EPA Delays With Self-Audit Oversight Prompt Push To Boost States' Role

August 26, 2016
Some industry attorneys are calling for EPA to allow states to take a leading role in reviewing facilities' self-reported violations of environmental laws rather than employing the agency's own self-audit policy, saying the federal program is outdated and has limited resources that have led to delays responding to submissions. In a recent interview with Inside EPA , attorney James C. Morriss III said industry is seeing increasing delays in EPA's responses to self-audits of environmental violations under the policy that...


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