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Region 4 Partnering Success Stories
The success stories contained in this website represent the accomplishments of the facilitated partnering initiative started in the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 4, during 1993. This initiative has evolved into the Environmental Restoration Management Alliance (ERMA), composed of Federal and State agency representatives, as well as installation and contractor representatives. Since 1993, installation-specific partnering teams have been established and trained and are now operating for many installations. Each team has established a charter of cooperation aimed at better, cheaper, and faster cleanup for their installations. By allowing teams to operate in an empowered manner, many planning, analysis, and decision-making processes have been streamlined; some have been eliminated altogether. As various phases of each installation's program plan have been completed, the teams have documented their success, that is, their improvement over the old ways of doing business. Each story explains the Original Condition and Original Approach as well as the results of that original work. Additionally, each story defines how partnering was applied for that phase of work, the savings realized, and the overall result achieved by the teams. As ERMA progresses, new teams will be added and their success stories will be added to this collection.
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