EPA Policy Statement: Incentives for Self-Policing

EPA’s April 2000 policy, Incentives for Self-Policing: Discovery, Disclosure, Correction and Prevention of Violations (commonly referred to as the Audit Policy) , ”safeguards human health and the environment by providing several major incentives for regulated entities to voluntarily discover and fix violations of federal environmental laws and regulations. To take advantage of these incentives, regulated entities must voluntarily discover, promptly disclose to EPA, expeditiously correct, and prevent recurrence of future environmental violations.”