Office of Land and Emergency Management FY 2023-2024 National Program Guidance


OFFICE OF LAND AND
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

FY 2023-2024 National Program Guidance

August 26, 2022
Publication Number 500B22001

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Contents

SECTION I. INTRODUCTION	2

SECTION II. KEY PROGRAMMATIC ACTIVITIES	4

Superfund Remedial	4

Superfund Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse	7

Emergency Response	11

Brownfields and Land Revitalization	15

RCRA Permitting and Support to Tribal Waste Management Programs	17

RCRA Corrective Action	20

PCB Cleanup and Disposal Program	24

RCRA Regulatory and Guidance Actions	26

e-Manifest System	29

Improving Recycling and Advancing a Circular Economy for Materials	30

Reducing Food Loss and Waste	32

Underground Storage Tanks	33

Environmental Justice	38

SECTION III. IMPLEMENTING TRIBAL WORK	39

SECTION IV. FLEXIBILITY AND GRANT PLANNING	41

OLEM FY 2023-2024 Grants Management Guidelines	41

Federal Civil Rights Responsibilities, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964	43

Section V. FY 2023 NATIONAL PROGRAM GUIDANCE MEASURES	46

SECTION VI. KEY CONTACTS	48

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SECTION I. INTRODUCTION

The Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) is the national program manager for a variety
of land-based programs. OLEM is responsible for the Superfund Removal and Remedial programs, the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act program, the Brownfields program, the Underground Storage
Tank program, the Emergency Response and Management program and the Federal Facility Oversight
program. In addition, OLEM formed the Office of Mountains, Deserts and Plains (OMDP) in 2020 to
respond to the unique needs associated with abandoned hardrock mine sites. OLEM also collaborates
with other agency programs on cross-media issues. Additional information concerning agency-wide
practices, including discussions with state, tribal and territorial partners to identify priorities1, and
applicable requirements critical to implementing EPA's environmental programs, including compliance
with Title VI civil rights requirements by recipients of EPA funding, is described in the EPA's Overview to
the National Program Guidances (NPG).2

OLEM strives to effectively limit human exposures to harmful contaminants and environmental
degradation through prevention, preparedness, assessment, cleanup and revitalization activities. To
achieve these outcomes, OLEM partners with states, tribes, local communities, and industry. To inform
its National Program Guidances, OLEM seeks input from its state and tribal partners on upcoming
priorities and issues.

The OLEM programs directly affect America's communities. In accordance with the Administration's
Justice40 initiative, OLEM is committed to finding opportunities to identify and address environmental
justice concerns and ensure that at least 40 percent of the benefits from federal investments in waste
infrastructure, and remediation and reduction of legacy pollution flow to disadvantaged communities.
Those efforts will be fulfilled at the local and national levels in a manner which includes meaningful
community involvement and partnering opportunities for the public. OLEM programs will work in
cooperation with our EPA colleagues to collaborate at every opportunity on intersecting projects.

Exposure to lead, especially in childhood, is linked to negative cognitive, developmental, and other
health effects. Reducing childhood lead exposure remains one of the agency's top priorities, as outlined
in the draft Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities. OLEM has
established a strategic goal to protect families, particularly children, by reducing exposure to lead and
associated health impacts. OLEM will continue to perform removal and remedial cleanup actions at
Superfund sites as a key indicator supporting this goal. Since lead exposure often comes from multiple
sources, OLEM partners with other EPA programs and federal agencies to identify the most effective
ways to reduce lead exposure and associated harm.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
(BIL), passed on November 15, 2021, is an historic investment in the health, equity, and resilience of
American communities. With unprecedented funding to clean up Superfund sites, scale-up community-
led brownfields revitalization, and support our local waste management infrastructure and recycling

1 In developing this guidance, OLEM carefully reviewed and considered the state, tribal, and territory priorities
identified through its early engagement process.

2 For additional background, please see httpsi//www.epa.gov/planandbudget/national-program-guidances-npgs.

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programs, EPA will improve people's health and safety, help create good-paying jobs, and increase
climate resilience throughout the country. OLEM will direct funding to clean up the Superfund site
backlog and other vital projects, support state, local and tribal solid waste management programs, and
expand opportunities for brownfields stakeholders to make a difference in their communities.

EPA recently released the National Recycling Strategy: Part One of a Series on Building a Circular
Economy for All. The Strategy is a critical part of achieving a future where materials are more sustainably
and equitably managed in the United States. EPA recognizes that an improved recycling system alone
will not achieve the kind of results needed to improve our communities, reduce climate impacts, and
create jobs. That's why our National Recycling Strategy will be part one of a series of strategies we plan
to release on building a circular economy for all. Other strategies will focus on plastics, food waste and
organics, textiles, and the built environment.

OLEM supports the EPA Council on PFAS's efforts to further the science and research concerning per-
and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), to restrict these dangerous chemicals from getting into the
environment, and to immediately move to remediate the problem in communities across the country.
EPA is partnering with other federal agencies, states, tribes, and local communities to assess the nature
and extent of PFAS contamination and will coordinate with responsible parties and lead federal agencies
to identify and use effective remediation approaches. As part of the agency's PFAS Strategic Roadmap3,
OLEM is proposing to designate PFOA and PFOS as CERCLA hazardous substances. OLEM also will take
steps to propose adding four PFAS as RCRA hazardous constituents and separately to clarify EPA's
authority to require investigation and cleanup for wastes that meet the statutory definition of
hazardous waste.

OLEM works together with the other EPA headquarters media program offices and with the ten EPA
regional offices, states, tribes, and other partners to achieve its national goals. Regional offices also
undertake efforts with our partners to address region-specific environmental conditions and concerns.
OLEM recognizes these challenges and strives to provide flexibility and support for regional strategies
that align with our shared priorities and goals.

Further, delegated or authorized state and tribal agencies may raise specific activities for discussion with
the appropriate senior EPA regional manager(s) when developing their grant work plans. Regions are
encouraged to work with states where E-Enterprise strategies could streamline business processes and
develop shared services using joint governance to generate efficiencies. The appropriate OLEM Office
Director will be ready to assist should regional management wish to discuss state, tribal or local issues.4

3 For more information on the PFAS Strategic Roadmap, please see httpsi//www,epa,gov/pfas/pfas-strategic-
roadmap-epas-commitments-action-2021-2024.

4 For more information about seeking programmatic flexibility within Performance Partnership Grants, and the
benefits of these grants generally, please see https://www.epa,gov/sites/default/files/2015-
12/clocuments/best practices guide for ppgs with states.pdf.

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SECTION II. KEY PROGRAMMATIC ACTIVITIES

Superfund Remedial

The Superfund Remedial program addresses many of the worst contaminated areas in the United States
by conducting assessment and investigation activities to determine which areas warrant cleanup. Once
it determines an area merits federal cleanup activity, the program implements actions based on sound
science and informed remedy decisions. Using either its non-time critical removal authority or its long-
term remedial authority, the program's actions can range from a few months for relatively
straightforward soil excavation or capping remedies to several decades for complex, large areawide
groundwater, sediment, or mining remedies. The program also oversees response work conducted by
potentially responsible parties (PRPs) at National Priorities List (NPL) and Superfund Alternative
Approach (SAA) sites. By addressing the risks Superfund sites pose, the Superfund Remedial program
protects human health and the environment while strengthening and revitalizing communities by
returning formerly contaminated land to them for productive use.

In thousands of rural and urban communities around the country, the Superfund Remedial program
protects people and the environment from the dangers posed by legacy hazardous waste sites from past
industrial activities. Cleaning up Superfund sites means communities can move to reuse a site in the way
the community envisions. Superfund cleanups facilitate job creation and provide economic benefits to
communities. In 2021, Superfund sites in reuse supported 10,230 businesses that employed more than
246,178 people and generated more than $18.6 billion in employment income5. Approximately 22
percent of the U.S. population lives within three miles of a Superfund site, and this population has more
people of color and more people who are low income, linguistically isolated, and less likely to have a
high school education than the U.S. population as a whole.6

In fiscal years 2023-2024, the Superfund Remedial program will continue to act on priorities but will be
able to significantly increase cleanup activities as a result of the $3.5 billion provided to EPA in the BIL.

Superfund Remedial program priorities to protect human health and the environment in FY2023-2024
are to:

• Leverage all resources available to the Superfund Remedial program to accelerate site cleanup.

• Execute its infrastructure funding plan for new and ongoing construction projects as well as
other site-specific activities.

• Strengthen partnerships, community engagement and promote environmental justice.

• Support the administrator's priorities on PFAS and residential lead (Pb).

• Ensure that remedies installed by the Remedial program are resilient to potential climate
change impacts.

• Clean up sites to enable uses that support communities.

5 Please see httpsi//www.epa.gov/superfund-redevelopment/redevelopment-economics-superfund-sites

6 U.S. EPA, Office of Land and Emergency Management 2021. Data collected includes: (1) Superfund site
information from SEMS as of the end of FY2020 and site boundary data from FY 2014 FOIA Request; and (2)
population data from the 2015-2019 American Community Survey.

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• Coordinate with HUD and HHS to analyze and facilitate progress at HUD-assisted housing on
sites.

• Develop an agile workforce skilled in project management, acquisition, and construction
oversight.

• Leverage and integrate new technology to support program goals.

• Integrate continuous improvement and program management best practices to streamline
business operations.

Headquarters and Regions

Protect Human Health and the Environment

• Incorporate new science and, as appropriate, address emerging contaminants, such as per-and
poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), by supporting agencywide efforts to develop risk
assessment and management and communication tools for such contaminants. These efforts
include the development of in-situ remediation treatment options for emerging contaminants
presenting off-site disposal challenges. In particular, assess the nature and extent of PFAS
contamination and other contaminants of concern at NPL sites where these chemicals are
most likely to be found and work in coordination with appropriate EPA offices and other
federal agencies to identify effective remediation technologies for these contaminants.

• Develop nationally consistent approaches for addressing lead exposure.

• Advance cleanup and revitalization of abandoned uranium mining-impacted Navajo Nation and
surrounding lands in the Southwest.

• Expeditiously respond to sites where human exposure is not under control or there are
insufficient data to make a control determination.

• Promote the development of site strategies.

• Ensure remedy protectiveness through effective and consistent implementation of the five-
year review process.

• Ensure that remedies installed by the Remedial program are resilient to potential climate
change impacts in light of recommended actions defined in the OLEM Climate Adaptation
Implementation Plan.

Strengthen Partnerships, Community Engagement, and Promote Environmental Justice

• Identify communities with potential environmental justice concerns.

• Consider the collection of relevant data and, using EPA's EJSCREEN tool, help identify
communities with potential environmental justice concerns.

• Plan and implement enhanced community involvement opportunities.

• Facilitate cross-program collaboration, and continue to closely partner with states, tribes, and
local governments to ensure protective and efficient NPL site cleanups.

• Continue to foster strong partnerships with states, tribes, local governments, and other federal
agencies on site assessment, risk assessment, remedial responses, community engagement
and revitalization.

• Provide for meaningful community involvement through the Superfund remedial and non-time
critical response processes at NPL sites and cultivate those contacts for coordination of future
reuse/redevelopment opportunities.

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• Collaborate with states, tribes, local governments, residents, and business groups to enable
the integration of site management decisions into long-term community plans for economic
growth and reuse. Work with these stakeholders to improve implementation of institutional
controls.

• Explore ways to increase web-based public NPL and SAA site data access and make information
on NPL sites more accessible to communities and stakeholders.

• Develop and deploy training and tools for clear risk communication.

• Collaborate across OLEM cleanup programs to optimize resources and opportunities for
community-driven site reuse planning and visioning.

Clean up Sites to Enable Uses that Support Communities

• Identify site redevelopment opportunities early in the Superfund process and strive to achieve
faster cleanups through the application of best practices within regional Superfund programs.

• Encourage innovation throughout the cleanup process to bring sites into productive reuse.

• Leverage the revitalization and redevelopment expertise across OLEM's cleanup programs to
promote community supported site reuse.

Leverage Resources to Maximize and Accelerate Site Cleanup

• Execute infrastructure funding plan to clean up the current backlog of construction projects
awaiting funding at the end of FY 2021, as well as new construction projects reviewed by the
National Risk-Based Priority Panel.

• Coordinate with the Office of Site Remediation Enforcement on enforcement efforts, such as:
maintaining focused enforcement efforts to compel PRP participation earlier in the response
process; holding parties accountable to timeframes and commitments; identifying responsible
parties earlier in the process; looking for opportunities to reduce the level of oversight for
cooperating PRPs remediating contaminated sites; and encouraging private investment.

• Include in settlements the retention and use of payments in special accounts, when
appropriate, and maximize those accounts' use to conserve appropriated and infrastructure
funding for sites without alternative funding sources.

• Utilize:

o A range of approaches for financing site cleanups.

o Project management practices, such as creating both cost and schedule baselines, to
ensure timely project completion.

• Streamline procedures and processes for Good Samaritan cleanup efforts and promote Good
Samaritan cleanup projects at abandoned hardrock mining sites.

• Optimize data collection and statistical analysis efforts to integrate cross-program data
collection and analysis efforts to inform site characterization, cleanup decisions and
implementation, and to reduce operation and maintenance uncertainties.

Workforce Deployment

• Train program staff to:

o Effectively utilize EPA-placed contracts under the Remedial Acquisition Framework.

o Apply the latest tools and technology, program management techniques, and other
means to streamline cleanups and effectively communicate with stakeholders.

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• Develop national expertise/support for construction project cost estimating and oversight.

• Determine if we need to update our most recent skill-gap analysis to identify both workforce
needs and additional training opportunities; upon completing the analysis, develop an action
plan to fill the gaps.

Leverage and Integrate New Technology

• Advance and support tools to improve conceptual site models to help Remedial Project
Managers (RPMs) make decisions.

• Identify, assess, and apply remedial technologies for site cleanup, especially for mining,
sediment, groundwater and other complex sites.

• Expand use of field data collection and assimilation technology to support decision-making.

• Develop tools for RPMs to implement best practices, including scoping and targeted technical
reviews, and to utilize innovative and state-of-the-art technologies to expedite cleanup.

• Expand use of E-tools for records management and contract administration.

• Provide innovative contracting vehicles that leverage tribes, states, and industry in identifying
innovative technologies and reuse options (e.g., solar, critical minerals recovery from mine
waste and mine influenced waters) at hardrock mining sites.

States and Tribes

• Collaborate and coordinate with OLEM on program implementation plans or activities to
achieve environmental goals, as appropriate.

Measures: The NPG measures supporting this program are 151, 155, 170, and S10. Goals and measures
for the Superfund Federal Facilities Response program are a component of the Superfund Remedial
program's measures. These measures can be found in Section V, FY 2023 National Program Guidance
Measures, on page 46.

Superfund Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse

The Superfund Federal Facilities program oversees and provides technical assistance for the protective
and efficient cleanup and reuse of federal facility sites pursuant to Section 120 of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and as mandated by Congress.
Program responsibilities include: 1) inventory and assess potentially contaminated sites; 2) implement
protective remedies; 3) facilitate transfer and reuse of property; and 4) ensure ongoing protectiveness
of completed cleanups. Federal facility National Priority List (NPL) sites are among the largest in the
Superfund program and encompass some of the most dangerous and unique environmental
contaminants including munitions, radiological waste, and emerging contaminants such as per-and
polyfluoralkyl substances (PFAS).

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Superfund Federal Facilities priorities include:

•	Prioritize the highest risk sites and focus on activities that bring human exposure and
groundwater migration under control.

•	Enhance partnerships with other federal agencies (OFAs), states, tribes, and local communities
to limit human exposure to potentially harmful levels of PFAS and lead in the environment.

•	Collaborate with OFAs, states, and tribes to ensure efficient and consistent cleanup approaches
and assure protectiveness at federal facility NPL sites.

•	Recognize and work to repair inequities that serve as barriers to equal opportunity in the
Superfund Federal Facilities Program by implementing standard business practices that address
environmental justice concerns in a consistent and effective manner at federal facility NPL sites
throughout the CERCLA process.

•	Ensure contaminated sites are cleaned up and restored to support productive uses. Cleaning up
contaminated sites at federal facilities can serve as a catalyst for economic growth and
community revitalization especially communities disproportionately impacted by environmental
contamination.

•	Support the agency goal to further advance and expedite the implementation of EPA's PFAS
Strategic Roadmap, which includes a goal to "Broaden and accelerate the cleanup of PFAS
contamination to protect human health and ecological systems."

•	Collaborate on updating and implementing OLEM's Climate Adaptation Implementation Plan
and participate on OLEM's Climate Coordinating Committee.

Headquarters and Regions
Ensure protective remedies

•	Oversee and provide technical assistance for protective and efficient cleanups through activities
such as: 1) reviewing and approving site investigation and cleanup plans, data, and reports; 2)
participating in site meetings with affected communities; 3) making final remedy selection
decisions at NPL sites; and 4) monitoring remediation schedules as outlined in the Federal
Facility Agreements (FFAs).

•	Implement an innovative real-time workflow module that provides the program with key
information on the root cause of delays of key milestones and partner with OFAs, regional
offices, and states to develop site-specific strategies to streamline program obstacles.

•	Provide direction, technical guidance, and other technical resources to support RPMs and site
personnel on emerging issues (e.g., PFAS).

•	Provide additional resources to the regions, including access to contractor support, and work-
sharing, to keep up with the growing number and accelerated pace of PFAS cleanups at
Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal facility sites consistent with Congressional and
Administration priorities.

•	Convene a staff-level peer-to-peer PFAS work group, comprised of RPMs and technical subject
matter experts, to leverage regional and headquarters expertise and experience to solve
problems that arise during PFAS investigations, identify effective best practices, and promote
national consistency.

•	Provide supplemental funding for PFAS sites to assess environmental justice-related concerns.

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• Follow an internal review strategy to discuss issues, monitor performance, and track goals to
ensure long-term remedy protectiveness by reviewing and identifying issues during statutory
Five-Year Reviews.

• Coordinate with regional offices to target, track and analyze key program measures and
progress of Decision Documents and Remedial Action Completions on an annual basis and
partner with the OFAs and regions to progress sites through the cleanup process.

• Increase national consistency in site characterization, remedy selection and implementation
through efficient and effective Regional-HQ reviews and consultations as described in EPA
guidance, including for PFAS site activities.

• Work with OFAs and states to update/combine previous munitions risk/hazard assessment
methodologies and attempt to achieve consensus on a new or updated munitions risk/hazard
assessment methodology.

• Strengthen oversight and provide technical assistance, as appropriate, at DoD military munitions
response sites on the NPL or of national significance.

Measuring success

• Quantify the economic benefits of reusing federal facility NPL sites by collecting current, reliable
business-related information for a subset of sites in reuse and continued use.

• Highlight successes in federal facility cleanups by annually presenting the National Federal
Facility Excellence in Site Reuse Awards.

• Highlight federal facility sites that have been remediated and reused in disadvantaged
communities through our National Federal Facility Excellence in Site Reuse Award.

Streamline business processes

• Facilitate remedial actions and construction completions to achieve Site-Wide Ready for
Anticipated Reuse determinations and NPL deletions.

• Promote innovative, cost-effective remedies that put federal facility NPL sites back to productive
use by collaborating with OFAs; states, tribes, local partners; and community representatives to
encourage the beneficial reuse of sites.

• Develop a document to assist RPMs with consistently incorporating environmental justice
considerations.

• Assess baseline practices to incorporate environmental justice in risk assessments

• Promote the application of innovative practices like adaptive management, optimization, and
early actions at complex sites.

• Update the Federal Facility Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket (Docket) semi-annually, as part
of EPA's statutory requirements.

• Improve and expand the FEDFacts website. FEDFacts serves as a public-facing online tool that
features nearly 2,400 Docket sites.

• Identify opportunities where Technical Assistance Grants (TAG) and Technical Assistance
Services for Communities (TASC) programs can improve accessibility for underserved Superfund
communities and those with environmental justice concerns. Utilize a set of tools and policies to
reinforce adherence to informal and formal dispute timelines in FFAs at federal facility NPL sites.

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• Implement and improve program and resource data analytical tools that quantify interim
progress towards site completion against investments expended and estimate investments
needed to achieve timely completion of planned milestones.

Partnerships

• Host the EPA Federal Facility Academy training program that consists of a series of webinars and
classroom training with the objective of improving knowledge and ensuring national consistency
to effectively manage the cleanup of federal facility NPL sites.

• Enhance engagement with OFAs and states by having regularly-scheduled meetings that focus
on targeting and resolving critical programmatic issues, emphasizing protective cleanups, and
recognizing site reuse opportunities and successes.

• Provide special emphasis engagement on the most complex portfolios of remaining federal
facilities cleanup work through co-leadership of a national cleanup dialogue with the
Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS).

• Participate in the Defense Environmental Restoration Program and Formerly-Used Defense Sites
Forums hosted by the DoD.

• Participate in the annual Tribal Land and Environment Forum conference and coordinate with
tribal representatives to discuss tribal concerns during the Superfund cleanup process and
provide capacity-building training for tribal partners.

• Coordinate with the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials
(ASTSWMO) and promote and enhance state and territory involvement in the cleanup and reuse
of federal facility NPL sites.

• Coordinate with OFAs on the Federal Mining Dialogue (FMD) and Abandoned Uranium Mine
Workgroup (AUMWG).

• Co-chair and participate in the Intergovernmental Data Quality Task Force (IDQTF) with DoD and
DOE. The IDQTF works to ensure that environmental data are of known and documented quality
and suitable for the intended use.

• Support the RE-Powering America's Lands initiative and working with RE-Power, regional offices,
and federal agency partners to evaluate the suitability of remediation sites for renewable
energy production as an aspect of redevelopment.

• Partner with OFAs to ensure climate change adaptation and mitigation are incorporated
throughout the cleanup process and into redevelopment at federal facility NPL sites.

States and Tribes

• Collaborate and coordinate with OLEM on program implementation plans or activities to
achieve environmental goals, as appropriate.

Measures: The Superfund Federal Facilities program contributes to the following overall Superfund NPG
measures: 151, 155, 170, and S10. These measures can be found in Section V, FY 2023 National Program
Guidance Measures, on page 46.

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Emergency Response

The Superfund Emergency Response and Removal program's priority is to address immediate threats to
the public and the environment with an emphasis on emergency response actions. Resources ensure
that oil discharges and releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, and contaminants, including
chemical, biological, and radiological threats, to the environment are quickly addressed through either a
federal lead action or by providing technical support and oversight to state, local, tribal, other federal
responders, as well as Potentially Responsible Parties.

Headquarters and Regions

• Support interagency work with the National Response Team and Regional Response Teams as
well as state, tribal and local partners. This work includes participation in drills and exercises and
the development of guidance and other materials such as After-Action Reports following
significant disaster responses. In addition, implement the Justice40 initiative into these
activities, identifying ways to integrate environmental justice into removal sites cleanup work.
This coordination will enhance future emergency activities for an efficient response.

• Continue to strengthen tribal relationships by establishing local field offices enabling cross-
agency efforts at or near the abandoned uranium mine sites on Navajo Nation lands.

Headquarters

• Support the agency's Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP). This includes COOP deployment,
devolution, and activation of Emergency Relocation Group personnel to the COOP site with
limited staffing and without access to the full range of resources available during normal
activities. This ensures that agency continuity plans meet Department of Homeland Security
(DHS)/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requirements.

• Operate and maintain unique, national assets available for round-the-clock response to
chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) events. These assets, including the
Airborne Spectral Photometric Environmental Collection Technology (ASPECT) and the Portable
High-Throughput Integrated Laboratory Identification Systems (PHILIS), are required to meet
EPA's obligations under Homeland Security Presidential Directives, Executive Orders, and the
National Contingency Plan.

• Advance the science, interagency coordination, and policy to ensure the Agency is prepared to
respond to and remediate CBRN events. Conduct intra- and inter-Agency research
collaborations to identify and address CBRN response needs. Contribute to whole-of-
government forums, frameworks, networks, and policy for CBRN issues. Act as critical link
between foundational research and field needs by operationalizing CBRN response methods,
equipment, and tactics.

• Support CBRN and all-hazards preparedness at regional and national levels by conducting
training, field demonstrations, participating in national readiness forums, and producing
emergency response reference products.

• Work with tribes, tribal organizations, and our regional programs to help tribes build capacity
for emergency management.

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Regions

•	Ensure through Superfund removal actions that the most serious public health and
environmental threats including emergency responses are addressed quickly. These releases
pose an imminent threat to human health, welfare, and the environment, potentially affecting
both communities and the surrounding environments.

•	In support of the Administration's Justice40 initiative, maintain the number of Emergency
Response and Recovery exercises at 120 while increasing the share of exercises that address EJ
concerns to 40% by September 30, 2026.

States and Tribes

• Collaborate and coordinate with OLEM on program implementation plans or activities to
achieve environmental goals, as appropriate.

Measures: The NPG measures supporting this program are 137, ER01, and ER02. These measures can be
found in Section IV, FY 2023 National Program Guidance Measures, on page 46.

Oil Discharge Prevention and Preparedness

One of EPA's top priorities is to prevent, prepare for, and respond to oil discharges that occur in and
around inland waters of the United States. EPA serves as the lead federal response agency for oil
discharges occurring in inland waters, providing compliance assistance at more than 500,000 regulated
non-transportation related oil storage facilities, and responding to approximately 100 oil discharges a
year.

There are multiple relevant regulatory programs under CWA Section 311 including requirements for
facilities with oil quantities above specified thresholds to prepare and implement a Spill Prevention,
Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) plan to help prevent oil discharges into navigable waters or
adjoining shorelines. A subset of SPCC-regulated facilities with larger oil quantities are required to
develop and implement a Facility Response Plan (FRP) focused on preparing to respond to a worst-case
oil discharge or threat of a discharge. In addition, EPA's regulatory programs include administration of
the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP) which provides the federal
government's blueprint for responding to oil discharges. Subpart J of the NCP includes provisions for the
testing, listing and authorization of use of chemical agents in response to oil discharges, and new
provisions for monitoring use in response to major oil discharges and certain other atypical dispersant
use situations in navigable waters or adjoining shorelines.

Headquarters

• Continue work to finalize outstanding provisions of the 2015 proposed NCP Subpart J action to
amend listing, testing and authorization of use provisions for the use of chemical agents in
response to oil spills; court ordered deadline of May 31, 2023.

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• Maintain the National Oil and Hazardous Substance Pollution Contingency Plan's Subpart J
Product Schedule, which identifies products that may be authorized for use when responding to
oil discharges.

• Develop, update, and deliver annual 40-hour oil inspector training, and develop refresher and
specialized trainings, to maintain the expertise and capabilities of SPCC and FRP inspectors.

• Continue to work with the regions on area planning efforts to ensure that responders have
access to essential area-specific information when addressing incidents.

• Provide regulatory and programmatic support to OECA on enforcement actions, as needed.

• Act as the coordinating entity responsible for measuring the performance of the program.

• Integrate the Justice40 initiative into these activities, including targeting inspections and
Government Initiated Unannounced Exercises (GIUEs) towards communities with environmental
justice concerns.

• Focus on identifying, evaluating, and inspecting regulated facilities in Indian country.

Regions

• Target, inspect and investigate facilities subject to the SPCC and FRP requirements, as defined by
the program's high-risk inspection targeting procedures (outlined in the April 2013
memorandum titled, "SPCC and FRP Inspections/Government Initiated Unannounced Exercise
(GIUE) Targeting Procedures").

• Maintain current inspection target totals with at least 60% of SPCC inspections nationally
conducted at high-risk facilities.

• Conduct oil discharge enforcement investigations to identify and address significant discharge
violations that reach waters of the United States.

• Take appropriate enforcement responses at facilities in non-compliance with Spill Prevention,
Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) and Facility Response Plan (FRP) regulatory requirements.

• Develop enforcement cases to address facility response plan violations at multiple facilities
owned or operated by the same company, considering where appropriate company-wide relief
to bring all owner or operator facilities into compliance.

• Coordinate with Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration (PHMSA), U.S. Coast Guard and the states as appropriate to address
jurisdictional issues.

• Starting in FY 2022, progressively increase the current percentage of preparedness exercises
(FRP) that EPA conducts or participates in that incorporate environmental justice to reach the
goal of 40% by FY 2026.

States and Tribes

• Collaborate and coordinate with OLEM on program implementation plans or activities to
achieve environmental goals, as appropriate.

Measures: The NPG measures supporting this program are 437 and 438. These measures can be found

in Section V, FY 2023 National Program Guidance Measures, on page 46.

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Chemical Accident Prevention

EPA's Chemical Accident Prevention and Preparedness programs require facilities storing extremely
hazardous substances (EHS) to safely manage them and provide emergency planning and hazardous
chemical inventory information to state and local planners and responders. There are several Clean Air
Act (CAA) and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) regulatory provisions
that form the basis of this program. Under CAA section 112(r), approximately 12,000 industrial facilities
that use or store listed toxic or flammable substances above certain threshold quantities are required to
implement an accident prevention program, take emergency response preparedness measures, and
develop and submit a Risk Management Plan (RMP). Section 112(r)(l) of the CAA, the General Duty
Clause, creates a statutory obligation on all stationary sources to minimize the likelihood and/or
consequences of accidental releases of extremely hazardous substances. Section 112(r) of the CAA also
requires EPA to publish regulations and guidance for chemical accident prevention at facilities that use
extremely hazardous substances.

Under EPCRA, facilities storing listed EHSs above specified threshold planning quantities are required to
provide necessary information to state and local emergency planners for developing community
emergency response plans, and facilities holding EHSs or other hazardous substances above specified
quantities are required to annually report chemical inventory information to state and local emergency
response authorities.

Headquarters

• Develop and promulgate revisions to the RMP regulations, which implement the requirements
of section 112(r)(7) of the CAA. These revisions will address the administration's priorities for
reviewing regulatory revisions completed since 2017 and incorporating enhancements to
address environmental justice concerns and climate change risks. Develop and promulgate
changes to regulatory implementation guidance associated with revisions.

• Develop and promulgate revisions to the EPCRA regulations and guidance as appropriate to
promote local emergency planning and community right-to-know.

• Develop and promulgate regulations under CWA 311 (j)(5) for preparing for CWA hazardous
substance worst-case discharges. This work is conducted under a consent decree that required
signature of the proposed action by March 12, 2022, and a final rule in September 2024. This
regulation will address environmental justice concerns and climate change risks.

• Provide RMP inspector training for federal and state inspectors.

• Provide EPCRA training for federal, state, and local planners and responders.

• Develop updates to the Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations (CAMEO)
software suite, which provides free and publicly available information to first responders on
firefighting, first aid and spill response activities.

• Develop updates to the EPCRA Tier 2 reporting software, which provides EPCRA-regulated
facilities with a free method of meeting annual chemical inventory reporting obligations.

• Develop updates to the RMP*eSubmit software system, which allows RMP-regulated facilities to
submit plans to EPA.

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• Integrate the Justice40 initiative into these activities, including identifying facilities in
communities with environmental justice concerns for targeting.

• Coordinate with OECA on RMP inspections to ensure convergence of OLEM and OECA goals with
regard to the Risk Management Program.

Regions

• Conduct all RMP inspections in accordance the with "Guidance for Conducting Risk Management
Program Inspections Under CAA Section 112(r)" (EPA 550-K-ll- 001, January 2011). Conduct at
least 36% of these inspections at high-risk facilities. A limited number (less than 20%) of annual
inspections may be RMP non-filer and/or CAA 112(r) General Duty Clause inspections.

• Continue to advance the goals of the Chemical Accident Risk Reduction National Compliance
Initiative.

• Target a goal of conducting inspections at three percent of RMP facilities annually in FY2023-
2024.

• Work collectively to address serious situations of non-compliance, with a focus on protecting
vulnerable populations, many of which are in low income or minority communities, from the
risks posed by those facilities.

• Investigate facilities that experience significant chemical accidents to determine compliance
with CAA sections 112(r)(l) and (7) and pursue appropriate enforcement responses for
violations.

• As appropriate, evaluate facility compliance with EPCRA section 304 and 311/312 and CERCLA
section 103 during all RMP inspections.

• As appropriate, provide guidance and assistance to State Emergency Response Commissions and
Local Emergency Planning Committees on community preparedness activities, particularly for
communities with environmental justice concerns.

States and Tribes

• Collaborate and coordinate with OLEM on program implementation plans or activities to
achieve environmental goals, as appropriate.

Measures: The NPG measure supporting this program is CH2. This measure can be found in Section V, FY

2023 National Program Guidance Measures, on page 46.

Brownfields and Land Revitalization

EPA's Brownfields and Land Revitalization Program provides grants and technical assistance to
communities, states, tribes, non-profit organizations, and others to assess, safely clean up and
sustainably reuse contaminated properties. The Program emphasizes environmental and public health
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creation. With the passing of the BIL, the Program is receiving an additional $1.5 billion to invest in
addressing the nation's brownfields. The program will use additional funding sources from the BIL to
focus on enhanced community assistance to catalyze redevelopment and capacity building at brownfield
sites. Funding also will enhance climate resiliency and promote equitable and sustainable
redevelopment through expanded technical assistance for "Climate Smart Brownfields Redevelopment."

The Brownfields program awards competitive grants to assess, clean up and plan reuse of brownfield
properties that are contaminated, or perceived to be contaminated, and provides job training
opportunities, particularly in underserved communities. Additionally, the Brownfields program provides
state and tribal nations with critical financial and technical assistance resources to establish and
enhance their brownfields response programs. Direct technical assistance also is available to
communities to support community visioning, engagement, market and feasibility studies, and project
financing options. This assistance directly helps communities remove barriers to ensure brownfield sites
are reused safely and sustainably.

Investments from the BIL include an additional $110 million in technical assistance, $300 million to State
and Tribal Response programs, $30 million in Job Training Grants, and over $1 billion in funding for
Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants through 2026. Approximately
$600 million is anticipated to be awarded in FY 2023 and FY 2024. This funding will be used to help align
the program with the Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad by stimulating
economic opportunity and environmental revitalization in more than 1,700 historically overburdened
communities.

Headquarters and Regions

Technical Assistance and Land Revitalization Program Support

•	Provide assistance to states, tribes, and local communities in the form of research, training and
technical assistance.

•	Provide support to communities as part of the EPA's Land Revitalization program which works
with communities in their efforts to restore contaminated lands into sustainable community
assets.

•	Manage technical assistance task orders focusing on assistance to local communities in the
areas of community visioning, engagement, market studies, feasibility studies and project
financing.

•	Manage cooperative agreements supporting equitable development and environmental justice
in communities with brownfield sites, in alignment with the Administration's Justice40 initiative.

•	Invest additional funding from the BIL into expanded technical assistance to help hundreds of
additional communities in identifying equitable reuse options, remove barriers to brownfields
reuse, implement climate change adaptation strategies, and spur new development to
transform communities into sustainable and environmentally just places.

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Continued collaboration with State, Tribal and Local Partners

• Continue to developguidance and tools that clarify potential environmental cleanup liabilities,
thereby providing greater certainty for parties seeking to reuse brownfields properties.

• Provide direct support to parties seeking to reuse contaminated properties to facilitate
transactions.

• Allow 128(a) state and tribal participants flexibility to participate in the National Environmental
Performance Partnership System (NEPPS) to meet their 128(a) grant commitments.

Compete and Award New Cooperative Agreements

• Develop and manage annual competitions for six distinct cooperative agreement programs,
including awarding approximately $200 million of additional annual funding from BIL
investments.

• Develop and manage annual non-competitive cooperative agreement program, including
awarding approximately $60 million of additional annual funding from BIL investments.

Oversight and Management of Existing Cooperative Agreements

• Continue the federal fiduciary responsibility of managing approximately 1,000 existing
brownfield cooperative agreements.

• Provide oversight to existing grant recipients.

Accomplishment Tracking through the Assessment, Cleanup and Redevelopment Exchange System

(ACRES)

• Support the maintenance of the ACRES online grant recipient reporting tool, enabling grantees
to track accomplishments and report on the number of sites assessed and cleaned up, and the
amount of dollars and jobs leveraged with Brownfield grants.

• Enhance ACRES to demonstrate the impacts of the BIL funding to communities.

States and Tribes

• Collaborate and coordinate with OLEM on program implementation plans or activities to
achieve environmental goals, as appropriate.

Measures:

The NPG measures supporting this program are B29, B30, and B32. These measures can be found in

Section V, FY 2023 National Program Guidance Measures, on page 46.

RCRA Permitting and Support to Tribal Waste Management Programs

The RCRA permitting program protects people and ecosystems from exposure to dangerous wastes and
chemicals. EPA primarily provides support to states, tribes, and other stakeholders to develop and

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implement solid and hazardous waste management programs. EPA and its partners endeavor to ensure
that permit decisions, including decisions to issue, renew, or deny permits, reflect the latest technology,
and standards and remain protective under changing conditions, such as climate change. The program
also endeavors to ensure that all communities, including those who are underserved, marginalized
and/or overburdened, have an equitable opportunity to engage in the permitting process.

Headquarters

• Support Objective 6.2 in the FY 2022-2026 EPA Strategic Plan to prevent environmental
contamination by increasing the percentage of updated permits (through permit renewals)
at RCRA facilities. Track program performance through established measures for RCRA and
PCB permitting. Set annual targets for renewals and initial permits (or other approved
controls).

• Provide leadership and facilitate communication and collaboration across RCRA permitting
program to ensure national consistency, protectiveness, effective program management,
and training and technical support.

• Support and implement efforts to consider environmental justice, equity, and climate
change in RCRA permitting in alignment with agency guidance and tools, such as the EPA
Legal Tools to Advance Environmental Justice.

• Coordinate with other federal agencies with respect to RCRA permitting issues.

• Provide technical assistance to regions and states in implementing the RCRA permitting
program.

• Support program oversight of states authorized to implement RCRA.

• Engage with our regional and state partners to periodically identify, prioritize, and resolve
high priority issues affecting RCRA permits or permitting programs nationally.

• Maintain RCRA permitting regulations, including making necessary updates and
amendments.

• Maintain and improve functionality in RCRAInfo to capture information for RCRA permits
and financial assurance tracking.

• Support a collaborative headquarters, regional, and state effort to maintain and improve
data accuracy and completeness of data in RCRAInfo to ensure effective management of the
RCRA permitting program, including financial assurance.

• Support collaborative efforts to develop best practices, tools, guidance, or other deliverables
to improve RCRA financial assurance program management.

• Work together with stakeholders (regions, states, federal partners, and environmental and
community groups) to implement alternative technologies for the treatment of
explosive/energetic wastes that otherwise would be open burned or open detonated (OB/OD);
better characterize environmental impacts from current OB/OD operations; and assess cleanup
and closure practices at OB/OD sites.

• Develop rulemaking to update regulations related to OB/OD and use of alternative
technologies.

• Gather national incident reports from RCRA treatment, storage, and disposal facilities.

• Provide technical support to regions and states for high priority work to support state
authorization for new RCRA Subtitle C rules so they can be addressed in permits and other

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implementation mechanisms.

• Work with regions and states to increase the efficiency of the state authorization process.

• Assist tribes in the development and implementation of Integrated Waste Management Plans by
developing and providing guidance and implementation tools to tribes.

• Complete the development of a comprehensive tribal waste management training program in
collaboration with other federal agencies through the Federal Agency Training Initiative.

• Continue to provide informational webinars and training for tribes through EPA's Tribal Waste
Management Program Webinar Series; and support the delivery of training on issues such as
developing codes and ordinances, and related technical assistance.

• Support the regions with their technical assistance to tribes, including providing resources to
support circuit riders.

• Continue implementation of the National Tribal Waste Management Peer Matching program.

• Continue to assist tribes with addressing and improving the management of hazardous waste on
tribal lands through the Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes, including
technical assistance (i.e., grant writing tips and application development) by providing office
hours and one-on-one sessions.

• Coordinate with the Indian Health Service (IHS) as they assess the open dump universe on tribal
lands and support IHS funded open dump cleanups.

• Support EPA tribal consultation and coordination on waste management issues.

• Improve and expand the EPA tribal waste management website and associated communications
to tribes.

Regions

• Support Objective 6.2 in the FY 2022-2026 EPA Strategic Plan to prevent environmental
contamination by increasing the percentage of updated permits (through permit renewals)
at RCRAfacilities.

• Work with states to set challenging annual targets for permit renewals and initial permits
(and other approved controls). Work with states to accomplish these targets.

• Conduct program oversight activities for states authorized to implement RCRA.

• Ensure all RCRAInfo mandatory data elements for the RCRA permitting and financial
assurance database are maintained.

• Forward incident reports from RCRA treatment, storage, and disposal facilities to
ORCRIncidentTracking@epa.gov.

• Safeguard hard-copy financial instruments using best practices, including storage in a
fireproof safe.

• Provide direct technical assistance to tribal waste management programs, including assistance
from circuit riders.

• Participate in and support waste management webinars and training to tribes.

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Regions and States

• Support Objective 6.2 in the FY 2022-2026 EPA Strategic Plan to prevent environmental
contamination by increasing the percentage of updated permits (through permit renewals)
at RCRAfacilities.

• Meet annual targets to issue RCRA renewals and initial permits (and other approved
controls) to meet the program's annual permitting targets.

• Engage with headquarters to identify, prioritize, and resolve high-priority issues affecting
permits or permitting programs.

• Support and implement efforts to consider environmental justice and climate change in
RCRA permitting in alignment with agency guidance and tools, such as the EPA Legal Tools to
Advance Environmental Justice.

• Consider EPA requirements, policies, and priorities with respect to open burning and open
detonation of waste explosives, including evaluating and implementing alternative
technologies.

• Ensure all RCRAInfo mandatory data elements are maintained within negotiated timeframes
for permitting and financial assurance. Specifically, keep the following data elements
updated that support BFS measures: permit determinations, permit expiration dates, permit
mod approvals, and legal & operating status codes.

• Forward incident reports from RCRA treatment, storage, and disposal facilities to
ORCRIncidentTracking@epa.gov. Incident reports, written by the facility and submitted to
regulators, are required when the contingency plan is triggered, which is "...whenever there
is a fire, explosion, or release of hazardous waste or hazardous waste constituents which
could threaten human health or the environment" (40 CFR 264.51(b)).

• Safeguard hard-copy financial instruments using best practices, including storage in a
fireproof safe.

• Facilitate state adoption and authorization for RCRA regulations to reduce need for joint
permitting between EPA regional offices and states. This includes, for example, RCRA air
emissions and corrective action regulations.

Tribes

• Attend EPA waste management training and webinars and participate in peer matches with
other tribes, as appropriate.

• Provide input to EPA on waste management program initiatives, guidance, and other tools.

Measures: The NPG measures supporting this program are HW4 and HW5. These measures can be
found in Section V, FY 2023 National Program Guidance Measures, on page 46.

RCRA Corrective Action

The RCRA Corrective Action program is responsible for ensuring that contamination at facilities is
identified and cleaned up by the owner/operator effectively and quickly to reduce risk from exposure to

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toxics, support communities, address climate change impacts, and ensure that cleanup costs are not
transferred to the largely taxpayer-funded Superfund cleanup program. The EPA and its state partners
work closely together to facilitate cleanups, ensure that future use is protective of human health and
the environment, and effectively address community concerns.

In 2023-4, the Corrective Action program will continue to make progress implementing the RCRA
Corrective Action 2030 Vision. Mission, and Goals2 with a focus on assuring that any human exposure
pathways are eliminated, and that climate change and environmental justice are considered throughout
the cleanup process. The 2030 Goals are:

Goal 1: Through 2030, the RCRA Corrective Action program will ensure that RCRA cleanups are
initiated and completed efficiently and expeditiously. Commitments regarding what work is planned and
what progress is made will be visible to the public. An ambitious universe of cleanups will be identified
for completion by 2030.

Goal 2: By 2030, the RCRA Corrective Action program will eliminate or control adverse impacts
beyond facility boundaries at RCRA Corrective Action facilities wherever practicable and the program
will focus attention on cleanups that will not meet this target.

Goal 3: By 2030, the RCRA Corrective Action program will ensure or confirm that land within
facility boundaries at RCRA Corrective Action facilities will be safe for continued use or reasonably
foreseeable new uses wherever practicable and the program will focus attention on cleanups that will
not meet this target.

Goal 4: By 2025, the RCRA Corrective Action program will identify the key elements of effective
Long-Term Stewardship for Corrective Action cleanups, and regions and states will have approaches in
place to ensure implementation of the key elements.

Goal 5: By 2022, program procedures will be in place to regularly adjust the universe of facilities
in the cleanup pipeline to reflect current program priorities.

Headquarters

•	Support Objective 6.1 in the FY 2022-2026 EPA Strategic Plan to Clean Up and Restore Land
for Productive Uses and Healthy Communities.

•	Lead management of the national RCRA Corrective Action program to ensure that
owner/operators clean up contamination at facilities to protect human health and the
environment, support communities, and facilitate reuse and redevelopment.

•	For Goals 1, 2, and 3, lead implementation of procedures developed in 2022 to ensure that: an
ambitious universe of RCRA cleanups is initiated and completed by 2030, cleanup commitments
are transparent and visible to the public, adverse impacts beyond facility boundaries are
eliminated or controlled, and land within facility boundaries is safe for continued or new uses.

•	For Goal 4, lead establishment of approaches implementing the key elements of Long-Term
Stewardship for Corrective Action cleanups identified in 2022.

7 For more information on EPA's RCRA Corrective Action 2030 Vision, Mission, and Goals, please see
https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2020-09/dqcuments/rcra corrective action program vision.pdf

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•	For Goal 5, lead implementation of procedures developed in 2022 to regularly adjust the
universe of facilities in the cleanup pipeline to reflect current RCRA Corrective Action
program priorities as developed in 2021.

•	Lead and collaborate with states to achieve progress toward the FY 2022-2026 long-term
performance goal of making 425 additional RCRA Corrective Action facilities Ready for
Anticipated Use (RAU). EPA will develop and lead collaborative implementation with the
states of strategies to achieve the RAU Goal.

•	In partnership with the regions, manage effective and efficient cleanup programs nationwide
by developing and implementing performance measures, tracking, and adjusting targets,
workload, and resources to maximize progress on cleanups, and developing and maintaining
staff program and technical expertise.

•	Provide leadership and facilitate communication and collaboration across the RCRA
corrective action program with regions and states to ensure national consistency,
protectiveness, effective program management, effective oversight of responsible party
cleanup activity, training, and technical support for program staff.

•	Collaborate with the regions to ensure that priority issues of emerging science are addressed
appropriately and consistently in cleanups. Distribute new scientific information, implement
new policies and procedures, and provide technical assistance and training, as resources allow.

•	Maintain collaboration among headquarters, regions, and states, to ensure hazardous waste
programs are implemented in accordance with the Administration's environmental justice and
climate change priorities.

•	Analyze the universe of RCRA corrective action facilities to better understand their impact on
communities with environmental justice concerns and communicate any resulting information,
issues, and priorities to regions and states.

•	Maintain environmental justice principles and considerations in the forefront of programmatic
activities and decision-making, through communication with communities and with regions and
states, and providing and any needed technical assistance or guidance.

•	Develop analyses and tools to help regions and states consider and address potential
environmental justice issues, including approaches for environmental concerns expressed by the
community or seen/heard in the field that do not fall within RCRA program authorities for
action. Collaborate with other federal agencies as appropriate.

Headquarters and Regions

•	Support Objective 6.1 in the FY 2022-2026 EPA Strategic Plan to Clean Up and Restore Land for
Productive Uses and Healthy Communities. Implement the national RCRA Corrective Action
program to ensure that owner/operators clean up contamination at facilities to protect human
health and the environment, support communities, and facilitate reuse and redevelopment.

•	For Goals 1, 2, and 3, implement procedures developed in 2022 to ensure that: an ambitious
universe of RCRA cleanups is initiated and completed by 2030, cleanup commitments are
transparent and visible to the public, adverse impacts beyond facility boundaries are eliminated
or controlled, and land within facility boundaries is safe for continued or new uses.

•	For Goal 4, implement establishment of approaches implementing the key elements of Long-
Term Stewardship for Corrective Action cleanups identified in 2022.

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•	For Goal 5, collaborate to implement program procedures to regularly adjust the universe of
facilities in the cleanup pipeline to reflect current RCRA Corrective Action program priorities
as developed in 2021.

•	Support and implement efforts to consider environmental justice, equity, and climate
change in RCRA Corrective Action.

•	Lead and collaborate with states to achieve RCRA cleanup targets for the following
Corrective Action measures: 1) human exposures under control, 2) migration of
contaminated groundwater under control, 3) remedy construction, 4) cleanup complete, and
5) ready for anticipated use. Maintain progress on addressing human exposures for 2020
Baseline facilities.

•	Develop and implement approaches for high priority actions to overcome barriers to cleanup
progress, such as complex technical groundwater issues, complex federal facility cleanups,
and issues requiring strategic enforcement.8

•	Lead and support implementation, as appropriate, of tools developed to improve and speed
cleanups, including RCRA FIRST (Facility Investigation Remedy Selection Track).

•	Facilitate mechanisms for collaboration across the programs to identify barriers, share best
management practices, and resolve issues toward completing high priority cleanups.

•	Implement oversight at priority RCRA Corrective Action actions in states that are not
authorized and on tribal lands.

•	Maintain collaboration among EPA headquarters, regions, and states to ensure hazardous waste
programs are implemented in accordance with the Administration's Environmental Justice and
climate change priorities.

Regions and States

•	Support Objective 6.1 in the FY 2022-2026 EPA Strategic Plan to Clean Up and Restore Land
for Productive Uses and Healthy Communities. Implement the national RCRA Corrective
Action program to ensure owner/operator cleanup of contamination at facilities to protect
human health and the environment, support communities, and facilitate reuse and
redevelopment.

•	For Goals 1, 2, and 3, implement procedures developed in 2022 to ensure that: an ambitious
universe of RCRA cleanups is initiated and completed by 2030, cleanup commitments are
transparent and visible to the public, adverse impacts beyond facility boundaries are eliminated
or controlled, and land within facility boundaries is safe for continued or new uses.

•	For Goal 4, implement establishment of approaches implementing the key elements of Long-
Term Stewardship for Corrective Action cleanups identified in 2022.

•	For Goal 5, collaborate to implement program procedures to regularly adjust the universe of
facilities in the cleanup pipeline to reflect current RCRA Corrective Action program priorities
as developed in 2021.

•	Collaborate to achieve progress toward the FY 2022-2026 long-term performance goal of
making 425 additional RCRA Corrective Action facilities RAU. EPA regional offices and states
will collaboratively implement strategies identified to achieve the RAU Goal.

8 NESCA, the National Enforcement Strategy for Corrective Action can be found at
http://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/documents/nesca-strategv-mem.pdf

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• Collaborate to achieve RCRA cleanup targets for the following Corrective Action performance
measures: 1) human exposures under control, 2) migration of contaminated groundwater
under control, 3) remedy construction, 4) cleanup complete, and 5) ready for anticipated
use.

• Collaborate in implementing the national RCRA Corrective Action program to clean up
contamination at RCRA facilities. EPA regional offices will work with states to authorize state
programs or utilize work-share agreements to facilitate state-lead implementation.

• Regions will provide leadership and facilitate collaboration with states in the region to
ensure regional consistency, support states in developing and maintaining technical and
program expertise, provide expert technical assistance to support states implementing
effective and efficient cleanups, and support states in effective and efficient program
management, measurement and tracking, and recordkeeping.

• Conduct effective data collection and management; report and document mandatory
nationally required data elements, including cleanup milestones.

• As appropriate, implement process efficiency tools developed to improve and speed up
cleanups (including RCRA FIRST).

• Regions will collaborate with states to ensure that issues of emerging science are addressed
appropriately and consistently in RCRA cleanups.

• Use a variety of communications and outreach tools to consider community concerns, needs
and participation in program decision-making; and help communities connect to available
federal, state and private expertise and resources to create positive, tangible, and sustainable
outcomes for communities with environmental justice concerns.

• Maintain collaboration among EPA headquarters, regions, and states to ensure hazardous waste
programs are implemented in accordance with the Administration's environmental justice,
equity, and climate change priorities.

Tribes

• Collaborate and coordinate with OLEM, regions, and states on program implementation plans
and activities to achieve strategic plan and cleanup goals, as appropriate.

Measures: The NPG measures supporting this program are CA1, CA2, CA5RC, CA6, and RSRAU. These
measures can be found in Section V, FY 2023 National Program Guidance Measures, on page 46.

PCB Cleanup and Disposal Program

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are toxic chemicals that would pose a risk to communities if improperly
managed or controlled. Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), EPA works to ensure the safe
cleanup and disposal of PCBs. To achieve this, EPA reviews and approves PCB cleanup, storage, and
disposal activities. EPA directly implements the PCB approval program.

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Headquarters

• Support Objective 6.2 in the FY 2022-2026 EPA Strategic Plan to prevent environmental
contamination. Track program performance through established measures for PCB
approvals.

• Provide leadership and facilitate communication and collaboration across PCB cleanup and
disposal program to ensure national consistency, protectiveness, effective program
management, and training and technical support.

• Support and implement efforts to consider environmental justice, equity, and climate
change in PCB approvals.

• Provide technical assistance to regions in implementing the PCB program.

• Engage with our regions to lead or support national efforts to address high-priority issues in
the PCB program.

• Maintain and improve functionality in RCRAInfo to capture information for PCBs.

• Gather national incident and PCB annual report data at TSCA PCB treatment, storage, and
disposal facilities, respectively.

• Issue protective, timely PCB approvals for PCB disposal activities that affect more than one
region, such as mobile treatment units. This subset of PCB approvals is issued by EPA
headquarters, while the majority of approvals are issued by the regions.

• Complete rulemaking to maintain PCB regulations, including amending PCB extraction
regulations.

• Continue coordination of TSCA PCB cleanups with RCRA, Superfund and state cleanups.

Regions

• Support Objective 6.2 in the FY 2022-2026 EPA Strategic Plan to prevent environmental
contamination. Work to set and obtain challenging annual targets for PCB approvals.

• Support and implement efforts to consider environmental justice and climate change in PCB
approvals.

• Issue and maintain PCB approvals for waste facilities and cleanups as appropriate to meet
the program's permitting measure goals. Regions will review applications and cleanup plans
and issue PCB cleanup/disposal approvals as required under 40 CFR Part 761, addressing
technical issues with applicants and coordinating with states.

• Engage with headquarters to address high-priority issues in the PCB program.

• Engage with headquarters to lead or support national efforts to address high-priority issues
in the PCB program.

• Ensure all RCRAInfo mandatory data elements for the PCB approval database are
maintained.

• Forward incident reports from PCB-approved storage and disposal facilities to
ORCRIncidentTrackingffiepa.gov.

• Forward PCB annual reports to ORCRPCBs@epa.gov.

• Provide PCB regulatory assistance to industry, states, and the public.

• Safeguard hard-copy financial instruments using best practices, including storage in a
fireproof safe.

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health and the environment where contamination remains in place at PCB cleanups.
• As appropriate, implement process efficiency tools developed using Lean to improve and
speed up cleanups (including PCB FAST).

Measures: The NPG measures supporting this program are PCI and PC3. These measures can be found
in Section V, FY 2023 National Program Guidance Measures, on page 46.

RCRA Regulatory and Guidance Actions

Although the EPA has a comprehensive regulatory framework in place to prevent exposures to
contaminants from municipal solid waste and hazardous wastes, and is constantly working to keep that
framework current, there are always new areas of concern or potential concern that need to be
assessed. New technologies, such as nanotechnology or biotechnology, and new organic and inorganic
chemicals have emerged and present additional challenges to the RCRA program. The RCRA regulations
further provide a structure to safely manage the additional, and often more concentrated, pollutants
being removed from our air and water by current advances in environmental pollution controls. Thus,
there are potential gaps in the RCRA regulations that could impact the level of protection they provide.
Some of these gaps are identified through petitions for regulatory amendments.

An important step being taken by the Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR) is tackling
the PFAS challenge by undertaking the rulemaking process for two new actions under the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). One of EPA's priorities is taking action to protect American
communities from health risks associated with PFAS compounds. ORCR will contribute to this work by
evaluating the existing data for certain PFAS chemicals under the RCRA and clarifying authorities to
address PFAS contamination through the RCRA corrective action process. Both of these actions will
bolster clean up of PFAS at facilities across the country.

In fiscal years 2023-2024, EPA, through OLEM and the ORCR, will develop and implement key high
priority rules and guidances to advance RCRA's environmental objectives. ORCR will continue to
coordinate with other headquarters offices (e.g., OECA and OGC), as appropriate. ORCR will implement,
working with our state and tribal partners, the Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) related provisions of
the 2016 Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act). Regions also have an
important role in the development and implementation of rules, guidances, and the WIIN Act.

EPA will continue to implement the hazardous waste import/export notice and consent program. EPA
headquarters, working with the regions and other governments, as appropriate, will focus on
streamlining and improving the process and will develop and implement improvements to the Waste
Import/Export Tracking System (WIETS).

Headquarters

• Lead national rulemaking and guidance development efforts for priority work.

• Such priority work includes the evaluation of select PFAS constituents for inclusion in a
proposed rule to add them to the hazardous constituents list in Appendix VIII of 40 CFR Part 261

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and inclusion of those listed PFAS constituents under the corrective action requirements at
hazardous waste TSDFs.

• Explore and document methods for engaging communities during the regulation and
guidance development process.

• Integrate environmental justice (EJ) and equity principles into decision-making using
rulemaking, policy, screening, and legal tools.

• After regulations are promulgated or guidance issued, OLEM will provide guidance, national
direction, and training, as appropriate and resources allow.

• Serve as the U.S. competent authority for hazardous waste imports and exports; improve
efficiency of the process and develop improvements to the WIETS system.

Regions. States and Tribes

• Provide comments during the rule and guidance development process, that reflect insights
developed from implementation experience.

• Provide direct rule implementation if that authority is granted by the rulemaking or new
statutory authority (specifically under the WIIN Act, EPA implements the CCR permit
program on tribal lands).

• After rule promulgation, regions, working with OLEM as appropriate, should provide
technical assistance to both state implementers and the regulated community, including
direct assistance and training.

• Work closely with our state partners to ensure the CCR-related provisions of the WIIN Act
are appropriately implemented by states.

• Make state authorization for new (and certain existing) RCRA regulations a priority; regions
should also make approval of state CCR permit programs a priority. During these processes,
regions should raise any technical and authorization process issues to headquarters for a
prompt response.

• Review hazardous waste import notices and provide recommendations for consent or
objection in accord with established timeframes. Work with headquarters on improving
efficiency and responsiveness of the notice and consent process.

Implementing Recent Final Rules

Headquarters

• In FY 2023-2024 OLEM will perform priority outreach, training, and assistance to states
implementing substantive final RCRA rules promulgated since FY 2015 (e.g.,
Pharmaceuticals, Airbag Interim Final Rule, Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials, or NHSM;
Definition of Solid Waste, or DSW; Universal Waste Aerosol Cans; Hazardous Waste
Generator Improvements; Import/Export Revisions; and Modernizing Ignitable Liquids
Determinations).

• Substantive changes to the RCRA regulations require greater assistance to states, who are
ultimately responsible for implementing most RCRA regulations. This process can take a
number of years depending on effective dates and whether state adoption requires state
legislative changes.

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Regions

In FY 2023-2024, EPA regional offices will be involved in implementing, and/or assisting states in

adopting and implementing, recently promulgated final RCRA rules.

• Assist OLEM in identifying and resolving issues related to the Import/Export requirements.

• Support OLEM in helping states to adopt the revisions to, and seek guidance on
implementing, the HW Pharmaceuticals Rule and the Generator Improvements Rule
including working with states on additional activities designed to improve implementation of
these rules.

• Support OLEM in responding to petitions submitted for categorical non-waste
determinations under the NHSM rule, either by direct response or by working with OLEM on
any multi-regional response.

• Support OLEM in assisting states to work closely with their generator and transporter
communities on e-manifest implementation.

• Continue participating on workgroups, timely raising issues to headquarters for resolution,
and participating in the development and implementation of rules and guidances.

States and Tribes

• Collaborate and coordinate with OLEM on program implementation plans or activities to
achieve environmental goals, as appropriate.

Implementation of the WIIN Act/ CCR Disposal Rule

Headquarters

• Continue to implement the WIIN Act by supporting states in the development of state
programs, by reviewing and approving state programs; and, by establishing and beginning to
implement a federal permit program on Indian lands and in non-participating states.

• Continue to be engaged in extensive reviews of compliance information found on a facility's
publicly accessible CCR Internet site.

Regions

• Support OLEM with supporting states in the development of state programs and in review
and approval of state CCR permit programs.

• Support OLEM on implementing the CCR federal permit program.

• Support OLEM on implementing the CCR final rule through oversight and monitoring facility
compliance activities at CCR disposal sites with a focus on corrective action and closure.

States and Tribes

• Collaborate and coordinate with OLEM on program implementation plans or activities to
achieve environmental goals, as appropriate.

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e-Manifest System

On October 5, 2012, the President signed the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act
authorizing a fee-funded electronic reporting program for entities transporting hazardous wastes that
are regulated pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). On June 30, 2018, e-
Manifest deployed with the functionality to submit, edit, and sign manifests through a web application
and through a system-to-system data exchange. This effort to streamline and modernize environmental
protection remains a flagship project in the state/EPA E-Enterprise initiative. The e-Manifest team will
continue to enhance system functionality by working alongside industry, states, and other stakeholders.

e-Manifest impacts states' manifest programs. All manifests are now sent to EPA and the states, in turn,
access manifest data via the e-Manifest system. States must adopt and become authorized for e-
Manifest final regulations to retain enforcement authority for their manifest programs.

Headquarters

• Work toward greater adoption of fully electronic manifests including signature solutions outside
the scope of Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Rule (CROMERR).

• Collect user fees through timely invoicing and payment via e-Manifest. Establish new user fee as
required through User Fee Rulemaking.

• Work alongside OCFO to enhance e-Manifest financial reporting.

• Enhance e-Manifest system functionality, including extensive system testing and frequent
outreach to both industry and state users of the system to ensure functionality meets end user
needs.

• Continue engagement with EPA regions, states, industry, and other stakeholders through
sustained outreach and multiple communication activities.

• Convene the e-Manifest Advisory Board annually to obtain the Board's recommendations and
advice on the implementation and functionality of the e-Manifest system.

• Work with states to enable access to e-Manifest data, specifically via the web application or
through EPA's application programming interface (API).

Regions

• Serve as regional points-of contact for states and industry on e-Manifest program. Assist with e-
Manifest implementation and communication and raise issues to EPA headquarters.

• Work in collaboration with states as applicable, and with industry to facilitate user registration,
use of electronic manifests, and timely payment by receiving facilities.

• Assist states with authorization for e-Manifest rulemakings.

States

• Set up states to access and correct e-Manifest data, such as through the RCRAInfo web
application and/or API and data services.

• Engage in e-Manifest communications, such as webinars and meetings.

• Expand state testing pool to include policy experts to test e-Manifest workflows, user interface,
and data quality.

• Engage with generators, transporters, and receiving facilities to encourage user registration for
e-Manifest and use of electronic manifests. Raise issues to EPA regional points-of contact.

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•	Adopt and become authorized for e-Manifest rulemakings.

•	Assist in maintaining list of state-regulated wastes in RCRAInfo and e-Manifest. Assist with
communicating e-Manifest to state-only regulated industry stakeholders.

Tribes

• Collaborate and coordinate with OLEM on program implementation plans or activities to
achieve environmental goals, as appropriate.

Improving Recycling and Advancing a Circular Economy for Materials

Recycling is an important part of a circular economy, which refers to a system of activities that is
restorative to the environment, enables resources to maintain their highest values, and designs out
waste. A circular economy approach provides direct, measurable reductions in greenhouse gas
emissions, as natural resource extraction and processing make up approximately 50 percent of total
global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

EPA's work in this program area will help alleviate burdens on populations that bear the brunt of poorly
run waste management facilities and transfer stations, as well as underinvestment in waste
management infrastructure, by helping to create more sustainable materials management practices and
spur economic opportunity with safe jobs. To better understand the impacts on various communities
from disposal, EPA is conducting a study that is assessing the social costs associated with waste.
Specifically, we are examining the impacts of disposal on environmental and social issues, such as air
and water quality, property prices, and worker health. We will also provide recommendations based on
which interventions are more effective in reducing impacts to communities and the environment.

EPA also will continue implementing the BIL during fiscal years 2023-2024. The BIL provides $350M in
grant funding for two new grant programs: the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) grant
program, which is focused on enhancing solid waste management infrastructure, and the Recycling
Education and Outreach grant program, which is focused on improving consumer education on recycling
and waste prevention. States, territories, tribes, and local governments are included as eligible
recipients for the grant programs outlined within that funding.

Other directives in the BIL include development of a model recycling program toolkit for states, local
governments, and tribes; increasing coordination at the federal level on federal agencies' responsibilities
under the Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG) program (including the frequency by which
EPA must review the CPGs); $25 million to support the development of best practices for battery
recycling and a voluntary labeling program and other communication materials.

This historic investment in solid waste management will help communities begin to modernize their
local waste management systems by investing in technology, increasing opportunities to reduce, reuse
and compost materials, and expanding access to recycling across the country. It also will provide state,
tribal, and local governments with funding to improve education and outreach on how to recycle right.
For citizens, this investment will mean clean and safe materials management facilities in communities,

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new jobs, reduced environmental and climate impacts from materials, and an ability to recycle with
confidence knowing that the right materials are making it into the bin and being recycled.

EPA also will continue implementation of the Save our Seas Act 2.0 with activities focused on reducing
plastic waste. For example, EPA is developing a national plastics strategy that identifies the challenges
and actions needed to help our nation reduce plastic waste and other materials that end up in our
waterways and oceans. EPA also is conducting studies and developing reports, including reports on
eliminating barriers to recycling, economic incentives to spur new end-use markets, opportunities for
innovative uses of plastic waste, and minimizing the creation of new plastic waste.

Headquarters

•	Collaborate with and convene federal, state, local and tribal organizations, communities, and
other stakeholders to implement the National Recycling Strategy. Develop, obtain public
comment on, and finalize additional strategies in the Circular Economy series, including plastics,
food waste and organics, textiles, and the built environment.

•	Implement the BIL grant programs and other activities supporting improvements to state and
local solid waste management programs and recycling education and outreach. Increase federal
coordination and responsibilities regarding the Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines
program and provide assistance to the educational community to promote the introduction of
recycling principles and best practices into public school curricula.

•	Implement Recycling Infrastructure grants as part of the Justice40 initiative.

•	Implement Recycling Education and Outreach grants to ensure we meet the 20% funding
allocation for low-income communities, rural communities, and communities identified as
Native American as well as the Justice40 initiative goals.

•	Conduct a study assessing the social costs associated with waste to better understand the
impacts on various communities from disposal.

•	Conduct a comprehensive environmental justice analysis of all types of solid waste management
facilities including recycling, transfer stations, incinerators, and other facilities to better
understand the impacts of solid waste infrastructure on communities.

•	Finalize studies and implement other activities under the 2020 Save Our Seas 2.0 Act addressing
land-based contributions to the mismanagement of post-consumer materials and plastic waste.

•	Finalize FY21 data collection efforts to strengthen residential recycling in the U.S and continue
to collect data to track progress towards the nation's 2030 goals for recycling and food waste, as
well as decreasing lifecycle environmental impacts of materials.

•	Finalize and release GAO reports and studies initiated in FY21, including (1) the effect of existing
public policies upon the reuse, recycling, and conservation of materials and (2) the study that is
assessing the social costs associated with waste; specifically, the impacts of disposal on
environmental and social issues.

•	Develop and promote, in coordination with states, tribes, local governments, NGOs and the
private sector, best practices for the collection of batteries to be recycled, including how to
maximize collection volumes and be as economically feasible as practicable while increasing
safety for the workers.

•	Develop and implement a voluntary labelling program for batteries along with educational
materials on battery recycling and reuse for battery producers and consumers.

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• Create and implement other funding opportunities, as approved and available.

Regions

Building upon the work performed in FY 2022 to obtain stakeholder input, administer grants issued as
part of the BIL and provide technical assistance to states, tribes, and municipalities to support grant
implementation.

•	Support national solid waste management data collection efforts and activities.

•	Continue regional dialogues with stakeholders to support the implementation of the Circular
Economy Strategy series.

States and Tribes

•	Continue to engage with EPA at the regional or national level on data needs, implementation of
the BIL grant programs, and activities undertaken in support of the circular economy strategy
series.

Reducing Food Loss and Waste

In the United States, over 30 percent of all available food goes uneaten through loss or waste.

Discarded food ends up in communities' landfills and produces methane, which is a potent greenhouse
gas. Keeping excess food out of landfills not only helps the environment, but it can also be used to feed
people, feed animals, or create energy. Food waste is the largest single type of waste in our daily trash,
representing over 24 percent of landfilled municipal solid waste. Achieving the U.S. goal to reduce food
loss and waste by 50% by 2030 will require action at all levels of government working collaboratively
with the private sector.

Headquarters

•	Provide credible information and data on wasted food, including generation and management
pathways.

•	Co-lead industry engagement and public commitment to the national goal with USDA and the
U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions.

•	Conduct national outreach and education on reducing food loss and waste through social media
and other communications mechanisms.

•	Collaborate with USDA and FDA and other federal agencies, national trade associations and
business organizations, and NGOs and community organizations in leading the reduction of food
loss and waste.

•	Create and implement funding opportunities, as approved and available.

•	Collaborate with and convene federal, state, local and tribal organizations, communities, and
other stakeholders to develop, obtain public comment on, and finalize a national food and
organics strategy, as a part of the circular economy strategy series.

•	Prioritize meeting the needs of underserved and vulnerable communities and communities with
environmental justice concerns across actions in the Strategy.

•	Prioritize food waste prevention in the Strategy, due to its ability to help both feed food-
insecure Americans and feed the growing global population with less environmental impact.

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• Highlight opportunities to build community-scale organics recycling infrastructure, reducing
pollution and creating jobs within vulnerable communities, and to use compost made from
recycled organic waste to build green infrastructure and remediate contaminated properties in
communities with environmental justice concerns in the Strategy.

• Implement the BIL grant programs and other activities supporting improvements to state and
local solid waste management programs and recycling education and outreach, including food
and organics waste management.

Regions

• Convene collaborations with regional stakeholders who would otherwise not come together -
industry, government representatives, non-profits, and others-to pursue solutions to reduce
food loss and waste.

• Support regional, state, and local stakeholders through the use of EPA tools and sharing of
information.

• Continue stakeholder dialogues to support a national food and organics strategy, as a part of the
circular economy strategy series.

• Implement and support sustainable management of food funding opportunities, as available.

States and Tribes

• Continue to engage with EPA at the regional or national level on implementation of the BIL grant
programs and to increase awareness of opportunities, challenges, and solutions to reducing
food loss and waste at various points in the food system.

Underground Storage Tanks

The Underground Storage Tank (UST) program consists of two parts: The prevention program (referred
to here as the UST program) that works to prevent releases, and the cleanup program (referred to here
as the LUST program) that works to clean up contamination from USTs. Threats from a leaking UST
include the potential for vapor intrusion into homes and other structures as well as contamination of
groundwater, the source of drinking water for nearly half of all Americans.

The UST program helps prevent these releases by providing states9 and tribes with training, technical
assistance, and guidance. A major/core UST program activity is to provide financial assistance grants to
enable state UST inspections (and other Energy Policy Act of 2005, EPAct, provisions). EPA implements
the UST program in Indian country and works in partnership with tribal governments to prevent
petroleum releases from USTs. In Indian country, EPA works with tribal governments to provide
compliance assistance, performs inspections, and takes resulting enforcement actions to address
violations.

The LUST program ensures that petroleum contamination is properly assessed and cleaned up. EPA
issues, monitors, and oversees LUST cleanup cooperative agreements to states who oversee cleanups by

9 State as referenced here also include the District of Columbia and five territories as described in the definition of
state in the Solid Waste Disposal Act.

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responsible parties and in some instances perform direct assessment and cleanup work at sites where
the owner is unknown, unwilling, or unable to pay for the cleanup. EPA also provides technical
assistance and training to states on how to conduct cleanups and improve the efficiency of state
programs. EPA implements the LUST program in Indian country in partnership with tribes. In Indian
country, EPA oversees cleanups by responsible parties, conducts site assessments, remediates
contaminated water and soil, provides alternative sources of drinking water when needed, and may
enforce against responsible parties and has some cooperative agreements with tribes.

Approximately 81 million people—roughly 25 percent of our country's population—live within 0.25 mile
of a release from underground storage tanks, which includes releases already cleaned up and those
remaining to be cleaned up. These communities are made up of populations with greater percentages of
racial and ethnic minorities, low-income residents, linguistically isolated persons, and individuals
without a high school education than the United States population as a whole.10 Environmental justice
is an important priority for the UST program and the program will continue to focus its efforts to
addressing these concerns. EPA will work to integrate environmental justice into UST release prevention
and cleanups decision-making, ensuring the most vulnerable communities are protected from further
environmental harm. Headquarters will be working closely with its regional and state counterparts to
fully implement and realize the potential of the Administration's Justice40 effort.

Addressing climate change is an equally important and often connected priority to environmental
justice. Headquarters and regions will continue to help UST owners and operators prepare for and
recover from extreme weather events and impacts.

Headquarters and Regions
Prevention:

• Work to integrate environmental justice considerations into UST program and programmatic
decisions including incorporating EJ elements in state grant workplans.

• Work to support Executive Order 14008 Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.—

• Provide support to citizens/communities with UST issues.

• Provide guidance, training and assistance to the UST regulated community to improve
understanding and compliance.

• Coordinate with state and tribal UST programs.

10 U.S. EPA, Office of Land and Emergency Management 2021. Data collected includes: (1) LUST information as of
late-2018 to mid-2019 depending on the state from Office of Research Development & Office of Underground
Storage Tanks, UST Finder, https://gispub.epa.gov/ustmap; and (2) population data from the 2015-2019 American
Community Survey.

11 For more information concerning E.O. 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad,

please see https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/27/executive-order-on-
tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad/

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Cleanup:

• Work to integrate environmental justice considerations into LUST programs and programmatic
decisions including incorporating EJ elements in state grant workplans.

o Work to support the goals of the Justice40 Initiative.

• Work to support Executive Order 14008 Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.

• Work with states and tribes to implement strategies to reduce the number of LUST sites that
have not reached cleanup completion, and to address new releases as they are confirmed.

• Monitor the soundness of financial mechanisms, particularly insurance and state cleanup funds
that serve as financial assurance for LUST releases.

• Collaborate with states to seek ways to cover and control remediation cost.

• Conduct and oversee assessments and cleanups in Indian country.

Headquarters

Prevention:

• Provide states and tribes with training, technical assistance, and guidance.

• Work with and provide support to the regions to:

o Oversee states and territories who are the primary implementors of the UST programs
including implementation of the revised UST regulations.

o Implement the UST program in Indian country.

• Perform national analysis of program performance, including reviewing and managing data
quality, and establishes strategic direction to achieve national program goals.

• Continue to support the newly created environmental indicator with UST and LUST data in
EJScreen, EPA's environmental justice screening and mapping tool.

Cleanup:

• Provide technical assistance and training to states and tribes to improve corrective action at
LUST sites and the efficiency of LUST programs.

o Work with and provide support to the regions to: Oversee the regions' direct
implementation of the LUST program in Indian country.

• Perform national analysis of program performance, including reviewing and managing data
quality, and establish strategic direction to achieve national program goals.

• Promote (along with states) the reuse of petroleum brownfields, look for opportunities to
partner with local implementers to engage communities, identify cleanup corridors, and/or
bring stakeholders and partners to the table to clean up and redevelop sites.

• Continue to support the newly created environmental indicator with UST and LUST data in
EJScreen, EPA's environmental justice screening and mapping tool.

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Regions
Prevention:

• Award, monitor and oversee LUST Prevention cooperative agreements and STAG grants to
states, including post award management of existing LUST Prevention cooperative agreements
and STAG grants as they close out prior years' funding.

• Work closely with states to oversee compliance with the provisions of EPAct.

• Conduct inspections using the applicable EPA or state guidance to evaluate compatibility in
systems storing higher blends of emerging fuels.

• Take appropriate enforcement on violations, including implementation of Delivery Prohibition
and utilization of expedited enforcement, as applicable. (Regions should refer to the OECA NPG
for further guidance on enforcement priorities and commitments for regional UST programs.)

• Maintain the 3-year inspection mandate in Indian country, and assist states, as needed.

• Work with tribes to:

o Implement the 2015 regulations in Indian country.

o Provide compliance assistance to UST owners and operators in Indian country.

o Build tribal government UST program capacity.

Cleanup:

• Implement the LUST program in Indian country, working with tribes to:

o Oversee cleanups by UST owners and operators.

o Cleanup sites

o Build tribal government LUST program capacity.

• Provide oversight of state LUST programs and work with states to pursue state-specific backlog
reduction strategies.

• Issue, monitor and oversee LUST cleanup cooperative agreements to states and tribes, and
implement award and post award management of LUST cleanup cooperative agreements.

• Verify the accuracy and completeness of data provided by states and work with states to
improve their data quality and systems, where appropriate.

• Take (along with states) enforcement action to spur cleanup. (Regions should refer to the OECA
NPG for further guidance on enforcement priorities and commitments for regional UST
programs.)

• Implement (along with states) the Petroleum Vapor Intrusion Guidance as appropriate when
assessing vapor intrusion at LUST sites.

• Work with state to assess LUST backlog reduction efforts and develop improvement plans and
initiatives in one or more state within each region.

States
Prevention:

• Work to integrate environmental justice considerations into UST program and programmatic
decisions.

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o EPA developed and shared a series of options for consideration when integrating EJ into
program decisions.

• Work to support Executive Order 14008 Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.

• Implement EPAct requirements.

• Conduct inspections to ensure regulated entities comply with release detection, leak
prevention, and financial responsibility requirements. The EPAct requires all regulated facilities
to be inspected at least once every three years.

• Implement provisions of the 2015 UST regulations, including taking appropriate steps to adopt
new regulations, applying for state program approval, and updating Memorandums of
Agreement.

• Report programmatic data to EPA.

Cleanup:

• Work to integrate environmental justice considerations into LUST programs and programmatic
decisions.

o Increase focus, attention, and resources in areas with potential environmental justice
concerns consistent with state and federal EJ guidance; consider cumulative
environmental impacts on disproportionately impacted communities,
o EPA developed and shared a series of options for consideration when integrating EJ into
program decisions.

o Work to support the goals of the Justice40 Initiative (for example, report location

information semiannually in the LUST4 (i.e., street address or lat/longs) for each cleanup
completed.

• Work to support Executive Order 14008 Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.

• Perform or oversee site assessments, investigations, and remediation of high priority sites; take
enforcement against responsible parties; perform cleanup of soil and groundwater; provide
alternate water supplies; pursue cost recovery against LUST owners and operators; provide
technical expertise and assistance; perform response activities; and perform oversight of
responsible party lead cleanups.

• Undertake QA/QC efforts of semiannual performance results and report required data in a
timely manner.

• Implement strategies to reduce their LUST backlogs, such as increasing the efficiency of
cleanups, examining existing remediation policies, leveraging private and state resources, and
enabling community redevelopment.

• Conduct (along with regions) annual reviews of all active state funds to ensure that funding is
available for cleanups, when needed.

• Implement (along with regions, as necessary) the Petroleum Vapor Intrusion Guidance as
appropriate when assessing vapor intrusion at LUST sites.

Measures: The NPG measures supporting this program are 112, 113, and UST01. These measures can be
found in Section V, FY 2023 National Program Guidance Measures, on pages 46-47.

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Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice (EJ) or promoting healthy and environmentally sound conditions for all people, is
a priority throughout OLEM's programs. By integrating EJ principles into its programs, OLEM seeks to
mobilize resources to address the needs of disproportionately overburdened and underserved
communities. OLEM supports cross-agency coordination with other NPMs and the EPA regions to create
tangible, healthy, measurable, and sustainable improvements in communities. In many instances,
children living in communities with environmental justice concerns are the most vulnerable to pollutants
or contaminants, and in recognition of that, OLEM will consider impacts on children in its activities.

To facilitate the continued integration of EJ into its programs, OLEM will undertake the activities below.

Headquarters and Regions

• Develop and implement an EJ Action Plan and provide public engagement opportunities
throughout its program areas.

• Integrate EJ principles into programmatic and regional decision-making using rulemaking, policy,
screening, and legal tools.

• OLEM EJ and tribal programs will coordinate and collaborate with the American Indian
Environmental Office's workgroup on implementing the EPA Policy on Environmental Justice for
Working with Federally Recognized Tribes and Indigenous Peoples. Integrating EJ principles in a
consistent manner in the agency's work throughout Indian country, will promote the health and
environment of federally recognized tribes, indigenous people and others living in Indian
country.

• Strengthen the use of scientific and technical processes and policies to identify cumulative
impacts from stressors that may lead to environmental and health inequities in overburdened
and underserved communities.

• Continually consider community concerns, needs and participation in program decision-making
and help communities connect to all available federal, state, and private expertise and resources
to create tangible, sustainable outcomes.

• Strengthen partnerships with tribal and state governments by building alliances and leveraging
resources to address local environmental concerns in overburdened and underserved
communities.

States and Tribes

• Collaborate and coordinate with OLEM on program implementation plans or activities to
achieve environmental goals, as appropriate.

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SECTION III. Implementing Tribal Work

OLEM is committed to ensuring the protection of human health and the environment in Indian country
while supporting tribal sovereignty, acting consistently with the federal trust responsibility, and
strengthening the government-to-government relationship between tribes and the EPA. OLEM supports
tribal governments through capacity building, technical and financial assistance, research, outreach, and
direct implementation. In addition to the cross-office work listed below, program-specific activities
related to tribes are described throughout OLEM's National Program Guidance.

Headquarters and Regions

•	Work directly with tribes to implement federal environmental programs in Indian country.

•	Implement the 1984 EPA Policy for the Administration of Environmental Programs on Indian
Reservations, the 2000 Executive Order 13175: Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribal
Governments, the 2011 EPA Policy on Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribes, the
2014 EPA Policy on Environmental Justice for Working with Federally Recognized Tribes and
Indigenous Peoples, the 2016 Guidance for Discussing Tribal Treaty Rights, as well as the two
OLEM and Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation (OSRTI) January 2017
traditional ecological knowledge memorandums (Considering Traditional Ecological Knowledge
During the Cleanup Process and Consideration of Tribal Treaty Rights and Traditional Ecological
Knowledge in the Superfund Remedial program).

•	Continue to provide outreach materials, training, technical assistance, regulatory action
coordination/consultation, and program information to tribes to assist in understanding and
providing input on OLEM's programs and mission.

Headquarters

•	OLEM's Office of Communications, Partnerships and Analysis (OCPA) and Office of Resource
Conservation and Recovery (ORCR) will coordinate and collaborate with other federal agencies
through the Infrastructure Task Force (ITF) to promote the development and implementation of
sustainable waste management programs in Indian country. This includes leveraging,
coordinating, and improving technical and financial assistance in support of developing
integrated waste management plans, and closing, cleaning up, or upgrading open dumps.

•	OLEM will continue to engage with and provide funding and technical assistance to tribes
through activities under the OLEM Program Tribal Support Cooperative Agreements, including
support for the annual Tribal Lands and Environment Forum conference, the Tribal Waste and
Response Steering Committee, the Tribal Superfund Working Group, trainings, research, and
online resources.

Regions

•	During interactions with a tribe, EPA is encouraged to reference the existing EPA-Tribal
Environmental Plan (ETEP) to inform the understanding of the Tribe's environmental priorities.

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Tribes

•	Participate in conferences, meetings, trainings, webinars, etc. to build capacity to effectively
implement cleanup, prevention, and response programs in tribal communities.

•	Participate in consultation and outreach events and provide comments, feedback, and tribal
perspectives on proposed regulations and guidance.

•	Collaborate and coordinate with OLEM on program implementation plans or activities to
achieve environmental goals, as appropriate.

•	Engage with EPA headquarters and regional staff and other entities to improve program
implementation.

States

•	No specific activities listed.

Measures: The NPG measure supporting this program is 113. This measure can be found in Section V, FY
2023 National Program Guidance Measures, on page 47.

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SECTION IV. FLEXIBILITY AND GRANT PLANNING

OLEM FY 2023-2024 Grants Management Guidelines
Effective Grants Management

OLEM places a high priority on accountability and effective grants management in the solicitation,
selection, award, and administration of assistance agreements in support of OLEM's mission. The
following key areas are emphasized as we implement our grant programs:

1.	Standardizing the timing of issuance of grants guidance for categorical grants (i.e., by April of the
fiscal year prior to the year in which the guidance applies); and

2.	Ensuring effective management through emphasis on training and accountability standards for
Project Officers and their managers.

OLEM's Acquisition and Resources Management Staff (ARMS) serves as liaison to EPA's Office of Grants
and Debarment (OGD) and the first resource for Project Officers and their managers in disseminating,
implementing, and ensuring compliance with EPA new and existing grants management policies and
procedures. ARMS also serves as the point of contact in consultations with our regional offices and
Grant Coordinators Workgroup.

ARMS's central coordinating role serves to ensure consistent implementation and compliance with
agency grants management policies and procedures throughout OLEM Headquarters and regional
program offices. This enables OLEM project officers to focus on how best to properly manage assistance
agreements to meet program goals and objectives.

Alignment of National Program Guidance and Grant Work Planning

One of OLEM's objectives is to organize and coordinate the issuance of draft and final guidance
documents, including grants guidance, to coincide as much as possible with state, tribal, and regional
planning processes.

Timing of Guidance Issued for Categorical Grants

1.	All guidance packages for categorical grant programs are to be issued by April of the year in
advance of the fiscal year of availability of funds, if at all possible (e.g., guidance for fiscal year
2023 appropriated funds should be issued by April 2022). Not all categorical grant programs
issue annual guidance. These programs may simply indicate that they are continuing to use
their current guidance.

2.	OLEM affirms our commitment to NEPPS and encourages the use of Performance Partnership
Agreements (PPAs) and Performance Partnership Grants (PPGs) as vehicles for increasing
financial and programmatic flexibilities for states, tribes, and territories. In those instances
where PPAs/PPGs are engaged, we encourage OLEM headquarters and regional offices to
consider input received from state and tribal partners when developing grant guidance and
work plans. OLEM-specific PPG-eligible grants include Hazardous Waste Management - SWDA
3011(a), Brownfields Response - CERCLA 128(a), and State Underground Storage Tanks - SWDA

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2007 (f)(2). More information on NEPPS, PPAs, and PPGs can be found within the Office of
Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations NPG12 and on the EPA's NEPPS website-

Environmental Justice and Equity

OLEM is working to meet the requirements of Executive Order 14008 Tackling the Climate Crisis at
Home and Abroad including the goals of the Justice40 Initiative. OLEM programs are committed to
finding opportunities across their programmatic responsibilities to identify and address environmental
justice concerns. This includes, but is not limited to, addressing this priority during the development of
grant announcements, work plans and terms and conditions. OLEM Project Officers should include
language in their grant documents focusing on environmental justice considerations, whenever
appropriate.

Compliance with EPA Grants Policies

The OLEM National Program Guidance and grant guidances should comply with OGD policies and
guidance. All competitive grant solicitations and all grant workplans (competitive and noncompetitive)
must address current EPA priorities and comply with EPA Order 57C	1 icy for Environmental

Results under EPA Assistance Agreements—, which requires a description of how the work under the
assistance agreement links to the EPA Strategic Plan. In addition, programs and regions should include
appropriate metric requirements in the grant criteria and workplan.

Promoting Competition

OLEM places great importance on assuring that, to the maximum extent possible, all discretionary
funding opportunities are awarded in a fair and open competitive environment and that no applicant
receives an unfair advantage. OLEM Project Officers must ensure that these actions are fully compliant
with EPA Order 5700.5A1, Policy for Competition of Assistance Agreements in the solicitation, selection,
and award of assistance agreements.

The competition policy, effective January 15, 2005, applies to:

1.	competitive announcements issued, released, or posted after January 14, 2005;

2.	assistance agreement competitions, awards, and disputes based on competitive announcements
issued, released, or posted after January 14, 2005;

3.	non-competitive awards resulting from non-competitive funding recommendations submitted
to a Grants Management Office after January 14, 2005; and

4.	assistance agreement amendments issued after January 14, 2005.

In accordance with agency policy, all OLEM competitive funding opportunity announcements are
advertised by posting to OLEM'S Grants & Funding page (https://www.epa.gov/grants/office-land-and-

12	The Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations FY 2023-2024 NPG can be found here
https://www.epa.goy/planandbudget/nationaj-program-guidances-npgs

13	For more information on E.O. 5700.7A1, EPA's Policy for Environmental Results under EPA Assistance
Agreements, please see https://www.epa.gov/grants/epa-order-57007al-epas-policy-environmental-results-
under-epa-assjstance-agreements

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emergencv-management-grants-and-funding) and Grants.gov. the central federal electronic portal for
applying for grant opportunities.

Grants.gov

GPI 14-01, Electronic Submission of Initial Grant Applications implements the decision of EPA's Grants
Management Council (GMC) to streamline the agency's grant application process by requiring electronic
submission through Grants.gov.

The policy establishes Grants.gov as the EPA standard for the submission of initial
proposals/applications for competitive and non-competitive assistance agreement awards.

Except in limited circumstances, the policy requires EPA officials to ensure that all initial competitive and
non-competitive proposals/applications are submitted to EPA electronically through Grants.gov.

After the initial proposal/application submittal through Grants.gov, program offices or grants
management offices (GMOs) may allow applicants to submit revisions (that cannot be addressed
through pen and ink changes) or additional proposal/application materials through email or
electronically through Grants.gov. If the latter method is chosen for a competitive program, a second
Grants.gov package will need to be posted on Grants.gov. Applicants may submit revisions to non-
competitive applications under the same Grants.gov package used in the original submission. GMOs
and program offices may also allow submission of revisions or additional proposal/application materials
via hardcopy but only after determining that electronic methods are not feasible.

Federal Civil Rights Responsibilities, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

In 1994, Executive Order 1289814 was issued to direct Federal agencies to incorporate achieving
environmental justice into their mission. The Presidential Memorandum15 accompanying that Executive
Order required in part, that consistent with Title VI, each Federal agency "...ensure that all programs or
activities receiving Federal financial assistance that affect human health or the environment do not
directly, or through contractual or other arrangements, use criteria, methods, or practices that
discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin."16

EPA has a responsibility to ensure that recipients and subrecipients of federal financial assistance from
EPA - including states, municipalities, and other public and private entities - comply with federal civil

14	E.O. 12898: Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income
Populations, 59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994. Available at: https://www.archives.RQv/files/federal-reRister/executive-

orders/pdf/12898.pdf.

15	Presidential Memorandum on E.O. for Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations
and Low-Income Populations (pdf). Available at: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015~
02/documents/clinton memo 12S98.pdf.

16	Id.

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rights laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin (including limited
English proficiency), disability, sex, and age, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.17

EPA's implementing regulation generally prohibits discrimination in any programs, activities and services
receiving federal financial assistance.18 In addition, EPA's implementing regulations at 40 Code of
Federal Regulations Section 7.35 states that programs or activities receiving EPA assistance "shall not
directly or through contractual, licensing, or other arrangements on the basis of race, color, or national
origin...":

• Subject a person to segregation or separate treatment.

• Deny a person or group the opportunity to participate as members of any planning or advisory
body.

• Restrict a person in any way in the enjoyment of any advantage or privilege enjoyed by others
receiving any service, aid, or benefit provided by the program.

• Use criteria or methods of administration "which have the effect of subjecting individuals to
discrimination."

• Choose a site or location of a facility with "the purpose or effect of excluding individuals from,
denying them the benefits of, or subjecting them to discrimination," among other things.

EPA's nondiscrimination regulations at 40 Code of Federal Regulations Parts 5 and 7 also contain
longstanding procedural requirements applicable to applicants for and recipients (including sub-
recipients) of EPA financial assistance.19 These regulations require recipients to have a notice of
nondiscrimination, nondiscrimination coordinator, grievance procedures, a process for collecting and
maintaining nondiscrimination compliance information, and pursuant to Title VI and the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, to develop policies and/or procedures for ensuring meaningful access to programs and
activities for individuals with limited-English proficiency and individuals with disabilities. In addition,
recipients' public participation processes must also be implemented consistent with the federal civil
rights laws.20

17 Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,42 U.S.C. §§ 2000(d) etseq. (Title VI); Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
of 1973, as amended, 29 U.S.C., 29 U.S.C. § 794, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, as amended, 20
U.S.C. §§ 1681 et seq.; Age Discrimination Act of 1975, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6101 et seq.; Federal Water Pollution Control
Act Amendments of 1972, Pub. L. 92 500 § 13, 86 Stat. 903 (codified as amended at 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (1972)); 40
C.F.R. Parts 5 and 7.

18 See 40 Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.) Section 7.30.

19 EPA's nondiscrimination regulation at 40 C.F.R. Parts 5 and 7 requires recipients to establish and implement their
own nondiscrimination programs. See 40 C.F.R. §§ 7.80-7.100.

20 See Title VI, 42 U.S.C. 2000(d) et seq.; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 794;
Lau v. Nichols, 414 U.S. 563, 568-69 (1974) (finding that the government properly required language services to be
provided under a recipient's Title VI obligations not to discriminate based on national origin); 40 C.F.R. § 7.35(a).
See also U.S. EPA, Guidance to Environmental Protection Agency Financial Assistance Recipients Regarding Title VI
Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination Affecting Limited English Proficient Persons. 69 FR 35602, June

25, 2004. Available at: https://www.fecjeralregister.gov/documents/2004/06/25/04-14464/guidance-to-

environmental-protection-agency-financial-assistance-recipients-reeardine-title-vi; U.S. EPA, Title VI Public
Involvement Guidance for EPA Assistance Recipients Administering Environmental Permitting Programs, 71 FR

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EPA intends to carefully evaluate the implementation of EPA financial assistance programs for
compliance with civil rights laws by recipients of EPA funding to ensure that no community is excluded
from receiving or denied benefit of funding based on race, color, national origin (including limited
English proficiency), age, disability, or sex.

For more information about the federal civil rights laws enforced by EPA, including Title VI, please visit:

https://www.epa.gov/ocr/title-vi-laws-and-regulations and https://www.epa.gov/ogc/external-civil-
rights-compliance-office-title-vi.

14207, March 21, 2006. Available at: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2020-

02/documents/title vi public involvement guidance for epa recipients 2006.03.21.pdf); U.S. EPA, Procedural
Safeguards Checklist for Recipients. Available at: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-

02/documents/procedural safeguards checklist for recipients 2020.01.pdf (rev. Jan. 2020) (which provides a
more detailed explanation of nondiscrimination obligations and best practices): U.S. EPA, Disability
Nondiscrimination Plan Sample, at https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-

02/documents/disabili nondiscrimination plan sample for recipients 2020.01.pdf. (2017).

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Section V. FY 2023 National Program Guidance Measures

BFS Code

Measure Text

FY 2023
National Target

151

Number of Superfund sites with human exposures brought under control.

155

Number of Superfund cleanup projects that address lead as a contaminant.

170

Number of remedial action projects completed at Superfund NPL sites.

S10

Number of Superfund sites ready for anticipated use site-wide.

137

Number of Superfund removals completed.

183

437

Number of inspections conducted at oil facilities subject to the Facility Response Plan regulation.

438

Number of inspections conducted at oil facilities subject to the Spill Prevention, Control and
Countermeasure regulation.

CH2

Number of risk management plan inspections conducted.

ER01

Number of emergency response and removal exercises that EPA conducts or participates in.

120

ER02

Percentage of emergency response and removal exercises that EPA conducts or participates in that
incorporate environmental justice.

B29

Brownfields properties assessed.

1,400

B32

Number of Brownfields properties cleaned up.

130

B30

Number of Brownfields sites made ready for anticipated use.

600

PCI

Number of sites receiving 40 CFR 761.61(a) or (c) approvals.

PC3

Number of PCB approvals issued under authorities other than 40 CFR 761.61(a) or (c).

HW4

Number of hazardous waste units with initial controls in place to prevent release.

HW5

Number of updated permits issued at hazardous waste facilities.

RSRAU

Number of RCRA Corrective Action facilities made ready for anticipated use.

140

CA1

Number of RCRA facilities with human exposures to toxins under control.

CA2

Number of RCRA facilities with migration of contaminated groundwater under control.

CA5RC

Number of RCRA facilities with final remedies constructed.

CA6

Number of RCRA facilities with corrective action performance standards attained.

112

Number of LUST cleanups completed that meet risk-based standards for human exposure and
groundwater migration.

7,125

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BFS Code

Measure Text

FY 2023
National Target

113

Number of LUST cleanups completed in Indian country that meet risk-based standards for human
exposure and groundwater migration.

11

UST01

Number of confirmed releases at UST facilities.

5,075

Notes: The OLEM NPG includes measures supporting the FY 2022-2026 EPA Strategic Plan, FY 2023 Congressional Justification and Annual
Performance Plan and additional measures important to program management. The agency's headquarters and regional commitment-setting
process for these measures, and for other internally-tracked measures, occurs each year in the fall. National targets for additional measures not
included in the agency's strategic plan or budget will be determined as part of this process.

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SECTION VI. KEY CONTACTS

Subject Area

Contact

Phone

Email

OLEM, General Questions

Howard Rubin

(202)566-1899

rubin.howard@epa.gov

Superfund Remedial

Dan Crystal
Boone O'Neil
Claire Polacheck

(703)603-8787
(202)564-1094
(202)566-1071

crystal. daniel@epa. gov
oneil.boone@epa.gov
polacheck.claire@epa.gov

Federal Facilities

Jyl Lapachin

(202)564-0560

lapachin.ivl@epa.gov

Emergency Management

Rob Fox

(202)564-1538

fox.rob@epa.gov

Resource Conservation and
Recovery

Mark Huff

(202)566-0134

huff.marki@epa.gov

Brownfields

Kelly Gorini
Rachel Lentz

(202)566-1702
(202)566-2745

gorini.kellv@epa.gov
lentz.rachel@epa.gov

Land Revitalization

Aimee Storm

(202)566-0633

storm.aimee@epa.gov

Underground Storage
Tanks

Linda Gerber

(202)564-1615

gerber.linda@epa.gov

Tribal

Erika Wilson

(202)343-9113

wilson.erika@epa.gov

Environmental Justice

Ellen Manges

(202)566-0195

manges.ellen@epa.gov

State Liaison

Ellen Manges

(202)566-0195

manges.ellen@epa.gov

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