States Should Be Front Line of Enforcement, EPA Official Says

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The Environmental Protection Agency will look to the states as the first line of environmental enforcement as part of Washington's cooperative federalism approach, a senior environment official said. "There will still be EPA oversight and compliance assistance, but where the states are valuable partners in environmental protection and are capable of solving a problem, EPA ought to get out of their way," Patrick Traylor, the deputy assistant administrator for enforcement, said Aug. 4 at the 29th Texas Environmental Su-perconference.