Environmental Practicum:
Class Readings for February 28, 2014

Overview of Civil Enforcement Process

1.    The TCEQ Has Inspected Your Business:  What Does This Mean to You?, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Pub. No. RG-344 (rev. Sept. 2005).

2.  TCEQ Enforcement Initiation Criteria (2012) – skim, with some attention to pages 6 - 11 (Class A violations).

3.  U.S. EPA, Issuance of Policy on Timely and Appropriate Response to High Priority Violations (Dec.22, 1988).

Administrative Orders, Injunctions and Pre-Enforcement Review

1.  Model Unilateral Administrative Order for Removal Actions, OSWER Dir. No. 9833.07 (1993).

2.  Sample EPA Section 106 administrative order (just skim for general sense of format and nature of order).

3.  Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 566 U.S. ____ (2012).