EFFLUENT CHARGE SCHEDULE - COST, FINANCIAL BURDEN, AND PUNITIVE EFFECTS

Alternative effluent charge programs are examined with regard to cost, charge payments, financial burden, and punitive effects. These efficiency and equity issues are evaluated for constant unit charge programs and for effluent charge schedule programs; the latter are found to reduce the charge payments and the financial burden significantly. Example charge schedule solutions are also shown to compare favorably to the corresponding direct regulation solutions. Copyright 1979 by the American Geophysical Union.