EPA National Pollution Prevention Update

1. EPA National Pollution Prevention Update Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Pollution Prevention Division

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Environmentally Preferable Products • Develop demand for greener products and services • Reduce government’s environmental footprint • Help meet environmental goals through markets rather than mandates

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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