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To access all Centers on the Internet, go to:
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1-888-USPNEAC (effective 11/97)
http://www.pneac.org
PNEAC addresses the environmental compli-
ance needs of small printers and provides
information on how to achieve compliance by
reducing waste and emissions. Information is
provided through a World Wide Web site,
satellite training, "best-in-class" pollution pre-
vention case studies, videoconferences, and
two e-mail discussion groups: PRINTECH,
designed for technical printing issues/ and
PRINTREG, which focuses on environmental
laws and regulations affecting the printing
industry.
PNEAC is operated
by the University of
Wisconsin's Solid &
Hazardous Waste
" Education Center,
the Waste
Management and Resource Center of the
Illinois Department of Natural Resources, and
the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, with
the collaboration of 12 industry associations,
nonprofits, and government agencies.
Ho'w to stay up-to-date with ike
latest environmental regulations
arid get 'help with compliance
and download-self-audit tools and
liear about "pollution 'prevention
ideas and join a chat room
arid talk to experts about your •
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technical questions..
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L mall Business Compliance Assistance
I Centers represent an innovative
'approach to help small and medium-
sized businesses nationwide better understand
and comply with federal environmental
requirements.
Developed by EPA's Office of Compliance,
each center focuses on one industry and is
operated in partnership with industry, acade-
mic institutions, environmental groups, and
other federal and state agencies. The goal is to
help the hundreds of thousands of small busi-
nesses across America:
• Identify the specific federal environmental
regulations that apply to their own line of
business.
• Take appropriate steps to improve their com-
pliance with environmental regulations.
• Consider pollution prevention approaches
and environmental improvements that will
bring profits and savings to the company.
The centers also provide state and local offi-
cials with detailed technical information on
federal rules and pollution prevention tech-
nologies.
Each Compliance Assistance Center provides
some or all of the following services via the
Internet and toll-free telephone:
• Easy access to federal regulations, interpreta-
tions, and guidance.
• Compliance tools and process-specific training.
• Information exchange through e-mail discus-
sion groups.
• Databases of technologies and pollution pre-
vention ideas.
Four Compliance Assistance Centers are
already up and running, and four more are on
the way.
GreenlJnk*
1-888-GRN-L1NK (476-5465)
http://www.ccar-green-
link.org
CCAR-GreenLink® pro-
vides compliance assis-
tance to the automotive
service industry, pri-
marily owners and tech-
nicians of auto body
and repair shops, but
also automotive trade
associations, automotive educators and students,
and car dealer service departments.
Operated by CCAR, the Coordinating Committee
for Automotive Repair, a consortium of 38 indus-
try affiliates, CCAR-GreenLink® provides infor-
mation on compliance requirements, technolo-
gies, and activities that can reduce pollution. Also
available from CCAR-GreenLink® are several .
tools:
• Consolidated multi-media checklists that can be
used by shop owners as a self-assessment tool,
or by state inspectors as a .building block to
design their own multi-media checklists.
• Environmental cur-
riculum modules
that walk shop own-
ers and technicians
through statutes, reg-
ulations, and health
and environmental
issues for each auto
service activity.
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1-800-AT-NMFRC
http://www.nmfrc.org
The NMFRC is
designed as the
most comprehen- Nationai Metal Finishing
sive and substantive Resource Center
environmental com-
pliance, technical assistance, and pollution pre-
vention information source available to the metal
finishing industry. The center's Internet Web site
offers information in convenient and user-rfriehd-
ly forms. Users can, for
example:
• Search the NMFRC
technical databases
for abstracts, full-text
articles, and reports.
• Find summaries of
environmental, safe-
ty, and health regula-
tions.
• Download, read, and
print full-text regula-
tions.
• Get listed in the
Vendor Directory, or search the director^ for
more than 300 suppliers of metal finishing
equipment and services.
• Enter the NMFRC On-Line Conferences: read
messages, post a question, give an opinion.
• Find metal finishing shops in specific geograph-
ic locations.
• Use on-line calculators to determine flow
requirements for rinsing, coating weights, costs
for plating jobs, etc.
http://es.inel.gov/oeca/ag/aghmpg.html
The Ag Center provides information to help
producers of agricultural commodities and
their supporting businesses meet their envi-
ronmental requirements, prevent pollution,
and identify flexible, common-sense ways to
achieve compliance.
1 Communications efforts are directed primarily
toward agricultural information providers —
• including federal and state agencies, land
; grant universities, trade associations, industry
representatives, product and service providers,
farm worker associations, environmental
advocacy groups, and the agricultural press
• and trade journals — who ultimately convey
: information to farmers and farmworkers.
The Ag Center's home page on the EPA
Enviro$en$e Web site offers information on a
variety of topics, including:
• Pesticides
• Non-point source pollution
• Ground water, surface water, and drinking
water prciifection
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0 Animal waste management
• Agricultural worker protection
• Wetlands protection :"
The Ag Center is coordinated from EPA's
Kansas City Regional Office, giving it direct
access to a large segment of the agricultural
community. .
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