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Morris@nuilink.com writes:

>This state is screwed. Once a known violator of either Fed.
>State or Local Regulations has been disclosed,There is virtually no one
in
>this stat that can do anything to them to enforce any regulations.  Why?
>Because the state has become snarled in it's own little political cyclone
>that the enforcement agencies are simply to affraid to attempt
enforcement.
>The Blame is not on environmental consultants...Well some of it maybe.

I think that we would do well to examine the issue of unenforceable
regulations a little more closely than to simply blame it on politics and
spineless regulators.  It appears to me that, in most areas of
environmental regulation, two big factors impeding enforcement are the
complexity and ambiguity of the regulations.  Another big problem is the
economic unachieveability of the stated goals of the regulation (there
isn't enough money in the universe to clean up some contaminated aquifers
to drinking water standards, for instance).  More and more people are
being dragged into the regulatory net (consider how many folks in their
60's own real estate with some level of contamination and are finding that
they have a huge liability instead of retirement nest egg.  The public in
places like Ventura County looks out their window to blue skies 360 days a
year and yet is continually told by the APCD that they have the 13th worst
air quality in the country.  

Many environmental regulations are overbroad and many agencies overreach. 
Political support for many extreme regulation is therefore eroding.