Assistance for Business Sectors
Automotive:
CCAR-GreenLink - The Automotive Compliance Information Assistance Center - The Coordinating Committee For Automotive Repair (CCAR) - GreenLink Assistance Center offers automotive service and repair facilities, autobody shops and vehicle dealers quick access to important information on a variety of environmental issues these professionals encounter in the daily operation of their businesses.
Metal Finishing:
National Metal Finishing Resource Center - This center is specifically targeted for the metal finishing industry and is being designed to be the most comprehensive environmental technical and compliance assistance information source
available.
Painting and Coating:
Paints and Coatings Resource Center - This center provides regulatory compliance and pollution prevention information to organic coating facilities, industry vendors and suppliers, and others.
Printed Wire Board:
Printed Wiring Board Resource Center - This center provides regulatory compliance and pollution prevention information to individual printed wiring board manufacturers, industry vendors and suppliers, federal, state and local agencies, academia, and other interested parties.
Transportation:
Transportation Environmental Resource Center - This center provides compliance assistance to the airline, shipping & barging, pipeline, railroad, and trucking transportation
industries.
Other Assistance Web Sites
Local Government Environmental Assistance Network - This center serves as a "first-stop-shop" by providing environmental management, planning, and regulatory information for local government officials, managers, and staff.
Small Business Environmental Home - This resourceful Web site was established to help small businesses access environmental compliance and pollution prevention information.
Design for the Environment - Helps businesses incorporate environmental considerations into the design and redesign of products, processes, and technical and management systems.
Education & Outreach Group - Services include environmental education, small business training and access to the Air Quality Learning Centers.
The Environmental Compliance Assistance Center - Developed as a partnership between EPA Region 8, Front Range Community College, and Industry. Its purpose is to translate complicated environmental laws and regulations into understandable language. This center was originally developed for the automotive service industry but has since been expanded to include general environmental information and other industries.
EPA Sector Notebooks - EPA's Office of Compliance has developed a series of notebooks that profile selected major industrial groups. These notebooks provide comprehensive data such as process information and regulatory requirements on each represented industry sector. The sector notebooks cover a wide array of approximately thirty industries ranging from dry cleaners to wood furniture manufacturing.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) - This program grants awards to small, high-tech firms for research and development of cutting-edge technologies.
TTN Web Sites - This Technology Transfer Network (TTN) is a collection of related Web sites containing information about many areas of air pollution science, technology, regulation, measurement, and prevention.