Learn the Issues
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Travel and Environmental Implications of School Siting
This report shows that school siting and design can influence traffic congestion, air pollution, school transportation budgets, and children's health.
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Sustainable Design and Green Building Toolkit for Local Governments
This tool helps local governments identify and remove barriers to sustainable design and green building in their permitting processes.
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Cool & Connected: Nine Actions for Success
Nine action items communities can consider to use broadband service to promote downtown revitalization, improve quality of life, and protect the environment, taken from EPA's Cool and Connected program
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Confirm that ASTM method D-1319, Fluorescent Indicator Adsorption (FIA) can be used to determine aromatic and olefin levels until January 1, 1997.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes, the current version, ASTM method D-1319-93, is the regulatory method for olefins and may be used as an alternate for aromatics until January 1, 1997. For aromatics, it must also be correlated to the GC-MS method. Correlation…
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Concerning the OFID test method for oxygenates:a) The method has a program run of 20 minutes, but over half the eluting peaks on the table in the method come off after 20 minutes. For example, the last oxygenate present on the table elutes off at 38 minut
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . a) Yes (10/31/94) b) Yes (10/31/94) c) It would generally be inappropriate to purchase prepared Calibration and Independent Standards from the same purveyor; however, if one is purchasing pristine pure compounds for the purported purpose of preparing precise…
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Planning for Flood Recovery and Long-Term Resilience in Vermont
Vermont requested technical assistance from EPA and FEMA that focused on incorporating smart growth principles into state policies, local development regulations, and Hazard Mitigation Plans to increase community flood resilience.
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2017 Local Foods, Local Places Summit: Lessons Learned
Summary of the 2017 Local Foods, Local Places Summit, including experiences, successful practices, and challenges from communities promoting local foods to spur revitalization.
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Local Foods, Local Places Case Study: Walterboro, South Carolina
Case study about using local foods to spur revitalization of Walterboro, SC's downtown through the Local Foods, Local Places Program.
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Local Foods, Local Places Case Study: Huntington, West Virginia
Case study about using local foods to help revitalize Huntington through the Local Foods, Local Places Program.
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Local Foods, Local Places Case Study: Ajo, Arizona
Case study about using local foods to create jobs and encourage healthier eating in Ajo, Arizona, through the Local Foods, Local Places Program.
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Governors' Institute on Community Design
This page describes the Governors' Institute on Community Design, which helps governors and their staff make informed decisions about investments and policy decisions that influence the economic health and physical development of their states.
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Market Drivers
This page describes how different sources of generation contribute to transforming the market. It describes how voluntary and non-voluntary sources of generation create change and what individuals can do to implement change.
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Contributions of Policies and Consumer Choice Drivers
This page should convey the important scale that each of the different sources of generation contribute to the market. This page highlights the importance on voluntary action as a significant change agent in the market.
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In a computer-controlled in-line blending operation, adjustments to blending volumes and other blending parameters are made on an ongoing basis to keep the gasoline being blended on-spec. Normally, these adjustments are made automatically by a computer. However, some aspects of the blending operation must be placed in a manual mode when instrument problems arise. The operator is able to enter values (transfer volumes, blend volumes) in the case of such a manual mode operation. The computer records when manually-entered adjustments are made. Is this acceptable data control to the EPA?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . It would seem to be appropriate for the software to indicate when data are manually entered, who entered the data and when it was entered. This information should be recorded with the file for the batch and available…
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Guidelines for Exposure Assessment
1992 final guidelines for exposure assessment.
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Recommended Use of Body Weight 3/4 as the Default Method in Derivation of the Oral Reference Dose
This document promotes the use of BW3/4 as a default method to convert data between species for both categories of endpoints.
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Types of Septic Systems
most common types of septic systems in use.
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Grand Rapids Vapor Intrusion Maps
Maps of vapor intrusion sites in Grand Rapids
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A company wishes to blend RFG containing ethanol with RFG containing an ether, such as MTBE. May this blending occur during the VOC-controlled season? During the non-VOC-controlled season?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under § 80.78(a)(8), and as explained in the answer to Prohibitions Question 1 in the September 26, 1994 Question and Answer Document, RFG may not contain a mixture of ethanol and any other oxygenate during the VOC control…
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Proposals & Solicitations
TThis page provides resource to help understand the contract development process and best practices in standardizing contract templates and request for proposals (RFPs).
