Enforcement Response Policies and Guidance
Listed below are EPA's Enforcement Response Policies relating to violations or noncompliance with the environmental statutes and regulations. The listing is not inclusive of all policy and guidance that may be relied upon in developing enforcement actions.
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Clean Air Act (CAA)
- Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS)- Enforcement Response Policy - (12/19/11)
- Enforcement Role in the 33/50 Program (Industrial Toxics Project) - (5/15/89)
- Issuance of Policy on Timely and Appropriate Enforcement Response to High Priority Violations - (12/22/87)
- Timely and Appropriate Guidance and Asphalt Plants - (7/9/85)
Clean Water Act (CWA)
- Enforcement Response Policy for EPA's 2013 Vessel General Permit: Ballast Water Discharges and U.S. Coast Guard Extensions Under 33 C.F.R. Part 151 - (12/27/13)
- Enforcement Management System (EMS) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Chapter X: Setting Priorities for Addressing Discharges from Separate Sanitary Sewers - (3/7/96)
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
- Penalty Policy Supplements Pursuant to the 2004 Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation Adjustment Rule - (6/5/06)
- Enforcement Response Policy for Section 313 of the Emergency Planning Community Right-To-Know Act (1989) and Section 6607 of the Pollution Prevention Act (1990), Amended - (4/12/01)
- Enforcement Response Policy for Sections 304, 311, and 312 of the Emergency Planning and Right-to-Know Act and Section 103 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act - (9/30/99)
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
- Enforcement Response Policy for FIFRA Container/Containment Regulations Appendix H - (3/9/12)
- Enforcement Response Policy for FIFRA Section 7(c) - (5/19/10)
- FIFRA Enforcement Response Policy - (12/3/09)
- Penalty Policy Supplements Pursuant to the 2004 Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation Adjustment Rule - (6/5/06)
- Enforcement Response Policy For The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Regulations - (9/30/91)
- FIFRA Worker Protection Standard - Enforcement Interim Final - (10/21/97)
Resources Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
- EPA Policy on Underground Storage Tanks Delivery Prohibition - (6/25/12)
- 2003 Revisions to the Hazardous Waste Enforcement Response Policy - (1/9/04)
- Hazardous Waste Civil Enforcement Response Policy - (12/1/03)
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
- Revisions to the 2000 Section 1018 - Disclosure Rule Enforcement Response Policy - (12/20/07)
- Section 1018 – Disclosure Rule Enforcement Response and Penalty Policy - (12/1/07)
- Penalty Policy Supplements Pursuant to the 2004 Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation Adjustment Rule - (6/5/06)
- Interim Guidance for Enforcing the TSCA Section 402 Abatement Rule - (3/8/00)
- Real Estate Notification and Disclosure Rule: Final Enforcement Response Policy Corrections (February 2000) - (2/23/00)
- Issuance of Revised Enforcement Response Policy for TSCA Sections 8,12 & 13 - (3/31/99)
- Revision of the AHERA Enforcement Response Policy: Civil Penalties for failure to conduct Reinspections - (8/4/98)
- Enforcement Response Policy for TSCA Section 4 Test Rules - (5/28/96)
- Amended TSCA Section 5 Enforcement Response Policy - Penalty Limit For Untimely NOC Submissions - (7/1/93)
- Changes relating to Accreditation Violations/Penalty Amounts Resulting from AHARA Reauthorization/Amendment - (1/27/92)
- Enforcement Response Policy for Asbestos Abatement Projects; Worker Protection Rule, dated 11/14/89 - (11/14/89)
- Amended TSCA Section 5 Enforcement Response Policy - (6/8/89)
- Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) Enforcement Response Policy - (1/31/89)
- Final TSCA GLP Enforcement Response Policy - (4/9/85)