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Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Priority:
Clean Air Act: Air Toxics
Planning Topics
Strategy Summary || Online Resources
The Air Toxics national priority strategy aims to achieve maximum compliance with environmental regulations in order to protect human health and the environment. The strategy focuses on categories of sources that emit hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) as defined by Congress in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. HAPs are pollutants that are known or suspected to cause adverse environmental or human health impacts. The pollutants come from a wide variety of sources, from industrial and utility operations to smaller manufacturing and commercial sources. Human exposure to air toxics is a widespread problem throughout the nation and their health impacts can include cancer, reproductive or birth defects and severe respiratory problems. For fiscal years 2008 - 2010, the Air Toxics National Compliance and Enforcement Strategy will focus on the problem areas of leak detection and repair (LDAR), industrial flares, and surface coating.
Strategy Summary
For each of the national priority areas, EPA has developed a strategy designed to achieve specific goals. The Air Toxics strategy summary of 2008-2010 (PDF) (2pp, 16K,About PDF) contains 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, as described in the Air Toxics strategy summary of 2005-2007 (PDF) (2pp, 16K,About PDF)
Online Resources
EPA has identified over 400 links to online compliance and enforcement resources that may be helpful in implementing these performance-based strategies. These links can be accessed through the Compliance Assurance Resources Compendium for Fiscal Year 2008 - 2010 National Enforcement and Compliance Priorities (PDF) (60pp, 775K,About PDF), current as of February 2008, is also available.
EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) maintains a focused list of links to its policy, guidance and other relevant documents. Compliance and Enforcement Resources
The National Environmental Compliance Assistance Clearinghouse is an interactive Web site that links to thousands of compliance assistance resources on specific topics and by geographic locations. Users may add their own links, including links to contact Web pages for the Clearinghouse Expert Directory. The following EPA and non-EPA sources resources are on the Clearinghouse:
Compliance Assistance Resources provides links to information related to this priority on how to comply with environmental laws
Compliance Monitoring Resources provides links to information related to this priority on how EPA and the regulated community monitor compliance with environmental laws