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Compliance and Enforcement Annual Results:
FY2005 Compliance Incentives Case Highlights
FY2006 Annual Results Topics
FY2006 Compliance Activities Highlights (PDF) ( 73K, 6 pages, About PDF)
EPA is committed to a strong enforcement program that achieves environmental protection by deterring violators, bringing violators into compliance, correcting damage to the environment and ensuring that those who fail to comply do not put those who follow the law at an economic disadvantage. EPA uses its compliance incentive policies to
- Promote self-policing
- Improve environmental management practices
- Reduce pollution in the environment
Corporate-wide auditing agreements are an additional mechanism to implement the audit policy and for the regulated community to use in assessing and maintaining compliance with federal environmental laws. Such agreements may help to eliminate redundancies by consolidating transactions, provide additional time to determine whether suspected violations have occurred or are occurring, and maximize penalty certainty.
The following is a FY2006 settlement that illustrates the benefit of corporate-wide auditing agreements.
- Adelphia Communications Corporation in June 2002 filed for Bankruptcy under Chapter 11. As part of its reorganization to emerge from Bankruptcy, Adelphia sought to restructure its payment obligations and to sell its assets to Time Warner NY Cable LLC and Comcast Corporation. In order to ensure its facilities were in compliance with environmental requirements, Adelphia voluntarily approached EPA to address its potential violations of environmental laws at its facilities prior to finalization of the company sale. Adelphia conducted an audit of 2,000 facilities. Under the August 2006 settlement Adelphia agreed to pay civil penalties totaling $142,500 resolving multi-media violations.
Annual Results by Fiscal Year
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