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Sectors
List of Sectors || What
does "sector" mean? || Sector-Based
Tools
List of Sectors
EPA has produced sector-based compliance assistance materials on
the following sectors:
What does the term "sector" mean?
A sector is a distinct part of the economy that shares:
- Similar operations, processes, or practices,
- Similar environmental problems and impacts,
- Similar compliance issues, and either distributes goods or
performs services.
EPA often provides compliance assistance on a sector-by-sector
basis in order to efficiently reach facilities with similar operations,
processes, or practices. To reach members of a sector, EPA works
with sector leaders and organizations, and uses communication
channels shared within each sector. Sectors can be broadly defined
construction, manufacturing, agriculture, or government
or more narrowly defined residential construction,
automobile assembly, poultry production or drinking water supply.
Historically EPA has used the Standard Industrial Codes (SIC)
to categorize and maintain data on sectors. These codes are useful
when searching EPA data systems. EPA is now in the process of
converting to the more recent North American Industry Classification
System.
Sector-Based Compliance Assistance Tools:
Compliance
Assistance Centers
provide comprehensive, easy to understand compliance information
targeted to specific industry and government sectors.
Sector
Notebooks are plain language booklets that describe
environmental problems associated with major US industries.
Compliance
Assistance and Inspection Publications are also available
including guides, manuals, fact sheets, and brochures
that pertain to an individual sector or a specific regulation.
National
Compliance Assistance Clearinghouse links to public
and private compliance assistance materials. Users may
post documents and interact with assistance providers,
both within and outside of EPA. The Clearinghouse allows
users to search for relevant material on new and existing
regulations, pollution prevention opportunities, and voluntary
programs that were created by other parts of EPA, other
Federal Agencies,Tribes, States and Local Agencies, Industry,
and other organizations.
Materials by Statute allows
you to search for information according to environmental
law (e.g. Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act) or on a media
basis (air, land, surface water, groundwater) rather than
by sector. Keep in mind that regulations, that apply to
many sectors are listed according to environmental law
and are not listed according to sector.
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