PrintSTEP is the first industry-based program that addresses administration of environmental regulation with the resources available for that regulation in mind.
Designed specifically for the printing industry, PrintSTEP offers these features:
- Flexibility to modify the program to fit state’s needs
- Guidance for establishing the pilot
- Integration between all documents so they work together
- Multi-media approach that begins to address cross-media concerns
- Public participation scaled to facility environmental impact
- Semi-customized modular permitting without being agency resource intensive
PrintSTEP offers benefits to the state
PrintSTEP provides the state regulatory agency the opportunity to partner with the printing industry in a manner that reduces administrative transaction costs for both parties. PrintSTEP does this while assuring environmental compliance and simultaneously encouraging beyond-compliance efforts in pollution prevention and community participation. The direct benefits include:
- Flexibility in allocation of scarce agency personnel resources
- Greater coverage of the printing industry at appropriate regulatory levels
- Improved capability to respond to the needs of the agency’s many "customers" (regulated entities, the community)
- Opportunity to educate the very smallest of printers, some of which will grow
- Significant reduction in agency transaction time (actual and elapsed) to issue an environmental operating permit for the greatest majority of printers