Provide Funds through a Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP)

NEEP is supported not only by membership dues, but also by settlement funds from Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs).

For example, NEEP’s November 2017 Oil Spill/Natural Resource Damages and Environmental Enforcement Training for Attorneys in Baltimore was partially funded by a Rhode Island oil spill settlement. Delaware reached a settlement with a violator that resulted in a SEP that funded a hazardous waste compliance training program for hazardous waste generators, government inspectors and members of NEEP. The funds were directed to NEEP to organize and the training and hire the instructors. EPA has recognized the Delaware SEP as “innovative”.

Donating to NEEP through a SEP, as some of our member entities have done, will help keep NEEP’s high-quality courses available to your staff.

In addition, Delaware reached a settlement with a violator that resulted in a SEP that funded a hazardous waste compliance training program for hazardous waste generators, government inspectors and members of NEEP. EPA has recognized the Delaware SEP as “innovative”.

  • As part of a settlement, the agreement may require the defendant/respondent to undertake supplemental environmentally beneficial expenditures that exceed regulatory requirements. These additional projects are known as supplemental environmental projects, or SEPs;
  • May be part of a negotiated settlement agreement;
  • As part of a settlement, a party to the agreement may voluntarily agree to undertake an environmentally beneficial project related to the violation in exchange for mitigation or reduction of the penalty to be paid.
  • According to US EPA and many state agencies, SEPs are allowable in settlement agreement.

  • [Name of Entity or violator] shall provide the amount of $ to be used by the Northeast Environmental Enforcement Project (NEEP) for the purposes of providing training to its members consistent with the objectives of NEEP.
  • “[Name of Company] shall pay $9,000 as penalties pursuant to [name law and regulation] to NEEP for its costs of providing services to its members as a supplemental environmental project.”
  • “Provisions of this SEP are for the purpose of training government environmental attorneys, inspectors, and investigators relative to compliance and enforcement actions.”
  • “Defendant (or Respondent) shall pay $XXXX as a supplemental environmental project to be used by the Northeast Environmental Enforcement Project for the purpose of providing training consistent with the objectives of the Northeast Environmental Enforcement Project”.
  • “Defendant (or Respondent) agrees to pay the sum of $XXXX. These funds shall be paid to the Northeast Environmental Enforcement Project within 30 days for (name of specific type of training or for training in general).”
  • “Defendant or Respondent or Company agrees to pay or shall pay the sum of $$$ for supplemental environmental projects within 30 days of the execution of this agreement. The funds shall be used by (name of agency or entity that will receive the funds) for the purpose (state purpose for specific training or general training for inspectors, investigators, attorneys, etc.) as provided by the Northeast Environmental Enforcement Project. Payment shall be made by check to the Northeast Environmental Enforcement Project.

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