Compliance Assistance

EPA provides compliance assistance on a sector-by-sector basis in order to efficiently reach facilities with similar operations, processes or practices.

A sector is a distinct part of the economy that shares:

• Similar operations, processes or practices
• Similar environmental problems and impacts
• Similar compliance issues and either distributes goods or performs services More...

Additional information that may affect your sector can be found in compliance assistance by statute.

Sector-Based Compliance Assistance Tools:

Select a sector from the list on the right for these compliance assistance tools relevant to that sector.

• Compliance Assistance Centers provide comprehensive, easy to understand compliance information targeted to specific industry and government sectors.
• Sector Notebooks plain language books each of which describes a major U. S industry and the environmental regulations that apply to its activities.
• Compliance Assistance and Inspection Publications also are available including guides, manuals, fact sheets and brochures that pertain to an individual sector or a specific regulation.
• National Compliance Assistance Clearinghouse links to public and private compliance assistance materials. Users may post documents and interact with assistance providers, both within and outside of EPA. The Clearinghouse allows users to search for relevant material on new and existing regulations, pollution prevention opportunities, and voluntary programs that were created by other parts of EPA, other federal agencies, tribes, states and local agencies, industry and other organizations.

Top of page