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Partnership Programs

Region 6 Partnership Programs

Partnership programs enable flexible collaborative, market-driven solutions that can deliver measurable environmental results. That's why we work with volunteer businesses, committees, state and local governments, and other organizations.

Partnership programs are further defined as programs which:

-Motivate actions not required by regulations
-May use market forces or provide recognition or other incentives
-May encourage action beyond requirements or provide alternative means of compliance
-Partner with businesses, industries, trade associations, government agencies, communities, citizens, and environmental/public interest groups.

Partnership Programs in Region 6:

Air Aware Campaign
Purpose: Promote awareness of air quality and energy/fuel efficiency, and reduce benzene and hydrocarbon emissions.
Contact: Ruben Casso, 214-665-6763

Air Toxics Monitoring in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Purpose: Measure air toxics in Tulsa
Contact: Ruben Casso, 214-665-6763

Alternative Superfund Site Program
Purpose: Responsible parties voluntarily agree to clean-up the potential Superfund site without the site being listed.
Contact: John Hepola, 214-665-2724 and Wren Stenger, 214-665-6583

Asthma & Second Hand Smoke Awareness
Purpose: Increase awareness of environmental management of asthma and to reduce exposure to environmental asthma triggers.
Website: www.epa.gov/iaq/asthma
Contact: Michael Miller, 214-665-7550

Austin, Texas Community Air Toxics Assessment
Purpose: Measure air toxics in Austin.
Contact: Ruben Casso, 214-665-6763

Blue Skyways Collaborative
Purpose: To improve the quality of life in North America's Heartland by reducing air pollution through innovations in fuel and green technology.
Contact: Wes McQuiddy, 214-665-6722

Carpet America Recovery Effort
Purpose: To increase the amount of recycling and reuse of post-consumer carpet, and reduce the amount of carpet going to landfills.
Website: www.carpetrecovery.org
Contact: Deanna DeBose, 214-665-6461

Clean School Bus USA
Purpose: Provide the cleanest possible transportation to this generation of school children by 1) Eliminating unnecessary school bus idling; 2) Retrofitting 1991 and later school buses with advanced emission control technology; and 3) Replacing the oldest school buses (1990 and earlier) with new ones.
Website: www.epa.gov/cleanschoolbus
Contact: Clovis Steib, 214-665-7566

Climate Leaders
Purpose: GHG reduction at companies.
Website: www.epa.gov/climateleaders
Contact: Patrick Kelly, 214-665-7316

Coal Combustion Products Partnership (C2P2)
Purpose: To increase the use of coal combustion products.
Website: www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/conserve/c2p2
Contact: Eric Adidas, 214-665-8308

Combined Heat and Power Partnership
Purpose: Fostering use of combined heat & power
Website: www.epa.gov/chp
Contact: Patrick Kelly, 214-665-7316

Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE)
Purpose: A competitive grant program that offers an innovative way for communities to take action to reduce toxic pollution. Through CARE, communities create local collaborative partnerships that implement local solutions to reduce releases of toxic pollutants and minimize exposure to toxic pollutants
Website: http://www.epa.gov/osp/index.htm
Contact: Cindy Parker, 214-665-7291

Community Right-to-Know
Purpose: Industry and Community Leaders work together on potential environmental risk within the community. There is no funding for this program. Some funding to the LEPCs occurs through EPA enforcement.
Contact: Steve Mason, 214-665-2292

Corrective Action Strategy
Purpose: Guideline to accelerate corrective action at RCRA facilities.
Website: www.epa.gov/earth1r6/6pd/rcra_c/pd-o/riskman.htm
Contact: Rick Ehrhart, 214-665-6765

Crittenden County Assessment & Field Development
Purpose: Design for urban community ambient air quality monitoring network.
Contact: Ruben Casso, 214-665-6763

Diesel Retrofit Pilot
Purpose: To improve the emissions performance of existing diesel vehicles and equipment by encouraging the use of newer technology on their engines. Reduce PM, CO, and ozone precursors
Website: www.epa.gov/otaq/retrofit
Contact: Ruben Casso, 214-665-6763

Diesel Retrofit Supplementary Project
Purpose: To improve the emissions performance of existing diesel vehicles and equipment by encouraging the use of newer technology on their engines. Reduce PM, CO, and ozone precursors.
Website: www.epa.gov/otaq/retrofit
Contact: Ruben Casso, 214-665-6763

Early Action Compact Program for 8-hour Ozone
Purpose: Early attainment of the 8-hour ozone standard.
Contact: Carrie Paige, 214-665-6521

El Dorado, AR Community Air Toxics Project
Purpose: Analyze air toxics issues in community.
Contact: Ruben Casso, 214-665-6763

Energy Star Energy Management
Purpose: To encourage systems oriented whole building energy efficiency improvements.
Website: www.energystar.gov
Contact: Patrick Kelly, 214-665-7316

Energy Star Product Certification
Purpose: To encourage investments in energy efficiency by clearly defining products, new homes, and practices that save energy without any sacrifice in desired features.
Website: www.energystar.gov
Contact: Patrick Kelly, 214-665-7316

Environmental Management Reviews at Federal Facilities
Purpose: A national program to provide the federal community with environmental management system (EMS) implementation assistance. Executive Order 13148 requires all federal agencies to implement appropriate facility EMSs.
Contact: Joyce Stubblefield, 214-665-6430

Fats, Oil, and Grease (FOG) Reduction through the Pretreatment Program
Purpose: Typically a voluntary program in some cases now being regulated through municipal ordinances. Restaurants and food service facilities are being encouraged to reduce / minimize the amount of FOGs being introduced into the municipal collection systems. This program is often implemented as an off shoot of an approved pretreatment program being operated by municipalities. Reduction of FOGs reduces the loadings to the collection system and the wastewater treatment plant and helps minimize unpermitted sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) often caused by grease and oil blockages.
Contact: Lee Bohme 214-665-7532, Mike Tillman 214-665-7531

Green Power Partnership
Purpose: Build demand for renewable energy.
Website: www.epa.gov/greenpower
Contact: Patrick Kelly, 214-665-7316

Gulf of Mexico Program
Purpose: Protect and restore the Gulf of Mexico through consensus-based actions derived through comprehensive representation.
Website: www.epa.gov/gmpo
Contact: Douglas Jacobson, 214-665-6692

Healthy Environments and Living Places for Kids (HELP)
Purpose: Reduce children's exposure to environmental hazards posed in homes, daycare, and schools.
Contact: Michael Miller, 214-665-7550

High Production Volume Challenge
Purpose: Ensure that a baseline set of health and environmental effects data on approximately 2800 high production volume chemicals is made available to EPA and the public.
Contact: David Eppler, 214-665-8558

Indoor Air Quality "Tools for Schools"
Purpose: Comprehensive program for indoor air in schools.
Website: www.epa.gov/iaq/schools
Contact: Mike Miller, 214-665-7550

Integrated Pest Management in Schools with Texas
Purpose: Provide resources and assistance to help schools and childcare facilities improve their pest management programs.
Website: http://schoolipm.tamu.edu
Contacts: Greg Weiler, 214-665-7564; Janet Hurley, TCE, and Dr. Mike Merchant, TCE, 972-952-9213

Landfill Methane Outreach Program
Purpose: Reduce methane emissions at landfills.
Website: www.epa.gov/lmop
Contact: Deanna DeBose, 214-665-6461

Louisiana Mercury Sweep
Purpose: Reduce mercury releases use and exposure
Contact: Ruben Casso, 214-6763

Mercury-free Thermometer Exchange
Purpose: Minimize mercury contamination in air and wastewater.
Contact: Ruben Casso, 214-665-6763

Mercury Reduction Efforts Through the Pretreatment Program
Purpose: A voluntary approach encouraging Dental facilities to implement pollution prevention practices at the source. Source reduction will reduce and/or eliminate the discharge of mercury into collection systems and wastewater treatment plants. This activity helps reduce headworks loadings at the treatment plant, improves the quality of biosolids, facilitates compliance with NPDES permit limits and protects aquatic life in the receiving streams.
Website: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/mercury/medical.htm
http://www.noharm.org/details.cfm?type=document&id=655

Contact: Mike Tillman 214-665-7531

National Environmental Performance Track Program
Purpose: To recognize and encourage top environmental performance among private and public facilities, which go beyond compliance with regulatory requirements to achieve environmental excellence.
Website: www.epa.gov/performancetrack/
Contact: Craig Weeks, 214-665-7505

Natural Gas Star
Purpose: Reduce methane emissions from natural gas operations by identifying and promoting the implementation of mitigation technologies and management practices.
Website: www.epa.gov/gasstar
Contact: Patrick Kelly, 214-665-7316

Plug-In To eCycling
Purpose: To increase the number of convenient and low-cost opportunities for citizens to recycle their old electronics, and to increase awareness and desire to recycle these products.
Website: www.plugintorecycling.org
Contact: Deanna DeBose, 214-665-6461

Pretreatment Program and Pollution Prevention (P2)
Purpose: A voluntary approach to reduce or prevent pollutant loadings at the source through raw material or chemical substitution and/or through the development and implementation of innovative industrial manufacturing practices. Source reductions enable publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) to consistently meet Federal Pretreatment and NPDES permit requirements, extend collection and treatment system infrastructure capacity and service life, improve worker health and safety, encourage reuse of improved high quality biosolids, and help reduce air emissions.
Websites: http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?program_id=3
http://epa.gov/compliance/resources/publications/assistance/sectors/notebooks/index.html
http://www.p2rx.org/P2InfoNexpert/Manufacture.cfm
http://www.newmoa.org/Newmoa/htdocs/prevention/p2tech/index.cfm
http://es.epa.gov/techinfo/facts/facts.html
Contacts: Lee Bohme 214-665-7532, Mike Tillman 214-665-7531

Radon Action
Purpose: Increase awareness, radon testing, and number of homes mitigated, encourage radon resistant new construction and increase disclosure of radon testing in real estate transactions.
Website: www.epa.gov/iaq/radon
Contact: George Brozowski, 214-665-8541 and Michael Miller, 214-665-7550

RCC/National Partnership for Environmental Priorities
Purpose: RCC is a major national effort to find flexible, yet more protective ways to conserve our valuable resources through waste reduction and energy recovery activities that will improve public health and the environment. The National Partnership for Environmental Priorities Program is a voluntary program encouraging results by publicly recognizing member partners who commit to reducing wastes containing Waste Minimization Priority Chemicals. GPRA goals for 2005 and 2008 are tied to these voluntary programs.
Websites: www.epa.gov./wastemin
www.epa.gov/earth1r6/wastemin
Contact: Melissa Galyon, 214-665-8423

Ready for Reuse
Purpose: Encourages cleanups that will quickly support protective redevelopment opportunities.
Website: www.epa.gov/region6/ready4reuse
Contact: Diana Hinds, 214-665-7561 and Jeanne Schulze, 214-665-7254

Silver Reduction Efforts Through the Pretreatment Program
Purpose: A voluntary approach encouraging Medical and Dental facilities as well as photo finishing operations to implement pollution prevention practices at the source. Source reduction will reduce and/or eliminate the discharge of silver into wastewater collection systems and treatment plants. This activity helps reduce headworks loadings at the treatment plant, improves the quality of biosolids, facilitates compliance with NPDES permit limits and protects aquatic life in the receiving streams.
Website: http://www.epa.gov/fedsite/templates/medical.html
http://es.epa.gov/techinfo/facts/facts.html
Contact: Lee Bohme 214-665-7532, Mike Tillman 214-665-7531

Smart Way Transport
Purpose: To improve the environmental performance and fuel efficiency of the US freight sector (truck & rail) through the use of a voluntary market incentive system, that encourages retailers/end users to choose trucking and/or rail companies that are environmental leaders in their respective industry segments.
Website: www.epa.gov/smartway
Contact: Sandra Rennie, 214-665-7367

SunWise School Program
Purpose: Environmental and health education program that aims to teach children and their caregivers how to protect themselves from overexposure to the sun. Through the use of classroom-based, school-based, and community-based components, SunWise seeks to develop sustained sun-safe behaviors in school children.
Website: www.epa.gov/sunwise
Contact: Patrick Kelly, 214-665-7316

Texas PBT Free-Purchasing
Purpose: Reduced use/purchasing of PBT-containing products.
Contact: Ruben Casso, 214-665-6763

Tijeras Air Toxics Monitoring & Assessment
Purpose: Source characterization of PM in Tijeras, NM
Contact: Ruben Casso, 214-665-6763

Tribal PBT Workshop - Santa Ana Pueblo, NM
Purpose: Education and awareness on PBTs for R6 Tribes.
Contact: Ruben Casso, 214-665-6763

Voluntary Children’s Chemical Evaluation Program
Purpose: Provide data to enable the public to understand the potential health risks to children associated with certain chemical exposures.
Website: www.epa.gov/oppt/vccep/index.htm
Contact: David Eppler, 214-665-8558

WasteWise
Purpose: To assist and challenges businesses, institutions and governments to find savings and increase efficiency through innovative waste reduction activities. GPRA goals for 2005 and 2008 are tied to this voluntary program.
Website: www.epa.gov/wastewise
Contact: Deanna DeBose, 214-665-6461

National Voluntary Partnership Programs

Related State Programs

EPA Region 6 coordinates with the states and other partners in the region in implementing the partnership programs. Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico have programs to encourage superior environmental performance.

Environmental Assistance Network

For more information about Region 6 Partnership Programs:

Israel Anderson
EPA Region 6 Partnership Programs Coordinator
Phone: 214-665-3138
Fax: 214-665-7446
E-Mail: anderson.israel@epa.gov

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