Move enforcement attorneys into the general counsel's office
What the document says“OECA attorneys should be moved into OGC.”
The chapter says enforcement attorneys tend to take legal positions to win cases or obtain settlements that may be inconsistent with those of the general counsel and program offices, that it is unacceptable for the agency to hold inconsistent legal positions, and that all attorneys with authority to represent the agency should be housed in the general counsel's office.
What the document actually says“OECA attorneys should be moved into OGC.”
Move these lawyers into the main legal office.
The EPA has lawyers who bring cases. They sit in their own office. The book says they argue things the agency's main lawyers would not. It wants them moved.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The Surface Transportation Board's final rule of February 3, 2026 records that the board merged its two legal offices, the Office of the General Counsel and the Office of Proceedings, into a single Office of Chief Counsel, and makes the naming changes that follow. That is the same shape of change the chapter wants, an agency putting its lawyers under one office, but it happened at the Surface Transportation Board. Nothing indexed moves EPA's enforcement and compliance attorneys into its Office of General Counsel. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.