Military Munitions Response Program: Opportunities Exist to Improve Program Management
Abstract
The Department of Defense (DOD) established the military munitions response program (MMRP) in 2001 to clean up sites known to be or suspected of being contaminated with military munitions and related hazardous substances. Cleanup of sites on active and base realignment and closure installations is the responsibility of the military service?Air Force, Army, Navy, or Marine Corps?that currently controls the land, and the Army has delegated execution of cleanup of formerly used defense sites (FUDS) to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). GAO was mandated to assess the (1) MMRP staffing and funding levels; (2) progress DOD has made in cleaning up munitions response sites; (3) extent to which DOD has established MMRP performance goals; and (4) extent to which DOD collects data on factors influencing project duration, as well as the accuracy of its cleanup cost estimates. GAO analyzed MMRP data and DOD documents and interviewed officials from DOD, the military services, and the Corps.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA517823
Entities
People
- Amanda Leissoo
- Anu K. Mittal
- Elizabeth Beardsley
- Janida Grima
- Kim Raheb
- Laina Poon
- Leo G. Acosta
- Mark Braza
- Nancy Crothers
- Pamela Davidson
- Stephen D. Secrist
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office