§ 13-27-2-5 — Duties of commissioner and assistant commissioner

The commissioner and the assistant
commissioner, through coordinated effort, shall do the following:
(1) Periodically review state environmental programs and projects
for their ability and progress in promoting multimedia industrial
pollution prevention.
(2) Assist the division of air, the division of water, and the
division of solid and hazardous waste management in identifying,
within planned and existing regulatory programs of the
department, obstacles to pollution prevention and opportunities
to promote and assist in pollution prevention, including the
following:
(A) Encouraging regulatory flexibility to afford businesses the
opportunity to develop or implement pollution prevention
technologies and practices.
(B) Performing pollution prevention impact analyses of
administrative rules before proposed rules are published and
before final adoption.
(C) Exploring permanent funding for the program.
(3) Promote increased coordination between the divisions of the
department and between the department and other governmental
regulatory programs with responsibilities and duties relating to
toxic materials and environmental wastes, including, to the fullest
extent possible, the following:
(A) Joint planning processes.
(B) Joint research and studies.
(C) Joint public hearings.
(D) Joint hazard assessments.
(E) Joint environmental and workplace impact statements.
(F) Joint pollution prevention impact analyses for existing and
proposed administrative rules.
(4) Develop policies and programs to reduce the following by
means of industrial pollution prevention:
(A) Generation of municipal wastes.
(B) Generation of household hazardous wastes and pollutants.
(C) Use of toxic materials in consumer products.
(5) Provide general information about, and actively publicize the
advantages of and developments in, pollution prevention and the
requirements of this article.
(6) Assist businesses that seek information, guidance, planning
assistance, or recommendations for pollution prevention by
providing technical information to those businesses at production
or commercial locations.
(7) Work with existing environmental regulatory programs to
make use of existing information gathering systems that may
assist the division in assessing the progress of pollution
prevention statewide.
(8) Grant or deny applications for pollution prevention grants
under section 10 of this chapter.
(9) Provide source reduction and recycling technical assistance
and administer the Indiana recycling grants program established
under IC 13-20-22-2.
[Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-9-2-5.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.17. Amended by P.L.2-1997, SEC.50.