EPA904-R-95-002
                              June 1995
            EPA REGION IV
         OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION & PUBLIC OUTREACH
 1994 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION REPORT

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                           TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction	1
Background	1
Ongoing Activities	1

Office of Public Affairs Organization Chart	2
1994 Environmental Education Grants Site Locations Map	2

EPA Region IV Program Offices

Environmental Education and Public Outreach Staff	3
Air, Pesticides and Toxics Management Division	6
Environmental Services Division	7
Waste Management Division  	7
Water Management Division  	8
Office of Policy and Management 	9
Office of Regional Counsel  	10

EPA Region IV Office of Research and Development Laboratories

Athens, Georgia	11
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina   	12

EPA Region IV States

AL Department of Environmental Management	14
FL Department of Environmental Protection	16
GA Department of Natural Resources	17
KY Natural Resources & Environmental Protection Cabinet  	18
MS Department of Environmental Quality	21
NC Department of Environment, Health & Natural Resources	23
SC Department of Health and Environmental Control	25
TN Department of Environment and Conservation	27
Acknowledgements	Inside Back Cover

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       REGION 4  1994 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION REPORT
INTRODUCTION

The Environmental Education and
Public Outreach Staff was created
in 1991 in the Office  of Public
Affairs,  EPA, Region 4. Its main
objectives are to:

•   increase public understanding
    of  EPA's   mission   and
    activities;

•   promote public awareness of
    environmental issues;

•   advance   and   develop
    environmental  education and
    training; and

•   solicit personal and corporate
    commitment to environmental
    protection through  education
    and outreach.

BACKGROUND

On November  16,  1990,  the
National Environmental  Education
Act became law (Public Law 101-
619).  It builds upon environmental
education    efforts  previously
undertaken   by  the EPA  and
establishes formal communication
and advisory links with educational
institutions   and  other  federal
agencies.

Specific provisions of the  law
implemented include:

•  awarding   environmental
   education  grants  to  support
   projects   that   design,
   demonstrate,  and  disseminate
   environmental   education
   activities;

•  awarding internships for college
   students and fellowships for in-
   service teachers  to work with
   the professional staff of federal
   agencies   involved   in
   environmental activities; and
•  providing  for  national  and
   regional  awards  that recognize
   outstanding   contributions  to
   environmental education.

ONGOING ACTIVITIES

To implement and  administer  a
comprehensive  environmental
education and outreach program in
EPA Region 4,  the following is
done:

•  Contact  and cultivate working
   relationships    with   major
   educational, business, and civic
   organizations,  as  well as print
   and  broadcast   media   to
   disseminate  information about
   EPA's operations and activities.

•  Coordinate outreach activities to
   provide environmental education
   information  to the public at
   exhibits,  expos, and conventions
   at the local, state, regional, and
   national levels.

•  Coordinate a Region 4 Speakers
   Bureau to meet public requests
   for speakers on  environmental
   issues.

•  Coordinate   the  President's
   Environmental Youth Awards
   (PEYA)  Program for Region 4
   to recognize youth projects that
   promote  local  environmental
   awareness  and  channel  that
   awareness    into   positive
   community involvement.

•  Staff a  toll-free  hot-line to
   respond  to public requests for
   environmental  information.

The following report is published
by   the   EPA   Region   4's
Environmental    Education   and
Public Outreach Staff, based upon
information  provided  by  EPA
Region 4's program offices, states,
and laboratories.  Its main purpose
is  to  report  on  the  state  of
environmental 'education in Region
4 during 1994 and share ideas and
activities in education and outreach
that others  may  use to  build
effective partnerships and further
the   goals   of   environmental
education.

The report  is  not intended  to
capture   all   of  the   many
environmental  education  efforts
currently  underway,  but should
provide a summary of some of the
most significant outreach activities
taking  place  in  environmental
education in Region 4.

By  sharing  these  environmental
education activities and successes,
we   hope  to  generate   ideas,
facilitate   communication  among
environmental   education
professionals, provide networks for
information and resource sharing,
facilitate the identification of gaps
in   environmental   education
resources and encourage strategies
to eliminate them,  and avoid the
fragmentation and  duplication of
activities.  We hope to increase the
success of environmental education
in the  Region and mobilize the
public  to  greater  environmental
awareness,   understanding,  and
action.

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              U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                      Region 4 Organization
              (404)347-3004    FAX  (404)347-3721
                       REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR
                            John H. HsnMnson, Jr.
                   DEPUTY REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR
                              Patrick M. Tobln
                      OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
                     Frank Redmond   - Director
                     Lena Scott       - Secretary
                     Delia Moore       - Receptionist
                     Fannie Barren     - Clark-Typist (SEE)
    PRESS & INFORMATION STAFF
          Hagan Thompson - Chief
                                                     _L
   Carl Tarry
- Public Affairs Spec.
   C. Thompson  - Public Affairs Spec.
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                         EPA REGION 4 PROGRAM OFFICES
ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION   &   PUBLIC
OUTREACH STAFF,  OFFICE
OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Environmental Education Grants

Contact: Norman Black/Fred Thornburg,
404-347-3555, ext. 6746

In 1994, $180,000 in grants were
awarded   to   22   eligible
organizations in the eight states in
Region   4   for   environmental
education projects.    Eighteen  of
these awards were  for $5,000  or
less  and were   made  to  K-12
schools,  non-profit  environmental
and educational organizations, and
local youth organizations. Projects
included   a  wide  range   of
environmental education activities
intended  to  improve   students
awareness,   knowledge,   and
understanding of  environmental
issues.  In addition, East Carolina
University  was awarded $36,551
by   the  EPA's    Office   of
Environmental   Education   in
Washington,   D.C.,  to provide
elementary and junior high school
science  teachers  with knowledge
and  instructional skills  to  teach
students   about   coastal
environmental problems  in eastern
North Carolina.   Profiles  of the
1994 projects can be obtained by
contacting the office at  the above
number.

Grants Writing  Workshop

Contact: Alice Chastain, 404-347-3555,ext.
6747

Three  grants  writing workshops
were conducted:  one in Roswell,
Georgia,  and  two  in   Raleigh,
North Carolina,  to a total of 75
teachers  and PTA leaders.   This
gave  attendees   skills  to   write
                                                      Photo by Norman Black
Students from Williamson County schools, in Tennessee, gather samples of aquatic life, in a
branch of the Harpeth River, near Franklin, Tennessee, during the 1994 Fall semester. The
cross-curriculum project includes advanced, average, and problem youths and uses
environmental studies to teach Biology, Chemistry, Ecology, Life Science, English, and
other subjects.
grants,  or  look for  alternative
funding for their projects.

President's Environmental Youth
Awards (PEYA) Program

Contact: Alice Chastain, 404-347-3555,ext.
6747

The PEYA Program  recognizes
youth projects that promote local
environmental   awareness   and
channel   that   awareness   into
positive community  involvement.
The  best  projects are  given an
award   by  the  President.   The
PEYA Program in Region 4 had
11 entries in 1994, of which 6
were eligible to be judged on the
national  level.    Nearly  14,000
PEYA  applications  were mailed
out in 1994 within the region.  The

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student members of the Morgan
County High Scb.ool FFA Chapter,
in  Madison,  Georgia,  won  the
1994 PEYA award for Region 4.
The  group plained, built,  and
organized the first county recycling
center, an outdoor study area, and
a wildlife habitat.

Speakers Bureau

Contact: Alice Chaitrin, 404-347-3555,ext.
6747

The Region  4  Speakers  Bureau
coordinates the services  of 104
full-time  Region  4  employees.
Each  media   and  program  is
represented. Created in 1990, this
program sends EPA speakers on
environmental topics to industry,
community, and civic groups, as
well as to universities and  K-12
public and private schools.   In
1994, 53 presentations were made
by volunteer spsakers.

Environmental   Education
Mailing List Database

Contact: Alice Clmtain/Fred Thornburg,
404-347-3555, ext. 6747

The office  maintains and updates,
as needed,  a computerized mailing
list  database   of  approximately
14,000 schools and environmental
organizations in (he region, which
can be sorted by state and type of
school for  targeted environmental
education mailings.

Exhibits and Shows

Contact: Wesley Lambert, 404-347-3555,
ext.  6758

EPA  Region 4  took part in  the
following eventu during 1994:

•   Georgia Cocjservancy Youth
    Conference,   Galloway
    Gardens, GA,  Feb. 25-27
•   Atlanta   Braves   Env
    Awareness Day, Atlanta, GA,
    April 20
 •  Dogwood Festival, Atlanta,
    GA, April 21-23
 •  Public Service Recognition
    Day, Atlanta, GA, May 4
 •  Cultural   Diversity   Day
    Celebration,  Atlanta,  GA,
    September 30
 •  Zoo   Conservation    Day,
    Atlanta, GA, Sept. 30
 •  Florida   Environmental
    Expo, Tampa, FL, Oct. 10-13
 •  Sunbelt  Agricultural Expo,
    Moultrie, GA, Oct. 18-20
 •  Environmental  Technology
    Expo, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 7-9

EPA   environmental   education
literature, posters, bookmarks, and
other  educational handouts  are
distributed during these events.

Public   Notices,   Meetings,
Hearings

Contact: Lena  Scott, 404-347-3555, ext.
6754

Three  hundred   eighteen  (318)
public  notices were  issued;  12
public service announcements were
placed  with radio stations in areas
where major public meetings were
scheduled; and one public hearing
was coordinated during 1994.

Volunteer Outreach Program

Contact: Wesley Lambert, 404-347-3555,
ext. 6758

EPA employees volunteer  for a
wide variety of programs in the
local   community  to  promote
environmental awareness such as
tutoring subjects in adopt-a-school
programs, judging  science  fair
projects  in   the  Atlanta  Public
Schools and Apple Corps, and a
mentoring program  with  Clark
Atlanta University.   Since  1993,
the  region   has  planned   and
implemented various aspects of the
President's   National   Service
Initiative which allows college-age
participants to pay back a portion
of   their   college   tuition  by
performing   acts   of  volunteer
service  in   their  communities.
Presently, a corps of 10 National
Service  participants   has  been
established to perform community
service work, including an urban
stream  restoration project and a
lead and radon outreach effort in
low-income  areas of Atlanta, GA.

Regional/State/Local Networks

The office  established  working
relationships and partnerships with
a number of federal,  state, local,
and  private sector organizations
during   1994   and  maintained
relationships set  up  in  previous
years  with  other  organizations.
These included:

Atlanta  Braves  Environmental
Awareness Day was co-ordinated
in partnership with the U.S. Fish
&   Wildlife  Service,   Georgia
Conservancy, Georgia Department
of  Natural  Resources,  Georgia
Wildlife Federation, National Park
Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S.
Geological    Survey,    Nature
Conservancy, Corps of Engineers,
Atlanta Botanical  Gardens,  Save
the  Manatee Club, Zoo Atlanta,
Turner Broadcasting System, and
National Foundation  to  Protect
America's Eagles.  This event was
held at the Atlanta-Fulton County
Stadium during the opening  week
of the Atlanta Braves 1994 baseball
season, with an  estimated 50,000
in attendance.
Contact: Wesley Lambert,  404-347-3555,
ext. 6758

Earth  Day  was observed at the
Dogwood Festival, Atlanta, GA.
Environmental   information,
wildflower seeds, and nearly 7000
dogwood seedlings (donated by the
Pennington   Seed   Company,
Madison,  Georgia)  were  given
visitors.
Contact: Alice Chastain, 404-347-3555,ext.
6747

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International Programs

Contact: Norman Black, 404-347-3555, ext.
6746

The office was host to 54 foreign
visitors, from  10 countries, on 14
occasions,  during  1994.    The
agendas for these  visits normally
included technical presentations by
EPA Region 4's staff, as well as
an  opportunity for  the visitors to
get  and  give   information about
environmental problems, laws, and
enforcement.   The  visitors hosted
in 1994 were from:

     - China (3)
     - Colombia (1)
     - El Salvador (2)
     - Ethopia (1)
     - Ireland (1)
     - Mexico (1)
     - Philippines (10)
     - Russia (21)
     - Slovak Republic (6)
     - United Kingdom (8)

The  visitors'   agendas   included
presentations,  at  two  Superfund
sites,  in  Florida,   for 20 of  the
Russian  visitors;   visits  by   the
Chinese visitors to municipal waste
pickup  and   recycling   sites   in
Georgia;  a visit,  by  the Mexican
visitor,  to  a  municipal  drinking
waterworks, in Georgia; and visits
by  the El Salvadorians  and three
British    visitors    to  EPA
laboratories, in Athens, Georgia.

Other  Education  &  Outreach
Activities

•  Earth Day/Month   -  During
April,    speakers   made
presentations,  at lunch and  learn
sessions,  at Region 4's offices, on
environmental  topics.
Contact: Alice Chastain, 404-347-3555,ext.
6747

•   Sunbelt   Agricultural
Exposition, Moultrie, GA -  this
agribusiness expo  hosted about
                                                          Photo by Norman Black
Patrick M. Tobin (fourth from the left), Region 4's Deputy Regional Administrator, talks
with Philippine visitors after his presentation to them about the EPA and Region 4's
activities.  The 10-member Philippine group visited Region 4 during 1994.
                                                           Photo by Norman Black
Staff members of the Washington, D.C., bureau of China Central Television (CCT) record
action, during 1994, at a newspaper recycling collection building, in Marietta, Georgia.
An editor and two members of CCT's Washington editorial staff recorded recycling efforts in
Marietta and Roswell, Georgia, for a nation-wide report in their homeland.  The group was
escorted by Sinclair Ke, Project Officer of the U.S.I.A. 's Television and Film Service, and
Norman Black, International Visitors Coordinator of the U.S. EPA's Region 4, who also
arranged the visitors schedule.
206,000 persons and featured 1042
exhibitors in 1994.  The office co-
ordinated  six  exhibits   and  18
exhibitors  from   various  media
including representatives from the
Air,   Waste,    and    Water
Management  Divisions   and  the
Environmental Services Division in
Athens, Georgia.  This is the most
intensive  education and outreach
effort   to    the  agricultural
community during the year.
Contact: Wesley Lambert, 404-347-3555,
ext. 6758

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•    Environmental  education
packages  -  the  office  receives
approximately   5-10    requests
weekly from teachers, students and
the  public  for  environmental
education  materials.  Nearly  400
packages were assembled and  sent
out in 1994 upon either phone or
written request for use  as lesson
plans,   teaching   aids,   school
reports,  etc.
Contact: Alice Chat tc.in, 404-347-3555,ext.
6747

Photography

Contact:  Norman Black , 404/347-3555,
ext. 6746

Still  photography   was  taken,
throughout 1994, of news events
and events  of  interest  to  the
region's employees.  The resulting
prints  were  used  with  news
releases    sent  to  the  general
readership and specialty press, as
well as  hi the region's  employee
newsletter.

AIR,   PESTICIDES  AND
TOXICS   MANAGEMENT
DIVISION

Contact: Greg Glahn, 404-347-3043

Lead Based Paint Program

The Division printed 1994 Lead
Awareness   Calendars,   which
inform  the  public  about  lead
exposure  hazards,   and  mailed
nearly  16,000  of them  to  the
National Headstirt Association and
National  Association  of County
Health Officials.  The distribution
was done jointty by EPA Region 4
and the  Natiomil  Safety Council.
Lead-based   paint   program
personnel  met with  states   and
legislators to prc vide education and
outreach about the program  and
spoke at several conferences within
the region and  nationally  about
lead-based paint issues.
Air  Information Resources  for
Education (A.I.R.E.)

A.I.R.E.   is   a   stand-alone
curriculum developed jointly by the
EPA's Office of Air and Radiation
and   the   American   Lung
Association.   The  curriculum is
directed  to  specific  age  groups,
from kindergartners to high school
seniors.  The Division  distributed
and promoted this curriculum's use
by   the   region's   employee
volunteers,   state   and   local
agencies,  school  systems,   and
parent-teacher organizations.

Indoor Air Outreach

The Division, in cooperation with
the  Georgia Consumer  Center,
conducted an "Indoor Air House of
Horrors", on the  Friday  before
Halloween.   School children  and
news  media  personnel   were
educated by  ghoulish figures on
household hazards such as radon,
lead, asbestos,  pesticides,  carbon
monoxide, and secondhand smoke.
The event was  in the local news
and  also on  the  Cable  News
Network.

Pesticides - Outreach

The Division  implemented  an
aggressive program to  educate
various groups  about  pesticides
programs.    The  outreach  was
accomplished through speeches and
displays   designed  to   illustrate
various   programs,   including
worker protection, containers,  and
labels;   the  conduct of  training
sessions;  and the distribution of
educational  materials.     Major
presentations   included   the
Turfgrass Councils,  Agricultural
Aviation Association, and Aquatic
Management  Societies.
Presentations on the Endangered
Species Program were given at
meetings  of the  Environmental
Law for  Foresters  and Forestry
Herbicides.   Presentations on the
Worker Protection Standard (WPS)
were   given   at   the   Florida
Agricultural   Seminars'    Labor
Relations   Seminars,   at   which
regulations for the protection of
agricultural   workers   were
discussed,  with contractors  and
agricultural employers.  All Region
4 states' pesticide inspectors (about
ISO state employees) took part in
these  WPS courses,   and some
WPS  educational  material  was
distributed to state agencies and in
response to public requests.

Stratospheric Ozone Depletion

The   Division  implemented   an
extensive program to educate the
public   and   the    regulated
community about  the  regulatory
requirements under Title VI of the
Clean   Air   Act.      Various
presentations were hosted by the
regulated  community  or
government  agencies,   including
meetings  of   the   Birmingham
Chapter of the  American  Society
of Heating, Refrigerating and Air
Conditioning Engineers, Inc.; the
Heating,   Ventilation  and  Air
Conditioning   Wholesalers
Association;  and  the  Southern
States  Chapter  of  the Air  and
Waste Management Association.

Asbestos Education Program

The Asbestos Hazard  Emergency
Response   Act    requires  the
mandatory   training   and
accreditation of persons  who do
asbestos-related  work   in  the
schools.    The  1990  Asbestos
School   Hazard   Abatement
Reauthorization   Act   extended
training   and   accreditation
requirements   to   persons   that
perform  work  in  public  and
commercial   buildings.     The
Division   made  numerous
presentations  to school  officials
and educators, industry, and state
representatives  to  address  the
asbestos  regulatory requirements

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and communicate the health effects
of  asbestos  exposure.    These
groups   included   the   South
Carolina/North  Carolina
Environmental   Information
Association,  Federal  Facilities
Annual   Meeting,  Southeastern
States   Asbestos   Conference,
Amoco   Asbestos  Renewal
Meeting,   Oak  Ridge
Environmental  Quality Board -
Asbestos in the Home seminar,
and the Georgia Military  College
environmental studies class.
ENVIRONMENTALSERVICES
DIVISION

Contact: Cindy Kesler, 706-546-3133

Ambient Air Monitoring  -Tim
Slagle, Air Compliance Unit, made
a presentation to Prof. Bamhart's
environmental science class,  at the
University  of  Georgia,  Athens
(UGA), on air monitoring methods
and   emerging   monitoring
technologies.   On another  date,
Danny France, Air  Compliance
Unit,  lectured the class about the
air module  of the Basic Inspector
Training   course.     His   talk
addressed   the  Clean  Air  Act
Amendments,   ambient   air
pollutants,  and  air  monitoring
techniques.

Waste Water Orientation  -  On
January   18-20,   the  Water
Compliance  Unit's  staff  held a
waste water orientation course, in
Athens, Georgia,  for the Region
4's  Waste  Management  Division
and   Georgia's   Environmental
Protection Division (EPD).   The
course was designed to familiarize
the  participants  with the  basic
concepts   of   waste  water
characteristics,  treatment,
monitoring   methods,   and
regulatory  requirements.     It
included  demonstrations of flow
measurement  and    sampling
equipment and a tour of two waste
water treatment plants.  About 25
EPA and EPD employees took part
in the course.

Activated Sludge Process Control
Workshop - On May 10,  12, and
24, Antonio Quinones and  Mike
Bowden held an Activated Sludge
Process Control  Workshop for
UGA's   Environmental   Health
Science Program.   The course
dealt  with  the basic operational
principles of the activated sludge
process and  how  to   conduct
activated sludge process  control
tests.

UGA - Tim Slagle lectured to the
Environmental  Health  Science's
class,   at   UGA,   about  air
monitoring methods and emerging
monitoring technologies.

National   Association   of
Institutional Linen Management
-  On January  20, Mike Carter
talked to the Georgia Association
of  the  National  Association  of
Institutional  Linen  Management
about  NPDES   monitoring
regulations and the Clean Air Act.
About SO people attended.

Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition -
 On October 18-20, members of
the  Ecological Support  Branch
participated   in   the    Sunbelt
Agricultural  Exposition  held  at
Moultrie,   Georgia.      The
Exposition is the largest farm show
in the nation  that features  field
demonstrations.   The  show has
grown steadily  year to year,  from
437 exhibitors in 1987 to 1,042 in
1994. More than 205,000 persons
passed through the  gates at the
1994 show, including visitors from
30 foreign countries.

There   were   52   educational
exhibitors, including several  from
the EPA in Atlanta and Athens.
The Ecological Support Branch of
the   Environmental   Services
Division had  a booth with  the
Georgia EPD, at which was shown
an artificial, flowing stream and its
aquatic  insect  larval inhabitants.
Handouts and a backboard showed
non-point  pollution's  effects  on
fresh water environments.   The
stream was very popular with the
visitors, expecially the young ones.
WASTE   MANAGEMENT
DIVISION

RCRA Branch

Teachers Workshop

The   RCRA  Branch  provided
presenters for the Environmental
Workshop held by the EPA and
Clark  Atlanta   University's
Teachers Institute.   They held a
mock  trial;   explained  RCRA
regulations;  and  gave  relevant
reading  material  and  chemistry
demonstrations.

Combustion Roundtable

The  RCRA Compliance  Section
(RCS) helped plan a  Combustion
Roundtable, which hosted industry,
citizens,  environmental  groups,
environmental equity  groups, and
other interested parties.

Used Oil Regulations

RCS  's presentation  to industry
included   a   summary   of
management standards about used
oil, a question and answer session,
and  the  distribution of Federal
Register copies.
Contact: J. Sophianopoulis, 404-347-7603

Audio/Video Outreach Tools

Staff members wrote and recorded
public  service announcements to
educate   the  public   about  the
Superfund program.   The  tapes
were geared to southern Florida.

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Superfund Outreach

Rose Jackson was interviewed on
the "Focus on South Florida"
program, of radio stations WFLC-
WIOD, in Miiirni,  Florida.   She
discussed  the Superfund program
and National Priorities List sites
(NPL)   in  Bade   County   and
southern Florida.
Contact: Rose Jackson, 404-347-2643

Superfund Coloring Book

The South  Superfund Remedial
Branch distributed copies of the
Superfund   coloring   book   to
elementary schools in  areas  in
which  there is  an  NPL  site.
Teachers have s;u'd the books are
valuable in helping pupils and their
parents undersfamd what goes on in
their neighborhoods when the EPA
does a  Superfund cleanup.
Contact: Betty Win:er, 404-347-2643

Outreach

In January  1994,  Betty Winter
spoke  to pupils  at  the Duluth
Middle School, Duluth, Georgia,
on   careers   IE   environmental
communication and the Superfund
community relations program.
Contact: Betty Winter, 404-347-2643

Remediation

EPA Region 4'u Federal Facilities
Branch and  the South Carolina
Dept. of Health and Environmental
Control  developed  a  statewide
seminar for federal facilities.  Staff
members  held  a  Remediation
Workshop, on September 20-22,
1994,  at  Charleston  Air  Force
Base,   for  the  Department  of
Defense   and   other   federal
facilities.

• The South Si.perfund Remedial
Branch  developed  a   brochure
entitled "EPA at Work.. .Protecting
South Florida" as part of the South
Florida   Geographic    Initiative
(SFGI).  It was produced in co-
operation   with   the   Florida
Department  of   Environmental
Protection.  Its  purpose  is  to
increase  public understanding of
the EPA's  role in assisting the
state  to  manage hazardous  and
solid  waste in  order  to  reduce
harmful   effects   in   southern
Florida.     Copies  have   been
distributed to the Board of Public
Education in Dade County and to
the environmental specialist of the
SFGI who plans to send copies to
science  directors  at  each  high
school in the area.

•  The  "Superfund Team   and
Mother  Mouse"  coloring book,
created  and  produced  by  the
Branch in 1992, was reprinted hi
1994  by  the EPA's headquarters.
Region 4 received  9,000 copies,
which it plans  to distribute to
schools in Georgia and southern
Florida.

Sangamo-Weston/Twelve-Mile
Creek Superfund Site

Contact: Mike Norman, 404-347-393 l.ext.
6123

• In July 1993, Cynthia Peurifoy,
a community relations coordinator
for the Region,  participated in a
Career   Workshop  at   Clemson
University.    The  workshop is
conducted   each   summer   for
minority  and low income students
that   attend  summer   college
preparatory classes.  Ms. Peurifoy
talked one-on-one with high school
juniors and seniors about careers
within the EPA, particularly about
community  relations.    She  also
explained the EPA's organization,
mission and various programs.

During  the  same  period,   a
Clemson communications class did
a   project  using   the  EPA's
community  relations program.
Class members prepared questions
to  be  asked   as  part  of  the
community   relations   interview
process,  as  if they  were  the
community relations coordinator.
Ms.  Peurifoy  worked  with  the
professor to  explain the process
and with some  of the students as
well.

•  The Emergency Response &
Removal Branch conducted seven
outreach seminars  for  the  Spill
Prevention   control   and
countermeasures regulations in FY
1993.  There were a total of 325
attendees from  state government,
the  regulated  community,   and
industry   associations.       The
meetings were  held in  Atlanta,
Georgia;   Bowling   Green,
Kentucky; and  Columbia,  South
Carolina.
WATER   MANAGEMENT
DIVISION

National  Pollutant  Discharge
Elimination System Newsletter

Contact: Susan Pope, 404-347-4793, ext.
4277
The NPDES Newsletter has been
included in the quarterly mailing of
pre-printed Discharge Monitoring
Reports.   The tenth newsletter is
currently being prepared. It makes
permittees   current   with  new
developments, prompts compliance
with   any   new   regulatory
requirements , and provides advice
about   complying  with
requirements,   with   which
difficulties have been observed.

Electronic Bulletin Board

The  NPDES Electronic Bulletin
board was established in September
1992 and  is accessible to  anyone
with a modem.      The board
includes articles and information
about NPDES compliance.

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Water Sourcebook

ConUct: Kristi Watkins, 404-347-2913,ext.
6499

The Water Sourcebook is planned
as a comprehensive environmental
education program on water issues
for  grades   K-12.    The  first
volume, currently being distributed
nationally and  internationally  by
the Water Environment Federation,
is for grades 3-5. The Georgia
Water  Wise  Council  conducts
teacher  workshops,  in Georgia,
about the book, and Legacy, Inc.,
distributes it in Alabama.

The Sourcebook for grades 9-12 is
being developed  and  should  be
ready for distribution in the fall,
1995.

The volumes for grades K-2 and 6-
8  will be  developed as funding
becomes  available.      The
Sourcebook is an effort by persons
committed to ensuring  that future
generations   get   good  quality
environmental education.

Wellhead Protection

Contact: Ronald Mikulak, 404-347-3866,
ext. 6646

A  multi-program  educational
project was done by the programs
of  the   Division's Groundwater
Protection Branch. It trained local
officials  to deal with compliance
issues in the wellhead protection
areas  of Elizabethton, Tennessee,
and Worthington, Kentucky.

4M UST Training Center

Contact: John Mason, 404-347-3866, ext.
6672

During  FY  1994, the  4M  UST
Training  Center,  Chattanooga,
Tennessee, used a $150,000 grant
from Region  4  to hire a director
and   offer   seven  courses   in
underground   storage  tank
remediation. About 210 engineers,
geologists,  and  other  technical
specialists took the courses.  These
students were employed by federal,
state, and local governments, as
well as contractors.
OFFICE  OF  POLICY   &
MANAGEMENT

Contact: Cory Berish,, 404-347-7109

Partners   for   a   Clean
Environment (PACE)

PACE   combines   the   EPA's
Greenlights, Waste Wi$e, WAVE,
and  EnergyStar  programs  with
state and local initiatives to form a
comprehensive  approach   to
pollution  prevention.     PACE
provides a method for businesses
to examine their energy efficiency,
solid   waste   reduction,   water
efficiency,   and   transportation
alternatives.     Businesses   are
encouraged to  join this voluntary
EPA program and also implement
other  measures   that   provide
reasonable returns on investments,
while reducing waste and pollution
in each  of these areas.    This
program is being tested  in the
Atlanta area.

Construction   and    Debris
Material Recycling

The EPA has funded the Institute
for Local Self Reliance (ILSR) of
Philadelphia,   Pennsylvania,   and
Augustine   Environmental   of
Atlanta,  Georgia,  to do a  five-
month-long research, analysis, and
facilitation    project   among
government,    community,    and
private sector  agencies,  with the
goal  of establishing a community-
based construction and demolition
debris  recovery  enterprise  in
Atlanta.

More than 95%  of the asphalt,
brick,   and    concrete   rubble
generated  in  Atlanta   is  now
processed  by  Aggrecon,  Inc.,
which ILSR helped in its effort to
move to a  new  site in Atlanta.
ILSR continues to offer  Aggrecon
help in hiring and training under-
skilled workers  for  low-income
areas in Atlanta.

Energy   Efficient   Affordable
Housing

The EPA  funded the  Southface
Energy   Institute  of   Atlanta,
Georgia, to work with  nonprofit
agencies  that  build  "affordable
housing",  in  an  endeavor  to
increase  the use  of proven, new
technologies, which increase new
homes'   energy   efficiency.
Southface  worked  mainly  with
Charis  Housing and  Habitat  for
Humanity,   in   Atlanta   and
neighboring   Cobb   County,
Georgia.

Energy & Water Conservation

The Planet  Protection  Center
program   educates   home
improvement retailers  about  the
need  for   energy  and  water
conservation and encourages them
to stock and promote products that
would help American homeowners
and  businesses conserve energy
and water.  Through this program,
Region 4 expects to deliver  the
energy  and  water  conservation
message  to  7.5  million  U.S.
households.

Contact: Carol Monell, 404-347-3555, ext.
6779

Project Harambee

Region 4 has sponsored  a  local
effort  for  pollution  prevention,
called Project Harambee (Swahili
for "let's pull  together").   This
community-based  conservation
program  is intended to show local
and regional decision makers and
community  stakeholders  how a

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community-based   conservation
program  can   pay  back  the
community,   while  creating   a
financial and environmental win-
win situation.

Media Divisions

The Region 4 media divisions have
been  working  with  their  state
program  counterparts   to  put
pollution prevention activities into
their state grant programs.  The
Air,    Pesticides,   and   Toxics
Division has,   for  example, set
aside a percentage of the air grants
for states  to  use  for  pollution
prevention strategies. The Region
provided  training  for  state air
programs  personnel  and works
with each state to help it develop a
plan suited to its needs.

OFFICE   OF   REGIONAL
COUNSEL

Contact: Bill Anderson, 404-347-3555, ext.
2182

Bill Anderson, Assistant Regional
Counsel,  completed  the  second
year  of   a   two-year-long
assignment,    under   the
Intergovernmental Personnel Act,
at the School of Public Policy of
the Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. He
developed  and taught  two new
courses for the Master of Science
degree  in  public  policy,  which
offers   a   specialization   in
environmental policy.  The courses
were  Environmental Law,  which
covered cross cutting statutes, such
as  the  National  Environmental
Policy Act  and the  Endangered
Species Act, as well  as statutes
governing the use of federal lands,
such as national forests.   These
courses   attracted   135
undergraduate  and   graduate
students  of  management,  city
planning, engineering and science,
and public policy.

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        EPA REGION 4 OFFICE OF RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
                                      LABORATORIES
ENVIRONMENTAL
RESEARCH  LABORATORY,
ATHENS, GEORGIA

Contact: Kate McDaniel, 706-546-3524

Distant Learning

Research done  by  Lee  Wolfe,
Ph.D.,   and    staff,   at    the
Environmental   Research
Laboratory   (ERL)  found  some
aquatic plants  break the  trinitro
toluene (TNT) molecule into other
molecules.

To  enable  students  at  five high
schools in Georgia to do similar
experiments,  ERL  mailed  their
schools the chemicals and supplies
needed to do the experiment,  along
with written test requirements and
instructions for their use.  Instead
of  TNT contaminated  soil,  the
students had a  new lab test  for
measuring  the   presence   of  a
specific enzyme in the plant.  The
schools taking part were  Columbus
and  Carver, in  Columbus;  E.T.
Booth  School,   hi   Woodstock;
Rome,  in   Rome;  and  Dodge
County, in Eastman.

The students later saw a video of
the  ERL research, in which they
could see in great detail how to
properly   collect  and  prepare
samples, as well  as the equipment
used, and how the  lab test was
done. During  this live electronic
connection with their schools, ERL
staff members  and students saw,
heard, and talked with each other.
Kate McDaniel of the Environmental Research Laboratory (ERL), Athens, Georgia, uses a
video and handouts to promote ERL's Environmental Science Education Program. She is
shown in ERL's 1994 booth, at the Sunbelt Expo, in Moultrie, Georgia.
The experiment shown above was set up, in Childcrsburg, Alabama, by personnel of the
Environmental Research Laboratory, Athens, Georgia, in order to test the effectiveness of
an aquatic plant named parrot feather to break down trinitro toluene molecules.

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During their study, the students did
sophisticated lab  tests and  found
new,   useful   plants  in  their
communities.  These were sent to
ERL for further tests.

Sunbelt Expo

ERL had  a booth  at the yearly
Sunbelt Expo agricultural fair,  hi
Moultrie, Georgia. The booth was
visited  by  105  teachers  and
educators, and  25 requests were
made for other material.  Nearly
1,730  copies  of 16 curriculum
were given to visitors.

Governor's Council

ERL took part in the Council for
Environmental  Education, set up
by   Georgia's   Governor   Zell
Miller.  The 12-member  council
investigated    the   status   of
environmental education in Georgia
and the need to teach the subject.
It gave its report to the governor at
the  January   1994  legislative
session.

Unerground Storage Tanks

ERL had a booth at a meeting of
the Oconee County  Clean and
Beautiful   Commission.
Commission members were  asked
to find an adandoned, leaking gas
tank, which contaminated a small
community's drinking water.

Science Teaches' Workshop

ERL   sponsored   a  ChemCom
workshop  (i.e., Chemistry in  the
Community), on June 19-24,1994,
at  ERL,  for  25  Georgia high
school teachers. The six-day-long
course  was co-sponsored by  the
American Chemical Society.

Nature Trail/SAVE A SPECIES
ERL   scientists  worked   with
teachers   at    the   4th   Street
Elementary  School,  in  Athens,
Georgia, to research the native
plants and make markers for some.
The markers, and a brochure for
teachers, are for use hi connection
with the school's nature trail.

The Athens chapter of Sigma Xi, a
national  research society, whose
president is David Lewis, Ph.D.,
an ERL scientist, is coordinating a
new,  continuing program, called
Save A Species, with the school.
It  will enable pupils to  see  the
nature trail as a habitat and study
the animals hi  the  surrounding
wood, as well as write essays for a
contest about endangered  species.
Several ERL scientists took part hi
the  school's  Mentor   Program
during the year.

Clark Atlanta University

Clark Atlanta University students
toured ERL's  labs.   In addition,
faculty research participation, joint
research   projects,   student
internships,   mini-courses,
workshops,   and   faculty  and
scientist  exchange  appointments
were ongoing.

Conservation Workshop

ERL  scientists taught four, two-
hour-long   classes   daily,   about
water quality, during the five-day-
long   summer  conservation
workshop  at  Abraham Baldwin
Agricultural   College,   Tifton,
Georgia. The event  was attended
by 300 students from 150 Georgia
high schools.

OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT,  RESEARCH
TRIANGLE   PARK,  NORTH
CAROLINA

Contact: JohnO'Neil, Ph.D., 919-541-0179

The   Office  of  Research  and
Development, at Research Triangle
Park   (RTP)   supported   the
following environmental education
activities hi 1994:

K-12

Thirtyfive students from grades K-
12 were enrolled in the  Research
Apprenticeship Program, under a
cooperative  agreement  RTP has
with Shaw University. The youth
are enrolled after the 8th grade and
attend special classes at  Shaw on
Saturdays, during the school year
and for  six weeks, during  the
summer.    During  the  summers
after their llth and 12th grades the
students work, with EPA mentors,
in RTP laboratories as apprentices.
The  program's  purpose  is  to
encourage bright students to pursue
careers hi science and engineering.

About  20%  of ORD's  scientists
volunteer as  either scientists hi the
classrooms,  or  as  scientists  in
residence at local schools.

ORD   obtained  funding  and
sponsored   a   four-week-long
summer teachers-workshop entitled
"Development of an Environmental
Report Card".  It was attended by
25 middle and high school science
teachers.

Research Fellows

ORD  funds  a  pre-  and  post-
graduate   Summer  Research
Fellowship Program for minorities.
This is  done through the Clark
Atlanta  University   Consortium.
The students participate in research
in the  ORD laboratories,  during
the summer  and continue  their

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work during  the  school  year.
They receive summer expenses, a
school   year   stipend,   and  the
equivalent of in-state tuition.

Training

The  Southeast  Partnership  for
Environmental    Technology
Education (SEPETE) is supported
by ORD and other federal agencies
in the southeast to train students
for   technical   careers   in
environmental technical roles.

Academic Relations

ORD  takes  part,   with  local
universities,   in   implementing
Memorandums of Understanding.
The   schools   include   Duke
University,   North   Carolina
Agricultural   and   Technical
University, North Carolina Central
University, North  Carolina State
University,   at   Raleigh,   the
University of North  Carolina, at
Chapel Hill and, at  Wilmington,
Shaw  University,  and  Western
Carolina University.
                        Environmental! Protection Agency
                                   Region 4
                      Office of Research & Development I

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                                  EPA REGION 4 STATES
ALABAMA
DEPARTMENT   OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT

Contact: Catherine G. Lamar,  205-271-
7709

Environmental Tags

Contact: Tim Forester, 205-271-7958

At the end of FY '94 the proceeds
from  the sale of environmental
license plates, which went on sale
in April  1993, totaled $542,000.
(Legislation creating  the tags was
passed in 1992.)   This money is
for use in funding environmental
education projects. Some of these
have included:

• Produced and distributed 10,000
water resource posters to  schools
throughout the state in cooperation
with  the  EPA,  the  Geological
Survey of Alabama,  and Legacy,
Inc.;
• funded the development of a K-
12 curriculum guide by Troy State
University's   Center   for
Environmental   Research   and
Service.  A resource  guide, which
will  serve  as an  informational
source   and   supplement   the
curriculum material, is currently
being developed;
• provided $25,000 in grants  to
public schools throughout the state
to   initiate   and   implement
environmental education projects;
•  initiated,  in 1994,  the  first
Envirobowl,  modeled  after  the
College  Bowl  and  other  similar
game shows. It features questions
about   environmental   issues.
Nearly 140 students from 28 high
School teachers listen to information about water quality, during a teacher workshop, at
Lay Lake, Alabama.  The workshop, held in 1994, was sponsored by the Alabama
Department of Environmental Management.
schools in the state took part;
•  produced and distributed, with
the cooperation  of the Alabama
Cattlemen's Association,  150,000
free  place  mats  to   restaurants
across the state. The mats featured
environmental    information   in
celebration of Earth Day;
•  funded, in cooperation with the
Alabama Forestry Association,  a
one-week environmental education
workshop for elementary students
in the  Decatur area.   The focus
was on  forestry,  land, water and
wildlife issues;
•   funded  the   creation  of  a
recycling   center   and  outdoor
environmental   laboratory  for
elementary students at Birmingham
Southern College, in Birmingham.

Outdoor   Environmental
Education Labs
Contact: Patti Hurley, 205-271-7938

Using EPA nonpoint source funds,
26   environmental   education
laboratories  were  established at
public  school sites throughout the
state through the cooperation of the
Resource   Conservation   and
Development districts.

Citizen Monitoring Network

Contact: Patti Hurley, 205-271-7938

Nonpoint source funds from EPA
grants  supported training  citizens
pursuant to  setting up a  citizen
monitoring network.   About 25
workshops were held  throughout
the  state to train  nearly 1,000
citizens in the proper water quality
monitoring techniques.  To date,
32 citizen monitoring groups have

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been established statewide.

Water   Quality   Teacher
Workshops

Contact: Patti Hurley, 205-271-7938

Two workshops were sponsored in
the   coastal   area   with   the
cooperation   of  the  Alabama
Cooperative  Extension  Service,
Troy  State Environmental Studies
Center,   Mobile   County
Environmental Studies Center, and
Weeks   Bay   Reserve.      The
workshops,   attended   by
approximately 25 teachers, focused
on   nonpoint  source  pollution
problems.

Staff Outreach

Contact: Catherine  G.  Lamar, 205-271-
7709

In October  1993, ADEM  began
compiling a list of outreach
activities by its staff. The records
for that  one-year period indicate
that   personnel   participated  in
almost  300  programs  involving
more  than   18,000  attendees.
These ranged from workshops on
technical  issues  and regulations
sponsored  by  ADEM  for  the
regulated   community,   to
presentations at  public  schools,
churches, and scout troops.

Ombudsman Office

Contact: Blake Roper, 1-800-533-2336

This outreach was set up in May
1993 to comply with mandates of
the Clean Air Act.  ADEM chose
to  expand   it   to   deal  with
multimedia  environmental  issues
(as opposed  to air issues  only).
ADEM is the second state in EPA
Region 4 to adopt this broadened
outreach approach.

The office's  main objective is to
help   small  businesses   by
disseminating   information   on
proposed  and  new  regulations,
evaluating the regulations' impacts
and making referrals for technical
assistance to facilitate compliance.
Since 1993,  the office  has been
involved in more than 50  public
outreach efforts.    To   facilitate
communications, ADEM set up a
toll-free phone  line.   There have
been an average of 30 calls daily
to  complain  or  ask  technical
interpretations of regulations.

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FLORIDA
DEPART MENT   OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION

Contacts: Jim Lev/in, Director, Office of
Environmental  Education (OEE), Janine
Rogers, Dodie Zeile;.- 904-488-9334.

The Department of Eavironmental
Protection   (DEP)   has  begun
ecosystem   management.      In
support of this, the OEE has taken
an    ecosystem   approach   to
environmental  education.    This
move  has  b««n  guided by  a
committee composed of agency and
outside representatives.

School   Outreach  and  Public
Information:  The OEE provides
information  for the public, other
agencies, environmental and civic
clubs, and schools.   It answers
inquiries and provides pamphlets,
booklets, fact  sheets, videos,  and
posters.  Guided by the OEE,  the
DEP  participates  in  a  unique
partnership  entitled Partners   for
Excellence, with schools statewide.
School  needs  are  matched  to
DEP's   resources   and  DEP
employees serve as consultants and
judges for science  fair projects.
They  also  talce  part  in school
career days.

The Florida  Envirothon:   The
DEP's staff participates in local
and  state   Bivirothons.    The
Florida Envirothon is  a one-day
event for high  school students,
which gives  them experience with
environmentally oriented activities
and   helps   them   become
environmentally   aware,  action
oriented  adults.   Winning teams
from  local events take part in  the
annual Florida IZnvironthon.
Teams of five students each take
hands-on  and  written  tests  in
aquatics,  environmental  issues,
forestry, soils, and wildlife.

Computer   Bulletin   Boards
(BBS):  The OEE operates a 24-
hour   computer   BBS.     The
Ecosystem   Management  and
Environmental  Education
Computer   BBS   904-922-7108,
contains text files on a variety of
environmental   topics,   DEP
Ecosystem Management reports, a
few   environmental   education
programs, and Florida's state air,
water,  and  waste  rules.    In
addition, the BBS will help Florida
students  get  information  about
environmental subjects.

Parknership:  The DEP's Florida
Park Service gives Florida schools
the  opportunity  to  enter  into
"Parknerships", by serving in one
of  the  state  parks.     Students
experiences range from creating a
butterfly habitat to restoring sand
dunes and planting seedlings. The
program has doubled in two years.

Angler's Guide:  The publication
entitled    "Fishing  Lines:   An
Angler's Guide to Florida Marine
Resources"  provides  educational
information about marine resources
for salt-water anglers  in  Florida.
About 1.5 million copies have been
printed to give information about
fishing   ethics,    habitats,   life
histories, and detailed paintings of
the most important species.

Laboratory:    Tours   of  the
department's  state-of-the-art
laboratory  complex  are  offered
high school students and various
organizations.  A speaker explains
the purposes of an environmental
lab and the kinds of analyses that
are conducted hi it.

Speakers  Bureau:   The  DEP
provides speakers for schools and
other organizations throughout the
state. The topics addressed include
habitat destruction;  air and water
polution; endangered species; oil
spills; and marine fisheries.

4R's:     The  DEP   provides
supplementary information to this
state solid waste curriculum, which
is   used  in K-12  math,  social
studies, language arts, and science
classes.

Boating  Safety:   The  Florida
Marine  Patrol's   "Bobber",   a
cartoon   character,   educates
children about the importance of
water and boating safety.

Other:  DEP  units also promote
education on subjects such as used
oil, coral reefs and other marine
inhabitants,  manatee, and other
marine mammal protection through
in-school  programs  and  on-site
field trips.

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GEORGIA
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL
RESOURCES

Fall and Spring into Recycling

Contact: Pamela Tinley, 404-656-4713

The  Environmental   Protection
Division  (EPD)  of  Georgia's
Department  of Natural Resources
participated  in the fourth annual
Spring into Recycling, in May, and
Fall into Recycling,  in October.
This event was  co-sponsored by
the  Department  of  Community
Affairs, WXIA Channel  11,  and
various  private industries.   The
one-day events were held at seven
locations throughout metro Atlanta
and  are designed to  allow  the
public to bring in many  types of
recyclables,   such   as   glass,
aluminum,  paper, and  hard-to-
recycle items, such as latex paint,
motor oil, and antifreeze.  Almost
600 volunteers helped collect more
than 425  tons of recyclables at
these events.   The  public was
given educational handouts, which
focused on what can be  recycled
and  how it  should be collected.
The local television  station also
assisted in informing the public
about how to recycle. Some
recycled latex paint was donated to
the  flood  victims  in  southern
Georgia.

Georgia River Clean Up

Contact: Laurie Hawks, 404-656-4905

The Third Annual River Clean Up
took place on July 14-21,  1994.
Nearly   2,100   individuals
volunteered more than 6,000 hours
and collected more than 2,580 bags
of trash.  The River Clean Up was
planned and  coordinated by 33
local organizers and covered a total
of 15 rivers, four lakes, and eight
creeks, in 30 counties. The groups
that  provided volunteer  support
included  various  Georgia Clean
and    Beautiful   Programs,
environmental   organizations,
schools,  civic   groups,  church
groups, and private industry.  The
items picked up included bicycles,
furniture,  car parts, aluminum,
glass, and plastic.

Georgia   Adopt-A-Stream
Program

Contact: Laurie Hawks, 404-656-4905

The    EPD's   Adopt-A-Stream
Program has developed  a new
trend in water quality protection.
In   cooperation  with   schools,
private  industry, and  state  and
local governments,  citizens have
begun  to   take  water   quality
seriously,    and  thousands   of
volunteers have  helped to  clean,
monitor, and  protect their local
streams, rivers, and lakes.  Adopt-
A-Stream  groups throughout the
Atlanta  area  have  cleaned  up
numerous  streams and rivers and
stenciled storm drains  to inform
the public that storm drains carry
rainwater  directly  to   streams.
Eroding stream banks have been
stabilized  by planting  trees  and
sandbagging  and regular  water
quality monitoring has been done
to  inform  local authorities  of
potential problems.

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KENTUCKY
NATURAL  RESOURCES  &
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION CABINET

Contact: Maleva Chamberlain, 502-564-
3410

Comparative Risk Project: This
project,  a  part  of  Kentucky
Outlook  2000,   was the  state's
major  environmental  education
effort during  1994.  By involving
the   public   in   combining
comparative risk assessment with
projections and  an  analysis  of
Kentucky's future,  the  state  is
making an effort  to achieve  a
sustainable future. Environmental
education  personnel  from every
agency in the Natural Resources
and   Environmental  Protection
Cabinet were  involved in planning
public  involvement for the project
and in providing staff support  to
public  committees appointed  by
Gov. Brereton C. Jones.  Project
Manager   Nancy   Fouser
participated   in  the   Second
International  Comparative  Risk
Analysis  Symposium  in Taipei,
Taiwan, in November, at which
she   discussed   the   role   of
comparative risk in environmental
and economic policy planning.

Environmental Education Forum:
A special Environmental Education
Forum for teachers was included in
the annual Governor's Conference
on   the   Environment.      One
workshop  included a tour of an
outdoor classroom  followed  by
presentations  by teachers who
operate   outdoor   classroom
facilities.   The  forum also gave
teachers a chance to state their
opinions   about  the   role  of
Kentucky's   Environmental
Education Council.

Kentucky   Science   Teachers'
Water Watch volunteers record information about water samples they have taken from the
river behind them.
Association   Conference:
Department   environmental
education  personnel  staffed  an
exhibit  at  this  conference  and
distributed materials to more than
1,000 teachers.

Students  Exploring   the
Environment in Kentucky: This
program, known at SEEK, is a
club,  which  enables students and
teachers   to   offer  a   regular
newsletter, with games,  puzzles,
and suggestions for projects and
hands-on   activities    about
Kentucky's environment,  as well
as a  calendar of  environmental
events and workshops.

Environmental   Education
Workshops:  Two environmental
education workshops were held for
local   officials   from   several
counties  to  provide them  with
information about cabinet programs
and regulations.

Agriculture and the Environment
in the  Classroom Workshops:
Four of these workshops were held
to give educational personnel a
chance  to  present  information

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about  available  programs  and
materials.

DIVISION FOR AIR QUALITY
Contact: Lillie Cox, 502-564-3382

Clean Air for Kentucky:  This
program's   educational   events
continue across the Commonwealth
at schools, in environmental days,
at fairs,  outdoor  classrooms, and
other special events, along with the
distribution   of   teacher   and
education packets.   The division
sponsored educational workshops
on permitting  requirements in the
spring and,  in the late  summer,
and  fall held special  workshops
across  the   state   about  open
burning.

DIVISION     OF
ENVmONMENTALSERVICES
Contact: Nancy Fouser, 502-564-2150

River   Assessment   Monitoring
Project:    This  annual  event,
sponsored  by the  Division of
Environmental Services (DES) and
the Division of Water, took place
this   year  along   the   Upper
Cumberland   River.      Science
students took water samples at 26
sampling locations.  After analysis
by DES chemists, the results were
provided to the schools.  Students
then anayzed the lab results, drew
conclusions,    and  provided
recommendations    about  water
quality in the river basin.

DIVISION   OF   WASTE
MANAGEMENT
Contact: Debra Hockensmith, 502-564-6716

Waste   Resources   Workshop:
Debra Hockensmith conducted in-
service workshops entitled Waste:
A Hidden Resource  in Kentucky,
which is an educational curriculum
for  grades   7-12.     She   also
distributed more than 1,200 copies
of   the   U.S.   EPA's   waste
curriculum  Let's  Reduce  and
Recycle:   Curriculum  for Solid
Waste Awareness. In addition, she
staffed   exhibit   booths   at
conferences   and  school   and
community environmental days and
made  presentations  to   school
assemblies,  civic  organizations,
and  local  solid  waste advisory
committees,  on  waste reduction,
recycling,   and   other   waste
management  issues.    She  also
worked with the Ohio River Valley
Water Sanitation Commission to
conduct  the  sixth  annual Ohio
River Sweep, a six-state riverbank
cleanup along the  river's entire
length.

Certification:   The division  also
held certification schools for land
farming, composting, and landfills;
held four training workshops for
solid waste coordinators; and made
a presentation about solid waste to
extension service homemakers.

DIVISION OF WATER
Contact: Maleva  Chamberlain,  502-564-
3410

Water   Watch   Program:
Monitoring   projects   were
established  in  more  than  35
communities,  bringing  to more
than 250 the number of volunteer
groups   with   water-testing
equipment, which  report  to  the
division  in  this program.   A
statewide  computer network  for
schools and groups with access to
computers with modems has been
developed. Bulletin board systems
provide   electronic   mail,  file
libraries, and discussion centers for
water-related  topics.     Agency
personnel are available via internet
mail  and  have  established links
with  groups in  Canada, Russia,
Germany, India and other parts of
the  U.S.    Other  Water   Watch
activities include teacher-training
workshops, river basin and stream-
side  cleanups,  and  visits with
Kentucky's  clean water  mascot
Ollie Otter.

Sister Rivers:   A Sister  Rivers
International  Exchange Program
has been instituted. Video tapes in
Russian  and   Japanese   and
brochures in Japanese and Spanish
have  been   developed for   the
project to discuss water quality and
watershed protection efforts.  In
addition, Water  Watch and other
division personnel  have   helped
American delegations to Japan and
ones from Russia to the U.S.

Rivers Month: Brochures, which
listed statewide activities, during
June  1994,   were prepared  and
disseminated for Rivers Month.

Facilities  Construction:    Two
facilities  construction  seminars
were  held in  conjunction with  the
Kentucky Infrastructure Authority.
One  was   to   help  potential
applicants  understand  planned
requirements.  The second  was to
provide  information   to   help
attendees determine whether or not
the Federally  Assisted Wastewater
Revolving Fund program was  the
proper choice for their projects.

Retired  Seniors  and  Wellhead
Protection:   The Retired  Senior
Volunteer Program has become a
partner  in order to help with  the
Wellhead   Protection  Program.
Senior volunteers are being trained
to inventory potential contaminant
sources in wellhead  areas.   In
addition, workshops  on wellhead
protection  were presented   for
planners,   local    officials,
cooperative extension agents, and
personnel    from   the   Soil
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health departments.

Biomonitoring  Newsletter:    A
new Biomonitoring Newsletter was
begun to provide information and
help  facilities   with   discharge
permits that require biomonitoring.

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MISSISSIPPI
DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Contact: Eleana Turner, 601-961-5015

The Department of Environmental
Quality (DEQ) continues to devote
more time each year to educating
the regulated  community,  as well
as   to   providing   educational
materials  and staff to the  general
public.  General information was
distributed  by  the staff  at  the
Mississippi  State   Fair;   every
Household Hazardous Waste Day
in the state; Waterfest for teachers;
and the  annual  meeting  of  the
Mississippi   Association   of
Supervisors.   The DEQ's staff
provided  speakers for civic clubs,
environmental  and  professional
organizations,  schools,  colleges,
and universities.    Departmental
professionals were also available to
judge science fairs, participate in
career  days,   and  serve   on
committees   for   environmental
education projects.

Surface Water Division

Contact: Barry Royals, 601-961-5102

The   division  exhibited   and
distributed  information   at   the
annual meeting of  the Mississippi
Municipal Association and at  the
Mississippi   Water   Pollution
Control Operators Association.  A
manual   entitled   Planning  and
Design Manual for the Control of
Sediment   and  Stormwater  was
completed this year and  is now
being  sold by the DEQ.   The
division,  in cooperation with  the
Mississippi Wildlife  Federation,
held its first four Adopt-A-Stream
Workshops.     The  workshops
emphasize  watershed   mapping,
land  use, water  chemistry,  and
macroinvertebrate sampling. The
Larry Estes (left) and Aimee Faulker (second from left) demonstrate paper making for
participants, during the Southeastern States Environmental Conference, in Biloxi,
Mississippi. The demonstration, which gives a better understanding of recycled paper, is
also available to schools and other educational organizations.  Mr. Estes is with the
pollution prevention program and Ms. Faulkner with the public information division of
Mississippi's Department of Environmental Quality.
participants   included   citizens,
teachers,    resource   agency
personnel,    and   industrial
personnel.   Three environmental
resource workshops were held for
teachers  and  students.     These
included exhibits, literature,  and
demonstrations  of the  nonpoint
source pollution model, and the
ground water aquifer model.

Groundwater Division

Contact: Bill Barnett, 601-961-5119

The  underground storage  tank
branch   held   four   public
information  seminars  for  tank
owners,    operators,    installers,
repairers,  and  removers.    The
branch also mailed its publication
entitled  "Timeout for Tanks"  to
installers, removers, and repairers,
and  its  publication   entitled
"Tanknically   Speaking"   to
companies that provide remediation
services  at  leaking sites.
Hazardous Waste Division

Contact: Jerry Banks, 601-961-5221

A manual for Liquified Petroleum
Gas  Emergency  Response and a
three-hour-long   seminar   were
developed by the division.  More
than  200   emergency  response
personnel have participated in the
seminars.     In   addition,   the
emergency   response   section
addressed every  Highway Safety
Patrol division in the state, at their
district meetings.

Air Division

Contact: Dwight Wylie, 601-961-5104

The  air division participated in a
two-day  seminar to introduce the
Title V program, by explaining the
new regulations and  their impact
on the regulated community.  The
division   regularly   provides
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community  by  participating  in
quarterly   meetings   of   the
Mississippi  Manufacturers
Association.

Pollution Prevention Program

Contact: Tom Whitten, 601-961-5241

This   program   developed  a
publication request form that lists
28  free  publications  on  source
reduction,    reuse,    recycling,
composting, and recycled buying,
as well as a video list of more than
30 waste  reduction  videos.   A
second publications request form,
which lists 44 hazardous  waste
reduction publications, was also
developed.

Approximately  1,000   people
attended  the   Southern   States
Environmental  Conference hosted
by  the DEQ and coordinated by
the Pollution Prevention Program.
The program also worked closely
with  state  and  federal agencies,
universities,   and   community
colleges  to  establish  recycling
programs.

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NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH
AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Contact: Anne Taylor, 919-733-0711

Environmental  Education
Advisory Council

The   Office  of   Environmental
Education formed an intra-agency
Environmental Education Advisory
Council  (EEAC)  made  up  of
environmental  education
representatives from the Wildlife
Resources Commission, the Zoo,
Aquariums,   Forestry,   Soil  &
Water,  Marine Fisheries, Parks
and Recreation, Water Resources,
Land   Resources,   Coastal
Management, and other divisions
within  the agency.  This council
met   monthly   and   developed
principles   and   concepts   of
environnmental    education   and
identified environmental education
needs and objectives.

1994 Environmental  Education
Conference:    Making   the
Commitment

• North Carolina's  first directory
of environmental education centers
in the  state was published  for
presentation to those participating
in  the   concurrent  session  on
environmental  education  centers.
It  listed  more  than   100  such
centers. The meeting was the first
in  which   centers'  staffs  and
supporters  met  together  in  an
organized  forum.
Recommendations, which  resulted
from the session,  included that an
association   of   environmental
education  centers  be formed, and
that  staff  development
opportunities   be  arranged,
including  standards   and
accreditation, cross training, and
staff exchange programs.
North Carolina's Governor James B. Hunt addresses the 700 people in attendance at the
1994 North Carolina Environmental Education Conference, in Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina.
• The conference also showed the
participants  examples   of
environmental education programs
and  teacher  training  programs
available to them.   The programs
presented included Projects WILD,
Aquatic  WILD,   Estuary,  and
Learning  Tree;   EELEs,   the
Museum of Natural  Sciences, Zoo,
Aquariums, Soil & Water, Ag in
the  Classroom, Educational State
Forests,  Air  Quality, Electronic
access with Nando Land, Learning
Link, and PSInet.

•  One concurrent session dealt
with the process  for applying for
the  $1,000 grants to  be made to
nearly   25  schools  for  use in
creating   model   environmental
education library collections.  The
session was presented by the DPI
and   ENHR    Office   of
Environmental Education.

• Another concurrent  session dealt
with the development of activities
and curriculum through the use of
North Carolina-specific GIS data.
It  drew  many  science,  social
studies, math, and computer skills
teachers.
•   The   EEAC's   work   was
published  in  "A Framework  for
Discussion" and  presented to  the
700  participants,  in December
1994, in Research Triangle  Park,
at  the Environmental Education
Conference,   which  was    co-
sponsored  by the North  Carolina
Department of Public Instruction
(DPI)  and  the  Department   of
Environment, Health, and Natural
Resources.  Gov. Jim Hunt opened
the conference with a call for the
establishment of  a  conservation
ethic in North Carolina and a sense
of   stewardship  through
environmental  education.   Prof.
Rick Wilke of the University of
Wisconsin, chairman of the United
States Education Advisory Council,
delivered  the keynote  address.
Concurrent  sessions   were
conducted   to  discuss  the  draft
objectives  of the  North  Carolina
Environmental  Education  Plan,
which are  in the "Framework for
Discussion".      Reports    and
recommendations   from   each
session were presented to the  full
conference for incorporation in the
next draft, which will be taken to
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state for further public discussion.
The final plan will be presented to
the governor and North Carolina
General Assembly en Earth Day
1995.
Environmental
Objectives:
Education
•  Other environmental  education
objectives for  which concurrent
sessions were conducted, and from
which   reports   and
recommendatiais  were presented,
included the role  of business and
the   press   in   environmental
education,    pre-service
environmental education training
for teacher candidates, in-service
environmental education
recognition and award  certificate,
funding environmental  education
programs   and   measures   of
environmental literacy  in  North
Carolina.

•  An electronic  correlation was
developed   for   environmental
education  activities  and  DPI's
Standard Course  of  Study  for
science, social studies,  math and
other subject courses.   This was
done, during an eight-month-long
period,   by   a   team  up   of
representatives   from  Project
Learning Tree,  Project Estuary,
Project  WILD,  Project Aquatic
WILD,  and  the  North Carolina
State  Parks  EELEs   (that  is,
curriculum referred to as
"environmental education learning
experiences", which are specific to
each of the state's 32 state parks).
This  conference was  the  first
forum for the presentation of the
science   and   social    studies
correlation and copies were made
available   to   the   conference's
participants.

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SOUTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
AND ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTROL

Environmental   Education
Partnership

Contact: Marie Morton, 803-734-3941

The mission of the South Carolina
Department   of   Health   and
Environmental Control (DHEC) is
to protect  public  health and the
environment.     The  goal  of
DHEC's Environmental  Education
Partnership (EEP) is to support the
agency's mission by co-ordinating
and  promoting its environmental
education efforts.

During 1994, the EEP's activities
included presentations at the South
Carolina Science Council's annual
workshop,  at the state's National
Science Foundation retreat, and to
the   Environmental    Education
Association.

The  EEP was formed in  1994 to
be  an  educational   information
clearing-house    for   DHEC's
environmental areas.  It provides
curriculums,   material,   videos,
displays, and speakers to schools,
local  governments, industry, and
the   public.      EEP   includes
representatives of the bureaus of
Air   Quality,   Water  Pollution
Control,   Drinking   Water
Protection, and Solid & Hazardous
Waste Management and  the Ocean
and    Coastal   Resource
Management,   and   Educational
Resources Center.

OFFICE OF  SOLID   WASTE
REDUCTION &  RECYCLING

Public-Private Partnerships

Contact: Richard Chesley, 803-896-4209
Representatives of the partners and January winners are shown while on the set of WIS-TV,
Columbia, South Carolina, during the kick-off of the Champions of the Environment
scholarship program.  Shown (left to right) are Dwight Hanks, representing DuPont; Bob
King, representing South Carolina's Department of Health and Environmental Control; Jill
Bergeron of the Hilton Head Preparation School, a winner; Susan Vaughan McPherson,
representing Union  Camp; Micaela Grant of the L. W. Conder Elementary School,
Columbia, a winner; Dawn Mercer, representing WIS-TV, Columbia; John Harrison of the
Lexington High School, a winner; and Ron Loewen, also of WIS-TV.
Curriculum

The   Office   of   Solid   Waste
Reduction   and    Recycling
(OSWRR), in conjunction with the
South  Carolina  Department  of
Education, a  statewide team of
classroom  teachers, and  private
consultants, developed Action for
a  cleaner  tomorrow:  A  South
Carolina    Environmental
Curriculum.   The   kindergarten
through eighth grade segment was
introduced in  January  1994 and
more than 2,100 teachers  were
trained to use it.

Used Oil Partnership

In 1994, the South  Carolina Used
Oil   Partnership,   created   by
OSWRR in 1992, updated its used
oil recycling curriculum, produced
a video, provided posters, decals,
a display, and  other promotional
materials,  and  made  numerous
presentations  to  schools,  civic
groups, and national  workshops.
The partnership includes the South
Carolina Petroleum Council, the
South  Carolina  Department  of
Transportation,   and   Santee
Cooper.

Public-Private Partnership

OSWRR   has  developed   and
maintained    public-private
partnerships   to  promote   the
public's awareness of specific solid
waste  issues.    The partnerships
include  Pepsi,   for   statewide
aluminum can recycling; Hardee's,
for  trayliners   with   recycling
information; the Special Olympics,
for statewide  junk-car recycling;
the South Carolina Association of
Realtors, for statewide household
hazardous waste information; and
the Coalition for Natural Resources

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Education,   for   co-ordinating
environmental  education efforts
throughout the  fitate.

Resource Center

OSWRR's  Resource   Center
received, during 1994, more than
4,000   calls   on   its  toll-free
recycling hot line and mailed more
than 600 packages of information.

NONPOINT SOURCE WATER
POLLUTION

Contact: Phil Hayes, 803-734-5078

Champions of the Environment

The   Champions   of   the
Environment is a statewide public-
service  partnership   aimed  at
promoting   environmental
awareness   at   the  elementary,
middle and high school levels.  In
December  IS 94 (its third year), the
partnership  received   national
recognition, when the Pine Street
Elementary School of Spartanburg,
one of the champions, was asked
to perform its original, Earth Day
musical  for  the   White House
Conference  on  Environmental
Technology.    The program  and
school were  recognized  by  Vice
President A] Gore, Secretary of
Education Dick Riley,  and U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator Carol Browner.

"Champions"   features   two
programs.   In  one,  the  South
Carolina Environmental Awareness
Student Awards Competition, 450
students   competed   in   four
categories:   environnmental
awareness poster; environmental
awareness essays; environmental
awareness   spokesperson;    and
environmental awareness bowl.

The   other   program   featured
recognition of students and classes
at work on environmental projects.
During   the  school  year,   18
students and classes were selected
and  videotaped  for  one-minute
television spots.   Each spot was
broadcast 25 times for  a total of
450  minutes  and  reached   an
estimated 670,000 viewers each
month  and more than six million
during  the year.

BUREAU OF AIR QUALITY

Contact:  Mohamed Abdelsalam, 803-734-
4750

The Bureau of Air Quality (BAQ)
made numerous  presentations to
community groups and schools,
including work with a high school
student on a senior thesis project.
The BAQ also provided resources
for the Oconee  County  Science
Fair,   and   participated  in   the
Science Council's Earth Day Share
Fair, the Environmental Law and
Technology  Conference,  and  the
Automated  Manufacturers
Conference.

BUREAU   OF   DRINKING
WATER PROTECTION

Contact: Cathy Montgomery, 803-734-5371

The  Bureau of Drinking Water
Protection has  publications  and
videos  for  schools  and supplies
speakers upon request.

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TENNESSEE
DEPARTMENT   OF
ENVIRONMENT   AND
CONSERVATION

Contact: Wayne Scharber, 615-532-0220

BUREAU   OF   RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT

Contact: RickM. Sinclair, 615-532-0734

Radon   and   Real  Estate
Workshops: Six workshops were
held across the state by the Radon
Program   of   the   Pollution
Prevention   &   Environmental
Awareness  Division  (PPEAD).
The workshops were co-sponsored
by the American Lung Association,
EPA,   and   local  real  estate
associations. The issues discussed
included  radon  and  real  estate
transactions, legal  liability,  and
environmental hazards.

Essay and Poster Contest:  The
PPEAD, with assistance  from the
American Lung  Association and
the   Regional   Transportation
Authority, held a poster and essay
contest  as  part  of Clean   Air
Month.   The  winners and their
classroom   activities  were
publicized in  a tabloid  that  was
circulated to 38,800 students,  as
part  of  the Newspapers in  the
Classroom program.  The program
was so well received it  has been
expanded to a statewide project for
the current year.

Radon Proficiency Training:
The  Radon  Program   sponsors
training  each year for  individuals
who are interested in passing the
EPA  proficiency exams for radon
testing and mitigation.

Indoor Air Training:  An indoor
air training course for state-level
extension educators from various
states was held in Nashville.  The
program was  cosponsored by the
A teacher shows a pupil a sample used to illustrate a lesson, during Clean Air We Care
classes, in Rutherford County, Tennessee.  The classes were meant to build environmental
knowledge.
Terry Young (on right, with face hidden) of Middle Tennessee University tells onlookers
about a hydrogen powered car part.  The car was put on display in Nashville, Tennessee,
by Tennessee's Clean Air Committee.
EPA, USDA, University Extension
Program,   American   Lung
Association,  and PPEAD.   The
program was successful  and  is
being  duplicated in  three  other
places in America.

Rural Radon Awareness:  A local
radon   awareness   and   testing
program was  piloted  in  Giles
county, a  rural  high  risk  area.
More than 200 homes were tested
during the six week period.   The
program was so  successful  Giles
County   participants   assist
Tennessee and the American  Lung
Association  in conducting county
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locations,  during  January   and
February,  of  1995,  so  other
counties  can help  residents  test
their homes.

Pollution Prevention  Seminar:
The   first   regional   Pollution
Prevention Conference was held in
Kingsport  on   November   11.
Industries lis':ed  on  the  EPA's
latest  Toxics  Release Inventory
were invited to attend.

The conference was sponsored by
the  Tennessije   Department   of
Environment   &   Conservation's
(TDEC's) 2000 Initiative Industry
Committee,   PPEAD,   and
University of Tennessee Center for
Industrial Services (UTCIS).  The
conference emphasized the need to
voluntarily roduce TRI emission,
related some  success stories,  and
provided industry with people to
call for free sissistance.

Tennessee   Environmental
Priorities Project:  The  Policy
Planning  O.'ffice  facilitated  the
initial  training  of the Technical
Advisory Co.armittee for the TEPP
(i.e.,  comparative risk analysis),
which  will take  place in  1995.
The conference  attendees were
from   across  the  state.    They
learned, from the Northeast Center
for Comparative  Risk  and EPA,
about the comparative risk process
and their role in it.

Interdepartmental   Awareness:
The PPEAD sponsored a series of
Brown Bag lunches  promarily for
employees v/ithin the TDEC.  The
topics presented varied from new
EPA   initiatives,   such   as
Environmental   Justice,
Comparative Risk Indicators, and
Goals,  to  archaeological  sites.
Attendance was good  and  much
information  was shared between
the media.

Small   Business   Drycleaner
Teleconference:  The PPEAD's
Small   Business   Assistance
Program,   UTCIS,   and  EPA
sponsored a national teleconference
on  the Clean  Air  Act MACT
requirements    for   drycleaners.
There were teleconference sites in
48 states, Canada, and Mexico.

A  panel  of  experts  presented
information  on  the  regulatory
requirements,   operation,   and
maintenance   procedures,
monitoring techniques,  equipment
options, finance opportunities, and
good  housekeeping   practices.
Participants were able  to ask the
panel questions by phone.

A  drycleaning  compliance  and
operations   manual   was   also
developed   and   given   each
teleconference attendee.

State   of  the   Environment
Review:  Tennessee's first State of
the  Environment  report  for all
Tennesseans   was  published  in
1994. It was a collaborative effort
by the bureaus of Environment and
Resource Management.  The report
contains photography and computer
generated charts and graphs and is
Tennessee's  initial  attempt   to
inform  its   citizens   of
environmental   progress   and
performance, as well as unfinished
business. The report was a special
edition   of   the   department's
Conservationist magazine and was
sent to 20,000 individuals and
companies across the state.
Mobile Solid Waste Exhibit:  The
Division of Solid Waste Assistance
entered into a partnership with the
TVA and the Tennessee Soft Drink
Association in order to design and
operate a mobile exhibit,  which
carries a  small reference library
and more  than 50 publications for
distributors. It also has two video
units and  about 20 video tapes or
video  loops for  use by  special
community programs.  The three
partners have begun to design and
build a second,  mobile exhibit,
which should be available in April
1995.  It will be more interactive
and  address recycling and solid
waste reduction.

Ecological   Services:   The
Ecological  Services   Division
helped organize and present the 1st
Annual Tennessee   Exotic  Pest
Plant Symposium, on March  11-
12,  1994, in  Nashville.   The
presentations   ranged   from
environmental    education   to
biological  control  from Minnesota
to the Smokies.

The  Division  also  co-sponsored
and lead a control and eradication
workshop  for Middle Tennessee in
October 1994, at Warner Parks, in
Nashville.  The workshop,  about
IPM practices,  aimed at specific
exotic pest plants, was mainly for
resource managers.

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           ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
            This report was compiled
               by Norman Black

                EPA Region 4
             Office of Public Affairs
Environmental Education and Public Outreach Staff
            Richard D. Nawyn, Chief
         Additional copies of this report
         may be obtained by contacting

                Norman Black
         U.S. EPA Region 4 OPA/EEPO
            345 Courtland Street, NE
              Atlanta, GA 30365
                 404-347-3004
               FAX 404-347-3721
               Special thanks to

                Carolyn White

               for technical help
        with the report's graphics layout.

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