True or False: The EPA can impose civil penalties on a technician or company found to have knowingly vented refrigerant to the atmosphere in violation of Section 608.
Not quite. The answer is A: True
Section 608 is enforceable federal law, not a set of best practices. The Clean Air Act lets EPA (and the Department of Justice) seek civil penalties assessed per day for each violation, and violations of the stratospheric ozone subchapter are covered. The dollar amounts are adjusted for inflation every year, so check EPA's current penalty table rather than memorizing a figure. Treating certification and recovery as optional because 'nobody checks' misunderstands both the law and EPA's enforcement authority.
Reference: Clean Air Act § 113(b), (d) (42 U.S.C. 7413) (Civil judicial and administrative penalties)
Checked against the official text
Read 42 U.S.C. 7413: civil penalties are assessed per day for each violation and reach violations of Subchapter VI (stratospheric ozone). Dollar amounts are inflation-adjusted each year and are deliberately not stated here.