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Regulatory Integration: Integration Opportunities
Pollution prevention can be integrated into environmental regulatory activities such as permitting, compliance inspections, enforcement settlements, waste management, regulatory development, remediation projects, and in an organization's culture.
Permitting
- Issue multimedia permits
- Expedite reviews of permit modifications for P2 projects
- Standardize P2 provisions in general permits
Compliance Inspections
- Conduct facility-wide multimedia compliance inspections
- Provide P2 technical assistance to inspectors and industry
- Single media inspectors refer facilities to the state technical assistance program
Enforcement Settlements
- Reduce a penalty when facility implements P2 to achieve compliance
- Extend a compliance schedule to allow implementation of a P2 technology
- Negotiate P2 provisions into Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs)
- Avoid compliance strategies that transfer pollution to different media
- Refer non-compliant industries to the state technical assistance program
Waste Management
- Develop RCRA waste minimization plans to manage hazardous waste
- Emphasize source reduction in the management of solid waste
Regulatory Development
- Require life cycle impacts as part of new rulemaking standards
- Define industry regulatory requirements such as BMPs and MACT, as P2
- Include multimedia facility planning requirements with measurable goals
Remediation Projects
- Remedy prevents cross-media transfer
- Deconstruction rather than demolition at brownfields to reuse building materials
- Restore and enhance existing natural habitat
- Construct wetlands treatment systems for wastewater and stormwater runoff
Organization
- Establish a multimedia workgroup to seek new ways to meet agency objectives
- Develop a strategy for integrating P2 into mainstream activities
- Revise organization's mission and vision to include P2
- Provide P2 training to regulatory staff to effect change in existing core programs
- Recognize employee achievements via awards and other incentives
- Integrate P2 into formal agreements with government agencies and public and private partnerships
- Provide financial incentives when P2 activities are included in the provisions of contracts and grants documents
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