{"id":205,"date":"2021-06-19T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cbishoplaw.com\/wp\/?p=205"},"modified":"2021-06-19T18:00:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T18:00:54","slug":"epa-enforcement-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbishoplaw.com\/wp\/2021\/06\/19\/epa-enforcement-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Enforcement During COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On March 26, 2020, EPA announced that, retroactive to March 13, it will not seek penalties for violations of &#8220;routine compliance monitoring, integrity testing, sampling, laboratory analysis, training, and reporting or certification obligations in situations where the EPA agrees that COVID-19 was the cause of the noncompliance and the entity provides supporting documentation to the EPA upon request.&#8221; Other environmental obligations are also relaxed.<br \/><br \/>Read the full document <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2020-03\/documents\/oecamemooncovid19implications.pdf\">here<\/a>. <br \/><br \/>So, for example, if your business cannot comply with federal requirements due to worker shortage, you should document the same and may be able to cite to this policy. \u00a0<br \/><br \/>If you need assistance, feel free to contact me at <a href=\"mailto:cbishop@cbishoplaw.com\">cbishop@cbishoplaw.com<\/a><br \/><br \/>Stay safe out there, and wash your hands!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 26, 2020, EPA announced that, retroactive to March 13, it will not seek penalties for violations of &#8220;routine compliance monitoring, integrity testing, sampling, laboratory analysis, training, and reporting or certification obligations in situations where the EPA agrees that COVID-19 was the cause of the noncompliance and the entity provides supporting documentation to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cbishoplaw.com\/wp\/2021\/06\/19\/epa-enforcement-during-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EPA Enforcement During COVID-19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,35],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-environmental-enforcement","tag-epa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbishoplaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbishoplaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbishoplaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbishoplaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbishoplaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cbishoplaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/cbishoplaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbishoplaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbishoplaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbishoplaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}