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Current Priorities

as of April 2013

Clean Air Act Procedural Reform
  • Letter for CAA Forums Summarizing ECOS Positions
  • Letter to Whitfield on CAA Forums

    • Coal Ash Legislation
  • Resolution 8-14: The Regulation of Coal Combustion Residuals
  • Testimony on Coal Ash

    • Consent Decrees
  • Resolution 13-2: The Need for Reform and State Participation in EPA's Consent Decrees Which Settle Citizen Suits

    • Cooperative Relationship with EPA

    e-Enterprise for the Environment and the Exchange Network
  • Exchange Network Website

    • Environmental Justice and Title VI

    EPA's Budget for State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG)
  • Testimony on EPA's 2014 Budget

    • Future of the State Revolving Loan Funds and Alternative Financing
  • Resolution 13-1: Alternative Sources of Financing for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure

    • Hydraulic Fracturing
  • STEP 2013: The Path to New Energy: Hydraulic Fracturing in Focus

    • Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Reform
  • Resolution 01-6: State Access to Confidential Business Information Under the Toxic Substances Control Act
  • Resolution 10-8: Reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act
  • Resolution 10-10: Supporting Transfer of TSCA Authority for Management of PCB Wastes to Waste Management and Remediation Programs under RCRA and CERCLA

    • Older Completed Projects

    Community-Based Environmental Projects/TEA-21

    Core Performance Measures for Pollution Prevention

    Cost of Rules

    Developing Core Waste Measures

    Enforcement and Innovations for Texas Comptroller's Office

    Local Government Environmental Assistance Network (LGEAN)

    Local Government Rule Development Project

    One Stop/Facility Identification Initiative

    Ozone Transport Assessment Group

    Partnership 2000 Project (Autogrants)

    Reporting Reduction

    Resource Analysis: Phase II

    Small Towns

    State Issues on Clean Water Action Plan

    Strategic Planning (Government Performance and Results Act)

    Support for Regulatory Innovations Conference

    Active Projects

    Burden Reduction Initiative
    In October 2006, U.S. EPA and ECOS launched a joint Burden Reduction Initiative focused on state concerns over escalating reporting requirements.

    Element 13 of the State Review Framework
    Documents related to Element 13 and the State Review Framework (SRF)

    Environmental Health Forum

    ECOS formed the Environmental Health Forum in April 2003 to establish closer links between state health agencies and state environment agencies and to examine possible links between environmental conditions and health outcomes.

    Federal Facilities Forum (FFF)

    Providing a forum for inter-agency dialogue on environmental management of federal facilities.

    Lean Government
    Since 2003 public environmental agencies have dramatically improved agency permitting and administrative processes using Lean and Six Sigma process improvement methods.

    Mercury In the Environment
    States working through the Quicksilver Caucus to address mercury issues.

    OMB State Grant Template Measures

    Strategic Planning and Budgeting
    To work in cooperation with EPA regarding EPA's national strategic planning effort.

    Sustainability at U.S. Defense Sites
    The ECOS-DOD Sustainability Work Group provides a forum for dialogue between state and federal officials tasked with environmental management and oversight duties at defense facilities.

    TRI National Training Conference
    ECOS works with U.S. EPA and the states and tribes to organize and conduct the annual TRI National Training Conference that seeks to increase interactions between state, tribal, federal, and industry representatives to help improve TRI programs.

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    Key Partnerships

    Exchange Network

     
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