Colorado

Pollution Prevention Act of 1992





P2 Objective: Creates cooperative partnership among business,

agriculture, the environmental community, and the state to achieve pollution prevention,

waste reduction, and source reduction.  Establishes that P2 is the preferred of the three

environmental management approaches.

Numeric Goal: None specified.

Assistance Offered: Creates a technical assistance program, and an education/

outreach program offered by the state.  Also establishes a grants program within the technical

assistance office.

Reporting Requirements: None.

Incentives: None.

Funding: Funds for administration of grant program only -- consists of P2 fees.

Contact: Parry Burnap, Pollution Prevention Waste Reduction Program


Colorado Department of Health and Environment


4300 Cherry Creek Drive South


Denver, CO 80220


Phone: 303/692-3009

Email: pwburnap@csn.org



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Definitions


Pollution Prevention -- Any practice which reduces the use of any hazardous

substance

or amount of any pollutant or contaminant prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal, and reduces

the hazards to public health and the environment associated with the use or release or both of

such substances, pollutants, or contaminants.


Toxics Use Reduction -- Changes in production processes, products, or raw materials

that reduce, avoid, or eliminate the use of toxic or hazardous substances and the generation of

hazardous by products per unit of production, so as to reduce the overall risks to the health of

workers, consumers, or the environment without creating new risks of concern.


Waste Reduction and Source Reduction -- Any practice which reduces the amount of

any hazardous substances, pollutant, or contaminant entering any waste stream or otherwise

being released into the environments (including fugitive emissions) prior to recycling, treatment,

or disposal, and reduce the hazards to public health and the environment associated with the

release of such substances, pollutants or contaminants.  The terms include equipment or

technology modifications, process or procedure modifications, reformulation or redesign of

products, substitution of raw materials, and improvements in housekeeping, maintenance,

training, or inventory control.  The term "source reduction" does not include any practice which

alters the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics or the volume of a hazardous

substance, pollutant, or contaminant through a process or activity which itself is not integral to

and necessary for the production of a product or the providing of a service.

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