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 EVENTS AND TRAINING
Pollution Prevention (P2) Planning Workshop
4 & 5 June

The Department of Ecology will be offering two identical interactive workshops on June 4th and 5th.  The workshops are designed to provide in depth pollution prevention illustrations and their relationship to the new electronic pollution prevention planning documents.  The format for the workshop will endeavor to explain the P2 planning process through examples, while simultaneously demonstrating the new electronic planning format.

Beginning this year Pollution Prevention Planners will have the option to submit Plans and Annual Progress Reports electronically. Toxics reduction technical assistance staff have developed electronic forms in Microsoft Word  2002 that will allow planners to complete their plans and APR's on their own computer. 

The new guidance manual, which will be available in both electronic and hard copy formats, drastically reduces the number of plan pages compared to the previous worksheet format. It also combines and integrates the P2 planning and Annual Progress Report manuals into one document. The new manual will provide guidance for a complete process-oriented five year view of data, helping planning facilities to find and implement opportunities in a systematic fashion, increase sustainability options, and make advances in pollution prevention techniques. 

The new guidance will be available to planners this spring.  Currently all P2 Planners will be receiving a copy of the new electronic planning document toward the end of May, 2003; prior to the workshops.  Feel free to bring your laptop to the workshop, (we will try to provide enough electrical outlets to all that request it) and begin working on your new or updated plans and/or your annual progress reports.

This new electronic planning format will only work with Microsoft Word 2000 or later.  If you have compatibility questions, please contact your  local regional office:

Pollution Prevention Planning Workshop Flyer (pdf)