Environmental Cleanup: Inconsistent Sharing Arrangements May Increase Defense Costs.

摘要

Environmental cleanup at DOD GOCO plants and the Rocky Mountain Arsenal will generally take longer and cost far more than indicated by DOD. According to DOD's fiscal year 1993 environmental cleanup report to the congress, DOD will have spent about $2.7 billion by 2020 to clean up 78 GOCO plants and the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. The report states that DOD has already paid about $1 billion of this. However, military service and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) data indicate that these figures are understated. According to these data, projected costs (those that DOD has not already paid) will be $3 billion, about 70 percent more than reported by DOD. Our work at selected sites indicates that eventual actual costs will be even higher than indicated by DOD or the services.