Settlements With SARA: A Comprehensive Review of Settlement Procedures Under the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act

April 1987
Citation:
17
ELR 10101
Issue
4
Author
Richard H. Mays

Editors' Summary: The 1986 Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) incorporated many significant changes into the existing Superfund law. In particular, the new law will have considerable impact on settlements between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and responsible parties. EPA has had an international settlement policy in place for several years, but SARA codified many of the existing policies and gave EPA additional duties. The author, a senior EPA enforcement attorney, reviews the new settlement provisions and analyzes their potential impact on EPA's enforcement procedures, taking into account other relevant sections of SARA.

Mr. Mays is Senior Enforcement Counsel in the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring at the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Mr. Mays wrote this article in his private capacity, and no official support or endorsement by EPA or any other agency of the federal government is intended or should be inferred. Mr. Mays gratefully acknowledges the contribution of Nancy Firestone of the Department of Justice, Steve Leifer of EPA, and especially Julie Becker, Special Assistant, for their editorial review of this article.

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