March 7, 2008

Water Pollution Act Amendments (Penalty Box) (Part II)

 As I mentioned in my previous post on this topic, the as-passed version of the amendments to the Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law assesses penalties for “intentional,” i.e. not accidental, exceedances of discharge standards based on a multiple of the applicable “discharge fee” (up to a maximum of 5x this amount).  The comment draft [...]