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Brozović, Nicholas Pitois, Gauthier 2013-02-03T19:36:51Z 2013-02-03T19:36:51Z 2012-12 2013-02-03T19:36:51Z 2012-12 As environmental regulatory agencies have limited resources to enforce compliance, they tend to optimize the efficiency of resource allocation by employing targeting strategies. This thesis investigates the scheduling of Clean Water Act inspections in Illinois and the extent to which these inspections are memoryless. Using facility level and local EPA agency level data, we test inspection strategies for common decision factors, such as environmental performance, and compare them across the different jurisdictions in Illinois. Our analysis has several key results. First, at the facility level, a majority of inspections are memoryless, though they are targeted according to local jurisdiction parameters. Second, although some facilities are targeted for more frequent non-memoryless inspections, none of our environmental performance parameters seem to influence this sorting. Finally, different inspection types are implemented in different ways, suggesting that they serve distinct purposes in the regulatory process. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2012-12-10T13:33:28Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Pitois_Gauthier.pdf: 637866 bytes, checksum: f87a11487017abd3af08e73018a8669f (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-02-03T19:36:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Gauthier_Pitois.pdf: 637866 bytes, checksum: f87a11487017abd3af08e73018a8669f (MD5) license.txt: 4064 bytes, checksum: b955d6c8c591869d704b01d57536a6e6 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42378 en Copyright 2012 Gauthier Pitois environmental inspections water quality enforcement targeting strategies Clean Water Act memoryless inspections jurisdictions inspection types Determinants of facility level environmental inspections text Agricultural and Consumer Economics 1470 Agricultural and Applied Economics 5273 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S. MS: Agr & Applied Econ - UIUC 10KS5273MS