NEWMOA - Hazardous Waste Projects

Ongoing Projects

Auto Body Initiative - Provides technical and other support to the Small Business Environmental Assistance Programs in US EPA Region 5 to help them implement an Environmental Results Program (ERP) for auto body refinishing shops

Hazardous Waste Manifest Project - Helps state programs share information on the collection, storage, and retrieval of manifests and facilitates member involvement in the development of the new national electronic manifest system that the US EPA is developing.

Past Projects

The Common Measures for Environmental Performance - Evaluated the performance of targeted business sectors using common measures and statistical approaches, and used the results to identify particularly effective strategies that states employ to promote good environmental performance on the part of the regulated community.

Hazardous Waste Program Performance Measurement [PDF] - Developed an approach to hazardous waste program performance and compliance measurement and recommendations for follow-up.