Compliance Assistance | Compliance and Enforcement

Compliance assistance means helping businesses, federal facilities, local governments and tribes meet their environmental regulatory requirements.

Compliance assistance providers help regulated communities and businesses comply with environmental laws through one-to-one counseling, online resource centers, fact sheets, guides and training. Providers include EPA regional office staff; state, local and tribal governments; federal and state small business and pollution prevention technical assistance extension agents, consultants, and trade associations.

Compliance assistance is most effective when used in an integrated strategy combining compliance monitoring (inspections), compliance incentives and auditing (self-disclosure policies) and enforcement.

Funding opportunity

EPA is issuing Request for Initial Proposals (RFIP) to continue the development and maintenance of Compliance Assistance Centers addressing:

Local Government
Printing
Healthcare

Additionally, EPA is issuing a Request for Initial Proposals for a single entity to continue the development and maintenance of five Compliance Assistance Centers addressing:

Construction
Metal Finishing
Paints and Coatings
Transportation
U.S. Boarder, Import/Export, Port Environmental Issues

The Web-based Compliance Assistance Centers offer easy access to plain-language materials and resources on environmental compliance. Only those applicants whose initial proposal meets the threshold criteria addressed in the Compliance Assistance Center Platform RFIP will be invited to submit a final proposal.

Prepare proposals as specified in the:

Healthcare Environmental Resources Center Platform RFIP (PDF) (12 pp,104K, About PDF)
Local Government Environmental Assistance NetworK (PDF) (12 pp, 102K, About PDF)

Printers' National Environmental Assistance Center (PDF) (12 pp, 105K, About PDF)

Construction, Metal Finishing, Paints and Coatings, Transporation, and US Border, Import/Export and Port Issues (PDF) (12 pp, 104K, About PDF)

Submit proposals to EPA by November 27, 2009, 4:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Who are You?

Find out what laws apply to you, what you need to do to comply, and tools and resources that can help you and your constituents comply with environmental regulations.

Topics

Statute-specific assistance
Assistance tools for specific statutes or regulations
Clean Air Act | Clean Water Act | Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act | More...

Financing for Environmental Compliance
Financial and technical assistance resources to help communities create a plan to finance environmental capital assets

Compliance Assistance Centers
Provides easy-to-understand compliance information targeted to specific industry and government sectors