A collection of recent and upcoming compliance-related alerts, announcements, events, etc. important to the Federal community.

Compliance Bulletin

• EPA Compliance Advisory - Reducing Noncompliance with Drinking Water Standards at Federal Public Water Systems (August 2021)
  
• EPA's Audit Policy Offers Incentives for Federal Facilities in Noncompliance
  
• EPA Compliance Advisory - Federal Facility Compliance under National Compliance Initiative to Reduce Significant Noncompliance with Clean Water Act NPDES Permits
  
• The Federal Facility Compliance Act (FFCA) Levels the Playing Field for Regulated Entities and Significantly Improves Federal Facility Compliance
  Revisiting the October 1992 FFCA enhancing local, state and EPA solid and hazardous waste enforcement authority against federal agencies.
• Federal Facility Compliance Under EPA's National Compliance Initiative to Reduce Significant Noncompliance with CWA NPDES Permits
• New Compliance Advisory for Federal Facilities

Announcements and Fact Sheets

• Compliance Tips for Small, Mechanical Wastewater Treatment Plants
  This advisory is directed to owners and operators of small publicly owned wastewater treatment works (POTWs) and small private wastewater treatment plants, both commonly referred to as wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). It is intended to provide small WWTPs with information that will help them comply with their National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit effluent limits.
• COVID-19 Implications for EPA's Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Program
  EPA is announcing a temporary policy regarding EPA enforcement of environmental legal obligations during the COVID-19 pandemic. This policy will apply retroactively beginning on 13 March 2020. Authorized states or tribes may take a different approach under their own authorities. The EPA will exercise the enforcement discretion specified in the this memo for noncompliance covered by this temporary policy and resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, if regulated entities take the steps applicable to their situations, as set forth in this policy.
• Enhancing Effective Partnerships Between the EPA and the States in Civil Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Work
  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) is issuing a final policy on Enhancing Effective Partnerships Between the EPA and the States in Civil Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Work.
• EPA's 2019 National Compliance Initiatives (NCIs)
  Check out the 2019 National Compliance Initiatives (NCIs), previously called National Enforcement Initiatives (NEIs), for Air, Energy, Hazardous Materials, and Water as well as changes being contemplated for the FY2020–2023 cycle.

• RCRA Webinar Presentation and Proceedings
  Proceedings from EPA's October 23, 2018 "Common RCRA Non-Compliance Issues at Federally-Owned Medical Facilities" webinar.