| The purpose of this study was to examine the factors influencing the siting of hazardous waste management facilities and to suggest strategies that may enhance the successful siting of these facilities. The two-part study included an in-depth analysis of siting the Arizona hazardous waste management facility as a case study, and a national survey. The factors identified in the case study and in the literature as influencing successful facility siting were utilized to develop a questionnaire for the national survey. The questionnaire, designed to find out states' experiences in management facilities, was sent to environmental agencies in every state and a response rate of 84 percent was obtained.;The analysis of the case study provided insights into interactions which occur between policy formulation and implementation during the environmental policy process at the state level. In addition, the case study and the analysis of the national survey data indicated that the following factors were associated with successful siting outcomes: enhanced and substantive public involvement especially in the early phases of the facility siting process, local empowerment of the host community, public trust in the developer and in the facility technology, and state activism in initiating the siting process. The data results also suggest that a combination of these factors are more strongly associated with successful siting. These findings reinforced previous research on siting problems and elucidated the role of both "state initiative" and public trust in the siting of hazardous waste management facilities. |
