Indoor radon

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6079195

Potentially hazardous levels of radon may be present in one out of every eight houses in the United States. One of the Environmental Protection Agency's major radon identification efforts has encountered delays, and its planned national assessment is still years from competition. Its initial tests of various mitigation techniques have demonstrated significant radon reductions but the techniques still need to be tested in a larger number of houses. Agencies which finance and insure civilian housing have radon activities ranging from responding to a few site-specific problems to not being involved with indoor radon issues at all. The limited involvement is due to the lack of a specific legislative mandate for an agency radon program. Courts have not addressed whether the federal government is required to compensate for or mitigate radon in housing when it acts as a seller, insurer, or landlord.

• Research Organization: General Accounting Office, Washington, DC (USA). Resources, Community and Economic Development Div.
• OSTI ID: 6079195
• Report Number(s): GAO/RCED-88-103
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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