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| | Legislation Outline | Good Samaritan Clean Watershed Act | US EPA |
 | | Allows any interested person to challenge (generally within 120 days) EPA’s action in issuing or denying any permit, in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the U.S. for the federal judicial district in which the person resides or transacts business which is directly affected by the permit decision. |
 | | A Good Samaritan could be an individual, a firm, corporation, an association, a partnership, consortium, joint venture, commercial entity, nonprofit organization, the federal government (on non-federal lands), a State, political subdivision of a State, an Indian Tribe, interstate entity, or commission. |
 | | The liability protection provided to the permittee is also extended to any “cooperating person” — a person other than a federal agency who: meets the definition of a “Good Samaritan”; assists the permittee in the remediation of the site; and, is specifically identified in the permit. |
| www.epa.gov /goodsamaritan/legislation.html (924 words) |
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