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The data presented in these slides reflect all EPA enforcement actions and compliance monitoring, including Federal Facility Compliance Agreements and inspections. These data do not include state and local enforcement actions or compliance monitoring.
Known data issues related to Annual Results can be found at Identified Limitations with Analyzing Annual Result Data and Charts. In addition, see Known Data Problems for known problems in Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO).
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1. Starting in FY 2012, EPA changed the way it stores environmental benefit information in the ICIS data system. Therefore, data are not reported for fiscal years prior to FY 2012.
1. Starting in FY 2012, EPA changed the way it stores environmental benefit information in the ICIS data system. Therefore, data are not reported for fiscal years prior to FY 2012.
2. Starting in FY 2016, EPA combined reductions in hazardous waste and non-hazardous waste into one measure. Totals for FY 2012 – 2015 are for hazardous waste reductions only. Nonetheless, the vast majority of the reductions in all years are hazardous waste.
1. Starting in FY 2012, EPA changed the way it stores environmental benefit information in the ICIS data system. Therefore, data are not reported for fiscal years prior to FY 2012.
2. Starting in FY 2018, the Agency is reporting contaminated soil and water cleanup from all cases, not just from CERCLA and RCRA Corrective Action cases as in past years. CERCLA cases (both private and federal facility) account for more than 99% of the FY 2020 total.
3. The VCMA is reported the year in which the enforcement action that initially required the cleanup is issued or entered. If a unilateral administrative order (UAO) is followed by a judicial consent decree that requires the same cleanup (i.e., the respondent did not comply with the UAO), the same VCMA is not counted again.
1. All prior FY dollar figures in the graph are adjusted to reflect the current value in FY 2020 dollars based on the monthly rate of inflation/deflation as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.
2. Dollar figures referenced in the bullets are not adjusted to reflect inflation/deflation.
1. The term “Injunctive relief” refers to actions mandated by an enforcement action that a regulated entity must perform, or refrain from performing, to bring that entity into compliance with environmental laws. The chart shows the estimated cost of all such mandated actions resulting from enforcement case conclusions in that fiscal year.
2. All prior FY dollar figures in the graph are adjusted to reflect the current value in FY 2020 dollars based on the monthly rate of inflation/deflation as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.
3. Dollar figures referenced in the bullets are not adjusted to reflect inflation/deflation.
1. Totals include “allowed claims” under bankruptcy settlements.
2. All prior FY dollar figures in the graph are adjusted to reflect the current value in FY 2020 dollars based on the monthly rate of inflation/deflation as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.
1. All prior FY dollar figures in the graph are adjusted to reflect the current value in FY 2020 dollars based on the monthly rate of inflation/deflation as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.
2. Dollar figures referenced in the bullets are not adjusted to reflect inflation/deflation.
1. The COVID-19 pandemic delayed the judicial process in some criminal investigations in FY 2020 as many U.S. District Courts temporarily closed their buildings to in-person court operations such as grand juries and trials.
2. In FY 2020, the criminal program began using a new criminal case reporting system which also tracks outcomes. As an example of new outcomes captured, in addition to 44 years of incarceration, criminal defendants will also serve 4 years of home detention.
1. An inspection is a compliance monitoring activity performed on-site at a regulated facility; OfCM activities are not performed on-site. Manually-reported SDWA UIC activities can include both on or off-site activities. Therefore, those UIC activities are listed separately.
2. Prior to FY 2020, OECA used a different methodology for deciding which off-site compliance monitoring activities would be reported in its Annual Results and did not collect data on all off-site compliance monitoring activities conducted. The totals for FY 2019 and earlier years reflect the prior methodology. Use caution when comparing FY 2020 results to prior years.
1. Totals include CERCLA Initiations and Conclusions.
1. A single settlement can have multiple SEPs.
2. All prior FY dollar figures in the graph are adjusted to reflect the current value in FY 2020 dollars based on the monthly rate of inflation/deflation as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.