Environmental Management Assistance Program (EMAP)
Are you a small business owner with environmental, health, or safety compliance questions? Do you want to cut your costs by decreasing material and energy usage? Contact EMAP for free and confidential assistance.
EMAP provides small business owners in Pennsylvania with the answers and assistance they need to effectively manage their environmental concerns, reduce regulatory risks, and save money.
EMAP assistance includes:
- Toll-Free Environmental Hotline
- Consulting Assistance
- Site Visits
- Energy Efficiency Assistance
- New Technology Development Assistance
- Pollution Prevention Assistance
- Online Materials Exchange
- Newsletter
- Training Seminars
Toll-Free Environmental Hotline
Call 877-ask-emap for confidential assistance with your environmental questions. The hotline is staffed weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with voice mail access at all other times.
Consulting Assistance
Receive one-on-one consulting assistance with:
- environmental regulatory requirements
- permit applications, forms, and plans
- environmental management strategies
- energy efficiency and new technology development
- waste minimization
- finding sources of financing for environmental upgrades
- health and safety requirements
Site Visits
Professional staff are available to visit your facility to assist with compliance issues and look for energy-saving and waste minimization opportunities.
Energy Efficiency Assistance
EMAP offers a step-by-step program to help small businesses recognize and realize energy and cost savings. With EMAP's comprehensive program, which starts by analyzing current usage, businesses are able to make sound investments leading to real savings in monthly operating expenses.
New Technology Development Assistance
EMAP assists firms in the development and commercialization of new energy and environmental technologies by helping prepare and review proposals, finding new markets and opportunities, and identifying potential funding sources and partners.
Pollution Prevention Assistance
Pollution is a drain on a firm's bottom line. Whether it's air emissions, solid or hazardous wastes, or wastewater discharges, pollution is a waste resulting from inefficiencies in a firm's operations. And what business is ever purposely wasteful? EMAP can help small businesses use pollution prevention to improve their efficiency and save money.
Online Materials Exchange
Using the Material Trader Web site, businesses can search online for alternative uses for materials that have traditionally been discarded, and find new, inexpensive sources of raw materials.
Newsletter
The quarterly newsletter provides current environmental news and information to keep the small business community informed about important regulatory changes and environmental cost-saving opportunities.
Training Seminars
EMAP offers educational programs on topics of interest to small businesses. Some topics have included reducing costs through environmental management, complying with OSHA standards and funding small businesses. Check the Web site for current course offerings.
Aditional Information
For more information, contact one of the regional representatives for central Pennsylvania:
Heather Fennessey, P.E.
hxm103@psu.edu
814-863-4293
Click here to request assistance.