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                                Spring 2001 NEW PUBLICATIONS

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        DESIGN FOR THE  ENVIRONMENT
        GENERAL DfE INFORMATION

        EPA/744/R-00012    Integrated Environmental  Management  Systems
                           Company Manual  Template for Small Business
                           (57  pp)            December 2000

        This manual  is  designed to show how Design  for the Environment
        (DfE)  technical work can be used  to support development of  an
        Integrated Environmental Management System' (IEMS). It  allows
        companies to: maintain and improve  their lEMSs,  improve system
        implementation  and  systematization  across other company
        management systems.


        DESIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
        PRINTED WIRING BOARDS

        EPA/744/R-00013A  Printed Wiring Board Surface Finishes: Draft
                          Cleaner Technologies Substitutes Assess
                           (472 pp)           December 2000

        EPA/744/R-00013B  Printed Wiring Board Surface Finishes: Draft
                          Cleaner Technologies Substitutes Assess
                           (417 pp)          December 2.0OD  	           ••-.•


        Volume 1  presents a  detailed technical analysis  of the  public
        health and environmental  risk, performance,  cost and natural
        resource  for  use for six  surface  finish technologies that can be
        used in printed wiring board manufacturing.  The  standard tin-lead


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"hot air solder leveling" process and five lead-free alternatives
were evaluated. Volume 2 contains the appendices cited  in Volume
1, including raw data tables.

Available online at
http: //www. epa. crov/opptintr/dfe/pwb/ctsasurf/pwb-pub. htm

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