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Ecology Services

Enforcement

The Department of Ecology seeks to assure compliance with environmental laws. Ecology's enforcement policy stresses the importance of providing the regulated community an opportunity to voluntarily comply with environmental laws. When voluntary compliance is not achieved, Ecology pursues enforcement.

For more information about enforcement actions to protect air, land and water, see Ecology's 2007 Enforcement Report. This report contains an overview of Ecology's enforcement program and trends in notices, orders and penalties from 1985 through 2007.

Summaries of Ecology's enforcement actions for selected time periods are provided below.  (Note: Local air authorities, county health departments and other governmental bodies also have environmental enforcement authority.)

Penalty Summaries

(Information for Fiscal Years 1994-1998 is not available at this time.)

Fiscal Year 1993 (July 1992 - June 1993) Enforcement Report

Fiscal Year 1992 (July 1991 - June 1992) Enforcement Report

Fiscal Year 1991 (July 1990 - June 1991) Enforcement Report


Innovative Settlements

2007 Enforcement Report

Water Pollution Tickets
(2008)

Focus on Enforcement for Hanford's Cleanup
(2008)

Enforcing the Shoreline Management Act
(1998)

Spills Enforcement
(2004)

Water Quality Enforcement Review
(1999)

Water Quality Inspection Manual
(1992)

Water Resources Compliance and Enforcement
(2008)

Focus on Water Use Compliance (Columbia River Basin)
(2008)

USEPA Compliance and Enforcement (external link)