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EPA's Identification of Federal Financial Assistance Infrastructure Programs Subject to the Build America, Buy America Provisions of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
This document contains reporting information about the Build America, Buy America Act
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Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act
Public Law 109-282, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 as amended (FFATA), requires disclosure of all entities and organizations receiving Federal funds through a single publicly accessible website.
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January—February 2023 Newsletter
Check out our newsletter for stories about the Regional Administrator’s travels, addressing mercury contamination at a Superfund site, protecting public health in Hawai'i, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to protect drinking water, and more!
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FRS Environmental Interest Types
FRS environmental interest types
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Fenceline Air Monitoring at Oregon's Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub
Information about EPA's air toxics monitoring project at Oregon's Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub near Portland.
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What They are Saying: Leaders Across America Applauding EPA’s Action to Eliminate Animal Testing by 2035
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the agency is renewing its commitment to reducing mammalian animal testing, with the ambitious goal of eliminating the practice by 2035.
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How Do I Know if a Fish I Caught is Contaminated?
Information on how the public can tell if a fish is contaminated with pollutants.
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Superfund Reuse Planning Support & Technical Assistance
Regional Seeds provide EPA site teams, stakeholders and communities with an initial “seed” of support and technical assistance to facilitate redevelopment, remove barriers to productive reuse, and ensure future use is aligned with the cleanup and process.
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Lighting Resources Inc, Phoenix, AZ
EPA's permit decision authorizing Lighting Resources Incorporated (LRI) to commercially store PCB wastes and decontaminate PCB-containing lighting ballasts at a commercial storage facility at 1522 East Victory Street, Suite 4, Phoenix, Arizona.
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2025 Southern California Wildfires
On January 7, 2025, a series of catastrophic wildfires developed in Los Angeles County. EPA worked as part of an all-of-government response to these wildfires. We were tasked with removing hazardous materials from nearly 14,000 affected properties.
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National Recycling Strategy
This document summarizes the activities and accomplishments of the workgroup participants in 2019 and lays out the path forward for continued action in 2020. It also provides a foundation on which additional actions can be identified and taken.
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Food: Material-Specific Data
This page describes the generation, recycling, composting, combustion with energy recovery, and landfilling of food materials, and explains how EPA classifies such material.
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Clean Water Act Hazardous Substance Facility Response Plan Applicability
Clean Water Act Hazardous Substance Facility Response Plan Applicability
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Upgrading to MARPLOT 5.x
MARPLOT 5.x versions include significant changes from both the previous 4.x versions and the 3.x versions. To ensure that your data is successfully transferred from your old MARPLOT, follow these instructions carefully.
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Cleaning Up, Protecting and Preserving Tribal Lands
EPA provides funding and technical assistance in Indian country and Alaska Native Villages to build tribal environmental cleanup and waste management capacity that supports tribal self governance.
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Ingredients Used in Pesticide Products
Information about individual pesticides and related groups of pesticides, including regulatory decisions, risk assessments, public participation opportunities, Public Dockets, and how to search for information about pesticide ingredients and labels.
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Reducing Pesticide Drift
Provides information about pesticide spray drift, including problems associated with drift, managing risks from drift and the voluntary Drift Reduction Technology program that seeks to reduce spray drift through improved spray equipment design.
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SPECIATE
These documents describe the SPECIATE database, EPA’s repository of volatile organic gas and particulate matter (PM) speciation profiles for air pollution sources.
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NAFTA Guidance on Data Requirements for Pesticide Import Tolerances: Questions & Answers
These Qs&As provide details of implementation related to a guidance document describing the data requirements for establishing pesticide import tolerances in Canada and the United States: NAFTA Guidance on Data Requirements for Pesticide Import Tolerances.
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EPA Opens Comment Period for Draft Biological Opinions on Four Pesticides
EPA and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are seeking comment on two NMFS draft biological opinions on four pesticides. Metolachlor, bromoxynil and prometryn are herbicides used to control grasses and broadleaf weeds, and 1,3-D