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Compliance and Enforcement Annual Results:
FY2006 Enforcement Highlights

FY2006 Annual Results Topics

FY2006 Enforcement Highlights (PDF) ( 86K, 19 pages, About PDF)

EPA’s Civil Enforcement program concentrates on preventing and addressing significant violations of federal environmental laws. Through legal actions, compliance assurance and incentives for voluntary compliance, EPA’s effective environmental enforcement reduces harmful air pollution and the discharge of raw sewage, and cleans up contamination of the land. Civil settlements may include requirements to install pollution controls or clean up contamination, cash penalties and also often include supplemental environmental projects: voluntary projects to clean up the environment that a settling party undertakes in addition to whatever must be done to bring a facility into compliance.

EPA's Criminal Enforcement program investigates and helps to prosecute environmental violations which seriously threaten public health and the environment or involve culpable conduct that may be willful, intentional, or deliberate. Besides the environmental violations, the cases may also have associated U.S. criminal code violations such as conspiracy, false statements, witness tampering, or interfering with a law enforcement investigation. Criminal enforcement sanctions, which may include incarceration of individuals in addition to monetary fines against individuals, businesses, or corporations, represent the enforcement program's strongest sanction and deterrent.

The Fiscal Year 2006 Enforcement Highlights include the following categories:

Air Highlights

Water Highlights

Land Highlights

Cross-Media Highlights

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