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VCP Comparison Charts


The charts listed below (plus the information link at the bottom of the page) supplement information contained in a two-part article published in June and July, 2002 in the Bureau of National Affairs journal, Environmental Due Diligence Guide and later reprinted in Toxics Law Reporter, Daily Environment, and Environmental Law Reporter.

Each chart compares an aspect of New York's voluntary cleanup program with corresponding aspects of the counterpart programs in the five "leading" VCP states of Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

I. Program organization and management chart

II. Eligible sites chart

III. Eligible participants chart

IV. Liability release chart

V. "Re-openers" chart

VI. "How clean is clean?" chart

VII. Financial incentives chart

VIII. Consultant sign-off authority chart

IX. Source of authority chart

X. Liability exemptions chart

XI. Brownfield site inventory requirement chart

XII. Special features chart


The author is grateful for information and assistance generously provided by the following (however, any errors or omissions are solely the author's responsibility):

* Evans Paull, Director, Brownfields Initiative, Baltimore Development Corp., Baltimore, MD

* Todd Fernandez, Director, Governor's Office for Brownfields Revitalization, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA; Catherine Finneran, Brownfields Coordinator, Massachusetts DEP, Boston, MA.

* Carrie Olmsted, Compliance and Enforcement Section, Environmental Response Division, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Lansing, MI

* Colleen Kokas, Site Remediation Bureau, NJDEP, Trenton, NJ

* Terri Smith, Brownfield Coordinator, NJDEP, Trenton, NJ

* Tom Fidler, Chief, Land Recycling & Waste Management Division, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Harrisburg, PA

* Karl Kalbacher, Program Administrator, Environmental Restoration and Redevelopment Program, Waste Management Administration, Maryland Department of the Environment, Baltimore, MD (with thanks also to: Rick Collins,  Director, Waste Management Administration; Shari T. Wilson; Jim Metz)

* Fern F. Daves, Esquire, Special Counsel, Sedgwick Detert Moran and Arnold, Newark, NJ

* Greg V. Lesniak, P.G., Walter B. Satterthwaite Associates, Inc., West Chester, PA and Endicott, NY

 


Q & A and Additional Details on VCPs of Comparison States