How ERP
Works
ERP combines several
innovative and conventional regulatory tools in a repeating process to improve
or sustain overall sector performance. Compliance assistance materials
explain what facilities need to do, facility certifications state that they are
doing it, and agency inspections of a representative sample of facilities
document and verify overall sector performance. Performance data, in
turn, inform and help states improve the next round of compliance assistance
and better target enforcement actions.
The figure below
shows the typical steps in an ERP cycle using all ERP tools. Because
states have adapted ERP for a variety of circumstances, they sometimes pick and
choose from the full set of ERP tools or steps depending on a particular
sector’s circumstances. In addition, many states have successfully
implemented ERPs with voluntary submission of self-certifications, when
mandatory certification was not feasible.
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