Complete report - Partners for Clean Streams
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Actions Suggested<br />
in the Maumee RAP<br />
Recommendations<br />
Report<br />
Recommend that the State of Ohio<br />
provide businesses with on-site<br />
technical assistance to reduce toxic<br />
chemical releases, serve as an<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mation clearinghouse on waste<br />
reduction, conduct educational<br />
programs on toxic chemical release<br />
reduction or elimination, thereby<br />
incorporation pollution prevention<br />
practices. (3.12.2)<br />
Recommend that State enabling<br />
legislation be enacted such as the<br />
“Tough on Toxics” bill, SB 234 and H.B.<br />
611, known as the Toxic Chemical<br />
Release Reduction Act, or similar<br />
legislation. (3.12.2)<br />
Recommend the establishment of a<br />
major program of fellowships <strong>for</strong><br />
engineering or industrial chemistry<br />
students, giving them training and field<br />
experience in conducting plant audits<br />
and assessing waste reduction project<br />
options, or establishment of courses <strong>for</strong><br />
mid-career engineers and chemists to<br />
introduce them to this new waste<br />
management strategy. (3.12.2)<br />
Recommend the creation of a new<br />
leadership entity within Ohio<br />
government that could use plant<br />
chemical use and discharge data to<br />
identify the greatest industrial waste<br />
reduction needs in the state, set<br />
priorities <strong>for</strong> the most effective<br />
expenditure of monies, and focus on<br />
technical assistance. (3.12.2)<br />
Recommend creating a state office with<br />
specific responsibility <strong>for</strong> waste<br />
reduction, separate from environmental<br />
offices dealing with regulatory<br />
functions, to deal with “pollution<br />
prevention pays” (3.12.2)<br />
Recommend that hazardous waste<br />
generating facilities <strong>for</strong> purposes of<br />
their own planning conduct periodic<br />
audits, develop plans and document<br />
their accomplishments in waste<br />
reduction. (3.12.2)<br />
ISSUE 14: ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION<br />
Action<br />
&<br />
&<br />
Activity<br />
Ohio EPA Office of<br />
Pollution<br />
Prevention<br />
Ohio Revised<br />
Code Sections<br />
3751.01-3751.03<br />
Maumee RAP<br />
Involvement<br />
None<br />
None<br />
Date<br />
1989-<br />
Present<br />
1988,<br />
1996-<br />
Present<br />
Beneficial<br />
Use<br />
Affected<br />
See<br />
Page<br />
1, 3, 4, 6, 14 208<br />
1, 3, 4, 6, 14 208<br />
" - - - - -<br />
%<br />
Ohio<br />
%<br />
Ohio<br />
&<br />
EPA Office of<br />
Pollution<br />
Prevention<br />
EPA Office of<br />
Pollution<br />
Prevention<br />
Regional Air<br />
Pollutant Inventory<br />
Development<br />
System (RAPIDS)<br />
None 1989 1, 3, 4, 6, 14 208<br />
None 1989 1, 3, 4, 6, 14 208<br />
None Ongoing 1, 3, 4, 6, 14 209<br />
Activities and Accomplishments<br />
in the Maumee Area of Concern<br />
44<br />
Issue 14: Atmospheric Deposition
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