Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Environmental Protection Agency - An Important Statement To Remember!

Does the absence of violations mean a facility is in full compliance with the law?The ECHO Web site presents what is known to the government based upon the most recently available information for more than 800,000 regulated facilities. EPA and states inspect a percentage of facilities each year, but many facilities, particularly smaller ones, may not have received a recent inspection. It is possible that facilities do have violations that have not yet been discovered, thus are shown as compliant in the system. EPA cannot positively state that facilities without violations shown in ECHO are necessarily fully compliant with environmental laws. Additionally, some violations at smaller facilities do not need to be reported from the states to EPA. If ECHO shows a recent inspection and the facility is shown with no violations, users of the ECHO site can be more confident that the facility is in compliance with the programs included in this Web site. The compliance status of smaller facilities that have not had recent inspections or review by EPA or the states may be unknown or only available via state data systems.

Please click on the EPA Echo under website links to view the current information on Alliance Landfill.