Community Project Ideas for Enforcement

EPA Region 6 Wants Your Project Ideas

Region 6’s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Division is asking for project ideas from communities on how to improve public health and the environment.

These ideas would be provided to defendants when enforcement actions take place in those communities.

Region 6 is seeking input from communities on projects that may be relevant when EPA takes enforcement action against environmental violators.

1) Mitigation projects are injunctive relief sought by the government to remedy, reduce, or offset past (and in some cases ongoing) harm caused by an alleged violation.

Please keep in mind that both mitigation projects would have to meet all the requirements of the applicable policy before they could be considered as part of a settlement, including that the project have a connection to the underlying violations.