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AGENCY

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Announcement of the National Enforcement and Compliance Assurance 

Priorities for Fiscal Years 2008, 2009 and 2010

: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

ACTION: Announcement of National Priorities

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 9th, 2007 FR Notice.  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:

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

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

Annual results information for fiscal year 2007 will be available on
November 16th, 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; FRL-XXXX-X.  Publicly available docket
materials are available either electronically through   HYPERLINK
"http://www.regulations.gov"  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 AM to 4:30 PM, 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-XXXX.

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 10, 2007

/S/

Michael M. Stahl, Director

Office of Compliance

Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance		

FR Announcement		October 10, 2007

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In addition to substantive legal comments, I’ve also made some
formatting and typographical edits to reflect current Office of FR
practices and preferences.  You can also check with your FR staff and
Vicki Reed (OPEI) to make sure the format is correct.

This text is repeated in the Background section below (where it should
be), and so its unnecessary to have it here – why pay the FR office to
print the same text twice?

I suggest clarifying that we’re talking about 80% of the national
refining capacity – if that is what we mean.

