Environmental Crash Course 2008

This one-of-a-kind program is designed to train and update environmental managers, company officials, attorneys, and others responsible for California environmental compliance. There is no comparable or more efficient source of information on California’s unique state laws, regulations, policies, and enforcement developments. Every important regulatory subject is covered including basic program requirements, relevant federal background, state differences and changes effective in 2008. Internet access to regulatory information is explained and sample website searches are included in the seminar’s reference manual.

The Environmental Crash Course divides environmental compliance into the following topics:

1. Environmental Laws, Regulations, Agencies and Enforcement Procedures and Proactive Responses, Including Audits and Ensuring Their Confidentiality.
2. Community Right-To-Know, HAZMAT Inventories Risk Management Plans and Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Reports including recent changes in TRI
   coverage.
3. Air Pollution Regulation of Stationary Sources Under Federal, State and Local District Rules as well as new Greenhouse Gas Emission Initiatives.
4. Proposition 65 Warnings & Discharge Prohibition.
5. Tank Storage of Hazardous Substances Including Oil Spill Prevention and UST Requirements.
6. Process Wastewater Discharges, Community Sewer Use Requirements and Stormwater Pollution Prevention Including Regulation of Previously Exempt Light
   Industrial Facilities and Status of Numerical Discharge Limits.
7. Hazardous and Universal Waste Management, including recent regulatory developments and new universal wastes.

Increasingly tough enforcement by federal, state and local regulators is a major focus of the program. The number of enforcement actions and penalties have increased nearly 10-fold in the past two years. It is important to know how Agencies target inspections and how to manage them. Example cases will be discussed to illustrate how and why enforcement occurred and the extent of liability imposed.

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