This new edition covers the topics that affect the regulated community, environmental managers, lawyers, and lenders the most. Focusing on the state's major regulatory schemes_environmental quality review, air, water, hazardous waste, and wetlands_this handbook examines recent changes that have occurred in New York environmental law, including New York's Superfund statutes amendment. All statutes and regulations are liberally footnoted for easier follow-up and deeper investigation.

The United States may not be able to make all hazardous-waste sites as clean as possible. Therefore, priorities must be set for the timing of waste site remediations. This book assesses several of the government's methods of ranking sites for remediation and compares the performance of three such models using input data developed from the same set of waste sites. Because inconsistent methods may be neither effective nor prudent, the book recommends that the government consider developing a unified national approach to setting priorities to replace the current multiple approaches.

The structure & regulatory requirements of all major cleanup programs in the U.S. are discussed, & quantitative measures of the remediation work are given. The economic & political factors that may affect the size or characteristics of each of the seven segments are also presented. A considerable portion of the report is devoted to innovative treatment technologiesÓ. In the last year, over half of the treatment technologies selected for source control were innovative. Includes an extensive bibliography & 60 different exhibits, plus contacts for federal agencies & a glossary. Of great value to mid-level executives engaged in market planning.