The Compliance Plan aims to
- provide transparency for industry and the broader community about the EPA’s compliance activities
- raise the community’s environmental awareness
- encourage compliance among EPA licensees
- maintain and improve environmental outcomes associated with the activities the EPA regulates
Forestry compliance priorities
The forestry compliance priorities in the EPA’s Compliance Plan have been determined using
- available data and intelligence
- recent compliance findings
- issues important to the community
They provide an opportunity to focus EPA effort on resolving these issues.
Compliance work deriving from compliance priorities may include
- audits and inspections
- policy and legislative reform
- stakeholder engagement
- awareness raising
- voluntary action
- enforcement
Forestry compliance priorities are reviewed annually.