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Implementing Environmental Protection with a Sector Approach

A Roadmap for State and Local Co-implementers

Contents

Executive Summary

• What is a co-implementer?
• What is a sector?
• Segmenting Environmental Protection -- A Co-implementer's-Eye View 
• A Note on Roadmapping

1.  "Point A":  The Sector Approach in Practice

• Who is using sector-based approaches?
• What applications are sector-based approaches being used for? 
• How do sector-based approaches fit with other approaches? 

2.  "Point B":  Opportunities for Sector-Based Programs

• "Regulatory awareness" programs
• Voluntary "beyond compliance" programs
• Creation of EMS templates
• Multistakeholder planning groups
• Joint programs with trade organizations
• Compliance assistance provider networks
• Co-implementer organizations

3.  Pathways from A to B:  Implementing Programs for Co-implementers

• Incentives
• Measurement
• Partnership

4.  How steep? --  Barriers to Implementation of Sector-Based Programs

• The command-and-control paradigm
• The enforcement paradigm

5.  Conclusions and Recommendations

Appendix A:  Sector-based items on state environmental websites

• Overview
  • Table 1. Sector-specific items on state environmental regulatory agency websites
  • Table 2. Protection-oriented items on state environmental regulatory agency websites
  • Table 3. List of sectors with resources found at state websites
• Reviews of state websites

Appendix B:  Input from Co-implementers

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