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OECA Office Responsibilities 
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Each office within the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) has specific responsibilites, which work towards achieving EPA's mission. Those responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Administration and Resources Managment Support StaffOffice of Civil Enforcement
Office of Compliance
Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training
Office of Environmental Justice
Office of Federal Activities
Federal Facilities Enforcement Office
Office of Planning, Policy Analysis and Communication
Office of Site Remediation Enforcement
Administration and Resources Management Support Staff
- Human resources
- Labor relations
- Budget, finances, contracts and grants
- Information and records management
- Correspondence control
- Web site management
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Office of Civil Enforcement
- Deter Violations by Recovering Economic Benefit
- Encourage Voluntary Self-Disclosure and Correction
- Measure Environmental Results
- Encourage Supplemental Environmental Projects
- Target high risk violations
- Develop and implement fair and consistent enforcement policies
- Provide notice to the regulated community and public
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Office of Compliance
- Sets national compliance assurance and enforcement priorities through strategic planning and targeting
- Collects and integrates compliance data
- Develops effective compliance monitoring programs to support inspections and self-reporting
- Builds the capacity for more effective compliance assistance to the regulated community
- Ensures effectiveness of compliance and enforcement personnel through training
- Improves the quality of regulations
- Works with regions, states, tribes, municipalities, citizen groups and industry
- Supports enforcement activities
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Office of Criminal Enforcement Forensics, and Training
- Investigates the most significant and egregious violators of environmental laws
- Technical and Forensic services for civil and criminal investigations
- Training programs for federal, state and local law enforcement in areas of the environment,
- Investigative, forensic and technical support to the Office of Homeland Defense, the FBI and other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies
- Provides general legal counseling, criminal and civil litigation support, and policy advice
- Develops and implements innovative techniques, practices and procedures using scientific and technical expertise
- Devises specialized methods and/or technical field applications, and transfers these capabilities to state, local and Federal environmental enforcement and compliance assurance programs
- Responds to homeland security related environmental,
biological and chemical incidents
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Office of Environmental Justice
- Address environmental and human health concerns in
communities which have been disproportionately and
adversely exposed to environmental harms and risks,
including low-income and/or minority communities
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Office of Federal Activities
- Coordinates EPA’s review of all federal Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) prepared by other agencies under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- Maintains a national EIS filing system and publishing a weekly notice of EIS documents available for review
- Assures that EPA's own actions comply with NEPA and other environmental requirements
- Provides technical assistance and capacity building for enfironmental compliance, enforcement and impact assessment in other countries
- Works with federal and state agencies, foreign
governments and international organizations in order to
ensure compliance with United States environmental laws
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Federal Facilities Enforcement Office
- Responsible for ensuring federal facilities take all
necessary actions to prevent, control and abate
environmental pollution
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Office of Planning, Policy Analysis and Communication
- Tracks and analyzes legislation
- Performs issue and policy analysis
- Encourages innovations
- Recommends national policy on enforcement and compliance assurance
- Ensures that environmental justice principles are fully integrated into OECA's enforcement and compliance programs
- Coordinates OECA's participation in EPA rulemaking
- Manages communications for compliance and enforcement
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Office of Site Remediation Enforcement
- Facilitates, coordinates and evaluates the enforcement of EPA’s national hazardous waste cleanup programs; including CERCLA (Superfund), RCRA Corrective Action, Oil Pollution Act and underground storage tanks
- Developes and implements enforcement policy and performs program evaluation activities and strategic planning for all OSRE-administered statutes
- Provids national direction and consistency for civil and administrative cleanup enforcement actions
- Serves as the primary point of contact for EPA Regional staff on contemplated and ongoing civil and adminstrative cleanup enforcement action
- Works to achieve prompt site cleanup and maximum
liable party participation in performing and paying for
cleanup in ways which promote environmental justice and
fairness
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