DEQ issues Emergency Rule for Minor and Moderate Violations

The Office of the State Register has published a Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality emergency rule that outlines an alternative penalty assessment mechanism for minor and moderate permit violations. In the past three years alone, the DEQ Enforcement Division has received 8,139 referrals and has issued 4,259 actions. The emergency rule was developed because DEQ's strained budget and resource issues pose an imminent impairment to the Agency's ability to address minor and moderate violations.

Posted by AJR at July 8, 2004 03:51 PM