Pollution prevention can be integrated into environmental regulatory activities such as permitting, compliance inspections, enforcement settlements, waste management, regulatory development, remediation projects, and in an organization's culture.

Permitting

• Issue multimedia permits
• Expedite reviews of permit modifications for P2 projects
• Standardize P2 provisions in general permits

Compliance Inspections

• Conduct facility-wide multimedia compliance inspections
• Provide P2 technical assistance to inspectors and industry
• Single media inspectors refer facilities to the state technical assistance program

Enforcement Settlements

• Reduce a penalty when facility implements P2 to achieve compliance
• Extend a compliance schedule to allow implementation of a P2 technology
• Negotiate P2 provisions into Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs)
• Avoid compliance strategies that transfer pollution to different media
• Refer non-compliant industries to the state technical assistance program

Waste Management

• Develop RCRA waste minimization plans to manage hazardous waste
• Emphasize source reduction in the management of solid waste

Regulatory Development

• Require life cycle impacts as part of new rulemaking standards
• Define industry regulatory requirements such as BMPs and MACT, as P2
• Include multimedia facility planning requirements with measurable goals

Remediation Projects

• Remedy prevents cross-media transfer
• Deconstruction rather than demolition at brownfields to reuse building materials
• Restore and enhance existing natural habitat
• Construct wetlands treatment systems for wastewater and stormwater runoff

Organization

• Establish a multimedia workgroup to seek new ways to meet agency objectives
• Develop a strategy for integrating P2 into mainstream activities
• Revise organization's mission and vision to include P2
• Provide P2 training to regulatory staff to effect change in existing core programs
• Recognize employee achievements via awards and other incentives
• Integrate P2 into formal agreements with government agencies and public and private partnerships
• Provide financial incentives when P2 activities are included in the provisions of contracts and grants documents