[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 34190]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16119]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-7002-7]


Agency Compliance Assistance Activity Plan Inventory: Comment 
Request

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is 
seeking comment on its draft Annual Compliance Assistance Activity Plan 
Inventory (Plan Inventory) for fiscal year 2002. EPA's fiscal year 
commences October 1, 2001 and ends on September 30, 2002. The draft 
Plan Inventory catalogues compliance assistance activities proposed 
throughout the Agency for fiscal year 2002, and provide a single source 
for stakeholders to access the information. The Agency is seeking 
stakeholder input on the content, type and scope of projects contained 
in the draft Plan Inventory. EPA intends to use this feedback in the 
fiscal year 2002 budget development process.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before August 13, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons may review the draft Annual Compliance 
Assistance Activity Plan Inventory from the National Compliance 
Assistance Clearinghouse, at www.epa.gov/clearinghouse.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Comments can be sent to Joanne Berman, 
(202) 564-7064; e-mail at [email protected]; or by mail at US 
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Compliance, Mail Code 2224A, 
Washington, DC 20460.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The draft Plan Inventory reflects EPA's 
commitment to help entities comply with regulatory requirements and 
improve environmental performance through compliance assistance. 
Compliance assistance includes activities, tools, or technical 
assistance that provides clear and consistent information for: (1) 
Helping the regulated community understand and meet its obligations 
under environmental regulations; or (2) compliance assistance providers 
to aid the regulated community in complying with environmental 
regulations.
    The comprehensive approach of the Plan Inventory allows interested 
stakeholders to understand the Agency's current compliance assistance 
priorities and activities and to suggest where tools or additional 
emphasis are still needed. The consolidated information will also 
assist compliance assistance providers in determining how to focus 
their resources without duplicating EPA's efforts. Additionally, the 
regulated community will be able to anticipate what compliance 
assistance will be available to them in the near future.
    The draft fiscal year 2002 Plan Inventory continues the 
coordinated, intra-agency planning that marked the first Compliance 
Assistance Activity Plan, fiscal year 2001, published April 2001. 
Stakeholder comments played a significant role in the development of 
the fiscal year 2001 Plan. To better assist the Agency, EPA would 
particularly welcome comments addressing the following issues:
    1. What are the most important environmental or regulatory problems 
where the EPA should focus its compliance assistance efforts?
    2. What type of compliance assistance would be most useful and 
effective at addressing the environmental or regulatory problems 
identified above? What entities should EPA direct that assistance 
toward?
    3. What activities suggest opportunities for collaboration between 
EPA and other compliance assistance providers? How might that 
collaboration work?
    4. Are any of EPA's compliance assistance activities unnecessary or 
duplicative of other efforts? Which ones? Why?
    The Agency looks to stakeholder comments to influence the 
directions in which we focus our compliance assistance resources. The 
Agency is committed to using stakeholder comments as we continuously 
improve the way we do business.

    Dated: June 19, 2001.
Michael M. Stahl,
Director, Office of Compliance.
[FR Doc. 01-16119 Filed 6-26-01; 8:45 am]
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