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Apply for An NPEP Achievement Award

Ready to apply for an Achievement Award or share a Success Story?

If you have achieved any of the goals identified in your NPEP enrollment agreement, you are eligible for an Achievement Award. To receive this Award, describe your achievement using the Success Story outline provided below. Your completed Success Story serves as your application for an Achievement Award.

If you are not ready to apply for an Achievement Award at this time but you have made important progress toward reaching your goal(s) and you would like to share information about your progress, you may submit a Success Story to post on the NPEP website. You can select this option in the first section of the Success Story outline.You have three options for completing a Success Story.

Download the Success Story Outline (PDF) (3 pp, 38K, About PDF), complete your story, and send it to us.
Contact us and request an NPEP Success Story outline. Complete your story and send it to us.
Use the online Success Story outline provided below. Use the example (PDF) (1 pg, 11K) NPEP Success Story as a guide. If you have any questions, see other success stories, visit the NPEP home or FAQs page, or contact us.

EPA will review your Success Story for completeness, send you an Achievement Award like the one shown here, and post your story on this website in our Success Story Showcase. At your request, we will also notify your local media of your achievement and Award.

Online Success Story Outline

The outline provided below offers a framework for making your Success Story clear and understandable to the many readers that visit this website. The outline makes recommendations for approximate length, but you can make your Success Story as detailed as you wish. If you have a QA/QC plan for any data you submit, please email it to us at oswerosw.wmpartners@epa.gov.

OMB No. 2050-0190

Expiration Date: 5/31/2009

1. Identifying Information.

(As entered on your enrollment form.)

Name of Organization:			Facility Name:
Principal Contact:			Title:
Address Line1:			Address Line 2:
City:			State:
Zip:			Enrollment date:
Phone:			Fax:
E-mail:			EPA RCRA ID Number:

Check one of the following options:

We have achieved one or more of the goals identified in our enrollment form and would like to apply for an Achievement Award.

We are not applying for an Achievement Award at this time. However, we have made important progress and would like to submit a Success Story to post on the NPEP website.

2. Background - About 100 words.

(View NPEP example success story (PDF) (1 pg, 11K, About PDF)

How large is your organization?
How long has your organization been in operation?
What do you produce, and what is the product used for?
How would you describe your customer base?
How do you produce this product?
How much do you produce in a year?
What other environmental or partnership programs do you participate in?

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3. What Partnership Program Goal(s) did you set and how did you achieve it? - About 250 words.

(View NPEP example success story (PDF) (1 pg, 11K, About PDF)

What chemical/waste(s) did you choose to work on?
What source reduction, recycling, or recovery goal(s) did you set?
Why did you pick this chemical/waste(s) to work on?

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4. What source reduction, recycling, or recovery alternatives did you explore? - About 250 words.

(View NPEP example success story (PDF) (1 pg, 11K, About PDF)

Source Reduction:
- Equipment or technology modifications;
- Reformulation or redesign of products;
- Improvements in inventory control;
- Process or procedure modifications;
- Substitution of less toxic raw materials;
- Improvements in maintenance/housekeeping practices;
- Other (please describe below).
Recycling/Recovery:
- Direct use/reuse in a process to make a product;
- Using/reuseing waste as a substitute for a commercial product;
- Processing the waste to recover or regenerate a usable product;
- Other (please describe below).
What method did you finally use to achieve your goal?
What prior successes, if any, helped you achieve this goal?

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5. What hurdles did you face? - About 150 words.

(View NPEP example success story (PDF) (1 pg, 11K, About PDF)

Material substitution issues.
Product quality issues.
Process change issues.
Equipment issues.
Financial issues.
Customer issues.
Senior management commitment and support issues.
Training and/or departmental coordination issues.
Other (please describe below).

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6. Results - About 250 words.

(View NPEP example success story (PDF) (1 pg, 11K, About PDF)

Describe and quantify any changes in product content, energy use, and/or environmental releases that resulted from accomplishing your goal(s).
Describe cost savings and/or increases, including changes in capital, production, operations and maintenance, raw material purchases, waste management, and worker health and safety costs.
What was the payback period for this project?
Describe any changes in company policy, management and/or worker involvement, and/or customer satisfaction that resulted directly or indirectly from this achievement.

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7. Lessons Learned - About 100 words.

(View NPEP example success story (PDF) (1 pg, 11K, About PDF)

What lessons learned from this project would you like to share with others?
What lessons learned extend to other operations or projects in your organization?

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Send us your Success Story

U.S. Mail:
U.S. EPA
National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP) Coordinator
Waste Minimization Branch
ORCR/HWMMD (5302P)
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20460

Delivery Service:
U.S. EPA
National Partnership for Environmental
Priorities (NPEP) Coordinator
ORCR/HWMMD
Sixth Floor, Room N6780
2733 S. Crystal Drive
Arlington, VA 22202

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