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Thursday, April 21, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Superfund not solving toxic cleanup problem
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The hazardous waste cleanup problem is worsening because of the way the Environmental Protection Agency is carrying out a 1868 order to improve its Superfund site. House hearing was told yesterday.
"Superfund is not working," said Joel Hirschorn, a senior associate of the congressional Office of Technology Assessment. "Public expectations are not being met by the current (cleanup) program."
He said that although the nation is spending about $1.6 billion a year to combat waste sites containing hazardous and toxic chemicals, "in too much and little protection of public health and the environment is being obtained."
Hirschhorn appeared before the House Public Works oversight and investigations subcommittee to present the preliminary findings of an OTA review on the workings of the October 1986 law that was supposed to strengthen a much-criticized Superfund program.
One of the basic directives that
Congress gave EPA in 1986 was to permanently destroy “to the maximum extent practicable” — the contaminated waste found at the worst of thousands of chemical dumps around the nation.
Destruction was ordered to minimize the use of other cleanup procedures, including transferring waste to other landfills or trying to contain it by site by putting a cap over it.
Hirschhorn said, however, that EPA has decided on destruction, usually by costly incineration, in only 20 percent of the Superfund cleanup plans approved since the 1986 law took effect.
More often, he said, waste is still being switched to other sites, covered by caps that may not prevent a dump from leaking poisons into water supplies or treated through new but unproven processes.
EPA Administrator Lee Thomas said the agency is aiming at permanent treatment of wastes and that a majority of the cleanups involve such treatment of at least a portion of the chemicals found at a site.
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