Publications List

The following is a list of NEWMOA publications. Documents available via the web are linked. For more information on these documents, call NEWMOA at 617-367-8558 or contact Lois Makina at .

Publications are organized into the following areas:

• About NEWMOA
• Industry Sectors
• Innovative P2 Technology
• Environmental Management Accounting
• Mercury
• Lead
• Pollution Prevention Policies & Programs
• Solid Waste
• Waste Site Cleanup
• Hazardous Waste

About NEWMOA

NEWMOA Newsletter: Northeast Assistance and Pollution Prevention News

NEWMOA Brochure

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Partnership for Sustainability: NEWMOA Annual Report 2007
2008. 20pp.
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States Innovate to Promote Environmental Results: NEWMOA Annual Report 2006
2007. 17pp.
View as: pdf (1.3 MB)

Interstate Coordination + Cooperation: A Formula for Success: NEWMOA Annual Report 2005
2006. 20pp.
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Working Together for Environmental Progress: NEWMOA Annual Report 2004
2005. 20pp.
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Partnering for the Future: NEWMOA Annual Report 2003
2004. 16pp.
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Advancing Environmental Solutions in the Northeast: NEWMOA Annual Report 2002
2003. 12pp.
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Sharing Our Resources: NEWMOA Annual Report 2001
2002. 12pp.
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Building on the Success of A Cooperative Regional Approach: NEWMOA Annual Report 2000
2001. 12pp.
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Advancing Environmental Progress Through Collaboration, Facilitation, and Education: NEWMOA Annual Report 1999
2000. 14pp.
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P2 Week Brochure: Tips for Parents to Recognize That a "Healthy Planet = Healthy Kids"
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P2 Week Bookmark: Save a Watt - Save a Lot: Conserve Energy & Prevent Pollution
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NEWMOA Thesaurus
Controlled vocabulary list used by NEWMOA for cataloging documents. Used in the "Subject" field of the record. Terms not on the list but thought to be necessary for the document are placed in the "Keyword" field. Agreed upon terms will be included in updated versions of the Thesaurus.
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Industry Sectors

ADHESIVES

Pressure Sensitive Tapes & Labels: The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 & Pollution Prevention Opportunities
1999. 94pp. +app. Covers new regulations and P2 options for manufacturers in this sector.
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AUTO REPAIR

The Finishing Line: Q & A on Low VOC Compliant Coatings for Auto Body Shops
1999. Covers information for autobody shops on applying low VOC paints.
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Waste Oil Regulations: A Quick Guide for Auto Repair Shops
1998. Covers state focused waste/used oil regulations and P2 options.
View as: pdf - Connecticut (English, Spanish); Maine; Massachusetts (English, Spanish, Portuguese); New Hampshire; Vermont

A Checklist for Auto Repair Shops
1998. Provides a self-audit tool for regulatory compliance.
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METAL PRODUCTS

Pollution Prevention for Machining and Metal Fabrication: A Manual for Technical Assistance Providers
2001. 98pp. An overview of the industry and environmental regulations, as well as information on innovative P2 technologies that are used in machining and metal fabrication facilities.
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Pollution Prevention in Paints & Coatings Processes, A Manual for Technical Assistance Providers
1998. 121pp. + app. Provides detailed information for technical assistance providers on the metal coatings process and P2 options and alternatives.
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Pollution Prevention in the Primary Metals Industry, A Manual for Technical Assistance Providers
1998. Provides information for assistance providers on primary metals manufacturing and P2 options and alternatives.
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Pollution Prevention in Metal Finishing: A Manual for Technical Assistance Providers
1997. 170pp. + appendices. Provides detailed information for technical assistance providers on metal finishing and P2 options and alternatives.
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Slideshow & Video: RCRA Compliance for Metal Finishing Facilities
1998. To obtain a copy of the slideshow or video, contact the NEWMOA office. The show provides an overview of RCRA compliance and P2 for the metal finishing industry. Approximately 20 minutes long.

PRINTING

Pollution Prevention in Printing: A Manual for Technical Assistance Providers
1997. 130pp. + app. Provides detailed information for technical assistance providers on the printing industry.
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Pollution Prevention, An Environmental Resource Guide for Off-set Lithographers
2000. CD-ROM. To obtain a copy of the CD, contact the NEWMOA office. Contains compliance assistance and P2 information related to offset lithography including videos, case studies, and planning and options analysis tools.

WOOD FURNITURE FINISHING

A First Place Finish: An Environmental Guide for Vermont Wood Finishers
1998, To obtain a copy of the manual, contact the NEWMOA office. Presents multi-media regulations and P2 for small wood furniture manufacturers.

A First Place Finish: An Environmental Guide for Maine Wood Finishers
1998, To obtain a copy of the manual, contact the NEWMOA office. Presents multi-media regulations and P2 for small wood furniture manufacturers.

A First Place Finish: An Environmental Guide for New Hampshire Wood Finishers
1998, To obtain a copy of the manual, contact the NEWMOA office. Presents multi-media regulations and P2 for small wood furniture manufacturers.

Wood Furniture: The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 & Pollution Prevention Opportunities
1997. 89 pp. + app. Covers new regulations and P2 options for wood furniture manufacturers.
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High Solids Topcoats & HVLP Spray Guns: Ethan Allen
1997. 6 pp. Describes Ethan Allen's efforts to use new coatings and new equipment to reduce air emissions and operating costs.
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Ultraviolet Radiation Cured Coatings & Aqueous-Based Coatings
1997. 6 pp. Describes the Hussey Seating Company's efforts to use new coatings to reduce air emissions and operating costs.
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Innovative P2 Technology Profiles

Closed-Loop Vapor Degreasing
2001. View as: doc, pdf

Closed-Loop Aqueous Cleaning
2003. View as: doc, pdf

Trivalent Chromium Replacements for Hexavalent Chromium Plating
2003. View as: doc, pdf

Using Alternative Cleaners in Enclosed Spray Gun Washers
2007. View as: doc, pdf

Computer-to-Plate Lithographic Printing
2006. View as: doc, pdf

Environmental Management Accounting

The Roles of Materials and Cost Accounting in an Environmental Management System: A Case Study of Precix, Inc. (formerly Acushnet Rubber Company)
2003. View as: doc, pdf

Improving Your Competitive Position: Strategic & Financial Assessment of Pollution Prevention Investments, Training Manual
3rd Edition. 1998. Presents methods for conducting financial assessment of P2 investment options at firms.
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P2 & Lending Case Study: Hubbardton Forge, Immediate Environmental & Efficiency Returns
1996. 15 pp.

P2 & Lending Case Study: National Chromium Company Renewed Profitability Through Pollution Prevention
1996. 16 pp.

Pollution Prevention & Profitability, A Primer for Lenders
1996. 16 pp.
Helps lenders understand how P2 can enhance traditional loan evaluation criteria.

Mercury

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Trends in Mercury Use in Products

Review and Assessment of Thermostat Recycling Activities in the Northeast (pdf, doc)
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) contracted with the Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association (NEWMOA) to complete this assessment of mercury-added thermostat collection and recycling programs in order to identify mechanisms that could be used to enhance the recycling of these products in Massachusetts and elsewhere. The following report focuses on the results of the nationwide Thermostat Recycling Corporation (TRC), a voluntary industry-funded program to collect and recycle end-of-life mercury thermostats, which does not include incentive payments, as well as a number of other state mercury thermostat collection efforts, many of which do include incentives.

Reducing Mercury in the Northeast United States
Over the past 10 years, the states in the Northeast United States—for purposes of this article, the Northeast States are Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont—have put tremendous effort into regional approaches to reduce mercury in the environment. In 1998, the New England Governors (NEG) and Eastern Canadian Premiers (ECP) Committee on the Environment formed a regional mercury task force with a goal of virtually eliminating all in-region humanrelated sources of mercury emissions and discharges. This initiative was instrumental in jump-starting mercury reduction programs across the region.

This article appears in the May 2008 issue of EM Magazine, a publication of the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA; www.awma.org). To obtain copies and reprints, please contact A&WMA directly at 1-412-232-3444.

Mercury Success Stories:
NEWMOA and its sister organizations, the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) and the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (NEIWPCC) collaborated on a series of reports that describe some of the results of mercury reduction programs in the northeast region that have targeted emissions controls, reduction and management of mercury-containing products, and wastewater discharges. To find the overall executive summary of the results of the three reports combined and each individual report, use these links:

• Press Release
• Summary
• NEIWPCC
• NESCAUM
• NEWMOA

New Jersey DEP Dental Amalgam Posters:
NEWMOA collaborated with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJ DEP) and developed posters for dentists on best management practices for dental amalgam waste and for dental patients on their choices of restorative materials. The posters were funded by EPA Region 2.

• Best Management Practices for Amalgam Waste
• Dentists are Doing Their Part

New York Dental Amalgam Poster: (pdf) NEWMOA developed a poster on best management practices for handling of dental amalgam wastes for the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. The poster was was funded by EPA, Region 2.

Reported Mercury Spills in the Northeast States: (doc, pdf) NEWMOA compiled publicly available data from environmental and public health agencies in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont on the occurrence of spills of mercury.

Instructions for Cleaning Up "Small" Mercury Spills in Households: (doc, pdf) With input from the state environmental agencies of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont, NEWMOA combined available mercury spill clean-up instructions with the experience of individuals who have cleaned up mercury spills to create this document. It contains basic clean-up instructions for a small liquid mercury spill.

Mercury in Schools and Communities: Information on identifying and removing elemental mercury and products containing mercury from schools and from homes.

State-specific lamp recycling awareness flyers:

• Connecticut
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• Rhode Island
• Vermont, see www.mercvt.org

Advertisement: Don't trash fluorescent lamps! Recycle them.

How to Recycle Mercury Lamps in 8 Easy Steps
-See more about lamp recycling.

Mercury Pollution in the Northeast - A Guide for Policymakers - This policy guide has been prepared by the Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association (NEWMOA), New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (NEIWPCC), and Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM). These three interstate organizations serve the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the areas of waste, water, and air, respectively.

Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP) Analysis of Waste Dental Amalgam: (doc, pdf)

One Gram of Mercury Can Contaminate a Twenty Acre Lake: Provides a clarification of this commonly cited statistic: (doc, pdf)

Report to the Maine Legislature on Mercury Use in Button Cell Batteries: Provides a report prepared by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

Survey of Thermostat Recycling Corporation (TRC) Wholesalers: (doc, pdf)

Summary of Research on Mercury Emissions from Municipal Landfills: (web, doc, pdf)

Indoor Air Mercury: (doc, pdf) Provides a report describing why mercury is a problem in indoor air, the sources of mercury in indoor air, guidelines for mercury exposure, and studies on indoor air mercury.

Review of the Thermostat Recycling Corporation Activities in the Northeast: (doc, pdf) Provides results of a phone survey of the electrical wholesale firms in the Northeast who participate in the Thermostat Recycling Corporation's (TRC) program to collect used mercury-containing thermostats.

Federal Facilities Case Studies: Provides case studies that represent the culmination of a cooperative effort of the Environmental Protection Agency New England (EPA NE), NEWMOA, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MA DEP), and four New England Federal Facilities to develop a methodology to assist Federal Facilities to identify and reduce uses of mercury.

Northeast States & Eastern Canadian Provinces Mercury Study, A Framework for Action
NESCAUM/NEWMOA/NEIWPCC. 1998. To obtain a copy of the report, contact the NEWMOA office.
Presents the results of an analysis of mercury emissions and deposition.

FEDERAL FACILITIES CASE STUDIES

Introduction Letter
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Federal Facilities Mercury Log Sheet
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Federal Facilities Mercury Questionnaire
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Mercury Assessment: Air Force Base
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Mercury Assessment: Environmental Laboratory
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Mercury Assessment: New England College
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Mercury Assessment: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
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Addendum
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Click here for other mercury reports.

Lead

Identifying Industry Sectors in the Northeast That Emit or Transfer Lead or Lead Compounds
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Pollution Prevention Technologies and Resources for Industry Sectors Emitting or Transferring Lead or Lead Compounds in the Northeast
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Pollution Prevention Policies & Programs

NE Assistance and P2 News - Provides NEWMOA's newsletter, which is published a few times a year and provides information on state and local assistance and P2 activities in the Northeast. The production and distribution of this newsletter is funded by EPA Region 1 - New England. P2Rx™ supports posting the newsletters on the website and using the content to populate the P2 Activities Database. To receive a hard copy or e-mail version of the newsletter, send an e-mail to Andy Bray at .

Pollution Prevention Metrics Menu
1999. 15pp. The purpose of this menu is to provide a baseline list of metrics that programs can agree to utilize to help facilitate multi-state studies of pollution prevention activities, such as the recently published Pollution Prevention Progress in the Northeast.
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Pollution Prevention Progress in the Northeast States
1998.
Presents the results of a study of P2 program activities for the Northeast states.
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Recommendations for a National P2 Information Network
1998.
Describes P2 programs and recommends national network.
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Hazardous Air Pollution Prevention (HAP2) Project: Final Report to EPA
1999. 12pp. Recommendations to EPA on integrating P2 into the MACT program.
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Solid Waste

Interstate Flow of Municipal Solid Waste Among the NEWMOA States (1999 Data)
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Interstate Flow of Municipal Solid Waste Among the NEWMOA States (2000 Data)
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Waste Tires in the NEWMOA States, February 2002
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Beneficial Use of Non-Hazardous Coal Power Plant Fly Ash as Flowable Fill
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Beneficial Use of Tire Shreds as Lightweight Fill
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Beneficial Use of Wood Ash on Agricultural Land
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Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG) Program
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Interstate Flow of Construction & Demolition Report
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Waste Site Cleanup

SITE INVESTIGATION BROCHURES

Improving Site Investigation Brochure - December 2005
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Maine Site Investigation Matters Brochure - June 2005
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Massachusetts Site Investigation Matters Brochure - June 2005
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New Hampshire Site Investigation Matters Brochure - May 2005
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New Jersey Site Investigation Matters Brochure - June 2005
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Rhode Island Site Investigation Matters Brochure - April 2005
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Vermont Site Investigation Matters Brochure - May 2005
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INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY OPINIONS

Immunoassay Field Analysis
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X-Ray Fluorescence Field Analysis
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Gas Chromatography Field Analysis
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Passive Diffusion Bag Samplers for VOC Sample Collection from Groundwater Monitoring Wells
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Hazardous Waste

Hazardous Waste Program Performance Measurement: Final Project Report
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