Streamlining Government Business Processes for Environmental Protection(PPT)

摘要

This session will showcase efforts to streamline air emissions reporting and improve air emissions data collection processes by states and the U.S. EPA. Attendants will learn about efforts conducted by the U.S. EPA and state/local/tribal (SLT) under the E-Enterprise Combined Air Emissions Reporting (CAER) Project. The goal of the CAER project is to streamline the way industry reports air emissions to meet EPA and SLT program requirements. The ‘‘Common Emissions Form'' (CEF) and system will be an electronic reporting tool that will allow facilities to report to more than one program with a single data submission. Work towards development of the CEF includes facility and emissions data requirements gathering conducted by Product Design Research and Development Teams composed of staff from the U.S. EPA and states, such as a comparison among the National Emissions Inventory, the Toxics Release Inventory and State Emissions Inventory programs. Some of this work, while of benefit to CAER, also has stand-alone benefits. Finally, many states have developed custom electronic reporting systems with features designed to ease reporting for industry. Highlights of these systems will be showcased.