Draft EPA FY20 Guidance Floats Plans For New Water, Enforcement Metrics

Draft EPA guidance for implementing its pending fiscal year 2020 budget includes plans from the enforcement and water offices to craft and track an array of new compliance metrics they say will provide more details on the extent of environmental violations and other factors, which will lead to more-specific policy goals for core agency programs. The draft national program managers’ (NPM) guides for FY20-21 quietly posted to EPA’s website earlier this month include the Office of Enforcement & Compliance Assistance’s...