Compliance Monitoring and Targeted Enforcement of Asbestos

The EPA will follow-up on tips and complaints from the public and determine the appropriate federal response. Also, EPA has identified compliance monitoring activities for the largest local education agencies (LEAs), charter schools, schools that had settlement agreements, and school districts identified for environmental justice or children’s health concerns. The Agency will evaluate these sectors and determine if these or other educational sectors should be targeted for compliance monitoring. EPA will inspect and enforce the asbestos in schools regulations under AHERA, and inspect and enforce the asbestos NESHAP in institutional, commercial, public and industrial buildings and structures under the Clean Air Act. The Agency will focus on cases that provide the most risk reduction.

Courtesy of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency