Abstract
Attempts to introduce legislation to deal with some of the more vexing problems of the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) in the 105th Congress have essentially run out of time, according to Sen. John H. Chafee (R-R.L). However, Chafee pledges that reforming the nation's cradle-to-grave hazardous waste law will be a priority for the 106th Congress. Chafee, chairman of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, had been working with a number of stakeholders to draft a narrow, targeted bill that would get rid of provisions in the current law that impede the cleanup of literally thousands of contaminated sites across the nation. The most recent impetus to reform RCRA came in the form of a 1997 General Accounting Office (GAO) report on the RCRA Corrective Action Program. It said that the cleanup of the nation's 3,700 RCRA-permitted sites was slow and was impeded by unwieldy cleanup requirements and conflict between the states and ...
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