EPAs Work Related to P2 and the Great Lakes

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EPAs Work Related to P2 and the Great Lakes

• Great Lakes Regional Pollution Prevention Round
  Table Summer Conference
• August 2005

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Pollution Prevention Act of 1990

• The Pollution Prevention Act focused industry,
  government, and public attention on reducing the
  amount of pollution through cost-effective
  changes in production, operation, and raw
  materials use.

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Making P2 a reality in Region 2

• Regional Strategic Plan 2004-2008
• The plan highlights the Regions opportunity to
  commit to activities, goals, and specific targets
  that will foster and support activities from all
  programs, to achieve, through source reduction
  and pollution prevention, overall environmental
  strategic targets.

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Making P2 a reality in Region 2-continued

• Regional offices around the country are being
  tasked to report pounds of pollution reduced,
  BTUs of energy conserved, gallons of water
  conserved, and dollars saved through P2 efforts
  that are undertaken. These are outcomes that can
  be achieved by a broad number of programs
  employing a variety of strategies both regulatory
  and non-regulatory.

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Region 2 Pollution Prevention Council

• The mission of the council is
• increase coordination and collaboration among
  Region 2 programs and offices to meet shared
  pollution prevention objectives
• incorporate P2 principles into our Regions
  program implementation strategies as the first
  choice in environmental protection
• and effectively gather and bring uniformity to
  the way Region 2 reports pollution prevention
  results.

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Region 2 Pollution Prevention Council-continued

• R2P2 Council is an interdivisional
  body-OPM,DECA,DESA,DEPP. This promotes the
  development of strategies to address problems
  that are hard for one group to solve alone (e.g.,
  priority targeting effort)

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Expanding Role in Air, Water RCRA Programs

• RCC - beneficial use, priority chemicals, 35
  MSW recycling, electronics management
• SIPs, mobile sources, air toxics
• Water geographic initiatives

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Grant Programs

• Region 2 supports work being conducted in
  academia, non-profit organizations, and state
  agencies, in a variety of programs aimed at
  pollution prevention and sustainability. RFPs
  this year attracted nearly 100 applicants
  requesting a cumulative total of over 5 million
  dollars

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Voluntary Programs

• EPA's Offices and Regions conduct a variety of
  programs that reach out to business, industry,
  trade associations, communities, universities,
  and state and local governments and others. Their
  success lies in solving environmental problems
  not generally addressed by laws and regulations,

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EPA Partnership Programs Results for 2000

• The results add up
• On an annual basis, the benefits of reducing
  greenhouse gas emissions by 37 million metric
  tons of carbon equivalent are comparable to
  removing more than 25 million cars from the road
  in one year.
• The 603 million gallons water saved is enough to
  fill over 12 million bathtubs.
• The 769 trillion BTUS of energy saved is enough
  to supply the annual energy needs of
  approximately 6.5 million U.S. households.

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voluntary programs in P2

• National Performance Track
• High Production Volume Challenge
• Design for the Environment
• Environmentally preferable purchasing
• Federal Electronics challenge
• Green Chemistry
• Green Engineering
• Green Suppliers Network

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Region 2s Great Lakes Program

• Great Lakes Program is within DEPPs Community
  Ecosystem Protection Branch

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Lake Ontario Lake wide Management Plan (LaMP)

• The Parties to the Lake Ontario LaMP are
• EPA
• Environment Canada
• Ontario Ministry of the Environment
• NYSDEC
• USFWS
• Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
• and Canada Division of Fish and Oceans
• www.epa..gov/glnpo/lakeont/

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LaMP-Future activities

• Coordination of binational monitoring efforts and
  programs to better assess the health of Lake
  Ontario and its ecosystem.
• Reducing critical pollutant loadings to the lake.
• Reporting on the status of adopted ecosystem
  indicators, habitat, source track down and
  invasive species.
• Broadening partnerships with other scientific
  groups to share data, conduct analyses, and
  assist with peer review.
• Conducting public outreach on pollution
  prevention, LaMP activities and partnering
  opportunities.

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Great Lakes Regional Collaboration (GLRC)

• GLRC was established on May 18, 2004, through
  Executive Order 13340. The GLRC has 3 goals
• develop a Great Lakes Restoration and Protection
  Strategy
• serve as a forum for addressing near-term issues
  that relate to protection and restoration and
• create an oversight forum to coordinate and
  enhance implementation of the Strategy.

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For Further Information Contact-

• John Filippelli, Chief
• Strategic Planning Multi-Media Programs Branch
• Region 2 EPA
• 212-637-3504
• Filippelli.John_at_EPA.Gov