§13103 Epa Activities

Summary

The Administrator must set up an office inside the Agency to lead efforts to reduce pollution and waste at the source. The office will be separate from the Agency’s single-medium program offices but can review and advise them. It will be led by an agency official picked by the Administrator. The office must create and run a strategy to cut pollution before it starts. That includes making standard ways to measure progress; checking how Agency programs and rules affect source reduction; coordinating work inside the Agency and with other federal offices; improving public access to environmental data; helping businesses learn and use reduction methods through a clearinghouse, grants, information sharing, and technical help; setting measurable goals, tasks, deadlines, and responsibilities; forming an expert advisory panel; training permit and inspection staff; recommending ways for Congress to remove barriers; using federal buying to encourage reduction; developing model audit procedures; and giving an annual award to companies with strong or creative source-reduction programs.