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HAZARDOUS WASTE COMPLIANCE AND THE INFLUENCE OF FEDERAL INITIATIVES, STATE PROGRAMS, AND CORPORATE CHARACTERISTICS
Impact/Purpose:
This project is an empirical examination of the factors
that motivate compliance with hazardous waste regulations. The analysis will
include over
8,000 hazardous waste generators and management facilities across the U.S.
representing a wide array of industries. The study will address three major
questions: (1) how audit policies affect hazardous waste compliance; (2) how
state initiatives affect hazardous waste compliance; and (3) how corporate
and facility characteristics affect hazardous waste compliance. The objective
of these lines of inquiry is to provide a better understanding of the effect
of various regulatory and non-regulatory factors on compliance so that policies
can be better designed and implemented to promote compliance and increase environmental
protection.
Description:
To date there has been little empirical research on
hazardous waste compliance. This project will provide evidence as to which
factors influence
compliance with hazardous waste regulations. This knowledge will benefit hazardous
waste management by leading to improvements in: (1) the allocation of enforcement
resources to facilities most likely to violate the regulations; (2) evaluation
of initiatives to determine which to adopt, continue, or eliminate; and (3)
design and modification of initiatives to maximize compliance. Additionally,
the results of this project will provide insight about compliance behavior
that can be transferred to other media programs.
Record Details:
Record Type:PROJECT(
ABSTRACT
)
Start Date:06/01/2003
Completion Date:05/01/2006
Record ID:
58731
Keywords:
MONITORING, DETERRENCE, LARGE QUANTITY GENERATOR, GIS.,
Related Organizations:
Role
:OWNER
Organization Name
:COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY-VA
Citation
:Williamsburg
State
:VA
Zip Code
:23187
Project Information:
Approach
:A fundamental step towards answering these questions is the
collection and compilation of the necessary data. We will extract data on detected
violations
and state and federal inspections from EPA's RCRA Info database and combine
them with data on waste generation and management from EPA's Biennial Reporting
System. Next, we will compile data on the use of audit policies from documents
in the Audit docket and collect information on state programs and resources
from a number of sources including state regulations. We will match facilities
with corporate parents and gather company financial data from several electronic
databases. Finally, we will calculate data on demand and competition for waste
management services using Geographic Information System software. Once we have
amassed the necessary data, we will conduct a variety of cross-section and
panel regressions. To account for the fact that compliance status is known
only if a facility is inspected, we will use a censored bivariate probit as
the basic framework for analysis.
Cost
:$137,997.00
Research Component
:Economics and Decision Sciences
Project IDs:
ID Code
:R831036
Project type
:EPA Grant