This program, that includes officials from EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics and its Office of Civil Enforcement, provides an opportunity to present proposals to EPA for their consideration, deliberation and response at an appropriate time. The program provides a forum for an open discussion of ways that EPA and state governments might clarify the Rule, simplify how EPA, HUD and OSHA protocols are simultaneously taught to renovators and enforced, and strengthen implementation, promotion and enforcement of the Rule to increase compliance and level the playing field for law-abiding renovation firms.

The program will also examine ways for EPA to more effectively support state adaptations of the Rule, to overcome obstacles states have encountered and opportunities represented by the Rule.