Laws & Regulations

Photographic Processing Effluent Guidelines

Federal Register notice and support documents for Photo Processing Effluent Guidelines (40 CFR Part 459)

State Delivery Prohibition Programs

Learn about state delivery prohibition programs, which prohibit product delivery to underground storage tanks that have one or more compliance violations.

Cooling Water Intakes Implementation Support Documents

Documents supporting implementation of the Cooling Water Intake regulations.

Metal Molding and Casting (Foundries) Effluent Guidelines Documents

Federal Register notices and documents for the Metal Molding and Casting (Foundries) Effluent Guidelines

Nonferrous Metals Manufacturing Effluent Guidelines Documents for 1980-1988 Amendments

Federal Register notices for the 1980-88 amendments to the Nonferrous Metals Manufacturing Effluent Guidelines

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Effluent Guidelines

Overview and documents for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Effluent Guidelines and Standards (40 CFR Part 439)

Leather Tanning and Finishing Effluent Guidelines Documents

Support documents for Leather Tanning and Finishing Effluent Guidelines regulations, 40 CFR Part 425

National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Carbon Monoxide (CO)

learn about the NAAQS for CO by reading the rule history, the rule summary, the docket folder, and fact sheets

Approved CWA Microbiological Methods for Ambient Water

Microbiological pollutant analytical methods approved at 40 CFR Part 136

Approved CWA Microbiological Methods for Wastewater and Sewage Sludge

Microbiological pollutant analytical methods approved at 40 CFR Part 136

Green Infrastructure Opportunities that Arise During Municipal Operations

This document provides approaches that local government officials and municipal program managers in small to midsize communities can use to incorporate green infrastructure components into work they are doing in public spaces.

Modeling Clarification Memorandum for Secondary Pollutants and Nitrogen Dioxide

Memo for using modeling to demonstrate general conformity

Lead Testing in School and Child Care Program Drinking Water Tribal Grant Implementation Document

This document is part of the tribal grant program to implement lead testing in schools and childcare facilities and shall be used in accordance with the EPA’s 3Ts for Reducing Lead in Drinking Water guidance

Guidance: Use of Superfund Special Accounts at RCRA Corrective Action Sites

Memorandum providing direction to the Regions on the scope of EPA's ability to retain and use funds in special accounts for the oversight of RCRA cleanups.

Consent Decree: MEW Settlement Agreement

Middlefield-Ellis-Whisman (MEW) First amended consent decree for cleanup in Region 9

Guidance: Affiliation Language in CERCLA's BFPP and CPO Liability Protections

Memorandum assists EPA personnel in, on site-specific basis, exercising the Agency's enforcement discretion regarding the affiliation language contained in the Superfund statute

Guidance: Clarification of Superfund Entry Policy

Memorandum provides Regional Counsel with a clarification to EPA 1987 access policy regarding the savings provision in section 104(e)(6) of Superfund

Guidance: "Enforcement First" Policy for Superfund Institutional Controls

Memo stating the "Enforcement First" policy applies to actions needed to ensure institutional controls

Model: Application/Information Request for the Service Station Dealer Exemption under CERCLA

Transmittal memo and model language for application/information request for SSDE under CERCLA.

Guidance: Best Practices to Enhance Coordination in the RCRA Program

Memorandum transmitting a best practices guide to enhance coordination among EPA personnel implementing the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act regulatory and enforcement program