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Joint Advisory Committee 92nd Meeting (December 2025)

Joint Advisory Committee 92nd meeting (hybrid) in Santa Teresa, New Mexico

Date: December 11, 2025

EPA’s Role in Emergency Response

EPA provides support when requested, or when state and local first responder capabilities have been exceeded, in response to chemical, oil, biological, and radiological releases and large-scale national emergencies, including homeland security incidents.

Household Carbon Footprint Calculator

Information about how daily activities such as driving or heating our homes can cause greenhouse gas emissions.

EPA's 7th Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment

The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment (DWINSA) is used to determine the financial needs of the nation’s drinking water infrastructure over the next twenty years.

Diesel Fuels Hydraulic Fracturing (DFHF)

This webpage provides information on how hydraulic fracturing is regulated by the Underground Injection Control Program. It includes information about what owners and operators need to do to be in compliance and guidance for EPA Class II permit writers.

UIC Program Guidance Specific to Well Class

Catalog of UIC program guidance documents used to inform decision-making, clarify issues and questions, and guide UIC program implementation.

Guidelines for Completing Class I Injection Well No Migration Petitions

This document provides information on the general requirements for modeling strategies for UIC no migration petitions submitted to EPA Region 6.

Example SEP Consent Decree Language

Motor Vehicle Waste Disposal Wells

This page provides information on how motor vehicle waste disposal wells are defined and regulated. Compliance information is also provided.

Example SEP Mitigation Plan Language

Backyard recreational fires

issue of backyard burning

Test Your Wood with a Moisture Meter

This document tells you why and how you should test your firewood with a moisture meter before burning it.

Fact Sheets for Class V Well Types

Summary descriptions are provided for each of the Class V well types identified in EPA's 1999 Class V Study

Underground Injection Control National Technical Workgroup Final Issue Papers

Provides links to final issue papers from National Technical Workgroup

Implementing Wood-Burning Changeout Campaigns and Examples of Programs

Burn Wise changeout campaign to replace older heating appliances. with cleaner home heating.

Burn Wise Tearsheets & Postcards

Burn Wise materials for public distribution.

Wood-Burning Air Quality Tools, Guidance Documents and Resources

More information about non-BurnWise resources.

West Lake Landfill Dashboard

This interactive map of the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site identifies bore hole and sampling locations used during the Remedial Design Investigation. Clicking on each location will provide the results of the sampling effort for that location. EPA will

Closure of Administrative Complaint No. 08R-97-R9

Letter regarding the Closure of Administrative Complaint No. 08R-97-R9