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Audit Policy Interpretive Guidance - Questions and Answers, 1997

This is interpretive guidance was developed for the Audit Policy, formerly known as the policy on “Incentives for Self-Policing: Discovery, Disclosure, Correction and Prevention of Violations,"60 Fed. Reg. 66706 (December 22, 1995). This document, presented as a series of Questions and Answers, includes discussion of many of the most significant issues raised to EPA about the Audit Policy. Issued Jan. 1997 (Publication: EC-G-2002-149)

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