COMMITMENT TO SUPERIOR ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE. The X-Mill will commit to the following measures to maintain and improve our superior environmental performance: • Commitment to training employees on their roles to assist in maintaining a facility that is environmentally compliant • Continue our commitment to the X-Mill EMS, which is consistent with the “functional equivalency” requirements of Wisconsin Statute §299.83(1)(dg). • Continue reduction of water and energy consumption • Maintain compliance with X-Mill Environmental Policy Statement • Continue ground water remediation activities while working toward site closure • Continue waste minimization efforts Appendix 2 The following Indicators are proposed for all Green Tier participants. In addition to this Generic List, it is expected that other indicators/metrics will come out of your Environmental Management System and would be used to document accomplishments. This Generic List is meant to help Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx and the DNR document the relative success of the program. Environmental Indicators Some of the environmental indicators are already provided to the DNR. You would not be asked to report this information again if you have already reported it.
COMMITMENT TO SUPERIOR ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE. PCA’s Tomahawk Facility has a history of aggressive pollution prevention efforts. PCA is committed to superior Environmental Performance and to achieving measurable or noticeable improvements in Environmental Performance. PCA seeks to achieve a balance among the economic, social and environmental impacts of its efforts to achieve the goals identified below that is acceptable to the Tomahawk, Wisconsin community: • Reduce natural resource usage • Reduce waste generation • Increase recycling • Reduce HAP emissions • Increase employee/community awareness of PCA’s environmental impacts and pollution reduction efforts • Use the targets and goals of the Environmental Management System process to identify opportunities to improve the Facility’s environmental performance • Implement the suggestions of the Interested Persons Group when PCA, WDNR and the Interested Persons Group agree that these suggestions are technically and economically feasible • Continue evaluation of phosphorus treatment and control technologies, process changes and phosphorus minimization steps to reduce the amount of phosphorus discharged to the Wisconsin River to the maximum extent practically achievable taking into account energy, economic and environmental impacts as established in NR 217 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code. Such evaluations may include, but need not be limited to, evaluation of the “Xxxxx process and crystallator” technologies being investigated at Alto Dairy. The limitations of the existing wastewater treatment facility for purposes of maximizing phosphorus removal shall be identified. PCA will report on their evaluations as per Section XIV of this ECA.
COMMITMENT TO SUPERIOR ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE. Summary 3M agrees to pursue superior environmental performance while achieving a balance between economic, social and environmental impacts from it efforts. The extended Agreement will provide, as anticipated at the time of signature of the original Agreement, further testing of the effectiveness of an Environmental Management System (EMS), designed under ISO 14001 requirements, to identify and find solutions to those aspects of plant operations that have the most significant impacts on the environment. The reduced impacts which were accomplished during the initial 5 year term of this Agreement were driven not only by the plant’s EMS, but also through broad application of the analysis and change methodologies of both Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing. 3M will continue to expand application of all such tools for the period of this Agreement, such that under the Environmental Cooperation Pilot Program, and in coordination with the facility EMS, 3M commits to pursue and track the following: • Reduce waste (Non Product Output) per pound of good output by 20% by 2010 (2005 baseline) • Sustain or reduce Volatile Organic Compound Air Emissions (VOC) per 1000 pound of good output to less than 7.1 pounds VOC/1000 pound good output (2005 baseline) • Improve Energy Efficiency per pound of good output (with attendant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions) by 20% by the end of 2010 • Accomplish at least two accepted 3P (Pollution Prevention Pays) projects each year through 2010 • Work to certify, improve, and/or protect adjacent 3M properties to those standards established by the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) Establish wildlife habitat on the facility site certified by the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) According to communications between 3M and WI DNR which occurred during the initial term of the Agreement, 3M has elected to define “good output” more aggressively as finished or semi-finished product only. (This approach provides a lesser credit for emission reductions, and thereby a more challenging goal to attain). Waste, defined as Non-product Output (NPO), thereby includes recycled waste, off-site reuse of materials, waste to energy, and in plant recycle and reuse, in addition to the previous categories of chemical waste, landfill waste, and air emissions. As a component of the initial cooperative agreement, 3M agreed to a substantial reduction in its facility-wide limit of VOC emissions, from over 400 tpy to 249 tpy. This reduction represented a significant commi...
