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Basic Information
Compliance and Enforcement is an integral part of environmental protection. Compliance with the nation's environmental laws is the ultimate objective, but enforcement is a vital part of encouraging governments, businesses and other companies who are regulated to meet their environmental obligations.
EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) pursues enforcement and provides compliance assistance to areas that yield the most environmental benefit or reduce risk to human health. Enforcement and compliance actions are organized around environmental problems and broad patterns of non-compliance rather than provisions of single statutes.
Please use Contact Us in the upper-left of every Web page to reach personnel within OECA. See Compliance and Enforcement Program Offices to find information on what OECA offices do.
Compliance | Enforcement | Environmental Justice | National Environmental Policy Act | Governmental Collaboration
How Can I File a Tip or
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Major Environmental Laws?
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Information?
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Up Environmental Terms?
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| Region 1 - (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT) | Region 6 - (NM, TX, OK, AR, LA) | ||
| Region 2 - (NY, NJ, PR, VI) | Region 7 - (NE, KS, IA, MO) | ||
| Region 3 - (PA, DE, DC, MD, VA, WV) | Region 8 - (MT, ND, WY, SD, UT, CO) | ||
| Region 4 - (KY, TN, NC, SC, MS, AL, GA, FL) | Region 9 - (CA, NV, AZ, HI) | ||
| Region 5 - (MN, WI, IL, MI, IN, OH) | Region 10 - (WA, OR, ID, AK) | ||
