Hazardous waste enforcement. [RCRA and Superfund regulatory programs]
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)
- OSTI ID:
- 5745821
- Journal Information:
- EPA J.; (United States), Vol. 8:4
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CHLORINATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPILLS
POLLUTION REGULATIONS
ENFORCEMENT
LEGAL ASPECTS
RESOURCE RECOVERY ACTS
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VIOLATIONS
AROMATICS
HALOGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
LAWS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
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510600* - Environment
Terrestrial- Regulations- (-1989)