Engineers A and B Landfill Higher-Contour Design State Environmental Law Compliance Verification
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/113#Engineers_A_and_B_Landfill_Higher-Contour_Design_State_Environmental_Law_Compliance_Verification
Properties
Instance of
LandfillHigher-ContourDesignStateEnvironmentalLawComplianceVerificationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#LandfillHigher-ContourDesignStateEnvironmentalLawComplianceVerificationObligation
Case context
Engineers A and B designed a higher-intensity landfill expansion for the town council; applicable federal and state environmental laws and regulations established governing criteria for landfill design that had to be verified before design submission.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.86
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineers A and B
Obligation statement
Engineers A and B were obligated to verify that the higher-contour landfill expansion design — including maximum allowable slopes, minimum setbacks, and final contour elevations — complied with all applicable state environmental laws and regulations governing landfill operations, and to document that compliance verification before submitting the design to the town council.
Temporal scope
During the design process, before submitting the accepted design to the town council
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Methane Migration and Groundwater Contamination Risk - Town Landfill Higher Contour Design
derivedFromPrinciple
Case-by-Case Environmental Site Analysis Obligation Invoked for Landfill Expansion
Source Evidence
Source text
At the federal, state, and local levels there is a growing body of law and regulation designed to establish governing criteria.
Text references
At the federal, state, and local levels there is a growing body of law and regulation designed to establish governing criteria.
the test for compliance with the criteria is whether '...there will be no reasonable probability of adverse effects on health or the environment associated with disposal of solid waste at a facility.'
TTL
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proeth:casecontext "Engineers A and B designed a higher-intensity landfill expansion for the town council; applicable federal and state environmental laws and regulations established governing criteria for landfill design that had to be verified before design submission." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
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proeth:confidence "0.86" ;
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proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineers A and B" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Landfill Higher-Contour Design State Environmental Law Compliance Verification Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineers A and B were obligated to verify that the higher-contour landfill expansion design — including maximum allowable slopes, minimum setbacks, and final contour elevations — complied with all applicable state environmental laws and regulations governing landfill operations, and to document that compliance verification before submitting the design to the town council." ;
proeth:sourcetext "At the federal, state, and local levels there is a growing body of law and regulation designed to establish governing criteria." ;
proeth:temporalscope "During the design process, before submitting the accepted design to the town council" ;
proeth:textreferences "At the federal, state, and local levels there is a growing body of law and regulation designed to establish governing criteria.",
"the test for compliance with the criteria is whether '...there will be no reasonable probability of adverse effects on health or the environment associated with disposal of solid waste at a facility.'" ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
113
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T22:27:34.479644+00:00
First case
113
Generated
2026-03-01T22:27:34.479644+00:00
Attributed to
Case 113 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T22:37:07.059708
Generated by
ProEthica Case 113 Extraction