Advancing Environmental Protection Through PBEPs

How Do You Demonstrate the Value of Your PBEP in Meeting Agency Goals?

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National Program Managers Guidance: Annually Look and See How Your Program Fits In• NPM Guidance documents are issued annually by EPA’s

five major program offices:– Air & Radiation – Water– Solid Waste and Emergency Response – Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances – Enforcement & Compliance Assurance

• The NPM Guidance documents provide EPA’s 10 regional offices, the states and tribes with guidance on specific priorities and implementation strategies for the coming year.

2009 OSW NPM Guidance Examples • Billions of lbs of MSW

reduced, reused, recycled

• Millions of tons of C&D waste reused/recycled

• Number of Brownfield properties assessed

• Number of lbs of priority chemicals reduced

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2009 OW NPM Guidance Examples

• Number of communities with safe drinking water (alternate goal)

• Addressing impaired watersheds (alternate goal)

• Reduction in non-point source pollutants

• Net increase in wetland acreage• Address regional concerns:

– Great Lakes– Chesapeake Bay– Gulf of Mexico– Long Island Sound– South Florida– Puget Sound– Columbia River Basin

2009 OAR NPM Guidance Examples• Percent reduction in PM 2.5• Number of Title V permits

issued (FAPs)• Number of existing heavy

duty diesel engines retired, retrofitted, replaced

• Air toxics reductions• Number of pledges or

pledge renewals for change a light campaign

• Number of outreach activities in support of Smart Way

For Further Information on NPM Goals

http://epa.gov/ocfo/npmguidance/index.htm

National Program Manager (NPM) Guidance