Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction -- Key Findings of the Blue Ribbon Commission -- The Concept: A Federal Corporation for Waste Management -- Study Objectives and Approach -- CHAPTER TWO: Learning Lessons from the Past -- Assessment of the Prior Organizational Design -- Governance and Leadership -- Funding and Budget Control -- Siting Process -- Federal Procurement and Personnel Policies -- Public Trust -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER THREE: Exploring Potential Organizational Models -- Comparison of Organizational Models -- Federal Government Corporation -- Federally Chartered Private Corporation -- Independent Government Agency -- Differences and Similarities of the Organizational Models -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER FOUR: Matching Organizational Models to Critical Organizational Attributes -- Mission and Responsibilities -- Core Responsibilities -- Management and Support Responsibilities -- Performance Goals -- Critical Organizational Attributes -- Structural and Procedural Features and Analysis of Organizational Models -- Discriminating Among Organizational Models -- CHAPTER FIVE: Designing a New Management Disposition Organization -- Policymakers' Choices -- Step 1: The President's Role -- Step 2: Congress's Role -- Step 3: MDO Funding -- Step 4: Other Organizational Features -- Considerations Related to Choice of Organizational Form -- Government Responsibility for Catastrophic Risk -- Evolution of the MDO as Its Roles Change Over Time -- Making the Choices -- APPENDIXES -- A. Comparison of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Bonneville Power Administration -- B. Summary of Organizational Characteristics of Canadian and Swedish MDOs -- C. List of Mixed-Ownership Government Corporations and Wholly Owned Government Corporations.

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