{"id":"AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-003","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States Environmental Protection Agency (nationwide)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS","eco":"","issuer":"Susan Parker Bodine, Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assurance","authority":"EPA enforcement discretion under the environmental statutes it administers","instrument":"Memorandum, \u0027COVID-19 Implications for EPA\u0027s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Program\u0027 (temporary policy)","title":"COVID-19 Implications for EPA\u0027s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Program","dateIssued":"2020-03-26","effective":"Retroactive to 2020-03-13","end":"2020-08-31 (termination announced by addendum of June 29, 2020; see 004)","startDate":"2020-03-13","endDate":"2020-08-31","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["EMP","OTHER"],"addressees":["All Governmental and Private Sector Partners","regulated entities","authorized States and tribes"],"clause":"This policy will apply retroactively beginning on March 13, 2020.... The EPA will exercise the enforcement discretion specified below for noncompliance covered by this temporary policy that results from the COVID-19 pandemic, if regulated entities take the steps applicable to their situations... EPA does not expect to seek penalties for violations of routine compliance monitoring, integrity testing, sampling, laboratory analysis, training, and reporting or certification obligations in situations where the EPA agrees that COVID-19 was the cause of the noncompliance and the entity provides supporting documentation to the EPA upon request.","enforcement":"Conditions of the policy: entities must \u0027act responsibly under the circumstances in order to minimize the effects and duration of any noncompliance\u0027, identify the nature and dates of noncompliance, identify how COVID-19 was the cause, return to compliance as soon as possible and document all of the above; \u0027The enforcement discretion described in this temporary policy do not apply to any criminal violations\u0027","functions":["OF compliance administration (monitoring, sampling, laboratory analysis, training, reporting)","PF production floor at permitted facilities","SC laboratories and sampling contractors","WF workforce (training and certification obligations)"],"notes":"The federal regulator\u0027s own record that COVID-19 orders prevented permitted facilities (manufacturers, utilities, agriculture, laboratories) from performing routine compliance obligations from March 13, 2020; the policy conditions relief on documentation of the order-caused noncompliance.","sourceUrl":"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-03/documents/oecamemooncovid19implications.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200401id_/https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-03/documents/oecamemooncovid19implications.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":336070,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS","url":"/library/AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-003","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-003","citation":"Susan Parker Bodine, Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, Memorandum, \u0027COVID-19 Implications for EPA\u0027s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Program\u0027 (temporary policy) (Mar. 26, 2020) (Ex. AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-003)","stateName":"","related":[]}