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N E W S & N O T E S EMS Resource Centers Available to Assist Local Governments The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated seven organizations around the country to become environmental management systems (EMS) local resource centers. These centers will help local agencies adopt EMSs to improve their overall environmental performance and compliance and meet environmental goals. The announcement supports EPA’s overall policy of actively promoting adoption of EMSs that help improve environmental performance and compliance. EMSs, used extensively in private industry, are now being adopted by a growing number of local governments, through work led by the Office of Water in collaboration with other EPA offices. EMSs provide organizations with a structured process for identifying and then reducing a broad range of environmental impacts from their operations and meeting key environmental goals. The designated EMS local resource centers are located in existing academic or other nonprofit institutions that have a proven track record of providing high quality environmental assistance in their respective areas. The organizations selected as EMS resource centers include the following: • Georgia Institute of Technology—Economic Development Institute; Contact: Tim Israel, (404) 894-0968, tim.israel@edi.gatech.edu. • Purdue University – Center for Clean Manufacturing Technology and Safe Materials (CMTI); Contact: Lynn Corson, (765) 463- 4749, corson@purdue.edu. • Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; Contact: Ken Zarker, (512) 239-3145, kzarker@tceq.state.tx.us. • University of Florida—Center for Training, Research, and Education for Environmental Occupations (TREEO); Contact: William Engel, (352) 392-9570 bengel@treeo.doce. ufl.edu. • University of Massachusetts at Lowell—EMS Service Program; Contact: Matthew Donahue, (978) 934-4741, matthew_donahue@uml.edu. • Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University—Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement (COTA); Contact: Robert Herbert, (540) 853-8276, bherbert@vt.edu. • The Zero Waste Alliance in Portland, Oregon; Contact: Larry Chalfan, (503) 279- 9383, lchalfan@zerowaste.org. EPA will work with the centers to help them better serve the needs of local and state agencies that wish to learn more about EMSs and adopt them for their operations. Each center will also share information on their activities through an online national clearinghouse of EMS information for public agencies, available at www.peercenter.net. Additional information about the local resource centers can be found at www.peercenter.net/resourcecenters/. A New Version of EnviroMapper is Now Available Small Flows Quarterly, Fall 2004, Volume 5, Number 4 EPA’s Office of Water has just released a new version of EnviroMapper for Water (www.epa.gov/waters/enviromapper/). EnviroMapper for Water provides a Web-based mapping connection to a wealth of water data. You can use it to view and map data, such as the uses assigned to local waters by your state (fishing, swimming, etc), waters that are impaired and do not support their assigned uses, the reasons why waters are impaired, water quality monitoring information, closures of swimming beaches, and the location of dischargers. Maps can be viewed at the national, regional, state, or local levels. This latest release of EnviroMapper for Water (Version 3.0) features several new layers of water data including EPA’s national water quality database STORET, National Estuary Program study areas, and the location of nonpoint source projects. Other enhancements make it easier to locate and view these data, and instructions are included describing how to incorporate the resulting map into your own Web page. For more information, contact Tommy Dewald at dewald.tommy@epa.gov or (202) 566-1178. 10
Seattle’s Stormwater Program Wins Innovations in American Government Award Seattle, Washington’s stormwater initiative has won an esteemed Innovations in American Government Award. Seattle’s Natural Drainage Systems Program uses plants, trees, and soil to purify and transport the city’s stormwater runoff. The goals of the program are to infiltrate and slow stormwater flow, filter and bioremediate pollutants by soils and plants, reduce impervious surface, increase vegetation, and improve the pedestrian experience. Impervious surfaces such as rooftops, streets, and parking lots do not allow rainwater to seep into the soil. Consequently, the water flows quickly and in great volumes to Seattle’s creeks—a significant part of the city’s drainage system. Pollutants generated by urban activities, such as landscaping, transportation, and business, are carried through creeks into lakes and Puget Sound, impacting the food chain that supports native marine fish populations. Projects under the Natural Drainage Systems Program use natural features—open, vegetated swales, stormwater cascades, and small wetland ponds—to mimic the functions of nature lost to urbanization. New technologies like porous pavement are also being employed and tested. For 17 years, the Innovations in American Government Award has recognized quality and responsiveness at all levels of government, honored government efforts that are creative, effective, and address significant problems, and has fostered the replication of innovative approaches to the challenges facing government. The award is a program of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and is administered in partnership with the Council for Excellence in Government. Referred to as the Oscars of good government, the award includes a grant of $100,000 to help expand the program. For more information about Seattle’s Natural Drainage Systems Program, go to Seattle’s Web site at www.seattle.gov/util/About_ SPU/Drainage_&_Sewer_System/Natural_Dr ainage_Systems/index.asp. For more information about the Innovations in American Government Awards, click on www.excelgov.org/ displayContent.asp?Keyword=aiHomePage. N E W S & N O T E S Revised EPA Policy Provides Incentives for Small Local Governments to Seek Compliance Assistance The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the Small Local Governments Compliance Assistance Policy, which revises and supercedes EPA’s Policy on Flexible State Enforcement Responses to Small Community Violations. EPA issued the revised policy to clarify who are the intended recipients of state penalty mitigation benefits under the prior policy, and to make those benefits available, in defined circumstances, to local governments with larger resident populations and in response to a wider variety of environmental compliance activities. By establishing parameters within which EPA will generally defer to a state’s decision to reduce or waive the normal noncompliance penalty of a unit of small, general-purpose local government, the revised policy provides an incentive for small local governments to seek compliance assistance from their states and take the actions necessary to achieve and sustain comprehensive environmental compliance. The revised policy became effective on June 2, 2004. To view a copy of the policy, go to the Web at www.lgean.org/html/whatsnew. cfm?id=763. For more information, contact Kenneth Harmon at (202) 564-7049 or harmon.kenneth@epa.gov. Small Flows Quarterly, Fall 2004, Volume 5, Number 4 11
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