Footnotes:
1. An inspection is performed on-site at a regulated facility or activity; off-site compliance monitoring (OfCM) activities are performed off-site typically at an office. Beginning in FY 2021, the Office of Compliance required all manually reported SDWA UIC activities to be appropriately reported as either inspections or OfCM in ICIS.
2. Prior to FY 2020, OECA used a different methodology to determine which OfCM activities would be reported in Annual Results and did not collect data on all OfCM activities conducted.

Footnotes:
1. An inspection is performed on-site at a regulated facility or activity.

Footnotes:
1. An inspection is determined to have been performed in areas of potential environmental justice concern either based on the EJScreen value or on the results of a more detailed manual review performed.
2. Starting April 2023, OECA switched to using the EJScreen supplemental demographic index, which is based on the average of 5 socioeconomic and health indicators (% low income, % limited English speaking, % less than high school education, % person with disabilities, and low life expectancy).
3. “EJ Not Applicable” are exempt because there is no specific locational impact data (e.g. imports).
4. “EJ Score Not Available” are missing facility information.

Footnotes:
1. Conclusions include the number of administrative and judicial enforcement actions concluded, as well as CERCLA cases.

Footnotes:
1. EPA relies on EJScreen or on the results of a more detailed manual review performed to determine if a case addressed facilities in an area of potential environmental justice concern.
2. The green bar indicates the case addressed at least one facility in an area of potential environmental justice concern. “EJ Not Applicable” are exempt because there is no specific locational impact data (e.g., imports).
3. Starting April 2023, OECA switched to using the EJScreen supplemental demographic index, which is based on the average of 5 socioeconomic and health indicators (% low income, % limited English speaking, % less than high school education, % person with disabilities, and low life expectancy).
4. EPA is reporting results for cases initiated since FY 2015, since we did not routinely collect information on areas of potential environmental justice concerns prior to FY 2015. Therefore, the number of conclusions on this bar chart overall are slightly lower than the number on the Total Civil Enforcement Case Conclusions chart because this chart does not include cases initiated prior to FY 2015.

Footnotes:
1. The rate of inflation/deflation is determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.
2. Dollar figures referenced in the bullets are not adjusted to reflect inflation/deflation.

Footnotes:
1. EPA is reporting results for cases initiated since FY 2015, since we did not routinely collect information on areas of potential environmental justice concern prior to FY 2015, that addressed at least one facility in an area of potential environmental justice concern. EPA relies on EJScreen or on the results of a more detailed manual review performed to determine if a case addressed facilities in areas of potential environmental justice concern.
2. Starting April 2023, OECA switched to using the EJScreen supplemental demographic index, which is based on the average of 5 socioeconomic and health indicators (% low income, % limited English speaking, % less than high school education, % person with disabilities, and low life expectancy).
3. For multi-facility cases where only some facilities are in an area of potential environmental justice concern, the penalty assessed amount is adjusted for the percentage of the facilities in areas of potential environmental justice concern.
4. The rate of inflation/deflation is determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.

Footnotes:
1. “Injunctive relief” refers to actions mandated by an enforcement action that a regulated entity must perform, or refrain from performing, to bring that entity into compliance with environmental laws.
2. The rate of inflation/deflation is determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.

Footnotes:
1. EPA is reporting results for cases initiated since FY 2015, since we did not routinely collect information on areas of potential environmental justice concerns prior to FY 2015, that addressed at least one facility in an area of potential environmental justice concern. EPA relies on EJScreen or on the results of a more detailed manual review performed to determine if a case addressed facilities in an area of potential environmental justice concern.
2. Starting April 2023, OECA switched to using the EJScreen supplemental demographic index, which is based on the average of 5 socioeconomic and health indicators (% low income, % limited English speaking, % less than high school education, % person with disabilities, and low life expectancy).
3. For multi-facility cases where only some facilities are in an area of potential environmental justice concern, the Cost of Complying Actions is adjusted for the percentage of the facilities in an area of potential environmental justice concern.
4. “Injunctive relief” refers to actions mandated by an enforcement action that a regulated entity must perform, or refrain from performing, to bring that entity into compliance with environmental laws.
5. The rate of inflation/deflation is determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.

Footnotes:
1. EPA is reporting results for cases initiated since FY 2015, since we did not routinely collect information on areas of potential environmental justice concern prior to FY 2015, that addressed at least one facility in an area of potential environmental justice concern. EPA relies on EJScreen or on the results of a more detailed manual review performed to determine if a case addressed facilities in an area of potential environmental justice concern.
2. Starting April 2023, OECA switched to using the EJScreen supplemental demographic index, which is based on the average of 5 socioeconomic and health indicators (% low income, % limited English speaking, % less than high school education, % person with disabilities, and low life expectancy).
3. For multi-facility cases where only some facilities are in an area of potential environmental justice concern, the pounds reduced amount is adjusted for the percentage of the facilities in an area of potential environmental justice concern. We expect additional facilities addressed by two FY 2024 judicial consent decrees will be linked to the enforcement actions in our database resulting in a possible slight change in the total amount of environmental benefits attributed to areas of potential environmental justice concern.

Footnotes:
1. Starting in FY 2016, EPA combined reductions in hazardous waste and non-hazardous waste into one measure. Totals for FY 2013 – 2015 are for hazardous waste reductions only.

Footnotes:
1. Starting in FY 2018, the Agency is reporting contaminated soil and water cleanup from all cases, not just from CERCLA and RCRA Corrective Action cases as in past years.
2. The VCMA is reported the year in which the enforcement action that initially required the cleanup is issued or entered. If a unilateral administrative order (UAO) is followed by a judicial consent decree that requires the same cleanup (i.e., the respondent did not comply with the UAO), the same VCMA is not counted again.

Footnotes:
1. A single settlement can have multiple SEPs.
2. The rate of inflation/deflation is determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.

Footnotes:
1. The number of enforcement instruments completed in FY 2023 are higher because 49 low-value Administrative Order-on-Consent (AOCs) agreements were negotiated at one site in Region 4 with a contentious PRP group.

Footnotes:
1. Totals include “allowed claims” under bankruptcy settlements.
2. All prior FY dollar figures in the graph are adjusted to reflect the current value in FY2024 dollars based on the monthly rate of inflation/deflation as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.

Footnotes:
1. Totals include dollar committed for site Investigations, site cleanups and cost recovered from EPA cleanup work. Oversight is not included. Therefore, these environmental justice totals are slightly lower.
2. Totals include "allowed claims" under bankruptcy settlements.
3. All prior FY dollar figures in the graph are adjusted to reflect the current value in FY2024 dollars based on the monthly rate of inflation/deflation as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.

Footnotes:
1. In FY 2020, the criminal program began using a new criminal case reporting system which also tracks outcomes. The system captured additional home detention - FY 2020 = 4 years; FY 2021= 6 years; FY 2022 = 4 years; FY 2023 = 2.3 years and FY 2024 = 4.7 years.

Footnotes:
1. All prior FY dollar figures in the graph are adjusted to reflect the current value in FY 2024 dollars based on the rate of inflation/deflation as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.