Dealing with CSB's'investigative gap'

摘要

The Government Accountability Office has concluded that the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board(CSB)could investigate more accidents if it would use its statutory authority to solicit other entities'work in some cases.The agency,which has operated since 1998,had a fiscal 2006 budget one-eighth the size of the National Transportation Safety Board,on which it was modeled,GAO said in an Aug.22 report.Yet NTSB investigated 250 times as many accidents because it used other agencies'findings when it could not send investigators to an accident site,the congressional watchdog service said.