Responsibility and Liability

The agreement, partners will have to develop as a basis for their co-operation, also requires mechanisms and procedures clarifying responsibility and liability patterns with regard to the performance and quality of their common business activity applying Chemical Leasing. 

UNDER THE AGENCY CONTRACT, THE OWNER ASSUMES THE RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY FOR THE ACTIONS OF THE CONTRACTOR. IT SHOULD BE AVOIDED. 

Doing all engineering in-house is not a real alternative. The Owner should not assume the responsibility and liabilities associated with structural design even if it has qualified professional engineers. That responsibility should always be delegated to a well-qualified engineering firm. 

DOING ALL DETAILED ENGINEERING IN-HOUSE IS NOT A DESIRABLE ALTERNATIVE. THE OWNER SHOULD NOT ASSUME THE RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH STRUCTURAL DESIGN EVEN IF QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS ARE AVAILABLE. 

The delicate issues of responsibility and liability arising from EIA procedures in Antarctica can be considered under two different aspects. 

The "dry-tomb" approach, which merely transfers the responsibilities and liabilities of waste management to future generations docs not represent an appropriate way forward for landfill management. 

While the information herein is believed to be reliable and correct, nothing herein is intended and should not be construed, as a representation or warranty, express or implied, as to resylts obtained or to be obtained by others who may make use of this information or with respect to the absence, existence or validity of patent rights, if any, of others involving any composition or process herein referred to or an inducement or recommendation for the violation of any such patent rights and responsibility and liability therefore is disclaimed. 

The EPA Contract Laboratory Program (CLP) has responsibility for managing the analysis programs required under the U.S. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). The approved analytical methods are designed to analyze water, soil, and sediment from potentially hazardous waste sites to determine the presence or absence of certain environmentally harmful organic compounds. The methods described here all require the use of GC/MS. 

The analysis programs of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) are managed through the EPA s Contract Laboratory Program (CLP). 

CERCLA. See Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. 

B) Any contamination of the environment or damage to natural resources at a facility owned or operated hy Seller or a facility/location chosen hy Seller for its disposal of Wastes or any other facility at which Seller s Wastes may he released or threatened to he released, including any liability imposed by federal, state and local laws, regulations and ordinances, including, but not limited to, the Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 USC 9601 etseq., the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 42 USC 6901 et seq., or comparable and applicable state legal requirements or any extension or revision thereof or... 

This chapter addresses the potential for hazardous air emissions from environmental remediation sites. These emissions can occur at hazardous spill locations, at undisturbed remediation sites, and during cleanup of remediation sites under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) or the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA). Air emissions may pose a potential health risk at these sites. 

CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act. 

Any substance designated under the Clean Water Act and the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) as posing a threat to waterways and the environment when released. 

This section provides an overview of the engineering technologies and applications that are currently applicable to the study and remediation of releases of hazardous wastes and constituents from RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) facilities and those sites which parallel Superfund sites. Activities which would be termed removal actions or expedited response actions under CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Recovery-Cleanup and Liability Act) are also covered in this section. Information presented in this section represent excerpts from document EPA/625/4-89/020 (September 1989). 

To the best of the Publisher s knowledge the information contained in this publication is accurate however, the Publisher assumes no responsibility nor liability for errors or any consequences arising from the use of the information contained herein. Final determination of the suitability of any information, procedure, or product for use contemplated by any user, and the manner of that use, is the sole responsibility of the user. 

Under this provision, facilities should notify the LEPC and consequently the SERC of any possible environmental release of specific chemicals. The specific chemicals referred to in SARA Title III are found on the Extremely Hazardous Substance List (40 CER 355) and the Reportable Quantity List (the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act [CERCLA] Section 103 [a]). 

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