When a firm is regulated under multiple environmental programs, its compliance behavior under these programs can be complementary or substituting—regulations of one program either increase or decrease firm compliance with other programs. This paper examines the existence and the nature of such cross program effects. A panel data model with panel corrected standard error (PCSE) is estimated usin...

In the fall of 1976 Congress enacted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, commonly referred to as RCRA. The objective of the statute is to create an orderly system for the generation, handling and disposal of hazardous waste by means of a comprehensive tracking and record keeping mechanism. RCRA does not regulate directly by statute so much as it delegates rule making authority to the U....

The EPA Regional Ground Water Forum is a group of EPA professionals representing Regional Superfund and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Offices, committed to the identification and resolution of ground-water issues impacting the remediation of Superfund and RCRA sites. The Forum is supported by and advises the Superfund Technical Support Project. Emerging technologies that could p...

With the passage of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act RCRA and the subsequent amendments to RCRA e orts to provide tighter controls on the transportation and disposal of hazardous waste have been steadily gaining ground This paper intended as a decision support tool for regional planning incorporates information on the hazardous waste generation treatment capacity and the costs of wast...

The EPA Regional Ground Water Forum is a group of EPA professionals representing Regional Superfund and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Offices, committed to the identification and resolution of ground-water issues impacting the remediation of Superfund and RCRA sites. The Forum is supported by and advises the Superfund Technical Support Project. Emerging technologies that could p...

Ultimately, hundreds of billions of dollars of public and private funds will be spent in the US in hazardous chemical site (Superfund and closed RCRA facilities) investigation and remediation. A critical review of the adequacy of remediation of many of these sites that are “closed” in accord with RCRA and/or CERCLA requirements as being interpreted by regulatory agency staff/boards and principl...

We consider the problem of computing the power of some usual F transforms of the Wilks U, Hotelling-Lawley T, and Pillai V statistics for testing H0: CBA = Œ0 under the multivariate general linear model, Y = XB + ‰ , where the rows of ‰A are taken as independent N(0, Í) random vectors. Keeping all these matrices at full rank, let C be rC × rX and A be P × rA. For determining p-values, Fi (i ∈ {...

The 3MRA modeling system is a major step forward in providing a flexible and consistent tool for estimating the distributions of the probability of exceeding adverse effect benchmarks that result from various choices of exit thresholds. Used in conjunction with other factors, 3MRA provides a scientifically defensible framework that gives reproducible results for determining national exit levels...