Defense Environmental Restoration Program DERP

The Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) also provides funding for Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS), which allows the state and local regulators to hire additional persoimel to oversee cleanup. 

Military environmental cleanup is heavily controlled by the accountants. This is partly due to the fact that the Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) sounded like a permissive budgetary authorization instead of the extension of CERCLA, which it is. State and local governments were only authorized to receive payment for a specific set of functions. This list is too restrictive to promote adequate oversight. 

This case study is also a success story on how a local government can demand an environmental cleanup of a chemical weapons site, even after a no further action (NOFA) decision had been made by the Army and the EPA. It also confirms the wisdom of Congress in creating the Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP), so that a state or local government (the District of Columbia, in this case) could hire people to oversee the military s work. 

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