Summary Report on DoD Hazardous Waste Disposal Costs
Abstract
This audit was jointly conducted by the Inspector General, DoD, and the Army, Navy and Air Force audit agencies. The audit was performed in response to a request from the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security) to review costs, volumes, and the budget formulation and review process related to DoD hazardous waste disposal. The Inspector General, DoD, issued a previous report with a recommendation to the Defense Logistics Agency. The Army Audit Agency issued a report with recommendations to the Department of the Army. The Naval Audit Service and the Air Force Audit Agency issued reports without recommendations to their respective Services. This report summarizes and discusses hazardous waste disposal cost budgeting, execution, and measure of merit reporting at the Army, Navy, and Air Force, as well as the Defense Logistics Agency. For the measure of merit on hazardous waste disposal, DoD reported a calendar year 1992 baseline figure of about 409 million pounds of hazardous waste and in calendar year 1998 reported about 208 million pounds. As of November 1998, when the audit was initiated, the DoD budget for hazardous waste disposal had increased from $211 million (actual cost) for FY 1997 to $224 million (budgeted amount) for FY 1999. The overall audit objective was to determine why DoD hazardous waste disposal budgets had increased while the reported unit cost to dispose of hazardous waste and the reported amount of hazardous waste had decreased. In addition, we evaluated the budget formulation and review process related to DoD hazardous waste disposal.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 22, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA385330
Entities
People
- Deborah L. Culp
- Joseph P. Doyle
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense