subchapter_subject: "SUPERFUND, EMERGENCY PLANNING, AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW PROGRAMS"
part_code: "300"
part_subject: "NATIONAL OIL AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES POLLUTION CONTINGENCY PLAN"
subpart_code: "F"
subpart_subject: "State Involvement in Hazardous Substance Response"
section_number: "300.520"
section_subject: "State involvement in EPA-lead enforcement negotiations."
cfr_reference: "40 CFR 300.520"
title_name: "Title 40"
title_subject: "Protection of Environment"
parts_covered: "Parts 300 to 399"
revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of July 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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(a)EPA shall notify states of response action negotiations to be conducted by EPA with potentially responsible parties during each fiscal year.
(b)The state must notify EPA of such negotiations in which it intends to participate.
(c)The state is not foreclosed from signing a consent decree if it does not participate substantially in the negotiations.