The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is today amending its regulations to remove from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) rules pertaining to the issuance of proposed administrative compliance orders pursuant to Section 1414(g)(2) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended in 1986 (1986 Act). Enactment of the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 (1996 Act) eliminated the statutory requirement in the 1986 Act that administrative compliance orders against violators of the Public Water Systems program be issued only after proposal and subsequent opportunity for public hearing.