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Clean
Air Act, Tier 2
Motor Vehicle Emission
Standards and Gasoline
Sulfur Control Requirements
Rule, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency,
Air Quality and
Standards Division
and the Alternative
Dispute Resolution
Team within the
Office of the Administrator:
convening assessment
on proposed regulations
to allow streamlined
permitting process
for oil refineries
to comply with the
Clean Air Act, Tier
2 Rules, requested
after concerns were
raised by environmental
justice advocates
and refinery “fence
line” communities.
As part of the formal
docket, the assessment
report was used
by EPA to justify
changes to the proposed
rule. |
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| Comprehensive
Environmental Management
Plan for Casco Bay
(ME) for the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency, National Estuary
Program with Maine
Department of Environmental
Protection Agency:
consensus process
for federal, state,
and local government,
industry, citizens,
scientists, environmentalists,
and other stakeholders
to develop Casco Bay
Estuary Project’s
Comprehensive Conservation
and Management Plan,
which covered combined
sewer overflows, development,
citizen environmental
stewardship, wastewater,
and existing toxic
sediments. |
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| Informational
Meetings for Responsible
Parties at Beede Superfund
Site, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency,
Region I:
informational meetings
for early de minimis
(smallest contributors)
settlement offered
to 900 potentially
responsible parties
(PRPs) to address
liability for cleanup
costs at waste oil
site. |
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| McKin
Superfund Site Remedy
Selection, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency,
Superfund, Region
I: convening
assessment for a mediation
process to review
and select remedies
for cleaning up the
McKin Superfund Site
after the responsible
parties requested
a remedy review to
determine the effectiveness
of a pump and treat
system in removing
PCBs from ground water.
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| Negotiated
Rulemaking Concerning
All Appropriate Inquiry
as required under
the Small Business
Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization
Act, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency:
negotiated rulemaking
process to develop
All Appropriate Inquiry
(AAI) standards and
practices for environmental
assessments. To assert
protection from CERCLA
(Superfund) liability
for brownfields, innocent
landowners, contiguous
property owners, bona
fide prospective purchasers,
and EPA brownfields
grantees must conduct
environmental site
assessments in accordance
with the AAI regulation.
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Common
Sense Initiative,
Iron and Steel Subcommittee,
U.S. Environmental
Agency, Office of
Water and Region V:
policy dialogue among
steel industry, environmentalists,
environmental justice
advocates, state and
federal government
officials, and union
representatives to
develop recommendations
for ways to regulate
the steel industry
that are “cleaner,
cheaper, and smarter,”
with a focus on permitting,
brownfields, innovative
technologies, and
compliance.
Winner
of Hammer Award:
National Partnership
for Reinventing Government. |
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| Ensuring
Emergency Response
During Superfund Cleanups,
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency,
Superfund, Region
I / Massachusetts
Office of Dispute
Resolution:
determined feasibility
of consensus process
for allocation and
location of state
hazardous materials
teams and identification
of training and equipment
needs for local emergency
response personnel,
to assure availability
for accidents at Superfund
sites. |
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| Guiding
Principles for Redeveloping
Steel-Industry Brownfields,
U.S. Environmental
Agency, Office of
Water and Region V:
Brownfields work group
of the Common Sense
Initiative, Iron and
Steel Subcommittee,
developed guiding
principles for brownfields
redevelopment, model
legislation for brownfields
authorities, protocols
for brownfield Supplemental
Environmental Projects
(SEPs), and oversight
of brownfields pilots
in Northwest Indiana
and Birmingham, Alabama. |
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| Massachusetts
Department of Environmental
Protection:
negotiation training
for regional engineers
and section chiefs
for settlement negotiations
concerning enforcement
cases for regulatory
violations, included
development of a simulation
involving surface
water discharge violations. |
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| National
Commission on Energy
Policy: developed
governing protocols
for Commission, including
decision-making rules,
voting procedures,
guidelines for media
interactions, and
procedures for filling
Commissioner vacancies.
The NCEP is a bi-partisan
commission that recently
released its consensus
national energy plan.
For more information,
please see www.energycommission.org. |
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| Orchard
Juice Company Simulation,
created for the Massachusetts
Department of Environmental
Protection:
used to train regional
engineers and section
chiefs for settlement
negotiations of enforcement
cases for regulatory
violations. The simulation
concerns surface water
discharge violations. |
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| Protocols
and Shared Expectations
for Relationship between
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
and Community Activists
at the Palmerton,
PA Zinc Superfund
Site: developed
protocols to govern
relationship between
EPA staff and community
activist groups. The
company responsible
for the cleanup is
the largest employer
in the town and a
generous donor to
community charities
and organizations. |
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| Recycling
Radioactive Scrap
Metal, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency,
Office of Radiation
and Indoor Air:
determined feasibility
of a negotiated rulemaking
to develop standards
for recycling slightly
radioactive scrap
metal. |
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| Renew
America:
workshops among award
winners to identify
and develop best practices
on a range of environmental
issues. |
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Reduction Plan, U.S.
Department of Commerce,
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration,
National Marine Fisheries
Service:
plan to reduce incidental
take of marine mammals
during commercial
fishing operations
as required under
the 1994 Amendments
to the Marine Mammal
Protection Act. Stakeholders,
including fishermen,
conservationists,
state and federal
government agencies,
scientists, regional
fisheries management
councils, and off-shore
concerns, sought to
protect marine mammals
and maintain a viable
fishing industry. |
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| Coastal
Stewardship Task Force
U.S. Department of
Commerce, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration:
facilitated Coastal
Stewardship Task Force
site visit meetings,
designed to review
NOAA’s coastal
research, resource
protection, and management
programs to assure
that NOAA’s
resources are being
used most effectively
and that NOAA’s
statutory mandates
are properly implemented. |
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| U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency, New Hampshire
Estuary Program:
workshop on consensus
building processes
and their potential
use by the New Hampshire
Estuary Project. |
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Fishladder
Claim Simulation,
created for the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers:
internal agency negotiation
regarding the use
of non-binding arbitration
to settle a contract
claim between a government
agency and a private
contractor.
Available
from the Program On
Negotiation |
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