Government agencies will not expose another government agency.   As the Head custodian with a large school district for 28 years I have been taught that providing a safe learning and working environment for everyone is the most important role of a custodian. I have always taken this directive seriously and conveyed this message repeatedly to my coworkers throughout my career.    During the past two years I have come to understand that too often this Saint Paul Public School district has written  safety policies and procedures that look great on paper but are not adhered to. As the Chief Steward of our local union, representing 230 custodians, I began to question management and district administration with concerns of this school district's failure to comply with the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA)  and other safety non compliance issues. In meetings with the schools Health and Safety Director and Human Resources personnel, I was told that not only does this school district meet the AHERA's regulations, but goes above and beyond them.    Not being able to convince the school district of the importance of complying with AHERA's requirements I filed complaints with EPA's Region 5 in Chicago. One of EPA's inspectors came to inspect several of the district's school buildings in May, 2011. Several months later EPA issued a Non Compliance Notice to this district citing 3 major violations and listed 26 other potential deficiencies. There were no fines as EPA's goal is to achieve compliance.    I was not pleased with EPA's report. Not because of the slap on the hand approach but because of EPA's failure to address the serious concerns that I sent to them in my many correspondences. I was mostly concerned with all of the AHERA required 6 month inspections to be performed by the Designated Person,DP,appointed by the Local Education Agency,LEA. I had discovered, as I went through the districts asbestos data stored in an electronic format for the district's 70 or so school buildings. I found on these records that the Designated Person performed these 6 month inspections from 2000 through 2009 for 70 plus schools in one day and always on the same date: 1/9 and 7/9 for most of those years. I pointed out to EPA that it would be impossible for one person to inspect all of the known asbestos events that are identified in all of these buildings. I also sent to EPA documents that I copied from this district's asbestos web-site, (no longer available) of the D.P. again inspecting all 70 plus school buildings on 1/9/11. I found that no one entered any of these schools on that day, a Sunday, through the district's automation that records any entries into the districts school buildings. When I questioned district administration of this, these reports of all of these inspection disappeared and still is not shown on any of their asbestos records. The district's asbestos web-site also dissapeared. I made copies of these inspections for all of these buildings and sent some of them to EPA. No mention of any of this in EPA's report.    In my e-mails and letters to EPA I mentioned another very troubling discovery I found in these asbestos documents. In 2008 through 2010 the district contracted out to a private firm to conduct the AHERA required 3rd. Year Inspections. These inspections are much more in depth than the 6 month inspections.In these reports I found over 100 events of damaged friable asbestos conditions in need of an immediate response action. These areas were identified as early as 2008 and as of May 2011 were still not repaired. I pointed this out to the Health and Safety Director in a meeting in April 2011. Not until this district was notified on May 5th.,  that EPA would be coming out to inspect some of this district's schools on May 24-2