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<br />Centers line and fax back assistance services in the following sectors heavily populated with <br />small businesses: <br />"~ Metal Finishing (www.nmfrc.org) <br />"~ Printing (1-888-USPNEAC or www.pneac.org) <br />"°; Automotive (1-888-GRN-LINK or www.ccaz-grcenlink.org) <br />10w Agriculture (1-888-633-2155 or www.epa.gov/oeca/ag) <br />"'y Printed Wiring Board Manufacturing (www.pwbrc.org) <br />°~ The Chemical Industry (Contact: Emily Chow 202-564-7071) <br />"a The Transportation Industry (http:!/www.epa.gov/oeca/tcac/tcac.html) <br />"~ The Paints and Coatings Center (Contact: Scott Throwe 202-564-7013) <br />"'~ Local Governments (Contact: John Dombrowski, 202-564-7036) <br />State Many state agencies have established compliance assistance programs that provide <br />Agencies on- site as well as other types of assistance. Please contact your local state <br />environmental agency for more information. EPA's Small Business Ombudsman <br />can provide you with State Agency contacts by calling (800)-368-5888. <br />Compliance EPA's Small Business Policy and Small Communities Policy aze intended to <br />Incentive promote environmental compliance among small businesses by providing incentives <br />Policies such as penalty waivers and reductions for participation in compliance assistance <br />programs, and encouraging voluntary disclosure and prompt correction of <br />violations. These policies can not be applied to an enforcement action such as this <br />one that has already been initiated, but are noted for future reference. Contact <br />Karin Leff (202-564-7068) for information on the Small Business Policy and Ken <br />Harmon (202-564-7049) for information on the Small Communities Policy. <br />>n order to improve your understanding of and compliance with envvonmental regulations and avoid the <br />need for future enforcement actions, we encourage you to take advantage of these tools, However, please <br />note that any decision to seek compliance assistance at this time does not relieve you of your obligation <br />to answer EPA's administrative complaint in a timely manner, does not create any new rights or <br />defenses, and will not affect EPA's decision to pursue this enforcement action. <br />The Small Business and Agriculture Regulatory Enforcement Ombudsman and ten Regional Fairness <br />Boards were established to receive comments from small businesses about federal agency enforcement <br />actions. The Ombudsman will annually rate each agency's responsiveness to small businesses. If you <br />believe that you fall within the Small Business Administration's definition of a small business (based on <br />your SIC designatioq number of employees or annual receipts) and wish to comment on federal enforcement <br />and compliance activities, call 1-888-REG-FAIR (1-888-734-3247). However, participation in this <br />program does not relieve you of your obligation to respond to an EPA request, administrative or civil <br />complaint or other enforcement action in a timely manner nor create any new rights or defenses under <br />law. In order to preserve your legal rights, you mus[ comply with all rules governing the administrative <br />enforcement process The ombudsman and fairness boards do not participate in the resolution of <br />EPA's enforcement adios. <br />