SmallBusiness

Small Business Regulatory Relief Documents

EPA Policy on Compliance Incentives for Small Business
Under this policy, EPA will refrain from initiating enforcement actions or mitigate penalties for small businesses make good faith efforts to comply with environmental laws and disclose violations. The policy sets forth a number of conditions that a small business must satisfy to be eligible for the protection offered by the policy.

EPA Enforcement Response Policy This policy provides small businesses with a grace period to correct Clean
Air Act violations detected as part of a state small business compliance
assistance program (SBAP). The policy also allows that the violations
detected during a SBAP may be kept confidential and will not disclosed to the a state enforcement program during the correction period.

RCRA 1996 Small Business Guide This is an EPA Handbook which helps small business understand how to comply with the RCRA Hazardous Waste Program

OMBUDSMAN January 1998 Newsletter

Policy on Environmental Self-Auditing and Self-Disclosure--full text

EPA Audit Policy Interpretive Guidance