Self-reporting disadvantages

The primary disadvantage of self-reporting is that a company may pay a penalty for a violation that the EPA would never discover on its own. Even if the Audit Policy applies to reduce the penalties to zero, the company will have to spend considerable time in making the report and justifying complete penalty mitigation. Another disadvantage is that a self-reported violation will count as a prior violation that may increase the penalty assessed on a future violation. 

There are disadvantages to self-reporting as well, including the possibility that the EPA will not agree that the Audit PoHcy conditions have been met and will not significantly reduce penalties. The seller may not know the EPA s response until long after the Closing. 

Various techniques have been reported in the literature to produce nano-fibrous structures. These include self-assembly, phase separation, melt spinning involving islands in the sea (INS) and splittable fibers, and electrospinning. Each of these methods produces fibers of different diameter range (see Fig. 2.1) and has advantages and disadvantages. 

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