Regional Judicial Officer

Each EPA Region, as well as EPA Headquarters, can assess a penalty for a TSCA violation. The EPA will typically exercise considerable discretion in reducing negotiated penalties. The Consolidated Rules of Practice governs civil penalty assessments, and requires that each Region have a Regional Judicial Officer who is a lawyer and conducts hearings and may have authority to approve settlements. ... 

Docket No. TSCA-09-91-0011 (Region 9 Regional Judicial Officer, 1991). 

AHERA ERP, 16. For an example of an order requiring the penalty to be spent on compliance and the balance paid to the trust fund, see In the Matter of Rose 8r Alex Pilibos, Docket No. TSCA-09-91-0011 (Region 9 Regional Judicial Officer, 1991). 

In The Matter of Louis W. Alves and Associates. Inc.. Docket No. TSCA-09-93-0009. 2 (Region 9 Judicial Officer. 1994). 

The EPA has not developed an enforcement response policy specifically for the Renovation, Repair, and Painting Rule or the Pre-Renovation Education Rule. In In the Matter of Millennium Quests, Inc., the Regional Judicial Hearing Officer relied on the enforcement response policy for PCBs in the absence of an enforcement response policy that was directly applicable to the Pre-Renovation Education Rule. 

EPA Region 5, Docket No. TSCA-05-2003-0009, Judicial Hearing Officer Order (May 19, 2003), available at http //www.epa.gov/comphance/resources/ijos/bruner-century21 -ord.pdf... 

UNICEF and Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (Regional Office for Europe) (2012) Judicial Implementation of Article 3 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Europe The Case of Migrant Children including Unaccompanied Children. 

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