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Recent Development, Christopher A. Walker
Recent Development, Christopher A. Walker
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
On February 28, 1985, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) proposed rules governing the incineration of liquid organic hazardous wastes at sea. By providing specific criteria governing at-sea incineration' the proposed rules would modify the provisions of the Ocean Dumping regulations. After more than a year of discussions among waste handlers, the EPA, and citizen and environmental groups over the merits and risks of at-sea incineration the EPA promulgated the rules. The EPA's rulemaking process drew an immediate and heated response from the public, and attracted the attention of several Congressional committees. Three years after proposing the …