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Recommendation MRW 12: — Develop and implement a strategy for a more regionally focused MRW program by evaluating the most significant threats and effective approaches, including safer alternatives, to reducing those threats.

Determine priorities of focus for MRW efforts. Use these priorities to develop an integrated statewide MRW implementation strategy. This integrated approach will consider regional variations of population density, vulnerable watersheds, and toxic product use patterns to provide both a statewide and local focus.

Help develop priorities by analyzing existing studies, and evaluating and filling in information gaps. Studies to examine include the Oregon household hazardous waste priorities study and work associated with the Children's Safe Products Act, Puget Sound Partnership, Safer Chemical Alternatives research, PBT Chemical Action Plans, and the results of Local Source Control technical assistance visits.  Work done in support of recommendations MRW1 and MRW8 also may provide useful data.

Using this information and in collaboration with local governments, develop a strategy to guide work on MRW, including:

• Providing information for the statewide education program.
• Supplementing local educational materials.
• Targeting Coordinated Prevention Grant (CPG) and Public Participation Grant (PPG) awards.
• Specifying duties of local source control specialists.
• Providing guidance and/or regulatory interpretation on handling and disposing of specific materials.
• Considering statutory changes.
• Selecting sector campaigns.

Milestone MRW O: A regional MRW strategy, based on existing and new studies, is developed and being implemented.

Links and Resources

• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
• Local Source Control Partnership
• Persistent, Bioaccumulative Toxics (PBTs)
• Children's Safe Products Act
• Puget Sound Partnership  (Exit Ecology)
• Oregon's Household Hazardous Waste Management Plan  (Exit Ecology)

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