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Business
Assistance Opportunities
The Hamilton County Solid
Waste Management District (District) designed this page to
assist businesses with pollution prevention and waste
reduction projects. Please contact the
Business
Specialist at (513) 946-7732 with questions and comments
to improve this site.
The District is located at
250 William Howard Taft Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45219.
Hamilton County Development Center
Pat Longo,
Director
1776 Mentor Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45212
(513) 631-8292
Hamilton County
Development Company, Inc. (HCDC) is a private not-for-profit
corporation organized to promote economic development. Located
in the center of Greater Cincinnati, HCDC administers a
variety of U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and State
of Ohio loan programs. HCDC developed and operates the
Hamilton County Business Center, a business incubator located
at 1776 Mentor Ave, Norwood, Ohio. In addition, HCDC manages
the Hamilton County Economic Development Office, which
administers tax incentive programs and provides economic
development services to Hamilton County and its local
communities.
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TechSolve
Mary Beth
Holley, Project Manager
1111 Edison Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45216
(513) 948-2038
TechSolve helps you
increase profits by eliminating waste and increasing
productivity on the factory floor and in the front office.
Implementing
Lean Manufacturing and
Machining Solutions at your
company and throughout your
supply chain is our
specialty. Additionally, we deliver
training and provide access
to a variety of
business development services
for
small to mid-sized manufacturers.
We don't just claim results; we use independent sources to
document
customer ROI.
Call for immediate
hands-on help or begin by
joining TechSolve to share
best practices with our network of 200+ member companies.
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Performance Track
The Performance Track
Information Center
c/o Industrial Economics Incorporated
2067 Massachusetts Avenue, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02140
1-888-339-PTRK
The National
Environmental Performance Track* (Performance Track) Program
recognizes and encourages top environmental performance among
private and public facilities in the United States.
Performance Track facilities go beyond compliance with
regulatory requirements to achieve environmental excellence.
Currently, the program has approximately 300 members and
welcomes all qualifying facilities in the next open
application period, August 1, 2003 - October 31, 2003.
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Small Business Environmental Home Page
Concurrent Technologies
Corporation
425 Sixth Avenue, 28th Floor - Regional Enterprise Tower
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Phone: (412) 577-2649
Helps small businesses access environmental compliance and
pollution prevention information.
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Small Business Ombudsman
The Air Quality
Representative for Small Business provides public information
and education about the free services available to small
businesses to comply with the Clean Air Act Amendments of
1990. This is done by:
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Promoting
awareness of the free services available to small businesses
through the use of various types of publicity like these Web
sites and publications about small businesses.
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Serving as staff
to the Small Business Air Quality
Advisory Panel and its committees.
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Increasing
participation of small businesses in regulation development.
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Handling
administrative activities including:
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Small
Business Assistance Program (SBAP)
Many of the
requirements of the 1990
Clean Air Act Amendments affect small businesses, which
often cannot afford to hire environmental experts to interpret
the complex regulations. Because the costs of failing to
comply can be quite high, Congress required each state to
establish a program to provide small businesses with technical
assistance to help them meet air emission requirements and
reduce air emissions.
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Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
409
Third Street, SW
Washington,
DC
20416
1-800-U-ASK-SBA
A broadband service
delivery network designed to make a significant, strategic
investment in building and enhancing local economies in the
US, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa.
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Pollution Prevention
Ohio
Pollution Prevention
Office of Pollution
Prevention
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
P.O. Box 1049
Columbus, Ohio 43216-1049
Phone (614) 644-3469
Fax (614) 644-2807
p2mail@epa.state.oh.us
The Office of Pollution Prevention (OPP)
provides free technical assistance to help Ohio businesses
reduce pollution and improve Ohio’s environment. OPP is a
non-regulatory office at Ohio EPA and has been helping Ohio
businesses since 1993. The Office can provide assistance
through onsite visits, over-the-phone consultations, or by
e-mail. In addition, the Office provides an extensive array
of publications that help companies reduce waste generation
and improve competitiveness. Most of these publications are
provided free-of-charge and can be accessed through the Ohio
EPA Web site.
Kentucky Pollution Prevention
Kentucky Pollution Prevention
Center
University of Louisville
420 Lutz Hall
Louisville, KY 40292
Toll
Free: (800) 334-8635 ext. 8520965
Local: (502) 852-0965
Fax: (502) 852-0964
info@kppc.org
The Kentucky
Pollution Prevention Center is the Commonwealth's primary
resource for pollution prevention technical assistance,
training, and applied research. The Center helps organizations
increase efficiency and profitability by identifying
opportunities for waste reduction and other methods for
improving environmental management.
Indiana Pollution
Prevention
P.O. Box 6015
Indianapolis, IN 46206-6015
Toll Free: (800) 451-6027
Local: (317) 232-8603
p2@dem.state.in.us
It is the goal of
the Office of Pollution Prevention and Technical Assistance (OPPTA)
to develop and foster an emphasis on environmentally and
economically sound approaches to achieve environmental
results. This includes proactively providing resources for
source reduction, re-use and recycling,
voluntary compliance and
pollution prevention. OPPTA
encourages environmental results through various grant
opportunities,
public recognition awards
such as the various "Governor's
Awards for Environmental Excellence", broad-based
educational programs and
technical assistance.
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EPA Publications for Businesses
Toll-Free Hotline: (800)
368-5888
The following
list of Publications has been compiled to help small
businesses and other interested parties understand
environmental trends, requirements, and regulations. Updated
editions will be automatically substituted. As publications
are identified, they will be added to this list. They are
grouped by subject areas, and individual items may be ordered
using the order form attached, or by calling one of the above
numbers. Availability of some publications is limited, so
please order only those pertinent to your needs and in minimum
necessary quantities. Since none of these is copyrighted, any
one may be duplicated locally.
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Window to My Environment
(202) 566-0694
WME is an
innovative public access tool that helps answer popular
questions about a community's air, land, and water, as well as
what is being done locally to protect the environment.
Developed in partnership with Federal, State, Tribes, local
governments, and other organizations, WME offers a new
approach to integrating, managing, and providing comprehensive
community-based environmental information.
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Enforcement and Compliance History (ECHO)
Office of Enforcement and
Compliance Assurance
Mail Code 2222A
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC, 20460
(617) 520-3015
echo@epa.gov
Use ECHO to determine whether:
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Compliance
inspections have been conducted by EPA or state/local
governments.
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Violations
were detected.
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Enforcement
actions were taken and penalties were assessed in response
to environmental law violations.
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