Court Says Three-Year Delay Unreasonable In Responding to EPA Information Request

摘要

A three-year delay in responding to an Environmental Protection Agency-issued request for information under superfund is unreasonable as a matter of law and subject to civil penalties,a federal district court has held(United States v.Timmons Corp.,N.D.N.Y.,No.1:03-CV-951,2/8/06).Sickness was an insufficient excuse for failing to promptly reply to the EPA request for items that included information on the release of hazardous substances,the U.S.District Court for the Northern District of New York said Feb.8,concluding that the owner's unreasonable delay was carried out in bad faith and resulted in a more costly,less efficient EPA cleanup.