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Compliance
Officers
Chair: Mike Linder, NE
Vice-Chair, Lisa Jackson, NJ
ECOS Staff: Susan Gilbertson
The Compliance Committee focuses on enforcement and compliance assistance issues the federal and states governments face across the country. The Committee is working with state representatives, the EPA Regions and the EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) to implement a new tool to assess state performance in enforcement and compliance assurance – the State Review Framework. |
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(September 28, 2006)
A report to Congress that looks at the contribution of State enforcement and compliance activities for the federally and some non-federal delegated environmental programs. Also looks at practices and concerns about the movement of data from State programs to EPA.
(September 28, 2006, This is the Environmental Council of the States’ (ECOS) second report of state enforcement and compliance assistance data. This report includes data for the years 2000 to 2003. This Report:
- Updates the data and information available to include 2000-2003 program activities;
- Improves characterization of enforcement and compliance assurance activities;
- Provides a more complete and accurate characterization of what the States are doing to enforce and ensure compliance; and
- Further refines the information available about state compliance assistance programs.
Printed copies are available from ECOS as long as supplies last. )
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(January 3, 2007)
U.S. EPA's "Guidance for Seeking and Approving Credit under Element 13 of the State Review Framework" December 26, 2006
(May 5, 2005)
The Final Guidelines for Federal Enforcement in CSO/SSO Cases memorandum signed on April 10, 2005 by Tom Skinner and Bob King presents guidelines developed by an U.S. EPA-State workgroup to assist the federal government and states in addressing combined sewer overflow(CSO) and sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) violations.
The guidelines, which are based on the 1986 Revised Policy Framework for State/U.S. EPA Enforcement Agreements (the Barnes Memorandum), are not mandatory criteria, but are intended to assist U.S. EPA regions and states as they work to address CSO/SSO violations. The guidelines do not introduce any new standards for federal CSO/SSO enforcement; rather, they reflect U.S. EPA's existing policies, including the Barnes Memorandum. The goal is to set the stage for early, open, and ongoing communication between U.S. EPA and States on CSO/SSO issues.
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