Indiana

Indiana Pollution Prevention and Safe Materials Act of 1990





P2 Objective: To reduce the use of toxic materials by means of P2.

Numeric Goal: None specified.

Assistance Offered: Technical and planning assistnace offered by the IDEM and the

Pollution Prevention and Safe Materials Institute.  P2 grants also offered.

Reporting Requirements: None.

Incentives: None.

Funding: None.

Contact:
Tom Neltner, Office of Pollution Prevention and Technical

Assistance
Indiana Department of Environmental Management
100 North Senate

Avenue, P.O. Box 6015
Indianapolis, IN 46206-6015


Phone: 317/232-8172
and
Dr. Lynn Corson, Indiana Pollution Prevention and Safe

Materials Institute
1291 Cumberland Avenue, Suite C1
West Lafayette, IN

47906
Phone: 317/494-6450   

Email: corosnl@ce.edn.purdue.edu



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Definitions


Environmental Wastes -- All environmental pollutants, wastes, discharges, and

emissions, regardless of whether or how they are regulated and regardless of whether they are

released to the general environment or the workplace environment.


Pollution Prevention -- The employment by a business of a practice that reduces the

industrial use of toxic materials or reduces the environmental and health hazards associated with

an environmental waste without diluting or concentrating the waste before the release, handling,

storage, transport, treatment, or disposal of the waste.  The term includes changes in

production technology, materials, processes, operation, or procedures, or the use of in-process,

in-line, or closed-loop recycling according to standard engineering practices.  The term does not

include a method applied after the waste is generated.


Toxic Material -- Any of the following:
- A chemical substance in a gaseous, liquid,

or solid state that meets the definition of hazardous substance in the CERCLA in effect on

1/1/90.
- A mixture of such substances.
- An element, substance, compound, or mixture

designated by the commissioner as a toxic or hazardous substance.

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