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trator for Solid Waste Management Programs, is responsible to the Assistant Administrator for the solid waste management activities of the Agency. The Office provides program policy direction to and evaluation of such activities throughout the Agency. It establishes research requirements for solid waste management programs. The Office reviews impact statements pertaining to solid wastes.

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Office of the Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and General Counsel.

The Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and General Counsel is the Agency's chief law officer and principal adviser to the Administrator in matters pertaining to the enforcement of standards for environmental quality. He is responsible for the conduct for enforcement activities on an agencywide basis. The Office of Water Enforcement and the Office of General Enforcement are responsible for the conduct of Agency activities for enforcement of environmental quality standards, including the gathering and preparation of evidential data and conduct of enforcement proceedings. The Office of General Counsel is responsible for providing legal services to the Agency.

(a) Office of General Counsel. The Office of General Counsel, under the supervision of the Deputy General Counsel, is responsible to the Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and General Counsel for providing legal services to all organizational elements of the Agency with respect to the programs and activities of the Agency; providing legal opinions and legal counsel; assisting in the formulation and administration of the Agency's policies and programs as legal adviser; and supervision of the functions of the offices of regional counsel.

(b) Office of General Enforcement. The Office of General Enforcement, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for General Enforcement, provides program policy direction to Agency enforcement activities in the air, noise, radiation, pesticides, and solid waste program areas.

(c) Office of Water Enforcement. The Office of Water Enforcement, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water Enforcement, provides program policy direction to the water and water hygiene enforcement

activities of the Agency, including direct supervision of those enforcement activities reporting directly to the Office of Water Enforcement and technical program direction to the regional water enforcement activities. The Office also develops Agencywide objectives and programs for water enforcement activities including the development of procedures, regulatory material, guidelines, criteria, and policy statements designed to bring about actions by individuals, private enterprise, and governmental bodies to improve the quality of the water.

§ 1.33

Office of the Assistant Administrator for Planning and Management. The Assistant Administrator for Planning and Management is responsible on an agencywide basis for planning overall program activities; managing the Agency's resources; developing and conducting a comprehensive audit program; developing and conducting administrative programs and systems; and representing the Administrator in dealings with other Federal agencies in areas of Government fiscal, management, and administrative activities. The functions and activities of the Office of the Assistant Administrator are performed by Deputy Assistant Administrators for Administration, Planning and Evaluation, Resources Management, and a Director, Office of Audit.

(a) Office of Administration. The Office of Administration, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Administration, is responsible for development and conduct of programs for organization and management systems, control, and services; personnel policies, procedures, and operations; personnel, physical, and document security and inspections; emergency preparedness and disaster coordination functions; management information systems, automatic data processing management and operations; facilities and space management; Agency safety program; contracting and procurement services; grants policies and procedures; general administrative and support services; and other areas of administrative management, including records management, committee management, directives systems, and an Agency library system.

(b) Office of Planning and Evaluation. The Office of Planning and Evaluation, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Planning

and Evaluation, is responsible for development and conduct of programs for long-range and strategic planning; compiling reports to the Congress and the President on Agency programs and activities; systems analysis of Agency program activities, including the development, initiation, and monitoring of new and redirected Agency programs and goals; coordinating the Agency's environmental standards and regulations development process; economic and industrial analysis of the impact of abatement regulations and programs on firms, industries, and functional and geographic sectors; policy coordination, including analytic input to the budgetary, legislative, and policy development processes; program progress measurement; and planning, policy direction, needs assessment, program review, and evaluation of Agency manpower development programs.

(c) Office of Resources Management. The Office of Resources Management, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Resources Management, is responsible for resources management, including developing and administering a program-planningbudgeting system in accordance with Office of Management and Budget directives; budget formulation, preparation, and execution, including funding allotments and allocations; and financial management and services, including developing and maintaining accounting systems, fiscal controls, and systems for payroll and disbursements.

(d) Office of Audit. The Office of Audit, under the supervision of a Director, is responsible for development and conduct of a comprehensive audit program for the Agency, including the conduct of internal and external audits of Agency programs and the provision of an independent appraisal for the Administrator and other Agency officials of the program, financial, and administrative operations of the Agency.

§ 1.35 Office of the Assistant Adminis

trator for Research and Monitoring. The Assistant Administrator for Research and Monitoring is the principal science adviser to the Administrator. He is responsible for the development, direction, and conduct of a national research program in pollution control technology. The Assistant Administrator for

Research and Monitoring provides direct supervision to the activities of Agency laboratories engaged in national or basic research. Technical policy direction to those Agency laboratories engaged in operations in support of the responsibilities of the Agency Regional Administrators is provided from this office. The Assistant Administrator for Research and Monitoring has the planning responsibility for Agency environmental quality monitoring programs and for selected demonstration programs. The functions and activities of the Office of the Assistant Administrator for Research and Monitoring are performed by Deputy Assistant Administrators for Monitoring, Program Operations, and Research.

(a) Office of Monitoring. The Office of Monitoring, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Monitoring, is responsible for planning, developing, coordinating, and evaluating Agency environmental quality monitoring programs to provide effective support to the Agency's regulatory responsibilities and other program operations and activities. The Office coordinates Agency monitoring efforts with those of Federal agencies, the States, and other public bodies. It devises an overall monitoring strategy to assure the existence of an effective Agency monitoring capability and assures timely incorporation of newly developed monitoring techniques and equipment into monitoring networks. The Office establishes baselines in order that environmental trends may be determined and standards for compliance established. It analyzes and presents monitoring data in an effective manner for use by Agency officials.

(b) Office of Program Operations. The Office of Program Operations, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Program Operations, is responsible for the internal programing operations of the Office of the Assistant Administrator. The Office develops, implements, and coordinates the Agency laboratory operations program, in fulfillment of research requirements established by the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Research, the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Monitoring, other Assistant Administrators, and the Regional Administrators. The Office provides management assistance to and surveillance of the national environmental research centers and field research

laboratories. It manages the research information program of the Office. It provides operating control of the research grants review program.

(c) Office of Research. The Office of Research, under the supervision of the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Research, is responsible for planning, developing, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating a comprehensive Agency research program, utilizing both internal and extramural capabilities, to serve as a basis for achieving maximum effectiveness in environmental protection and to provide a sound scientific basis for the Agency's program operations. The Office assures that research goals and relative priorities are appropriately identified and pursued. The Office establishes specific research requirements for the overall in-house, grant, and contract programs responsive to the needs of Agency operating programs and activities. It provides technical direction of Agency laboratory staffs in their conduct of research projects. It assists the program operating offices in assuring that research results are translated into operational solutions to environmental problems. The Office coordinates the Agency research program with environmental research programs of other governmental agencies, industry, universities, and other private and public institutions, and provides for international research programs and coordination.

Subpart C-EPA Field Installations § 1.41 Regional offices.

Regional offices are headed by Regional Administrators who are responsible to the Administrator for the execution of the regional programs of the Agency within the boundaries of their regions. The Regional Administrators serve as the Administrator's principal representatives in the regions in contacts and relationships with Federal, State, interstate and local agencies, industry, academic institutions, and other public and private groups. They are responsible for accomplishing national program obJectives within their regions as established by the Administrator, Deputy Administrator, Assistant Administrators, and heads of Headquarters staff offices. They develop, propose, and implement an approved regional program for comprehensive and integrated environmental protection activities.

§ 1.43 National Environmental Research Centers and the Western Environmental Rescarch Laboratory.

National Environmental Research Centers and their "satellite" laboratories and the Western Environmental Research Laboratories are under the supervision of the Assistant Administrator for Research and Monitoring. These installations and their primary areas of responsibilities are as follows:

(a) National Environmental Research Center-Research Triangle Park, N.C. (health effects research);

(b) National Environmental Research Center-Cincinnati, Ohio (pollution control technology and engineering research);

(c) National Environmental Research Center-Corvallis, Oreg. (ecological systems research); and

(d) The Western Envronmental Research Laboratory at Las Vegas, Nev. (radiation effects research).

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For the purposes of this part:

(a) "EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

(b) "Request" means a request for the release of records under 5 U.S.C. 552.

(c) "Requestor" means any person who has submitted a request to EPA. § 2.101 Policy on disclosure of EPA records.

(a) EPA will make the fullest possible disclosure of records to the public, consistent with the rights of individuals to privacy, the rights of persons in trade secrets and other information entitled to confidential treatment, and the need for EPA to promote frank internal policy deliberations and to pursue its official activities without undue disruption.

(b) All EPA records shall be available to the public unless they are specifically exempt under this part.

(c) All nonexempt records of EPA shall be made available for public disclosure upon request regardless of whether any justification or need for such records has been shown.

§ 2.102

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Partial disclosure of records. If a record contains both disclosable and nondisclosable information, the nondisclosable information will be deleted and the disclosable information will be disclosed unless the disclosable portions cannot be reasonably segregated from the other portions in a manner which will allow meaningful information to be disclosed.

§ 2.104 Request for existing records.

(a) Any written request to EPA for existing records shall be deemed to be a request for records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552, whether or not that statute is mentioned in the request, and shall be governed by the provisions of this part.

(b) All existing EPA records are subject to routine destruction according to standard record retention schedules.

(c) Any written request to EPA for existing records prepared by EPA for routine public distribution, e.g., pamphlets, copies of speeches, press releases, and educational materials, shall be honored. No individual determination under § 2.111 is necessary in such cases, since preparation of the records for

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§2.107 Where requests for agency records shall be filed.

A request for records may be filed with the EPA Freedom of Information Officer, A-101, 401 M Street, SW., Washington, D.C. 20460. Should the requestor have reason to believe that the records sought may be located in EPA regional offices, he should transmit his request to the appropriate regional Freedom of Information Office indicated below:

(a) Region 1. (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont):

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Freedom of Information Officer

Room 2303

John F. Kennedy Federal Building
Boston, Mass. 02203

(b) Region II. (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands):

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Freedom of Information Officer

Room 1005

26 Federal Plaza

New York, NY 10007

(c) Region III. (Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia):

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Freedom of Information Officer
Curtis Building

Sixth and Walnut Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19106

(d) Region IV. (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee): U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Freedom of Information Officer

Suite 504

1421 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309

(e) Region V. (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin): U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Freedom of Information Officer

230 Dearborn Street Chicago, IL 60604

(f) Region VI. (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas):

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Freedom of Information Officer

Suite 1100

1600 Patterson Street

Dallas, TX 75201

(g) Region VII. (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska):

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Freedom of Information Officer

1735 Baltimore Avenue

Kansas City, MO 64108

(h) Region VIII. (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming):

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Freedom of Information Officer
Suite 900

1860 Lincoln Street Denver, CO 80203

(i) Region IX. (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Guam, Trust Territories of Pacific Islands, Wake Island):

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Freedom of Information Officer

100 California Street

San Francisco, CA 94111

(j) Region X. (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington):

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Freedom of Information Officer
1200 Sixth Avenue

Seattle, WA 98101

§ 2.108 Form of request.

A request for EPA records shall be in writing, shall reasonably describe the records sought in a way that will permit their identification and location by EPA, but otherwise need not be in any particular form. Where the requestor anticipates that search and duplication fees involved in the request might be substantial, he may wish to consider a prepayment, or include a commitment to pay all fees that may be involved or all fees up to a stated limit (see § 2.120). Placing the term 'Freedom of Information Act Request" on the envelope and letter may well result in a speedier response. § 2.109 Requests which do not reasonably describe records sought.

(a) If the description of the records sought in the request is not a reasonable

description sufficient to allow EPA to identify and locate the requested records, EPA will notify the requestor (by telephone when practicable) that the request cannot be further processed until additional information is furnished.

(b) EPA will make every reasonable effort to assist in the identification and description of records sought, and to assist the requestor in formulating his request. If a request is described in general terms (e.g., all records having to do with a certain area), the EPA office should attempt to communicate with the requestor (by telephone when practicable) with a view toward lessening both the administrative burden of processing a broad request and minimizing the fees payable by the requestor. Such attempts will not be used as a means to discourage requests, but rather as a means to help identify with more specificity the records actually sought.

§ 2.110 Initial action upon receipt of a

request.

(a) Requests received by the Freedom of Information Offices. Each request received by a Freedom of Information Office, whether at EPA Headquarters or at an EPA region, shall be promptly stamped with the date of receipt by that office and assigned a Request Identification Number. The Freedom of Information Office shall promptly forward the request to the EPA office (s) believed to be responsible for maintaining the requested records, retaining a copy of the request. If a request is received by a Freedom of Information Office at an EPA region and the requested records (or some of them) are not maintained by that EPA region, the regional Freedom of Information Office shall promptly furnish a copy of the request to the Headquarters Freedom of Information Office.

(b) Requests received by EPA offices other than Freedom of Information Offices. If any request is received by any EPA office other than a Freedom of Information Office, a copy of the request shall be forwarded immediately to the Headquarters Freedom of Information Office (or, if the receiving office is part of an EPA region, to the regional Freedom of Information Office).

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