EPA Official Acknowledges Limits To Superfund Cleanup Reforms

摘要

An EPA official is acknowledging that there will be some limits to the agency's Superfund policy initiative aimed at increasing the effectiveness of its cleanup programs, particularly the element of the initiative that seeks to more effectively leverage program resources in part by using emergency response and removal funds to clean up and redevelop brownfield sites.rnAt issue is the Obama EPA's so-called Integrated Cleanup Initiative (ICI), which aims "to improve accountability, transparency and effectiveness" among the agency's cleanup programs, according to EPA's "budget justification" to Congress for fiscal year 2011. The initiative involves a multi-year effort "to explore better uses of assessment and cleanup authorities to address a greater number of sites, accelerate cleanups, and put those sites back into productive use while protecting human health and the environment," the document says.