diff --git a/checks/check_extra710 b/checks/check_extra710
index 4230686c..bafb10f0 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra710
+++ b/checks/check_extra710
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 CHECK_ID_extra710="7.10"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra710="Check for internet facing EC2 Instances (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra710="NOT_SCORED"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra710="extra710"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check710="extra710"
 
 extra710(){
diff --git a/checks/check_extra711 b/checks/check_extra711
index 00206c36..9918d716 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra711
+++ b/checks/check_extra711
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 CHECK_ID_extra711="7.11"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra711="Check for Publicly Accessible Redshift Clusters (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra711="NOT_SCORED"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra711="extra711"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check711="extra711"
 
 extra711(){
diff --git a/checks/check_extra712 b/checks/check_extra712
index b2996e5a..a3b59b84 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra712
+++ b/checks/check_extra712
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 CHECK_ID_extra712="7.12"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra712="Check if Amazon Macie is enabled (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra712="NOT_SCORED"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra712="extra712"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check712="extra712"
 
 extra712(){
diff --git a/checks/check_extra713 b/checks/check_extra713
index ac1b3bf8..93ed5ab6 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra713
+++ b/checks/check_extra713
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 CHECK_ID_extra713="7.13"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra713="Check if GuardDuty is enabled (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra713="NOT_SCORED"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra713="extra713"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check713="extra713"
 
 extra713(){
diff --git a/checks/check_extra714 b/checks/check_extra714
index 6e7de69b..92a7118e 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra714
+++ b/checks/check_extra714
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 CHECK_ID_extra714="7.14"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra714="Check if CloudFront distributions have logging enabled (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra714="NOT_SCORED"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra714="extra714"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check714="extra714"
 
 extra714(){
diff --git a/checks/check_extra715 b/checks/check_extra715
index 883dac35..04e24f84 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra715
+++ b/checks/check_extra715
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 CHECK_ID_extra715="7.15"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra715="Check if Elasticsearch Service domains have logging enabled (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra715="NOT_SCORED"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra715="extra715"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check715="extra715"
 
 extra715(){
diff --git a/checks/check_extra716 b/checks/check_extra716
index 7289d1b3..00c2d1e8 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra716
+++ b/checks/check_extra716
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 CHECK_ID_extra716="7.16"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra716="Check if Elasticsearch Service domains allow open access (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra716="NOT_SCORED"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra716="extra716"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check716="extra716"
 
 extra716(){
diff --git a/checks/check_extra717 b/checks/check_extra717
index 997c44c6..d887169c 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra717
+++ b/checks/check_extra717
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 CHECK_ID_extra717="7.17"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra717="Check if Elastic Load Balancers have logging enabled (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra717="NOT_SCORED"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra717="extra717"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check717="extra717"
 
 extra717(){
diff --git a/checks/check_extra718 b/checks/check_extra718
index 1cbe05e6..8184daeb 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra718
+++ b/checks/check_extra718
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 CHECK_ID_extra718="7.18"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra718="Check if S3 buckets have server access logging enabled (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra718="NOT_SCORED"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra718="extra718"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check718="extra718"
 
 extra718(){
diff --git a/checks/check_extra719 b/checks/check_extra719
index ac695483..df90a994 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra719
+++ b/checks/check_extra719
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 CHECK_ID_extra719="7.19"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra719="Check if Route53 hosted zones are logging queries to CloudWatch Logs (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra719="NOT_SCORED"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra719="extra719"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check719="extra719"
 
 extra719(){
diff --git a/checks/check_extra720 b/checks/check_extra720
index 3790544c..ade6d3ae 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra720
+++ b/checks/check_extra720
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 CHECK_ID_extra720="7.20"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra720="Check if Lambda functions invoke API operations are being recorded by CloudTrail (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra720="NOT_SCORED"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra720="extra720"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check720="extra720"
 
 extra720(){
diff --git a/checks/check_extra721 b/checks/check_extra721
index 06d2e601..43b0778f 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra721
+++ b/checks/check_extra721
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 CHECK_ID_extra721="7.21"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra721="Check if Redshift cluster has audit logging enabled (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra721="NOT_SCORED"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra721="extra721"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check721="extra721"
 
 extra721(){
diff --git a/checks/check_extra722 b/checks/check_extra722
index 6ad42e5b..1310d00c 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra722
+++ b/checks/check_extra722
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ CHECK_ID_extra722="7.22"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra722="Check if API Gateway has logging enabled (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra722="NOT_SCORED"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check722="extra722"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra722="extra722"
 
 extra722(){
   # "Check if API Gateway has logging enabled (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
diff --git a/checks/check_extra723 b/checks/check_extra723
index 0c4e91f8..ee32ce47 100644
--- a/checks/check_extra723
+++ b/checks/check_extra723
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ CHECK_ID_extra723="7.23"
 CHECK_TITLE_extra723="Check if RDS Snapshots are public (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
 CHECK_SCORED_extra723="NOT_SCORED"
 CHECK_ALTERNATE_check723="extra723"
-CHECK_ALTERNATE_extra723="extra723"
 
 extra723(){
   # "Check if RDS Snapshots are public (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
diff --git a/checks/check_sample b/checks/check_sample
index e69de29b..c57223a1 100644
--- a/checks/check_sample
+++ b/checks/check_sample
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# CHECK_ID_checkN="N.N"
+# CHECK_TITLE_checkN="Description (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
+# CHECK_SCORED_checkN="NOT_SCORED"
+# CHECK_ALTERNATE_checkN="extraN"
+#
+# extraN(){
+#   # "Description (Not Scored) (Not part of CIS benchmark)"
+#   textNotice "Looking for instances in all regions...  "
+#   for regx in $REGIONS; do
+#     LIST_OF_PUBLIC_INSTANCES=$($AWSCLI ec2 describe-instances $PROFILE_OPT --region $regx --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[?PublicIpAddress].[InstanceId,PublicIpAddress]' --output text)
+#     if [[ $LIST_OF_PUBLIC_INSTANCES ]];then
+#       while read -r instance;do
+#         INSTANCE_ID=$(echo $instance | awk '{ print $1; }')
+#         PUBLIC_IP=$(echo $instance | awk '{ print $2; }')
+#         textWarn "$regx: Instance: $INSTANCE_ID at IP: $PUBLIC_IP is internet-facing!" "$regx"
+#       done <<< "$LIST_OF_PUBLIC_INSTANCES"
+#       else
+#         textOK "$regx: no Internet Facing EC2 Instances found" "$regx"
+#     fi
+#   done
+# }