# MERCURY-CONTAINING AND RECHARGEABLE BATTERY MANAGEMENT ACT (BATTERY ACT) — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For MERCURY-CONTAINING AND RECHARGEABLE BATTERY MANAGEMENT ACT (BATTERY ACT), agency is EPA; statutory authority is 42 U.S.C. 14304(a)(1); maximum penalty is 19,942, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** EPA _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** MERCURY-CONTAINING AND RECHARGEABLE BATTERY MANAGEMENT ACT (BATTERY ACT) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory authority:** 42 U.S.C. 14304(a)(1) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 19,942 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> <https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/42/14304> 42 U.S.C. 14304(a)(1) | MERCURY-CONTAINING AND RECHARGEABLE BATTERY MANAGEMENT ACT (BATTERY ACT) | 19,942 | 19,437 | 10,000

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/chapter-I/subchapter-A/part-19/section-19.4

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-02-26.
Part of [Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies](https://referencesource.org/federal-civil-penalty-maximums/).