42 U.S.C. § 13103 — EPA activities

(a) Authorities — The Administrator must set up an office within the Agency to carry out this chapter's duties. This office must stay independent from the Agency's single-medium program offices, but it can review those offices' work and advise them on taking a multi-media approach to source reduction. The Administrator picks which Agency officer leads this office. (b) Functions — The Administrator must create and carry out a strategy to promote source reduction. As part of that strategy, the Administrator must: (1) set standard ways to measure source reduction; (2) make sure the Agency considers how its programs affect source reduction, and review Agency regulations both before and after they are proposed, to see their effect on source reduction; (3) coordinate source reduction work across Agency offices, coordinate with other federal agencies to promote source reduction there too, and support broad research and development on source reduction techniques and processes; (4) find better ways to coordinate, streamline, and give the public access to data collected under federal environmental laws; (5) help businesses adopt source reduction techniques — using the Source Reduction Clearinghouse and state matching grants under this chapter to share information, spread it to businesses, and give businesses technical help, while also considering what different businesses can actually use; (6) identify measurable goals that fit this chapter's purpose, along with the tasks, deadlines, resources, and responsibilities needed to reach them, and how progress will be measured; (8) set up an advisory panel of technical experts — from industry, the states, and public interest groups — to advise the Administrator on improving how data is collected and shared; (9) create a training program on source reduction, including workshops and guidance documents, for state and federal officials who issue permits, enforce rules, or inspect facilities; (10) identify barriers to source reduction and recommend to Congress how to remove them, including through incentives and disincentives; (11) find ways to use federal purchasing power to encourage source reduction; (12) develop, test, and share model auditing procedures that highlight source reduction opportunities; and (13) create an annual award program to recognize companies with outstanding or innovative source reduction programs. (The source text's numbering skips from (6) to (8); that gap is in the statute itself.)