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Waste Minimization: Major Problems of Data Reliability and Validity Identified: Pemd-92-16

Waste Minimization: Major Problems of Data Reliability and Validity Identified: Pemd-92-16


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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO evaluated the quality of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data used to determine the need for mandatory waste minimization requirements, focusing on: (1) the degree and causes of measurement error in the EPA National Survey of Hazardous Waste Generators; (2) how to reduce or eliminate those errors; and (3) how to minimize future problems. GAO found that: (1) the EPA baseline hazardous waste minimization data are fraught with reliability and validity problems that are severe enough to limit the data's usefulness in examining the extent of waste minimization progress; (2) EPA has not sufficiently defined several concepts, terms, and questions used in its survey instruments, causing respondents to make an array of individual judgments when completing waste minimization questionnaires; (3) since EPA has not refined the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) categories that use codes to profile hazardous waste types, it cannot accurately profile the extent and determinants of minimization for specific hazardous wastes; (4) the lack of stringent EPA reporting requirements has caused company recordkeeping systems to vary greatly in quality and accessibility; (5) due to the lack of sufficient recordkeeping capabilities, individual respondents are led to make judgments and estimations of data that may not be representative of information collected; (6) because data on waste stream production amounts are flawed, EPA does not accurately characterize production mix as it relates to waste output; (7) such nonproduction activities as research and such one-time events as spill cleanups generate waste, but are not accounted for by production activities; and (8) due to such ambiguities, EPA waste minimization data cannot be adjusted to account for imperfect measurement, and waste minimization progress cannot be ascertained.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781289017538
  • Publisher: Bibliogov
  • Publisher Imprint: Bibliogov
  • Height: 246 mm
  • Sub Title: Major Problems of Data Reliability and Validity Identified: Pemd-92-16
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1289017530
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 100 gr


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