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EPA Rolls Back Proposed “Waters of the United States” Definition

Green Building Law Update

With this final repeal, the agencies will implement the pre 2015 regulations, which are currently in place in more than half of the states (i.e., Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006 held that the scope of navigable waters must be interpreted more narrowly. The justices in the Rapanos v. United States , 547 U.S.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Federal acquisition regulation. International Journal of Project Management, 20(7), 497-505. Brooke, K. L., & Litwin, G. Mobilizing the partnering process. Journal of Management. in Engineering, 13(4), 42-48. Bubshait, A. Partnering: An Innovative and Effective Project Organization Concept. Cost Engineering, 43(4), 32-37. Bygballe, L.

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Back to the Future with “Navigable Waters of the United States”

Green Building Law Update

The Clean Water Act provides the discretion for the implementing agencies, EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers, to define this term in regulations, and this has been further interpreted by the courts. Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006 held that the scope of navigable waters must be interpreted more narrowly.

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Off-highway primary power through the tiers

CK Power

When new regulations come down the pipe, owners and fleet managers ask: “Do we need all new equipment, or can old units be updated?”. Let’s take a trip down memory lane and review how these diesel emission regulations developed over the past few decades. The first round of regulations in 1996 affected units ranging from 130 to 560 kW.

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Supreme Court Permits State Law Claims Against Superfund Property

Green Building Law Update

That is, the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2001, amended CERCLA, restricting liability under federal law for the cleanup and redevelopment of a Brownfields property by a person complying with a state voluntary cleanup program.

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Why ANSI Z10 is better than I2P2

FDR Safety

OSHA’s I2P2, on the other hand, would be another regulation that would likely be a major battleground between government, industry and unions. to do is support the International Labor Organization’s Guidelines on occupational safety and health management systems (ILO-OSH 2001). The best alternative. What I’d really like for the U.S.

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In the Name of Clean Water Millions of Acres are Proposed for Federal Control

Green Building Law Update

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is quoted as saying the new rule will expand the scope of waters of the United States by “only about 3%” but that 3% represents millions of acres that are not today regulated. It is regularly suggested this is not a good way to make environmental policy.