Background: The Pollution Prevention Act
Pollution prevention (P2) has been identified as a guiding principle in the EPA's efforts to protect and preserve human health and ecological vitality. Essentially, preventing pollution before it is created is preferable to trying to manage, treat or dispose of it after it is created. In detail, P2 includes any practice that reduces the quantity and/or toxicity of pollutants entering a waste stream prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal.
Examples of pollution prevention include equipment or technology modifications, reformulation or redesign of products, substitution of less toxic raw materials, improvements in work practices, maintenance, worker training, and better inventory control.
Region 6 is committed to fully integrating P2 into the culture, processes, operations and decisions of the regional office, its State and local partners, the regulated communities and citizens of the Region.
Prevention Tools: Reducing Regulatory Exposure
The Region 6 Pollution Prevention Assistance Website, a one-stop shop for Regional programs that can provide benefits to both the environment and your bottom line.
Key prevention programs include Pollution Prevention (P2), Environmental Management Systems, Performance Track,Energy Star, WasteWi$e. Though these programs are presented as Regional, they are a collaborative effort between EPA, our state environmental agencies, and especially our partners in industry, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and trade associations who have made these efforts and the case studies a success. See below to find brief program descriptions, actual case studies, current contact information and Internet links which will assist you to go beyond compliance, reduce your regulatory exposure, be innovative, reach environmental management system goals AND be cost effective.
Pollution Prevention Coordination for Region 6
Pollution Prevention Coordination for Region 6 provides support for innovative pollution prevention projects under Pollution Prevention Grants (PPG) and Set Aside Pollution Prevention funding. Prevention at the source is key in any project being considered for funding. For Regional Guidance under these grant opportunities or for any questions please refer to the following contacts:
links: any and all links coordinated for you on this web site
Info: David Bond at bond.david@epa.gov, Pollution Prevention Coordinator at (214-665-6431) or Annette Smith at smith.annette@epa.gov, Pollution Prevention, Supplemental Environmental Project Coordinator and contact for the PPG grants for states and tribes at (214 665-2127)
Region 6 Pollution Prevention Coordination
Brownfields, Remediation, and Superfund: The environmental cleanup and economic
redevelopment of contaminated sites across the country
Educators and Tribes: Partners with EPA.
Energy Efficiency and Energy Star
Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and Compliance Assistance: Using prevention tools
to achieve ISO14000 goals, reduce regulatory exposure, and save money
Federal Facilities
International: The US/Mexico Border programs
National Performance Track - National recognition for your company's efforts
P2Rx: A national and regional resource exchange where you can find information, join listserves, and communicate with others in your field about prevention and compliance.
Persistent Bio accumulative Toxins (PBTs)
Recycling and WasteWi$e
Regional Pollution Prevention Roundtable
Regional Pollution Prevention Roundtable
-Provides the ultimate in compliance assistance
networking.
Pollution Prevention Information Network
-Southwest Network for Zero Waste
Link: http://www.zerowastenetwork.net 
Info: Thomas Vinson (512-904-2287) or tvinson@utexas.edu
Regional Energy Efficiency and Energy Star Program
ENERGY STAR is a government-backed national program helping businesses
and individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency.
Info: Patrick Kelly, EPA Region 6 Coordinator 214-665-7316
Robert Lawrence, EPA Region 6 Energy Expert, 214-665-6580
Water Pretreatment Facilities
The National Strategic Goals Program (SGP) is a voluntary program that encourages
metal-finishing companies to go beyond environmental compliance - to do business cleaner, cheaper, and smarter. SGP member companies are offered incentives, resources and a means for removing regulatory and policy barriers as they work to achieve
specific environmental goals.
Link: http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?program_id=13
Region 6 contact: Rudy Molina (214-665-6731)
Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic (PBTs) pollutants
Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic (PBTs) pollutants are highly toxic, long-lasting substances
that can build up in the food chain to levels that are harmful to human and ecosystem health.
EPA has a long history of successful programs in controlling PBT pollutants. There are currently
12 priority PBTs that are being addresses through a binational strategy with Canada.
Region 6 contact: Ruben Casso (214-665-6763)
Recycling and WasteWi$e
WasteWise is a voluntary EPA program which encourages companies and institutions
to reduce solid waste. WasteWise partners set goals in 3 areas: Waste Prevention, Recyclables
Collection, and Buying Recycled.
Region 6 contacts: Deanna Dubose (214-665-6461) and
Glenn Atley (214-665-7142)
Waste Minimization Program
Waste Minimization Program works with industrial organizations, government agencies, and
communities to find ways to help individual companies reduce the amount of waste they
generate, particularly if the wastes contain one or more Waste Minimization Priority Chemicals
(WMPCs) link to http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/minimize/chemlist.htm
Region 6 contact: Melissa Galyon (214-665-8423)
Learn the differences between waste minimization and pollution prevention Link: http://www.epa.gov/wastemin/.
Federal Facilities
Federal Facilities program assists other Federal agencies with strategies to get stay in and go beyond compliance.
Environmental Management System (EMS)
An Environmental Management System (EMS) is a set of processes and practices that enable
an organization to reduce its environmental impacts and increase its operating efficiency. An
EMS is a continual cycle of planning, implementing, reviewing and improving the processes and
actions that an organization undertakes to meet its business and environmental goals.
Region 6 Contacts: Israel Anderson (214-665-3138), Craig Weeks (214-665-7505), David Bond (214-665-6431)
National Performance Track
National Performance Track was designed to recognize and encourage top environmental performers - those who go beyond compliance with regulatory requirements. Did you know that one of the primary tools these companies use to achieve this goal is a systematic approach to managing environmental responsibilities, reduction and prevention of pollution, and being good corporate neighbors?
Craig Weeks, EPA Region 6 Performance Track Coordinator (214-665-7505)
Brownfields Program
The Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower states, cities, tribes, communities, and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields.
Region 6 contact: Monica Chapa Smith (214-665-6780)
Environmental Education
Our educators are key partners in helping EPA achieve its mission - to protect human health and the environment. Region 6 helps students and teachers learn more about environmental basics and opportunities in your neighborhood.
Link (Region 6): http://www.epa.gov/earth1r6/6xa/tribal.htm
Link (national): http://www.epa.gov/teachers/
Link (national): http://www.epa.gov/students/
Region 6 contact: Patty Senna (214-665-7178)
Regional Native American Program & Environmnetal Justice
The Regional Native American Office is committed to an intra-agency and inter-agency tribal advocacy approach to environmental issues facing tribal lands in Region 6.
Link (National): http://www.epa.gov/indian/programs.htm
Jonathon Hooks, Region 6 Coordinator (215-665-8069)
U.S./Mexico, Border 2012 Program
The U.S./Mexico Pollution Prevention program has achieved reductions reported by industry; gained the partnerships not only of industry, but of educational institutions on both sides of the border, local, state and federal governments. The latest agreement is the Border 2012 Program, which proposes key changes from the previous Border XXI program is fully explained from the link on the US/Mexico Border title above.
Joy Campbell, Region 6 Border Coordinator (214-665-8036).
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P2 & EMS Technical Assistance
Regional & State Links for Grants and Funding Opportunities
Recognition and Incentive Program
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