Appendix B Acronyms	137-138	(skim)
Appendix C Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff	139-144	(skim)

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The fiscal and technological limitations associated with cleaning up hazardous waste sites to background conditions have prompted responsible parties to turn to risk-based methods for environmental rememdiation.
Environmental Cleanup at Navy Facilities reviews and critiques risk-based methods, including those developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the American Society of Testing and Materials. These critiques lead to the identification of eleven criteria that must be part of any risk-based methodology adopted by the Navy, a responsible party with a large number of complex and heavily contaminated waste sites. January

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Risk-Based Methods

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