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Cleaning Up the Nation's Waste Sites:
Markets and Technology Trends (2004 Edition)
Fact Sheet and Order Information
Over the next several decades, federal, state, and local
governments and private industry will commit billions of
dollars annually to clean up sites contaminated with
hazardous waste and petroleum products from a variety of
industrial sources. This commitment will result in a
continuing demand for waste site remediation services and
technologies.
To respond to this demand, hundreds of small, medium.
and large cleanup technology developers, vendors, and
investors will seek to make cost-effective and sound
investment decisions in their efforts to provide smarter and
cheaper solutions to the complex environmental
contamination problems still to be addressed. With this
need in mind, EPA has produced this national overview of
the site characterization and remediation market. EPA
believes that information on the Nation's cleanup needs will
help industry and government develop better and more
targeted research, development, and business strategies.
This report presents valuable information on site
characteristics, market size, and other factors that affect
the demand for remediation services. It focuses on
potential future applications of characterization and
remediation technologies. While the report considers a
broad range of remediation services required in the future,
its purpose is to provide insight into the potential for the
application of new technologies.
The report divides the national cleanup market into seven
segments: National Priorities List (NPL, or Superfund),
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
Corrective Action, Underground Storage Tanks (LIST),
Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Energy
(DOE), Other (Civilian) Federal Agencies, and States and
Private Parties (including brownfields). For each market
segment, the report presents the following information:
> Market description: nature of the program and regulatory
requirements and practices
> Market size: estimated number of sites and cleanup cost
> Site characteristics
> Economic, political, and technical factors that affect de-
mand for cleanup services
> Relevant technology trends and issues
The report also includes analyses of cleanup needs in
three market "niches," each of which entails a specific set
of remediation challenges—the cleanup of former
manufactured gas plant and other coal tar sites, mining
sites, and drycleaner sites; and two specific issues that
affect many waste sites—site characterization approaches
and the remediation of dense non-aqueous phase liquids
(DNAPLs).
The report estimates that, under current regulations and
practices, 294,000 sites will need to be cleaned up, at an
estimated cost of S209 billion in 2004 dollars. Relatively
small sites account for more than 90% of these sites, but
only 22% of the total cost. These estimates are derived
from judgements regarding the most likely scenarios within
a range of estimates, and include a number of
assumptions.
A portable document format (PDF) version of this report is
available at www.clu-in.org/marketstudy. This web site also
includes links to previous editions of this report and related
market information.
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Estimated Number of Hazardous Waste Sites
and Cleanup Costs: 2004-2033
Total = S207 Billion
Total Sites = 294,000
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Cleaning Up the Nation's Waste
Markets and Technology Trends
2004 Edition
Fact Sheet and Order Information
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