Environmental Management System (EMS) Resources for North Texas

• Upcoming EMS events
• EMS presentations
• Sample policies
• Technical assistance from TCEQ and Culture Technologies
• Other resources
• Regional EMS contacts

Upcoming EMS Events

Balancing Growth, Budget Constraints, and Environmental Risk in City Governments: The cost of not having an EMS
September 27, 2007, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Ruthe Jackson Center in Grand Prairie
Guest Speaker: Bob Herbert, Former City Manager, City of Roanoke, Virginia
Click here to RSVP for this event.

Presentations: City Managers Briefings sponsored by TCEQ (3/7/2007) [PDF]

• What is an EMS? by Culture Technologies
• Implementing an EMS program by City of Dallas

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Presentations: North Central Texas EMS Working Group [PDF]

January Meeting (1/10/2007)

• Meeting notes

March Meeting (3/2/2007)

• Meeting notes
• DFW International Airport
• EPA Region 6
• TCEQ Clean Texas program

June Meeting (6/15/2007)

• Meeting notes
• Building an EMS- Your Environmental Policy by TMAC

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Sample Environmental Policies [PDF]

• Atlas Copco
• City of Dallas
• DFW International Airport
• EPA Region 6

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Other Resources [PDF]

• A model EMS for local governments (TCEQ)
• PEER Center ( Public Entity EMS Resource Center)

Regional EMS contacts

For North Central Texas EMS Working Group:

Grady R. Coomes, REM, Environmental Project Coordinator
Dallas Water Utilities
Email: grady.coomes@dallascityhall.com
Phone: (214) 243-2370

For EMS June Workshop and general EMS assistance:

Israel Anderson, Partnership Program and Compliance Assistance Coordinator, USEPA Region 6
Email: Anderson.Israel@epamail.epa.gov
Phone: (214) 665-3138

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