Regarding the Government Performance and Results Act, what are EPAs plans to obtain adequate cost information?
Summary of Administrator Browner’s Written Testimony Superfund is a necessary program, dedicated to cleaning up our nation’s hazardous waste sites. • EPA works with other Federal agencies to assess the impacts of hazardous material releases on the public, natural resources, and the environment. • The Clinton Administration remains committed to consensus-based, responsible, Superfund legislative reform. • EPA has worked with this committee to craft bipartisan legislation. EPA welcomes involvement, but we need to sit down and look at where the program is today. The Superfund program is fundamentally different and better than when the reform debate started over four years ago. • The average duration of the long-term cleanup process has been reduced by more than one year. • The President’s FY98 budget request allows EPA to establish a new cleanup goal of 900 completions by the end of the year 2000, representing approximately two-thirds of the sites on the NPL. • Costs of cleanups are decre
