Alternative dispute resolution

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-001182",
  "term": "Alternative dispute resolution",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Alternative Dispute Resolution",
  "definition": "1. A technique in which a neutral party helps organize negotiations, facilitates deliberations, and/or provides negotiating parties with an impartial opinion.\n\n2. A broad range of processes designed to help people resolve disputes by means other than litigation in the courts. ADR processes include mediation, facilitation, arbitration, case evaluation, neutral fact-finding, and consensus building processes.\n\n3. \"Alternative (means of) Dispute Resolution\" is \"any procedure that is used to resolve issues in controversy, including but not limited to conciliation, facilitation, mediation, fact finding, minitrials, arbitration, use of ombuds or any combination thereof.\" 5 U.S.C. 571(3) These ADR techniques involve a neutral third party, a person who assists others in designing and conducting a process for reaching agreement, if possible. The neutral third party has no stake in the substantive outcome of the process. Depending on the circumstances of a particular dispute, neutral third parties may be Agency employees or may from outside EPA. Typically, all aspects of ADR are voluntary, including the decision to participate, the type of process used, and the content of any final agreement.\n\n4. A procedure that is used to prevent and resolve disputes with external parties by the use of a neutral third party mediator that has no stake in the outcome of the process.",
  "abbreviation": "ADR",
  "subject": "Land, waste and cleanup",
  "references": [
    "Superfund Reforms Glossary",
    "Alternative Dispute Resolution Terms",
    "Public Involvement Terms & Definitions",
    "Superfund Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/alternative-dispute-resolution/"
}