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Emergency Planning and Community
Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA)

Don't Waste Arizona, Inc. (DWA) serves as an umbrella organization for grassroots environmental issues, providing advice and expertise on complex environmental issues, helping citizens and groups with technical and procedural issues, organizing, press releases, strategy, helping gather research, and preparing testimony on permits and permit appeals issued under the Clean Air Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), and the Surface Mining Coal Reclamation Act. DWA also has been the plaintiff in a number of citizen suit enforcement actions in RCRA, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA), and CWA. DWA plans to start Clean Air Act enforcement in 1996.

DWA's EPCRA Enforcement Project, which has led to settlement with over fifty companies in the enforcement of EPCRA Sections 302, 311, 312, and 313. Forty more cases are pending. DWA is already number six in the nation for returning penalty money to EPA under citizen suit enforcement. For every dollar spent on EPA penalty money, another two dollars is spent on Supplemental Environmental Projects in the affected community reducing risks and pollution.

DWA's EPCRA ENFORCEMENT SETTLEMENTS TO DATE:

(1994-present)

Total money collected for Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEP), which are used to reduce pollution and/or risks in our community, or to raise EPCRA awareness: $541,790

Total Penalty Money Returned to EPA  $287,870

TOTAL PENALTY AND SEP MONEY  $829,660