FORUM; Environmental Testing, Official Methods, and Attitudes Toward Noncompliance

摘要

The US Enviornmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established longstanding regulations that prescribe the analytical procedures to be followed when parties submit information pursuant to regulatory programs. However, problems assocaited with unnecessary or irrational testing requiremnts along with the difficulity in obtaining approval of altrernate procedures, has resulted in widespread noncomplianc with those regulations. For the most part, agenices have tolerated this attitude of noncompliance and have in some ways contributed to it by adopting testing requirements that make little or no sense.