a committee of the National Research Council, Reilly notes, "said that EPA has no com- prehensive inventory of waste sites, no program for discovering new sites, insufficient data for determining safe exposure levels, and an inad- equate system for identifying sites that require immediate action to protect public health."
"The existence of toxic wastes at a site does not necessarily mean that they pose a threat to nearresidents," Reilly notes. Recent research has shown, for...