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Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Priority:
Clean Air Act: Air Toxics
National Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Priorities
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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.