FY 2019 Annual Performance Report Environmental Protection Agency FY 2019 Program Evaluations Project in Brief Purpose and Brief List of Results and Significance Description Conclusions Office of Air and Radiation Title V EPA periodically The purpose of the Title V The reviews evaluate the overall Permitting evaluates state and program evaluation is to effectiveness of the planning, permitting, Program local permitting identify good practices monitoring and compliance, and Reviews programs, including implemented by the enforcement programs to identify good fees, under Title V of state/local agency, areas practices implemented by the state/tribal Office of Air and the Clean Air Act as needing improvement agency, areas needing improvement Radiation (OAR) part of its responsibility within the state/local within the state/tribal program, and ways to oversee delegated program, and ways in which EPA can improve oversight. Completed: and approved air EPA can improve its own Throughout 2019 permitting programs. In oversight role. EPA Regional general, the purpose of Offices report on Title V these program program evaluations on evaluations is to their respective websites. identify good practices, For example, the Title V document areas program evaluation needing improvement, conducted at one air agency and learn how EPA can identified best practices for help the permitting that agency and EPA to take agencies improve their to continue improving and performance. standardizing the permitting process, such as promoting early communication during the permit development process and developing permit templates. Additional program information is available at: https://www.epa.gov/title- v-operating-permits. Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Resource Since 2015, EPA has Field test results suggest EPA is sharing FY 2020 model predictions Conservation worked with The that use of the model to support FY 2020 inspection planning. and Recovery University of Chicago increases the likelihood of Act (RCRA) Data Energy & Environment determining a severe Analytics Lab to develop a robust violation by nearly 47%. Evaluation machine learning model that forecasts Office of the likelihood that Enforcement and Large Quantity Compliance Generators (LQG) hazardous waste i ------- FY 2019 Annual Performance Report Environmental Protection Agency Project in Brief Purpose and Brief Description List of Results and Conclusions Significance Assurance (OECA) Completion Date: Preliminary results in FY 2019, will be continuing based on these results facilities will violate RCRA regulations. From FY 2017 through FY 2019, EPA coordinated across regions to field test the model through a randomized evaluation. Office of Land and Emergency Management Estimating the Effects of Superfund Cleanups on Children's Blood Lead Levels Office of Land and Emergency Managemen t(OLEM) Completed: NCEE Working Paper- January 2019 (Peer Review Journal Publication Projected for Q.4 2021) The purpose was to identify the effect of Superfund cleanups on children's elevated blood lead levels across a wide swath of Superfund sites spanning different regions, contamination levels, and potential exposure pathways. It would quantify the average health impact across a substantial subset of the Superfund program and potentially allow for generalizability of results to the national program. The preliminary analysis of two decades of blood lead level measurements from children across six states indicates that cleanup at lead contaminated Superfund sites lowered the risk of elevated blood lead levels (EBLL) for children living within two kilometers of the sites 8% to 18%. Authors are working towards publication in a peer-reviewed academic journal by FY 2021. Information from this study will help support the Agency's contribution to the Federal Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures and Associated Health Impacts and improve the Agency's understanding of the potential scope of childhood lead exposures and the effect of Superfund cleanups on EBLL. https://www .eoa.gov/site s/production /files/2019- 01/documen ts/2019- Ol.pdf 2 ------- |