NASA Faces $1.9 Billion Bill to Clean up Contaminated Sites Across the U.S.
On 1/21/21 at 10:50 AM EST
NASA faces a bill of about $1.9 billion to clean up its sites across the U.S, a report by government auditors has found.
The space agency faces soaring costs for the restoration of former sites, with the potential costs having increased by 45 percent since 2014, according to the Government Accountability Office report published last Friday.
Environmental cleanups could cost $1.9 billion as of fiscal year 2020, a rise of about $180 million from 2019 and a rise of $724 million from 2014.
The bulk of those predicted costs, or environmental liabilities, comes from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory located about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles that played a key role in the Apollo and space shuttle programs.