Compliance and enforcement laws and regulations are the tools that EPA uses to ensure that governments, businesses and industry understand and follow our nation's environmental laws and regulations. Compliance helps organizations or individuals meet their obligations under environmental laws and regulations. Read about lead enforcement.

EPA uses various methods to achieve compliance:

• Compliance assistance provides resources and training and tools to help businesses, federal facilities, local governments and tribes meet their environmental requirements.
• Compliance incentives and auditing encourages the regulated community to assess its regulatory obligations and self-disclose non-compliance. Voluntary self-disclosure and prompt correction of environmental violations can reduce or eliminate certain penalties.
• Compliance monitoring ensures that the regulated community follows environmental laws and regulations through on-site visits by qualified inspectors and by reviewing the information EPA or a state/tribe requires to be submitted.

View compliance information for:

Lead in Paint, Dust and Soil

• Compliance with New Federal Lead-Based Paint Requirements (PDF)  (4 pp, 119K, About PDF)
• Responsibilities of property managers, landlords, real estate agents and homesellers to disclose information about lead-based paint.
• Lead-Based Paint Hazards (Abatement)
• Construction Industry Compliance Assistance Center Exit

Lead in Water

• Lead and Copper Rule, Compliance Help
• Laboratories and Monitoring
• National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Compliance Monitoring
• Discharge Monitoring Report-Quality Assurance Study Program

Lead in Air

• National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPS) Compliance Monitoring
• State Implementation Plan (SIP) Toolkit: Compliance and Enforcement
• Air Mobile Sources Program - Compliance Monitoring
• Lead Monitoring under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)

Lead Waste

• Superfund
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Compliance Assistance
• Brownfields and Land Revitalization
• Hazardous Waste Compliance Monitoring for Hazardous Waste Facilities
• Importing and Exporting Hazardous Waste
• Best Management Practices for Lead at Outdoor Shooting Ranges
• Managing Your Environmental Responsibilities: A Planning Guide for Construction and Development (255 pp, 2386K, About PDF)
• Construction Industry Compliance Assistance Center Exit