Municipal Ability-to-Pay Assessments Services

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Mr. Fuhrman has also performed assessments of public entities` ability-to-pay. For example: In a large Superfund cost recovery case, Mr. Fuhrman calculated a Maryland county`s ability to pay its fair share of the cleanup costs associated with remediation of an abandoned hazardous waste site. In a Superfund cost recovery case involving a rural county in Indiana, Mr. Fuhrman calculated that county`s limited ability to contribute to a Superfund cleanup.

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In a Clean Water Act civil penalty case brought against The City of Los Angeles, Mr. Fuhrman provided a critique of the ability-to-pay analysis performed by the government`s expert witness and found that the analytical techniques on which that person had relied might well be characterized as "junk science."
In separate cases, Mr. Fuhrman assessed the ability of two Kentucky counties and one large city in Louisiana to pay damages for illegally strip-searching tens of thousands of people.
Mr. Fuhrman assessed the ability of a country and a city in the U.S. Southwest to contribute to a Superfund cleanup.
Click here to read Mr. Fuhrman`s article "Perspectives on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency`s Treatment of Ability-to-Pay Cases," which was published in the April 2009 issue of Environmental Liability, Enforcement & Penalties Reporter, a publication of the Argent Communications Group.
Click here to read EPA`s MUNIPAY User`s Manual, which was last revised in September 1999.