Some industry attorneys are calling for EPA to allow states to take a leading role in reviewing facilities' self-reported violations of environmental laws rather than employing the agency's own self-audit policy, saying the federal program is outdated and has limited resources that have led to delays responding to submissions. Speaking to Inside EPA Aug. 23, attorney James C. Morriss Ⅲ said industry is seeing increasing delays in EPA's responses to self-audits of environmental violations under the policy that credits facilities for notifying regulators of such incidents, including through reduced civil and criminal penalties.
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