Resources
Mary Susan Davies Law assists individuals and businesses in federal, state, and local environmental compliance matters, as well as landowners in matters involving oil and gas rights. Located in Glen Allen, the firm serves clients throughout central Virginia and in Pennsylvania. For the convenience of her clients, Ms. Davies has provided the following sampling of federal and state environmental law resources. To discuss a specific matter relating to environmental law or an oil and gas law matter, please contact Mary Susan Davies.
FEDERAL RESOURCES
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Laws and regulations administered by the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Title 40 of the Code of the Code of Federal Regulations: The Section of the Code of Federal Regulations that deals with the EPA and its mission of protecting human health and the environment.
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA): The Act gives the EPA the authority to control hazardous waste, including the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste; set forth guidelines for the management of non-hazardous solid wastes; and address environmental problems resulting from underground storage tanks.
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA): Commonly known as Superfund, the Act provides a Federal "Superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment.
- CERCLA Overview: CERCLA established prohibitions and requirements concerning closed and abandoned hazardous waste sites, provided for liability of persons responsible for releases of hazardous waste at these sites, and established a trust fund to provide for cleanup when no responsible party could be identified.
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES): As authorized by the Clean Water Act, the NPDES permit program controls water pollution by regulating point sources that discharge pollutants into waters of the United States.
- U.S. EPA Summary of the Clean Water Act (CWA): The Act establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters.
VIRGINIA RESOURCES
Administrative Agencies
- Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ): The DEQ handles environmental regulatory programs, environmental enhancement issues, community programs, and permitting.
- Air Pollution Control Board
- State Water Control Board
- Waste Management Board
Legal Resources
- Code of Virginia Title 6.1: Chapter 3.1-State Water Control Law
- Virginia DEQ Water Regulations
- Virginia DEQ Waste Regulations
- Virginia DEQ Solid Waste
- Virginia DEQ Hazardous Waste
- Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Regulations
- Virginia DEQ Waste Permits
- Virginia DEQ Corrective Action Program
PENNSYLVANIA RESOURCES
Administrative Agencies
- Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP): The DEP is largely responsible for administering Pennsylvania's environmental laws and regulations.
- DEP Waste Programs: DEP's Bureau of Waste Management manages the statewide hazardous, municipal, and residual waste programs and oversees implementation of the storage tank, hazardous sites cleanup, municipal waste planning and recycling, municipal and residual waste management, Superfund, RCRA, and multi-site remediation programs.
- Hazardous Sites Cleanup Program: The Program administers the Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act (HSCA).
- DEP Water Programs
- Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board: The Board functions as the statutorily-established trial court of state-wide jurisdiction which hears certain environmental cases.
- Pennsylvania Land Recycling Program: Provides for Brownfield redevelopment and voluntary cleanup and reuse of contaminated commercial and industrial sites.
Legal Resources
- DEP Statutes and Regulations: List of Pennsylvania Statutes and Regulations and Federal Statutes and Regulations
- The Pennsylvania Code: Title 25: Environmental Protection
- Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act (HSCA)
- Solid Waste Management Act
- Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning Recycling and Waste Reduction Act
- Clean Streams Law
- Pennsylvania Land Recycling Act
- Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Act
- Pennsylvania DEP Oil and Gas Management Program: Answers to questions frequently asked by landowners regarding oil and gas leases and drilling.
- Pennsylvania Storage Tank Act
