Java-based regulation broker

Many engineering activities, such as building design and construction, site redevelopment, and industrial operations, are governed by environmental re gulations that are constantly being revised and published. Many state envir onmental protection agencies are now starting to use Web sites to provide a ccess to their regulations. From the result of a preliminary investigation, many current state regulatory agency Web sires provide no support, other t han browsing, for finding relevant regulations. A Java-based environmental regulation broker has been designed to help users in locating relevant envi ronmental regulations. Eventually, such broker software can be provided by regulatory agencies as a standardized support to access their regulations o ver the Internet.