Report On Epa Operator Training Programs

Small communities violate federal requirements for safe drinking water as much as three times more often than cities. Yet these communities often cannot afford to improve their water service. Safe Water From Every Tap reviews the risks of violating drinking water standards and discusses options for improving water service in small communities. Included are detailed reviews of a wide range of technologies appropriate for treating drinking water in small communities. The book also presents a variety of institutional options for improving the management efficiency and financial stability of water systems.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.

This report is intended to present an overview of the 104(g)(1) Wastewater Operator Training Program as it is currently being implemented throughout the country. All 104(g)(1) grantees and EPA regional coordinators were surveyed in April 1999 to collect data on: funding, program staffing, numbers of facilities assisted, types of assistance provided, referral sources, circumstances for delivery of assistance, factors limiting performance at plants, factors limiting the assistance program's success, reasons for and types of program successes. The survey responses and data from other program resources have been summarized and are presented in the Program Evaluation Report. Case studies are published in this evaluation to present vignettes of the program and the ways it works throughout the country.