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Federal Facilities Enforcement Office
Offices
| Director: | David Kling |
|---|---|
| Deputy Director: | Sandra Connors |
| Senior Counsel: | Joyce Olin |
| Phone Number: | (202) 564-2510 |
| Mail Code: | 2261A |
As part of EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), the Federal Facilities Enforcement Office (FFEO) is responsible for ensuring that federal facilities take all necessary actions to prevent, control and abate environmental pollution. Federal Facilities Program Managers in all of the Regions assist FFEO in attaining those responsibilities. Major FFEO functions include:
- Policy and guidance development,
- Regional program support,
- Interagency agreement negotiation support,
- Enforcement support,
- Compliance monitoring and targeting support, and
- Technical assistance and capacity building.
FFEO is divided into two groups that develop national policy and guidance to address the broad range of enforcement and compliance issues confronting federal facilities.
Site Remediation and Enforcement Staff (SRES)
- Director (Acting): Anne Heard, ( 202) 564-4387
- The Site Remediation and Enforcement Staff works with
EPA Regional offices, other EPA headquarters offices, state
regulators and federal agencies to facilitate compliance
through enforcement under all environmental statutes and
cleanup at federal facilities. Specific program responsibilities
affect every aspect of federal facility enforcement, from planning
to implementation. Site Remediation and Enforcement staff
are invoved in:
- review proposed federal legislation and develop EPA positions on appropriate federal responsibilities under such legislation,
- development federal facility enforcement strategies and in preparing guidance to assist regions in their implementation,
- enforcement negotiations, including Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) interagency agreements, administrative penalty and/or compliance orders, and in litigation and enforcement support at federal facilities.
Planning, Prevention, and Compliance Staff (PPCS)
- Director: Gregory Snyder, (202) 564-4271
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The Planning, Prevention, and Compliance staff are
responsible for initiatives to prevent noncompliance at
federal facilities and overseeing compliance assistance
and targeting activities such as:
- tracking and evaluation of compliance at federal facilities to identify high priority compliance issues and develop proactive multi-media measures to prevent pollution and reduce future noncompliance at federal facilities,
- working on enforcement and inspection targeting at federal facilities and coordinating FFEO's involvement in interagency pollution, prevention and compliance assistance task forces and working groups,
- tracking compliance at federal facilities with environmental laws, regulations, and Executive Orders,
- promoting pollution prevention, multi-media enforcement, compliance, and environmental justice activities at federal facilities,
- encouraging the use of innovative technologies to attain pollution prevention, compliance, and cleanup goals.