Abstract
This report interprets the Hazard Potential Index (HPI), an approach for ranking hazardous waste sites. The relationship of the HPI with health effects and health risk, and its application and limitations as a health-risk guide for setting funding priorities for remedial action at Department of Energy Defense Programs inactive hazardous waste sites are explored. The report details sources of uncertainties and focuses on methods to evaluate uncertainties in the HPI. It investigates the time factor in the HPI. It is concluded that the HPI is inadequate in itself for setting priorities for corrective action at hazardous waste sites, but the information system from which the HPI is calculated and intermediate productions of that calculation which are not currently reported would provide a stronger basis for decision-making. Recommendations are provided for going beyond the HPI in compiling information for decision-making. 6 refs., 3 tabs.
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