[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40 Volume 25]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR303.30]

[Page 333-334]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 303--CITIZEN AWARDS FOR INFORMATION ON CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS UNDER 
SUPERFUND--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart C--Criteria for Payment of Award
 
Sec. 303.30  Criteria for payment of award.


    Upon the filing of an eligible claim in accordance with the 
procedures as set forth in Sec. 303.33, the Agency's Assistant 
Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring, or his Deputy 
for Criminal Enforcement, in making the decision to grant an award, and 
if so, in what amount, shall consider all relevant criteria, giving such 
weight and importance to each separate criterion as appears warranted in 
his judgment alone. Relevant criteria include one or more of the 
following:
    (a) Whether the claimant's information constituted the initial, 
unsolicited notice to the Government of the violation;
    (b) Whether the Government would readily have obtained knowledge of 
the violation in a timely manner absent claimant's information;

[[Page 334]]

    (c) Importance of the case, egregiousness of the violation, 
potential for or existence of environmental harm;
    (d) Concealment of a person criminally culpable or existence of an 
organized criminal conspiracy to conceal the offense(s) committed by the 
named defendant(s);
    (e) Willingness of the claimant to assist the Government's 
prosecution of the offense(s), which assistance includes providing 
further information and grand jury testimony, participating in trial 
preparation, and trial testimony if consistent with the limits on 
claimant identity disclosure as set forth in Sec. 303.31.
    (f) Value of the claimant's assistance in comparison to that given 
by all other sources of information and evidence which led to arrest and 
conviction.