Based on a General Accounting Office report that says the Environmental Protection Agency took more than eight years to clean up the average Superfund site listed between 1986 and 1994, House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bud Shuster, R-Pa., this week said internal agency reform "is clearly not enough."
The report--commissioned in response to agency claims that cleanups were moving faster--looked at all sites worked on from 1986 to 1994.
In a statement, Shuster said the report challenges EPA calculations that cleanups are getting faster. However, the EPA said the report does not take into consideration reforms instituted in 1994 that are speeding up the clean up process.
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