A
report from the Environmental Council of the States
contained the following:
EPA Proposes Electronic Reporting Rule
The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published
its proposed rule -Establishment of Electronic Reporting:
Electronic Records - in the August 31, 2001 Federal
Register (Page 46162). The proposed rule (a.k.a. CROMERRR)
will remove existing regulatory obstacles to electronic
reporting and record keeping across a broad spectrum
of EPA programs, and establish requirements to assure
that electronic documents and electronic records are
- for all purposes - as valid and authentic as their
paper counterparts. These proposed requirements will
apply to regulated entities that choose to submit
electronic documents and/or keep electronic records.
The proposal also defines how States and tribes will
be able to seek EPA
approval to accept electronic documents or allow the
maintenance of
electronic records to satisfy reporting and record
keeping requirements under
authorized or delegated environmental programs they
administer. The proposal includes criteria against
which a State or tribe's electronic document receiving
system will be evaluated before EPA can approve changes
to the authorized program to allow electronic reporting.
Similarly, the proposal includes criteria against
which EPA will evaluate a State or tribe's provisions
for electronic record keeping. Under this proposal,
electronic document submission or electronic record
keeping for regulated entities and States will be
totally voluntary. You can find a copy of the proposed
rule (in pdf format) at http://www.ecos.org/wiser/PublicLibrary/
- click on "State-EPA Partnership."
Comments
on the proposed rule are due to EPA on or before November
29, 2001. Comments provided electronically will be
considered timely if they are
submitted by 11:59 p.m. (Eastern time) November 29,
2001.
ADDRESSES:
Comments should be addressed to the United States
Environmental Protection Agency, Enforcement and Compliance
Docket and Information Center, (Mail Code 2201A),
Attn: Docket Number EC-2000-007, 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20460. (37-5)(Blakeslee)
The
proposed rule contains websites as follows:
A
State Guide to Electronic Reporting of Environmental
Data
http://www.nga.org/center/divisions/1,1188,C_ISSUE_BRIEF^D_1139,00.html
Reporting
forms for water
http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/fededi/4010-ic.html
863E
Discharge monitoring report
I'm
not aware of any forms for Air.
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