Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division
Generator
Assistance Program
Generator Assistance Program brochure
What is the Generator Assistance
Program?
The Generator Assistance
Program (GAP) provides businesses with free on-site technical
assistance and information on Colorado's hazardous waste
regulations. The program's three primary objectives are:
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To provide assistance to you in
understanding and implementing the hazardous waste regulations.
GAP is primarily intended to provide on-site
compliance assistance to you at your facility. We believe
this on-site feedback to be very effective in giving you specific
information directly applicable to your operations. All you
have to do is ask for us to come out! |
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To develop tools that make
hazardous waste compliance easier for you.
Our Division already has an extensive library of
hazardous waste guidance documents and policies. These
documents (and much more information) are available on this
website. We also conduct many training courses around
Colorado each year on hazardous waste regulatory requirements. As
we implement GAP, we will undoubtedly find the need to develop
additional guidance and training or update the guidance we have or
the training we give. Significantly, this will depend in
large measure on feedback from you and other GAP participants. |
| To provide advice to you on
pollution prevention and waste minimization alternatives that may
save you money.
Working with you through our on-site GAP visit, we may be
able to identify opportunities for more efficient
production, opportunities for energy savings, or
opportunities for you to incorporate more environmentally
friendly raw materials. This, in turn, may save you
money! |
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What can I expect during a GAP visit?
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The
on-site GAP visit will be as short and efficient as
possible. Depending on the size and complexity of your
facility, the visit may take between one and four hours. However, the more we see, the more help we can give you.
Generally, we will want to walk through your facility with you,
tour your production processes and waste generation areas, and
view your hazardous waste management and storage. |
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the conclusion of the visit, our staff will sit down with you and
explain their findings - those things you are doing right and
those things you need to do better. They will explain
options you have for regaining complete compliance and work with
you on a schedule for correcting any deficiencies. In
addition, they will explain any waste minimization and pollution
prevention opportunities that you may have, and point you in a
direction to further exploit those opportunities. |
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Any
compliance deficiencies noted during the GAP site visit will not
result in any enforcement action. This is our effort to help
you comply. The only exception is if your facility is
currently causing imminent and substantial endangerment to public
health or the environment through mismanagement of hazardous
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How can I participate?
Review the pre-visit
questionnaire. This will give you a good idea what
we'll be asking and what we'll be looking for. Once you've
had a chance to review the questionnaire, call the GAP coordinator, at 303-692-3415
(1-888-569-1831 ext. 3415 toll-free) to schedule an on-site
compliance assistance visit. The GAP site visit will be
scheduled at your convenience.
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You will benefit the most from the pre-visit
questionnaire and on-site visit if you take the time to do a
little homework ahead of time and really think through the
questions and how they may or may not apply to your
facility. If you need help, call us and/or explore the
other portions of this website, such as our publications and
guidance documents. |
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Note: If you only have one or two
questions and do not want or need an on-site visit, please call
our Customer Technical Assistance Line at 303-692-3320 (1-888-569-1831 ext.
3320 toll-free) or send us an email at comments.hmwmd@state.co.us.
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