Office of Site Remediation Enforcement
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The Office of Site Remediation Enforcement is a division within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement program that oversees and enforces cleanup of contaminated sites under laws such as Superfund.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Office of Site Remediation Enforcement canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2575032 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Office of Site Remediation Enforcement Context triple: [OECA, hasDivision, Office of Site Remediation Enforcement]
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A.
Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation
The Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency office responsible for overseeing and advancing cleanup technologies and strategies for hazardous waste sites under the Superfund program.
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B.
Division of Environmental Remediation
The Division of Environmental Remediation is a branch of New York State’s environmental agency responsible for investigating, managing, and cleaning up contaminated sites to protect public health and the environment.
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C.
Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery
The Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency office responsible for developing and implementing national policies on solid and hazardous waste management, recycling, and resource conservation.
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D.
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement is a U.S. federal agency responsible for regulating coal mining and overseeing the restoration of abandoned mine lands to protect the environment and public health.
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E.
Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration
The Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration is a specialized branch of Florida’s state environmental agency responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and helping restore the quality of the state’s air, water, and natural ecosystems.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Office of Site Remediation Enforcement Target entity description: The Office of Site Remediation Enforcement is a division within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement program that oversees and enforces cleanup of contaminated sites under laws such as Superfund.
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A.
Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation
The Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency office responsible for overseeing and advancing cleanup technologies and strategies for hazardous waste sites under the Superfund program.
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B.
Division of Environmental Remediation
The Division of Environmental Remediation is a branch of New York State’s environmental agency responsible for investigating, managing, and cleaning up contaminated sites to protect public health and the environment.
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C.
Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery
The Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency office responsible for developing and implementing national policies on solid and hazardous waste management, recycling, and resource conservation.
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D.
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement is a U.S. federal agency responsible for regulating coal mining and overseeing the restoration of abandoned mine lands to protect the environment and public health.
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E.
Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration
The Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration is a specialized branch of Florida’s state environmental agency responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and helping restore the quality of the state’s air, water, and natural ecosystems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
environmental enforcement office
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government agency office ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
EPA regional enforcement and Superfund programs
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United States Department of Justice ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Justice
state environmental agencies ⓘ tribal governments ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employer |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. federal government
|
| field |
Superfund enforcement
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brownfields enforcement ⓘ contaminated site remediation ⓘ environmental law enforcement ⓘ environmental protection ⓘ federal facilities cleanup enforcement ⓘ hazardous waste cleanup ⓘ |
| goal |
ensure long-term stewardship and compliance with cleanup remedies
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maximize responsible party participation in site cleanup ⓘ protect human health and the environment through effective cleanup enforcement ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | federal jurisdiction of the United States ⓘ |
| legalAuthority |
Clean Water Act
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surface form:
Clean Water Act (selected provisions related to spills and discharges)
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ⓘ Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
surface form:
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (for certain cleanup-related matters)
Oil Pollution Act ⓘ Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ⓘ Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 ⓘ
surface form:
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
|
| legalAuthorityAbbreviation |
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
ⓘ
surface form:
CERCLA
OPA ⓘ Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ⓘ
surface form:
RCRA
SARA ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| parentAgency |
United States Environmental Protection Agency
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surface form:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
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| partOf |
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
ⓘ
surface form:
EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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| responsibility |
coordinating with U.S. Department of Justice on litigation for site cleanup enforcement
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developing national enforcement policy for contaminated site cleanups ⓘ ensuring responsible parties perform or pay for site cleanups ⓘ negotiating and enforcing Superfund settlements ⓘ overseeing enforcement at brownfields and land revitalization sites ⓘ overseeing enforcement at federal facility cleanup sites ⓘ overseeing enforcement of cleanup at contaminated sites ⓘ promoting timely and protective cleanup of hazardous waste sites ⓘ providing guidance and support to EPA regional offices on site remediation enforcement ⓘ tracking and promoting recovery of cleanup costs from potentially responsible parties ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| shortName | OSRE ⓘ |
| website | https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/site-remediation-enforcement ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Office of Site Remediation Enforcement Description of subject: The Office of Site Remediation Enforcement is a division within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement program that oversees and enforces cleanup of contaminated sites under laws such as Superfund.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.