$500 MILLION DERA HIT LIST

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

The Defense Department has put together a "hit list" 
describing the impact of cuts in the Defense 
Environmental Restoration Account (DERA). The list 
shows projects likely to be impacted by the FY95 $300 
million rescission plus the $200 million reduction 
proposed by the House National Security Committee.

The 25-page document details project amounts at each 
base, but it will be some time before I can identify, list, 
and post the major sites (as I've done with earlier hit 
lists.)

Here is the summary:

A. Eliminate legally required funding for the Agency for 
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) $10 
Million

B. Proportionate reduction in management and 
workyears $20 Million

C. Reduce Defense State Memorandum of Agreement 
(DSMOA) funding to 1% of program $7 Million

D. Delay paying potentially Responsible Party (PRP) bills
 $18 Million

E. Cut all Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) 
projects at low, medium, and not evaluated relative risk 
sites $130 Million

F. Cut cleanup projects in the low and not evaluated 
relative risk categories $109 Million

G. Cut remedial actions in the medium relative risk 
category at non-National Priority List (NPL) bases and 
NPL bases where the project was first cut due to FY1995 
rescission $186 million

H Cut Preliminary Assessment/Site Investigation 
(PA/SI) projects in the low and medium relative risk 
categories $21 million