ENVIRONMENTAL 'AGENCY PROTECTION UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR Message from the Administrator Over the past 25 years, our nation has made tremendous progress in protecting public health and our environment while promoting economic prosperity. Businesses as large as iron and steel plants and businesses as small as the dry cleaner on the corner have worked with EPA to find ways to operate cleaner, cheaper, and smarter. As a result, we no longer have rivers catching on fire. Our skies are clearer. American environmental technology and expertise are in demand throughout the world. The Clinton Administration recognizes that to continue this progress, we must move beyond the pollutant-by-pollutant approaches of the past to comprehensive, facility-wide approaches for the future. Industry by industry and community by community, we must build a new generation of environmental protection. Within the past two years, the Environmental Protection Agency undertook its Sector Notebook Project to compile, for a number of key industries, information about environmental problems and solutions, case studies and tips about complying with regulations. We called on industry leaders, state regulators, and EPA staff with many years of experience in these industries and with their unique environmental issues. Together with notebooks for 17 other industries, the notebook you hold in your hand is the result. These notebooks will help business managers to better understand their regulatory requirements, learn more about how others in their industry have undertaken regulatory compliance and the innovative methods some have found to prevent pollution in the first instance. These notebooks will give useful information to state regulatory agencies moving toward industry-based programs. Across EPA we will use this manual to better integrate our programs and improve our compliance assistance efforts. I encourage you to use this notebook to evaluate and improve the way that together we achieve our important environmental protection goals. I am confident that these notebooks will help us to move forward in ensuring that -- in industry after industry, community after community -environmental protection and economic prosperity go hand in hand. Recycled/Recyclable. Printed with Vegetable Based Inks on Recycled Paper (20% Postconsumer) EPA/310-R-95-006 EPA Office of Compliance Sector Notebook Project Profile of the Lumber and Wood Products Industry September 1995 Office of Compliance Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance 401 M St., SW (MC 2221-A) For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office ISBN 0-16-048273-9 This report is one in a series of volumes published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide information of general interest regarding environmental issues associated with specific industrial sectors. The documents were developed under contract by Abt Associates (Cambridge, MA), and Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc. (McLean, VA). This publication may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office. A listing of available Sector Notebooks and document numbers is included at the end of this document. Using the form provided at the end of this document, all mail orders should be directed to: U.S. Government Printing Office P.O. Box 371954 Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954 Complimentary volumes are available to certain groups or subscribers, such as public and academic libraries, Federal, State, local, and foreign governments, and the media. For further information, and for answers to questions pertaining to these documents, please refer to the contact names and numbers provided within this volume. Electronic versions of all Sector Notebooks are available on the EPA Enviro$en$e Bulletin Board and via Internet on the Enviro$en$e World Wide Web. Downloading procedures are described in Appendix A of this document. Cover photograph by Steve Delaney, U.S. EPA. |