California Environmental Protection Agency : Insufficient Data Exists on the Number of Abandoned, Idoled, or under Used Contaminated Properties, and Liability Concerns and Funding Constraints Can Impede Their Cleanup and Redevelopment

Concerns the Calif. EPA & its entities involved in the cleanup of properties contaminated by hazardous materials waste, the Dept. of Toxic Substances Control & the State Water Resources Control Board. The Bureau was asked to provide info. on how many orphan sites & sites with orphan shares exist in the State, as well as how much funding is needed & how much is directly available to clean up those sites. Concludes that insufficient data exists to determine the number of orphan sites & sites with orphan shares, & that liability concerns & funding constraints can impede their cleanup & redevelopment. CA law does not require the Dept. of Toxic Substances & the State Water Board to maintain a database to capture this info. Charts & tables.Howle, Elaine M. is the author of 'California Environmental Protection Agency : Insufficient Data Exists on the Number of Abandoned, Idoled, or under Used Contaminated Properties, and Liability Concerns and Funding Constraints Can Impede Their Cleanup and Redevelopment', published 2003 under ISBN 9780756736811 and ISBN 0756736811.