Beyond Compliance Guidance
Applicants
should list in the application those activities taken at the
site within the last five years as well as planned future
activities to go beyond compliance. Examples of going beyond
compliance include:
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Emitting,
discharging and/or raw material utilization at levels well
below permitted or regulated levels (local, state or
federal) or complete elimination of these activities for
specific pollutants, pollutant parameters and/or chemical
usage.
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Controlling,
reducing and/or eliminating emissions, discharges, raw
materials and resources not currently permitted or
regulated (local, state or federal) for your organization
that the facility has identified as a potential
environmental issue.
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Activities
that result in the elimination of an environmental permit
or have facilitated the reclassification of the site.
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Examples
include going from large > small > conditional
exempt quantity hazardous waste generator status,
significant industrial user > industrial user
pretreatment status, TitleV > synthetic
minor>minor or small, etc.
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Frequency
of internal inspections/audits, monitoring/sampling or
record keeping that are beyond that required for that
regulated activity (local, state or federal).
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List
the actual frequency of internal inspection,
monitoring/sampling or audits and the number required
by the regulations.
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Inspections/audits
beyond that required would include those third party
inspections/audits performed by personnel other that
regulators.
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Level
of internal inspections/audits, monitoring/sampling or
record keeping that are beyond that required by
regulations (local, state or federal).
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