GENERAL PUBLICATIONS – EPA

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Strategic Plan [EPA 190-R-00-002] Describes EPA goals and objectives and discusses strategies for achieving environmental results, 9/00, 104 pp. (1440 kB PDF)

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Solid Waste Funding: A Guide to Federal Assistance [EPA 530-K-00-006]: This brochure describes a variety of funding sources for solid, and other, waste research and management programs, available to state, local governments, the general public, and small businesses. Even though it emphasizes solid waste programs, notations are made where funding is available for other than solid waste problems, 10/00, 9 pp.  (640 kB PDF)

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Doing Business with EPA; [EPA 180-B-99-001]; 1/99. (5300 kB PDF)

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CRS Report to Congress--Summaries of Environmental Laws Administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (95-59 ENR): 1/3/95, 101 pp. (3900 kB PDF)

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Profiles of Industries - Sector Notebooks, 1995-2002.   

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Terms of Environment: Glossary, Abbreviations, and Acronyms (Revised December 1997) [EPA 175-B-97-001]: Booklet, 12/97, 65pp. (HTML), with VOC "Update", 63 FR pp. 17331-3. (80 kB PDF)

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Connecting to EPA on the Internet, undated, 2 pp. (Includes listing of some of the EPA offerings on the Internet); New Directions (A Report on Regulatory Reinvention), EPA, 5/98; [EPA 100-R-98-04]; 8 pp (1000 kB PDF)

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The Office of Compliance--An Introductory Guide [EPA 300-F-95-002]: Covers EPA Enforcement -- The New Alignment with major office functions listed, Booklet, 1/95, 14 pp. The National Compliance Assistance Clearinghouse [EPA 305-F-00-018] 12/00 2 pp. (Folder) (450 kB PDF)

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Semiannual Regulatory Agenda: Regulations under development, notices, and review of prior regulations at EPA. Current Issue (Spring 2005 Regulatory Agenda).

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Memorandum and Revised Guidelines for Implementing the Regulatory Flexibility Act: Deputy Administrator, EPA, 4/9/92, 64 pp. (2050 kB PDF)

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Public Law 104-121, 3/29/96, 110 Stat. 857-874, Title II--Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA) pp. 857-74. Revised Interim Guidance for EPA Rulewriters: Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) as amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA), 3/29/99, 97 pp; Fact Sheet [EPA 233-F-99-001] 6/99, 4 pp. Fact Sheet, Information for Potential Small Entity Representatives to the Small Business Advocacy Review Panel Process, [EPA 233-F-99-002], 7/99, 4 pp. Transmittal Memo of RFA/SBREFA Tracking Report Rules Affecting Small Entities, 1 p.; EPA RFA/SBREFA Tracking Report (Rules Affecting Small Entities). (294 kB PDF)

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Facility Identification Initiative; Notice 10/7/96 FR pp. 52587-600; EPA's Facility Identification Initiative October 1996, Fact Sheet, 2pp. Providing Greater Access To Environmental Data--Sector Facility Indexing Project (SFIP) [EPA 305-B-98-001]: Provides questions and answers on SFIP. 5/98. Environmental News -- EPA's Expansion of Community Right-to-know Efforts, 5/98. (1340 kB PDF)

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Application Kit for Assistance 02/01; 41 pp; A form for application for EPA grants, to be submitted to the EPA grants operations Branch, Mail Code 3903R. (HTML)

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Guide to Environmental Issues, [EPA 520 B-94-001], 9/96, 84 pp. (Out of print, to be revised in Aug. 2001 by Cincinnati EPA Office.) (1180 kB PDF)

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Aiming for Excellence; Actions to Encourage Stewardship and Accelerate Environmental Progress, This is a report of the EPA Innovations Task Force, addressing EPA needs to promote regulatory compliance, and to encourage those willing arid able to do more, [EPA 100-R-99-006] 68 pp., 7/99. (960 kB PDF)

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EPA National Publications Catalog 2000, [EPA 200-B-00-001], 7/00, 232 pp. (This item must be ordered from the EPA National Center for Environmental Publications at 1-800-490-9198); for NEPIS (National Environmental Publications Information System) Service, go to http://nepis.epa.gov/.

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Resource Guide: Resolving Environmental Conflict in Communities [EPA 360-F-00-001] 5/00, 6 pp. Alternative and appropriate dispute resolution approaches are described. (344 kB PDF)

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Strategic Plan [EPA 190-R-00-002], 9/00, 109 pp. Sets forth the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Goals for assuming cleaner and healthier environment for the American People, and the approaches being taken to achieve these goals. (1440 kB PDF)

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Innovation at the Environmental Protection Agency - A Decade of Progress [EPA 100-R-00-020], 4/00, 36 pp (1340 kB PDF) or see the HTML Version

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Beyond Compliance Supplemental Environmental Projects [EPA 325-R-01-001], 01/01, 37 pp (1910 kB PDF)

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Learning to Listen: A Cooperative Approach to Developing Innovative Strategies - Lessons from the New Jersey Chemical Industry Project, Stakeholder Group [EPA 231-R-00-004, Washington, DC and New York, NY, respectively, Final Report, 05/00.  Describes the substantive results of the four pilots and the process and "Keys to Success" that led to the achievements of this exceptionally productive Stakeholder-driven project.

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Proposed Framework for a Flexible Track Program 05/07/97.  White paper that describes the draft structure for one of the first successful "alternative path" or alternative regulatory track programs for facilities with good environmental performance.  This paper led to the establishment of the highly respected New Jersey Silver and Gold Tract Program and also served as a model for EPA's National Environmental Performance Track.  Note: NJDEP has produced related documentation concerning the Silver Track: Silver and Gold Track Program Environmental Performance - Guidance Document, NJDEP, 08/99.

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How We Write Regulations: An Online Brochure [EPA]