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Title: Hazardous waste enforcement. [RCRA and Superfund regulatory programs]

Abstract

A change is taking place in the enforcement of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Superfund, a change described by the terms ''environmental results'' and ''cooperation, no confrontation''. Examples are given of environmental results achieved through criminal enforcement. In June 1981, a New York businessman received a two and one-half year prison sentence for dumping PCB-laced oil along North Carolina roads; a second defendant received an 18-month jail term. Other important measures of environmental results achieved by enforcement are 1) commitment of private money and effort for hazardous waste management and 2) the number of facility inspections conducted under RCRA's regulatory program's compliance monitoring system. A new strategy of cooperation between U.S. EPA and the parties affected by RCRA and Superfund should change the pattern which produced the confrontational conflicts of the past. (JMT)

Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
5745821
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
EPA J.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 8:4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; CHLORINATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPILLS; POLLUTION REGULATIONS; ENFORCEMENT; LEGAL ASPECTS; RESOURCE RECOVERY ACTS; US EPA; VIOLATIONS; AROMATICS; HALOGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; LAWS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; REGULATIONS; US ORGANIZATIONS; 510600* - Environment, Terrestrial- Regulations- (-1989)

Citation Formats

. Hazardous waste enforcement. [RCRA and Superfund regulatory programs]. United States: N. p., 1982. Web.
. Hazardous waste enforcement. [RCRA and Superfund regulatory programs]. United States.
. 1982. "Hazardous waste enforcement. [RCRA and Superfund regulatory programs]". United States.
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abstractNote = {A change is taking place in the enforcement of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Superfund, a change described by the terms ''environmental results'' and ''cooperation, no confrontation''. Examples are given of environmental results achieved through criminal enforcement. In June 1981, a New York businessman received a two and one-half year prison sentence for dumping PCB-laced oil along North Carolina roads; a second defendant received an 18-month jail term. Other important measures of environmental results achieved by enforcement are 1) commitment of private money and effort for hazardous waste management and 2) the number of facility inspections conducted under RCRA's regulatory program's compliance monitoring system. A new strategy of cooperation between U.S. EPA and the parties affected by RCRA and Superfund should change the pattern which produced the confrontational conflicts of the past. (JMT)},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5745821}, journal = {EPA J.; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 8:4,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982},
month = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982}
}