The EPA has developed a number of compliance incentives to encourage companies and other regulated entities to play an active role in improving environmental performance and protecting public health. The Agency provides incentives for regulated entities who voluntarily discover, promptly disclose, and expeditiously correct environmental problems. The EPA rewards these entities by reducing civil penalties, by not recommending criminal prosecution and by not routinely requesting environmental audit reports.

Recommended EPA Web pages

• Compliance Incentives and Auditing
  EPA promotes compliance through the use of compliance incentives. Information about those incentives can be found here.
• Compliance Incentives
  Information on EPA's incentives for promoting compliance with the environmental statutes and regulations.
• Compliance Incentives and Auditing: Information Resources
  Provides links to information resources about compliance incentives and auditing.

Compliance Assistance

Compliance Incentives
Audit Policy

Compliance Monitoring
Audit, Inspection, Investigation

Criminal Enforcement

Delegation
Oversight

Environmental Liability

Multi-Media Compliance

Reporting

Settlement
Maximum Achievable Control Technology Emission Standards (MACTs), Mediation, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs), Penalty, Recertification, Reportable Quantity, Supplemental Environmental Project

Violation

Voluntary Standards
Consensus Standards, Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Voluntary Standards Network