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Tools
Managing Your Environmental Responsibilities: A Planning Guide for Construction and Development
Guidance document from U.S. EPA. Click here for a one-page description of the guide (PDF, 12KB). Click here to download the guide by chapter.
Environmental Management Systems: An Implementation Guide for Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses
Guidance document from U.S. EPA. For sample environmental policies, see pages 89-95. Click here to download the document (PDF, 1.35MB, 201pp).
Guidance for Normalizing Environmental Performance Results
Normalization is the process of adjusting environmental performance measurements to account
for increases or decreases in production over time. Normalization is integral to measuring and
reporting environmental performance, both when applying to
the program as well as when completing an Annual Performance Report. This guidance
document was developed to assist facilities with the normalization requirements for the
EPA's Performance Track program. Click here to download the document (PDF, 120KB).
Protocols
Facilities developing Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) may find a number of protocols helpful in systematically determining and maintaining conformance with their EMS requirements as well as compliance with other environmental regulatory requirements.
- Independent Assessment Protocol (PDF, 187KB) » U.S. EPA's National Environmental Performance Track checklist for determining conformance with your EMS
- EPA Compliance Screening Guidance (PDF, 74KB) » Overview of compliance screening with relation to voluntary performance based programs such as U.S. EPA's National Environmental Performance Track
- EPA's Audit Policy » Incentives for self-policing: discovery, disclosure, correction and prevention of violations
- EPA Compliance Audit Protocols » These statute-specific protocols provide lengthy checklists for determining compliance
National Compliance Assistance Centers
The U.S. EPA has sponsored partnerships with industry, academic institutions, environmental groups, and other agencies to launch sector-specific Compliance Assistance Centers. Each center addresses real world issues in language that speaks to the regulated entities. The specific centers are:
EnvCAP State Resource Locators
EnvCAP has prepared state resource locators for a wide range of topics to help you find important environmental compliance information specifically for your state. The specific locators and tools are:
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- Construction and Demolition Debris
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- National Endangered Species
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- Occupational Safety and Health
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Other Tools
For links to other helpful tools for facilities interested in improving their environmental performance, visit the U.S. EPA's National Environmental Performance Track Resource Center at http://www.epa.gov/performancetrack/tools/index.htm.
Visit OurEarth.org, Inc. at http://www.ourearth.org.
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