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EPD Structure

The Air Protection Branch is responsible for protecting Georgia's air quality through the regulation of emissions from industrial and mobile sources. The Branch also monitors levels of air pollutants throughout the State.

The Land Protection Branch regulates facilities that generate, treat, store or dispose of hazardous wastes.  This Branch also regulates solid waste disposal and treatment, scrap tire cleanups, lead and asbestos abatement, underground storage tank registration and remediation, and surface mining permitting and reclamation.  This Branch administers the State Superfund, which is used for hazardous site cleanup work.

The Watershed Protection Branch manages water resources in Georgia through permits to local governments and industry to discharge treated wastewater and to local governments, industry, farmers and subdivisions for surface water and groundwater withdrawals.  The Branch ensures that Georgia's public water systems are operating properly to supply safe drinking water to citizens, works to control nonpoint sources of pollution, including erosion and sedimentation, and manages storm water discharges. This Branch also conducts water quality monitoring and modeling of Georgia's waterways.

Georgia EPD oversees the operation of seven district offices located around the state. EPD associates in these offices perform enforcement and compliance work on a variety of environmental issues, and field citizen complaints and questions.

See also: Mission and Vision

 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DIVISION

Judson H. Turner - Director

Jim Ussery - Assistant Director

EPD Laboratory Operations

Environmental Toxicology

AIR PROTECTION
Jac Capp - Branch Chief

LAND PROTECTION
Mark Smith - Branch Chief

Ambient Monitoring Program

  • Meteorological and Quality Assurance Unit
  • Monitoring Unit
  • Special Purpose Unit

Industrial Source Monitoring Program

  • Chemical & VOC Source Monitoring Unit
  • Combustion & Mineral Source Monitoring Unit
  • Data Management Unit

Mobile & Area Source Program

  • Engines Unit
  • Fuels Unit
  • Inspection & Maintenance Unit
  • Outreach & Marketing

Planning & Support Program

  • Administrative & Financial Management Unit
  • Data & Modeling Unit
  • Technical Assistance Unit

Small Business Environmental Assistance Program

Stationary Source Compliance Program

  • Air Toxics Unit
  • Chemicals/Minerals Unit
  • VOC/Combustion Unit

Stationary Source Permitting Program

  • Chemical Permitting Unit
  • Combustion Permitting Unit
  • Minerals Permitting Unit
  • NOx Permitting Unit
  • VOC Permitting Unit

Policy and Radiation Units

Hazardous WasteCorrective Action Program

  • Hazardous Waste Support Unit
  • Facilities Restoration Unit
  • Remedial Sites Unit
  • Risk Assessment Unit

Hazardous Waste Management & Remediation Program

  • Combustion & Treatment Unit
  • Commercial Facilities Unit
  • Dept. of Defence Facilities Unit

Hazardous Waste Compliance Program

  • North Compliance Unit
  • South Compliance Unit
  • Government Facilities Unit

Hazardous Sites Response Program (State Superfund)

  • Response Administration Unit
  • Response Development Unit
  • Response Management Unit
  • Superfund Management Unit
  • Release Notification Unit

Waste Reduction and Abatement Program

  • Data and File Management Unit
  • Lead-based Paint & Asbestos Unit
  • Scrap Tire Unit

Solid Waste Management Program

  • Commercial/Industrial Solid Waste Unit
  • Municipal Solid Waste/Surface Mining Unit
  • Solid Waste Compliance Unit

Underground Storage Tank Management Program

  • Corrective Action (Project Management) Unit I
  • Corrective Action (Implementation) Unit II
  • Regulatory Compliance Unit
  • Trust Fund Coordination Unit
  • State Contractor Team

EPD District Offices
Bert Langley - Coordinator

WATERSHED PROTECTION
Linda MacGregor - Branch Chief

 

Coastal District (Brunswick)

Mountain District (Atlanta and Cartersville)

Northeast District (Athens and Augusta)

Southwest District (Albany)

West Central District (Macon)

 

Drinking Water Program

  • Compliance & Enforcement Unit
  • Financial and Records Unit
  • Source Water Assessment & Protection Unit
  • Tracking & Reporting Unit
  • Engineering & Permitting - East Unit
  • Engineering & Permitting - West Unit

 

Engineering and Technical Support Program (Wastewater)

 

NonPoint Source Program

  • Erosion & Sedimentation Unit
  • Outreach Unit
  • Grants Unit
  • Storm Water Unit

 

Permitting Compliance and Enforcement Program (Wastewater)

  • Compliance & Enforcement East Unit
  • Compliance & Enforcement West Unit
  • Industrial Wastewater Unit
  • Municipal Permitting Unit

 

Safe Dams Program

  • Safe Dams Unit

 

Water Withdrawal Permitting Program

  • Groundwater Unit
  • Surface Water Unit
  • Agricultural Permitting Unit

 

Watershed Planning and Monitoring Program

 

Watershed Protection Regulatory Support Program

  • Geologic and Hydrologic Unit
  • Core Drill Unit
  • UIC Permits

 

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Georgia Environmental Protection Division
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Suite 1152 East Tower
Atlanta, GA 30334
Telephone: 404.657.5947 or 888.373.5947 (toll-free throughout Georgia)
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