1. Compliance Assistance One State’s Perspective

2. N. C. Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance

5. Watch Words
Consistent
Accurate
Predictable
Timely

6. Observations No EPA wide mandate or policy for compliance assistance
Fragmented programs
Limited funding
Enforcement focus

7. Opportunities
Embrace compliance assistance as key component of environmental management
Make core function of media programs
Have an agency wide plan
Look at the whole continuum
Develop and support state programs
Partner with other agencies

9. State Compliance Assistance Efforts
Often over looked
Need to build more capacity in existing programs
Currently little funds or mandates
Many customers

10. Remember: It is about pollution not regulations

11. N.C. Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance
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Gary Hunt