Anybody have some opinions on RegScan? How about other ways to monitor environmental laws to ensure we are compliant?

Anybody have some opinions on RegScan? How about other ways to monitor environmental laws to ensure we are compliant?
Not sure what regscan is.

One way in MO to stay up to date on changes to laws is through this link. It has email list servs that send out emails about changes in, for example hazardous waste regs.

http://www.dnr.mo.gov/broadcastlists.htm

You should be able to find Administrative and General Statutes websites for your state, Federal Register websites, as well as websites for any "other" requirements that your company subscribes to. Most industries have some sort of environmental updates watch newsletters.

Don't take this as a "have to do this way". but we went through each of our permits plans and programs and cited the legal and other requirements, put them in a matrix that stated whether it was a legal (CFR, General Statute, Administrative Code, or Other) then we linked each of them to the appropriate website, newsletter, or automatic mailing that is used to check for updates along with a frequency and responsibility for checking. Each permit, plan, or program is also reviewed for legal a/o other requirements every time it is renewed/revised.

So, we ended up with a matrix that shows Permit/Plan

Type

(Legal or Other)

Requirements (Code or Reference)

Source (Maintenance of Legal or Other Requirements)


The source shows CFR, NCA(dministrative)C(ode), NCG(eneral)S(tatute), with a link from the source column to websites, newsletter sources, etc.

Actually, RegScan now offers a free RSS feed covering recent regulatory changes. I should know -- I'm their webmaster. ;)

Well I reckon it should be free since there is nothing there Mr. Regulator;)

Huh?

Oh! If you just go to the URL I gave you in a browser, you won't find anything. The RSS feed is for an application like FeedReader (free download at www.feedreader.com) or to add content to a site like my.yahoo.com. RSS is basically a subscription to a news service that you can read a variety of ways.

If you want the actual web address the information is posted in my Profile here.

Well I reckon it should be free since there is nothing there Mr. Regulator;)

It's an RSS feed. You need something called an "aggregator" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator) in order to use it. Free ones are available. Firefox can do it, but current versions of IE don't, on their own, although the soon-to-come IE7 will.

Thanks, using Foxfire I can see your Huxley quote but on Explorer it is not present.

Yup - if you look in the sidebar here, at the bottom are RSS and XML links which will feed you the latest threads here in the forums.

I use the RSS extension available for Firefox. It works great :agree1:

/Claes

What laws are changing so fast that you need to keep track of them by the minute?

Just keep up on the EPA site... www.epa.gov ... or

http://www.epa.gov/epahome/cfr40.htm ,

and on the Missouri site...

http://www.dnr.mo.gov/index.html or

http://www.dnr.mo.gov/env/apcp/smbus.htm for small business.... or


http://www.dnr.mo.gov/env/laws.htm ... for legal links.