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Environmental Protection: EPA's and States' Efforts to Focus State Enforcement Programs on Results

T-RCED-98-233 Published: Jun 23, 1998. Publicly Released: Jun 23, 1998.
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GAO discussed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) and states' efforts to focus state environmental enforcement programs on results, focusing on: (1) what alternative compliance strategies states are practicing; (2) whether and how states are measuring the effectiveness of these strategies; and (3) how EPA has responded to these states' efforts.

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