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Small Business Compliance and EnforcementThe Small Business Compliance Policy promotes environmental compliance among small businesses (those with 100 or fewer employees) by providing incentives to discover and correct environmental problems. EPA will eliminate or significantly reduce penalties for small businesses that voluntarily discover violations of environmental law and promptly disclose and correct them. (Those businesses with more than 100 employees may be eligible for the Policy on Incentives for Self-Policing, known as the "Audit Policy" (PDF, 153.8KB, 49 pages), which also provides potential penalty reductions for voluntary discovery and correction of environmental violations.) This Policy implements section 223 of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) of 1996. (Additional SBREFA Information)A wide range of resources are available to help small businesses learn about environmental compliance and take advantage of the Small Business Compliance Policy. These resources include: U.S. EPA Small Business Resources Information Sheet, training, checklists, compliance guides, mentoring programs, and other activities. Businesses can find more information through EPA's Web-based:
The primary small business references are: The Small
Business Compliance Policy (PDF, 80.6KB, 18
pages) (Small Business Policy)
The Small Business Compliance Policy Questions and Answers
(PDF, 115KB, 3 pages)
Some of the documents provided by EPA are Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) Files. They can be viewed, and printed, with the use of an Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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