

[Federal Register: October 12, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 197)]
[Notices]               
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Announcement of the National Enforcement and Compliance Assurance 
Priorities for Fiscal Years 2008, 2009 and 2010

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This Notice is a Federal Agency announcement of the triennial 
national enforcement and compliance assurance priorities to be 
addressed for fiscal years 2008, 2009 and 2010. EPA appreciates the 
comments submitted in March 2007 during the priority identification 
process in response to the February 9, 2007 Federal Register Notice (72 
FR 6239). The final priority selections have been incorporated into the 
EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance National Program 
Managers' (NPM) Guidance (which provides national program direction for 
all EPA Regional offices). These priorities also support implementation 
of the enforcement and compliance goals and objectives outlined in Goal 
5 of EPA's Strategic Plan, as mandated under the Government Performance 
and Results Act.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Knopes, Deputy Director, 
National Planning Measures and Analysis Staff; telephone: (202) 564-
2337 or facsimile: (202) 564-0027, e-mail address: 
knopes.christopher@epa.gov.


SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. General Information

    EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) selects 
multi-year national priorities focusing on specific environmental 
problems, risks, or patterns of noncompliance. A performance based 
strategy is developed for each national priority to characterize the 
problem and set goals for addressing it. The intent of this Notice is 
to announce EPA's enforcement and compliance assurance priorities for 
the years 2008-2010.
    The FY 2008-2010 OECA national priorities are shown below.
     Clean Water Act--Stormwater.
     Clean Water Act--Combined Sewer Overflow.
     Clean Water Act--Sanitary Sewer Overflow.
     Clean Water Act--Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations.
     Clean Air Act--New Source Review/Prevention of Significant 
Deterioration.
     Clean Air Act--Air Toxics.
     RCRA & CERCLA--Financial Assurance.
     RCRA--Mineral Processing.
     Indian Country.
    The FY 2005-2007 Petroleum Refining priority will not continue into 
FY 2008-2010 as a national priority. The priority has met its primary 
goal of addressing 80% of the national refining capacity and was 
returned to the core program at the end of FY 2006. It is important to 
note that discontinuation as a national priority does not mean that the 
Agency will no longer focus on this area, but rather the work will 
continue as part of the Agency's core program activities.
    For each of the national priority areas, EPA has developed a 
strategy designed to achieve specific goals. The strategy summaries 
included here contain a description of the environmental problem or 
noncompliance problem; why the Office of Enforcement and Compliance 
Assurance is addressing the problem; how the problem will be addressed; 
and, highlights the progress made by the priorities for fiscal year 
2005 through 2007. The strategy

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summaries can be found at http://www.epa.gov/compliance/data/planning/priorities/index.html
.

    Annual results information for the Office of Enforcement and 
Compliance Assurance can be found on EPA's Web page at: http://www.epa.gov/compliance/data/results/annual/index.html
.

    Annual results information for fiscal year 2007 will be available 
on November 16, 2007.

B. How Can I Get Copies of This Document and Related Materials?

    1. Docket. EPA has established a docket for this action under 
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OECA-2007-0917. Publicly available docket 
materials are available either electronically through 
http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the OECA Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center, (EPA/DC) EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., 
NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open 
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 
holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 
566-1744, and the telephone number for the OECA Docket is (202) 566-
1752.
    2. Electronic Access. You may access this Federal Register document 
electronically through the EPA Internet under the ``Federal Register'' 
listing at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.


    Dated: October 5, 2007.
Michael M. Stahl,
Director, Office of Compliance, Office of Enforcement and Compliance 
Assurance.
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