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By Andrew H. Perellis and Craig B. Simonsen

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has just announced its Final Fiscal Year 2014-2018 EPA Strategic Plan (April 10, 2014). We had previously blogged about the Draft Strategic Plan.

According to EPA’s Administrator, Gina McCarthy, “EPA will address the increasingly complex array of environmental challenges we face by advancing a rigorous research…
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By Philip L. Comella and Craig B. Simonsen

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently published its final rule for the national electronic manifest (e-Manifest) system, which upgrades the current paper-based system of tracking hazardous waste shipments and disposal.  79 Fed. Reg. 7518 (February 7, 2014).

The rule indicates that it affects approximately 160,000 entities in at least forty-five industries that…
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By Andrew H. Perellis and Craig B. Simonsen

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has just announced its Draft FY 2014-2018 EPA Strategic Plan for public review and comment. 78 Fed. Reg. 69412 (Nov. 19, 2013).

Conceptually, the Strategic Plan provides the Agency’s long-term direction and strategies for advancing human health and the environment. In seeking public comments, the EPA is…
Continue Reading EPA Publishes Strategic Plan That Cuts Enforcement While Ratcheting Up Scrutiny for Regulated Entities

Philip L. Comella, and Catherine McCord, of Heritage-Crystal Clean LLC, will co-present a Bloomberg BNA environmental webinar, on “The EPA’s New E-Manifest: Understanding the Changes to RCRA’s Cradle-to-Grave System”.

We had previously blogged about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s public hearings on this topic, and about its subsequent request for information about e-manifest systems. For the past 33…
Continue Reading EPA’s New E-Manifest: Understanding the Changes to RCRA’s Cradle-to-Grave System

By Philip L. Comella and Craig B. Simonsen

We had previously blogged about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s announced public meetings to “obtain public input from stakeholders” on a national electronic manifest (e-manifest) database system intended to capture information on shipments of hazardous wastes.

The Agency has now published a Request for Information (RFI) on the concept of…
Continue Reading EPA Request for Information on Electronic Manifest (E-Manifest) Systems

By Meagan Newman and Craig B. Simonsen

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced public meetings to “obtain public input from stakeholders” on a national electronic manifest (E-Manifest) database system intended to capture information on shipments of hazardous wastes.

Specifically, the purpose of the meetings is to solicit comments from the states, industry, communities, nongovernmental organizations, and other…
Continue Reading EPA Holds Public Meetings on Proposed National E-Manifest System