Outreach Pollution Prevention Program

The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality P2 Coordinator provides site visits and assistance to businesses, government agencies and the public to improve the environment and save money through pollution prevention methods. 

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Voluntary Remediation Program Pollution Prevention
The Solid and Hazardous Waste Division http://deq.state.wy.us/shwd/ manages a Voluntary Remediation Program (VRP) which was created by the Wyoming Legislature in 2000 to provide a process through which owners of contaminated sites, or potential buyers/developers can quickly reach decisions about required remedial activities and put contaminated sites back into productive reuse.  The VRP offers advantages to property owners unavailable through any other WDEQ program including a written liability assurance for a property once it has been cleaned up to meet state environmental standards.

The Legislature recognized the need to encourage anyone handling contaminants to do all they could to prevent those contaminants from being inadvertently released to the environment.  Consequently, the requirement to be implementing a Pollution Prevention Plan or the alternative minimum pollution prevention operating standards was added to the eligibility criteria necessary for VRP participation through a new Chapter of rules incorporated into the VRP in January of 2010. This Chapter established an effective date of January 1, 2011.  After this date, a prospective VRP volunteer will be asked to certify that they were implementing pollution prevention practices at the time of the contaminant release if it occurred after January 1, 2011.

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Storm Water Pollution Prevention
Pollution prevention planning is a hallmark of storm water permits issued by the Water Quality Division’s WYPDES Storm Water Program.  Each of the storm water permits requires implementation of a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) or a Storm Water Management Program (SWMP) to minimize the discharge of pollutants in storm water runoff from the permitted site.

Storm water discharges from certain activities require coverage under one of the state’s storm water permits.  Regulated activities include any construction where one or more acres is disturbed (or smaller disturbances that are part of a common plan that itself disturbs one or more acres), most manufacturing, all mining and storm water systems in certain larger Wyoming municipalities. 

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