Can you afford to perform an environmental audit? Update 1999

Conference · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999

OSTI ID:20003284

McLeod, D P; Marty, K F

A struggle has emerged in recent years between the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the states over the appropriateness of providing privileges for the results of environmental compliance audits. This paper summarizes the state audit privilege statutes, EPA's final audit policy statement, and the common law privileges that may help protect the results of voluntary environmental audits from discovery. This sixth annual update also focuses on recent developments relating to EPA's authority to overfile enforcement actions and the impact of overfiling on environmental audit and self-disclosure issues

• Research Organization: Corporate Counsel Group, Kansas City, MO (US)
• OSTI ID: 20003284
• Report Number(s): CONF-990608-; TRN: IM200003%%119
• Resource Relation: Conference: Air and Waste 92nd Annual Meeting and Exhibition, St. Louis, MO (US), 06/20/1999--06/24/1999; Other Information: 1 CD-ROM. Operating Systems: Windows 3.1, '95, '98 and NT; Macintosh; and UNIX; PBD: 1999; Related Information: In: Air and Waste 92nd annual meeting and exhibition proceedings, [9500] pages.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AUDITS
COMPLIANCE
US EPA
POLLUTION ABATEMENT