EPA National Pollution Prevention Update

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EPA National Pollution Prevention Update

• Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics,
  Pollution Prevention Division

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What is the P2 Div. Doing?

• Implement the Pollution Prevention Act and
  Executive Orders
• Current P2 Focus
• Administer P2 State Grants (5 Million)
• Support the P2 Resource Exchange (P2RX)
• Promote Environmentally Preferable Products
• Launching Supplier Partnership for the
  Environment
• Support Hospitals for a Healthy Environment
• PBT Program Initiative
• Promote P2 Integration
• Revising Strategic Plans and results measures

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Revising Strategic Plan

• Schedule
• Five Goals Air, Water, Land, Communities and
  Ecosystems, Compliance and Stewardship
• P2 performance targets and measure
• State results measures
• TRI data
• Data from Fed. Agencies on Executive Orders
• GRI Reporting standards

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Strategic Planning Challenges

• Lack of National Data to show P2 results
• EPA stove-pipe approach to planning
• Insufficient number outcome result targets and
  measures
• Stakeholder involvement in setting goals

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How can we measure P2 Results?

• Measuring program results is an agency priority
• We need national p2 results data to demonstrate
  the successes of the P2 programs and to be able
  to compete for additional resources
• Many good models for measurement exist
• NEWMOA
• Natl. P2 Roundtable Report
• EPA Reg. 8
• Global Reporting Initiative
• Facility Reporting Program
• State reporting
• Sustainability indexes

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Outlook for Federal P2 Funding

• OPPT provides some funding directly to states to
  support P2 programs
• OPPT Headquarters provides modest FTE and program
  dollars to EPA regions for P2 programs
• Overall outlook for EPA resources is flat or
  declining
• P2 programs need to better compete for a limited
  pot of resources
• FY 05 budget formulation process begins this in
  April we need state involvement in setting
  program priorities and identifying resource needs

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Environmentally Preferable Products

• Develop demand for greener products and services
• Reduce governments environmental footprint
• Help meet environmental goals through markets
  rather than mandates

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EPP Priority Areas

• Implement Executive Order 13101 EPP pilots and
  establishment of active Gov. procurement programs
• Implement Executive Order 13134 and Farm Bill to
  procure biobased products
• Current EPA focus is on cleaning products,
  electronics, green meetings, greening of EPA

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EPP Tools

• EPP Database
• Identify and compare environmental attributes for
  key products and services from various
  information sources
• Promising practices case studies incorporating
  environmental factors into product and service
  contracts
• Supporting development of voluntary standards
• ASTM International Standards
• Green Seal

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Supplier Partnership for the Environment

• New P2 Partnership between General Motors, EPA,
  NIST and Manufacturing Extension Partnership
  (MEP)
• GM wants to reach their supply chain improving
  suppliers footprint enables GM to reduce its
  footprint and cut costs
• MEP provides technical assistance with the help
  of NIST to GM supply chain members
• Goal to reduce emissions, hazardous and other
  wastes, energy consumption, water used, etc.

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P2 Resource Exchange (P2RX)

• Consortium of eight regional P2 info. Centers
  funded partly through EPA grants
• Centers provide P2 info., networking
  opportunities, and other services to States
• Goal is to improve the dissemination of P2 info.
  
• Currently a solicitation notice for P2 Network
  Coordinator