States' Alternative Environmental Compliance Strategies: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, June 23, 1998, Volume 4 |
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achieve activity counts actually agency's air pollution alternative compliance strategies alternative strategies approach BARTON BILBRAY BURR California Chair would recognize Chairman Clean Air Act Clean Water Act COBURN compli compliance assistance compliance assurance compliance rates develop effective effort ELSTEIN emissions enforcement actions enforcement and compliance enforcement programs environment environmental compliance environmental enforcement environmental laws environmental performance environmental quality environmental results EPA regions EPA's enforcement Eric Schaeffer facilities flexibility Florida focus forcement GAO report going GPRA gram GRYSZKOWIEC hearing identify implement industry inspectors issue JOE BARTON KLINK Massachusetts ment noncompliance number of enforcement number of inspections OECA Okay outcomes oversight penalties percent PHILLIPS prepared statement privilege laws problems questions regulated entities regulatory reporting significant violators requirements responsibility results-oriented RICHARD BURR RON KLINK ronmental SCHAEFFER SIGGERUD STRUHS subcommittee targets Thank Tier Tinsley tions traditional enforcement trying Virginia Wetherell voluntary compliance
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Page 5 - Chairman. [The prepared statement of Hon. Joe Barton follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. JOE BARTON, CHAIRMAN, COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE Thank you, Mr.
Page 16 - We would be pleased to answer any questions you or Members of the Subcommittee may have.
Page 11 - ISSUES, RESOURCES, COMMUNITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION, GAO Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: We...
Page 24 - The gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The Chair would like to make just one observation to my colleague.
Page 68 - ... pipeline operators, was fined $35 million for leaking 3 million gallons of oil into lakes and steams in six states. There is no way to estimate the deaths and illnesses caused by illegal dumping of toxic wastes and other acts of pollution by corporations, but violations are rampant and enforcement lax: "The inspector general of the Environmental Protection Agency has documented widespread failures by federal and local officials to police even the most basic requirements of the nation's clean-air...
Page 11 - Environmental Protection: EPA's and States' Efforts to Focus State Enforcement Programs on Results (GAO/RCED-98-113, May 27, 1998). EPA's Regulatory Reinvention Environmental Protection: EPA's and States' Efforts to "Reinvent" Environmental Regulation (GAO/T-RCED98-33, Nov.
Page 15 - ... measures with environmental outcome measures. Recent work on the Case Conclusion Data Sheets and compliance assistance activities have yielded environmental outcome data to build upon. Through another effort, the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance National Performance Measures Strategy, EPA is striving to develop a range of measures that reflect the broad spectrum of enforcement and compliance activities, the degree to which they protect human health and the environment, and industry...
Page 7 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to be a part of this hearing this morning.
Page 16 - EPA's Performance Plan, prepared pursuant to the Government Performance and Results Act, focus on outcomes in a manner consistent with that of the core performance measures developed under EPA's National Performance Measures Strategy, the National Environmental Performance Partnership System, and the agency's other results-oriented initiatives.