The National Enforcement Investigations 

Center (NEIC) of EPA’s Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training is an environmental forensic center accredited for environmental data measurement activities. NEIC fulfills a unique role in conducting complex criminal and civil enforcement investigations and applied research and development to support science for enforcement. The demands of specific environmental enforcement cases require non-standard, complex methodologies and their application. In response to these needs, NEIC conducts and develops the needed methodologies and innovative investigative strategies. 

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Phone: 303-462-9000 Fax: 303-462-9019 National Enforcement Investigations Center Denver Federal Center, Building 25 P.O. Box 25227 Denver, CO 80225 U n i t e d S t a t e s E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t i o n A g e n c y 

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Field Science 

NEIC’s multi-disciplined teams of experts conduct field investigations to gather information from specific sites for use in environmental investigations, litigation and enforcement activities, including: • Site documentation 

— obtaining field datato enable accurate reconstruction of sampling locations, industrial site processes and other site conditions. 

• Data collection of data/samples to be used as 

evidence in environmental enforcement investigations and activities. 

• Screening techniques that provide immediate 

real-time information and other physical samples of pollutants and process waste streams. 

Information Technology NEIC uses advanced information and computer technologies to assess, organize, and analyze information in orderto prepare for investigations, settlements, negotiations, and trials. Major activities in the Information Technology areainclude the NEIC Environmental Forensics Library and Electronic Data Analysis Teams which focus on laboratory fraud. 

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Center Activities NEIC is engaged in numerous efforts with our enforcement partners. These include: • Advising our enforcement partners on technical 

and regulatory issues that arise during case development, settlement negotiations, and litigation. 

• Sharing environmental enforcement information 

with visitors from foreign countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Japan, Korea, and the Netherlands. 

• Community outreach to students in public schools 

and colleges and universities to encourage careers inscience and engineering occupations.. 

• Applied research and development — As a result 

of its case support activities, NEIC frequently identifies the need to further examine related science or technology to provide feedback to regulators on the efficacy of field measurement or laboratory analysis procedures, to uncover source/receptor pollution relationships, and/or to advance the scientific or technical understanding of causes and effects. 

For more information about NEIC and its programs, go to www.epa.gov/compliance/neic