About 145 of the company's employees are eligible for the voluntary program.

No fees are required to participate in this voluntary program.

It's a voluntary program; it will have to be done by each state.

The housing project is now a voluntary program, with no course credit.

But voluntary programs like this, which have existed since the drug became available in 1982, were not entirely successful.

It also means that for the first time, Medicare would be a voluntary program.

A voluntary program of this nature certainly needs a deadline to work.

"It says if the voluntary programs don't work, the state can provide mandatory measures, but we're a long way from that."

The trouble is, the legs were cut out from under the voluntary program.

New Jersey, by contrast, has a voluntary program for companies to clean up their own sites.