Focusing on PerformanceBased Programs for Environmental Management

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Focusing on Performance-Based Programs for
Environmental Management

• Andy Teplitzky
• Team Leader, State Relations and Incentives
• National Environmental Performance Track
• EPA Headquarters
• Indiana Partners for P2 Conference
• September 17, 2008

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What Id Like to Discuss

• What is a PBEP?
• Why does EPA support PBEPs?
• Why do we provide incentives?
• How does Performance Track drive environmental
  improvement?
• What is the perceived value and measured
  improvement of PBEPs?
• How does PBEP participation help a facility meet
  management expectations?

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What the heck is a PBEP?

• Performance-based Environmental Programs --
  voluntary partnerships between regulatory
  agencies and private-sector facilities (including
  non-profit and government organizations) where
  the government agencies generally set the terms
  of the partnership and facilities receive
  recognition and other benefits in return for
  beyond compliance performance.

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Why Does EPA Support PBEPs?

• promote use of EMSs and continuous environmental
  improvement
• recognize and encourage facilities who go beyond
  what is required
• encourage use of innovative environmental
  performance strategies
• to provide carrots to complement sticks
• to provide a structured approach for allowing
  top-performers more flexibility in meeting
  regulatory requirements

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Why do we provide program members with incentives?

• Very simplyto motivate organizations to go
  beyond what is required.

No facilities were harmed in the making of this
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How do we use Performance Track to drive member
environmental improvement?

• PT requires members to report annually on their
  progress
• Activities that get measured and reported remain
  on the radar and receive attention necessary to
  make progress
• Theres nothing like a little friendly competition

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Perceived Value of PBEPs

• Members value Performance Track as a Driver for
  Improved Environmental Performance and Bottom
  Line
• Realize cost savings 56
• Seek innovative solutions 53
• Reduced impacts that would not have occurred
  40
• Improved EMS to qualify 30

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Measured Cumulative Improvement for Key
Indicators

• Total Water Used Reduced by 3.66 billion
  gallons.
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduced by 309,780
  metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent.
• Non-Transport Energy Use Reduced by 4.26
  million MMBtu.
• Non-Hazardous Waste Reduced by 1.21 million
  tons.
• Hazardous Waste Reduced by 52,266 tons.
• Use of Recycled/Reused Mat. Increased by 559,991
  tons.
• Land and Habitat Conservat. Increased by 16,809
  acres.
• Non-Toxic Discharges to H2O Reduced by 33,286
  tons.

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How does PBEP participation help a facility
achieve upper management expectations?

• Serves as force function to help EHS staff ensure
  that management expectations are met
• Helps justify capital needed for improvement
  projects
• Facility often selects corporate goals as
  facility goals for a three-year term
• As upper management jumps on the green wagon,
  PBEPs serve as fuel for the wagon

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We Welcome Further Discussion

• Andy Teplitzky
• [phone]
• teplitzky.andy_at_epa.gov
• http//www.epa.gov/performancetrack