[ADEQ Media] ADEQ to Hold Free Seminar on Arizona Performance Track

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ADEQ to Hold Free Seminar on Arizona Performance Track

PHOENIX (March 12, 2007) - A free seminar on Arizona Performance Track
and environmental management systems (EMS) will be held April 3, 10
a.m.-2 p.m., at Scottsdale Stadium, 7408 E. Osborn, Scottsdale. 

Arizona Performance Track is a voluntary partnership between ADEQ,
businesses and other regulated entities that recognizes and rewards
environmental leadership for going above and beyond the minimum
requirements of the law. 

"This seminar is a wonderful opportunity to get the most up-to-date
information available about the Arizona Performance Track program," said
ADEQ Director Steve Owens, who is scheduled to speak at the event. "The
program provides benefits to participants in recognition of their
commitment to environmental protection, while enabling ADEQ to more
effectively focus our resources on facilities and entities that need the
most attention. I encourage any interested regulated entity, as well as
the public, to attend this event."

Agenda topics include reasons to join Performance Track; benefits of and
criteria for membership; Performance Track for small businesses and
agricultural enterprises; advice from members and environmental
regulators; how to establish an EMS; EMS and the bottom line; EMS and
small business, and the future of Performance Track

Other speakers scheduled include Wayne Nastri, U.S. EPA Region 9
Administrator; Frances Schultz, deputy director, EPA Region 9's
communities and ecosystems division; Henry Darwin, ADEQ's Administrative
Counsel; and representatives from three Arizona Performance Track member
organizations: Jim Larsen, manager of environmental health and safety,
Intel Corporation, Chandler; Rob Barnett, director of environmental
systems, Ping, Phoenix; and Larry Person, senior environmental
coordinator, City of Scottsdale. 

The seminar is sponsored by ADEQ, the National Environmental Performance
Track and the Arizona Environmental Strategic Alliance.

More information on the seminar is available at www.azalliance.org.

More information about Arizona Performance Track is available on ADEQ's
Web site at www.azdeq.gov/function/about/track.html.

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