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that are under the jurisdiction,
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meaning the responsibility, of the Department of Defense,
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the Department of Energy, and the Department of the interior.
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There are 340,000 sites that are owned in the private sector
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that have been classified by EPA as hazardous.
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So the rate of cleanup of these sites is not even one percent
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of the rate of discovery of new hazardous sites.
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So this problem of basically disregarding
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the chemical abuse of the landscape,
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feeling comfortable to throw chemical mixtures out the back door
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without concern for their persistence and movement,
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this is something that your generation will have to deal with.