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VCP Comparison Charts |
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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 III. Eligible participants chart VI. "How clean is clean?" chart VII. Financial incentives chart VIII. Consultant sign-off authority chart XI. Brownfield site inventory requirement 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
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