Program Goals

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Program Goals

• Increase environmental performance throughout
  Texas

• Provide benefits for exceptional voluntary efforts

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Levels of Participation
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• BRONZE LEVEL

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• SILVER LEVEL

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• GOLD LEVEL

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• PLATINUM LEVEL

• Equivalent to EPA National Performance Track

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Program Benefits
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Benefits

• Benefits are provided to CLEAN TEXAS members at
  each level

• The higher you go in CLEAN TEXAS, the better the
  benefits

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Benefits

• Recognition

• Use of CLEAN TEXAS logo and stars

• Recognition at Environmental Trade Fair

• On-site media recognition

• Agency media release

• Recognition in CLEAN TEXAS program materials

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Benefits

• Regulatory Benefits

• Expedited Permit Review

• Exemption from Waste Reduction Policy Act (WRPA)
  requirements

• Reduced state investigation frequency

• Improved compliance history score

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Benefits

• Other Benefits

• Technical assistance

• Reduced fees for TCEQ training events

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Joining Clean Texas
A Level For Everyone
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Bronze Level

• Measurable environmental improvement goals beyond
  or outside requirements

• Community environmental service project

• Annual progress report on environmental goals

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Silver Level

• Certified Environmental Management System (EMS)

• Compliance Assurance goals

• Annual progress report on environmental goals set
  in EMS

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Gold Level

• Certified Environmental Management System (EMS)

• Two environmental improvement goals

• Compliance Assurance goals

• Two community environmental projects

• Annual progress report

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Platinum Level

• Certified Environmental Management System (EMS)

• Four environmental improvement goals

• Compliance Assurance goals

• Three community environmental projects

• Annual progress report

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How Does an EMS Work?
LSI Case Study
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Steps to a Clean Texas EMS

• Set an environmental policy
• Determine significant environmental impacts
• Set goals for compliance and environmental
  performance
• Assign responsibility
• Implement and document programs
• Evaluate and measure effectiveness
• Demonstrate performance

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LSI Goals

• Increase Recycled Content Material use
• Increase Land Conservation
• Reduce Reportable spills to ground
• Reduce Reportable spills to water

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Goals Continued

• Community Environmental Service Goals
• Installed Bat Houses for 40,000 Bats
• Relocation of Mature Trees as part of Blackland
  Prairie Restoration Project at Popham Elementary

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Compliance Screening

• TCEQ will review site
• Compliance History ratings
• State and federal court orders
• State and federal criminal convictions
• Patterns of non-compliance
• Compliance History is reviewed to a different
  degree for each level of membership.

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EMS Assessment and Verification

• Site must use an independent party to assess EMS
  implementation

• TCEQ will verify EMS implementation

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