Hazardous Waste

DOD Installations in Guam Having Difficulty Complying With Regulations Gao ID: NSIAD-87-87 April 22, 1987

In response to a congressional request, GAO evaluated the Department of Defense's (DOD) efforts to manage, store, and dispose of the hazardous waste generated at installations in Guam.

GAO found that: (1) DOD installations in Guam were not in compliance with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act's requirements; (2) most of the violations were serious, and many were repetitive; (3) the most common violation involved inadequate pretransport packaging and labeling measures and improper container use and management; (4) there were many instances where maintenance activities had improperly dumped or spilled hazardous waste which ran off into storm drains and dry wells; (5) there were significant discrepancies in the shipping and receiving numbers on manifests; (6) the lack of adherence to procedures caused problems in accounting for all hazardous wastes; and (7) DOD had not reconciled any of the discrepancies found in its disposal documents.

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