Environmental Liabilities: Coast Guard Should Give Congress More Information on Millions of Dollars in Potential Costs
What GAO Found As of September 2025, the Coast Guard reported about $448 million in environmental liabilities related to its shore infrastructure. This includes about $228 million for structures, like housing, presumed to be contaminated with asbestos-containing material or lead-based paint based on their age. It also includes about $220 million in cleanup projects at sites with a known or suspected release of contaminants. Several factors create uncertainty that could potentially lead to hundreds of millions of dollars of additional cleanup costs that the Coast Guard has not communicated to Congress. For example, the Coast Guard has identified properties which may be contaminated with “for.
Reported by Thomas NakamuraEnvironmental Liabilities: Coast Guard Should Give Congress More Information on Millions of Dollars in Potential Costs.
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What GAO Found As of September 2025, the Coast Guard reported about $448 million in environmental liabilities related to its shore infrastructure.
This includes about $228 million for structures, like housing, presumed to be contaminated with asbestos-containing material or lead-based paint based on their age.
It also includes about $220 million in cleanup projects at sites with a known or suspected release of contaminants.
Several factors create uncertainty that could potentially lead to hundreds of millions of dollars of additional cleanup costs that the Coast Guard has not communicated to Congress.
For example, the Coast Guard has identified properties which may be contaminated with “for…
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