Superfund

Risk Assessment Process and Issues Gao ID: T-RCED-93-74 September 30, 1993

This testimony discusses the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) process for assessing risk at Superfund hazardous waste sites. Risk assessments provide key information that affects the agency's management of current and future site risks, including decisions on whether and how to clean up sites. GAO focuses on EPA's process for assessing the risks to human health posed by Superfund sites and questions that have been raised about some assumptions and calculations used in these risk assessments.



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