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.

Functions of the Program Coordination Branch are Division-wide in scope and include the management of district office operations throughout the state, laboratory, emergency response, environmental toxicology, environmental radiation, radioactive materials, quality assurance, small business assistance and training.

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.

See also:

• Mission and Vision