Better Planning Can Reduce Size of Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Saving Millions in Construction Costs

摘要

Well-planned wastewater plants are crucial to the success of the Nation's multibillion dollar effort to clean up thousands of miles of contaminated rivers, lakes, streams, and ocean shorelines. GAO found that millions of dollars in Federal construction grant funds could be saved by applying current regulations--which restrict the size of plants and ultimately the cost to construct them--to treatment plants not yet under construction that were planned under old regulations. GAO recommends that the Congress direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to modify the Agency's current policy prohibiting retroactive application of program regulations to projects not yet under construction.