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| Administrative Lean Support |
| Ross & Associates is providing support to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in collaboration with the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS), to facilitate the expanded use of lean and six sigma among public… |
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| Arizona Children's Health Project Assessment |
| Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) received an Environmental Information Exchange Network Challenge Grant to develop a system that alerts the public of potential air quality related health conditions… |
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| Bay Area Water Reuse Conference |
| Ross and Associates has contracted with the Bay Area Clean Water Agencies to provide strategic advice and expert facilitation for a major conference on the barriers to and opportunities of using recycled water in the San Francisco Bay Area… |
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| CDC Content Workgroups and PMO Support |
| Ross & Associates is continuing its support to the CDC-NCEH effort to build a National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN)… |
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| CDC Data Management |
| Ross & Associates is assisting the prime contractor, Battelle Memorial Institute, in developing data analysis and quality control processes for the CDC Tracking Branch to prepare data… |
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| CDC National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network |
| Ross & Associates is continuing its support to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-National Center for Environmental Health (CDC-NCEH) effort to build a National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN)… |
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| Clean Ports USA Diesel Emissions Reductions Program with U.S. and International Ports |
| Ross and Associates will be supporting EPA’s Office of International Affairs in an initiative to collaborate and cooperate with foreign ports under the Sustainable Ports and Carriers (SPC) Partnership, working in partnership with… |
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| Coeur d'Alene Cleanup Coordination Council Support |
| This project is a follow-on to earlier work conducted by Ross & Associates to establish a local commission to oversee the cleanup of the Coeur d’Alene Basin, a Superfund site in Northern… |
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| Coordination of Washington State Agencies with Recreational Boating Responsibilities |
| Ross & Associates is supporting all aspects of the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office's process to develop coordination and… |
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| CSO Program Implementation Plan |
| Seattle Public Utilities (SPU)—the public utility that provides wastewater, drainage, solid waste, and recycling services to Seattle, Washington—contracted with Ross & Associates… |
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| Ecology Mitigation That Works |
| Ross & Associates is the lead facilitator for a 35+ multi-stakeholder Forum charged with developing a shared state-wide vision for successful environmental mitigation and an action plan to put their vision into place. Ross & Assocaites designs… |
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| ECOS Geospatial Facilitation Support |
| Ross & Associates is supporting the Environmental Council of the States, EPA, and various state agencies in consideration of standards and tools to promote the exchange of geospatial data using national networks such as the EPA Exchange Network… |
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| Exchange Network Leadership Council/IMWG |
| Ross & Associates is proving ongoing planning and facilitation services to the Information Management Working Group (IMWG) and the Exchange Network Leadership Council (ENLC), both of which are made up of senior-level staff… |
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| Framework for Washington State Climate Change Mitigation Plan |
| Ross and Associates is supporting the state of Washington in putting together a potential plan for reducing the impacts of global warming. The project consists of assisting the State select a… |
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| Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Support |
| Ross & Associates is providing support to the U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office for the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration and implementation of the Great Lakes Executive Order, established… |
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| Lifecycle Building Challenge Website and Facilitation |
| Lifecycle building (also known as design for disassembly or design for deconstruction) is the design of building materials, information systems, and management practices to create buildings that anticipate future changes to and eventual adaptation… |
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| Louisville Wet Weather Team Stakeholder Process Facilitation |
| The Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) hired Ross & Associates to provide comprehensive facilitation services for a multi-stakeholder Wet Weather Team advising MSD on the development of long-term plan to control… |
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| Mni Sose Information Strategy and Exchange Network Implementation |
| Ross & Associates worked with the Mni Sose Tribal federation to assess environmental information needs for the member tribes and to identify how the Exchange Network technologies could be deployed… |
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| Montana/Wyoming Water Quality Standards Dialogue |
| Ross & Associates has been retained to explore the willingness of Wyoming, Montana and EPA to resolve disputes collaboratively among the parties over water quality related issues associated with coalbed methane… |
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| National Governors' Association |
| This project continues a successful 13-year relationship between Ross & Associates and the National Governors' Association in providing a forum for the Department of Energy to effectively interact… |
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| Network Exchange and Governance |
| The purpose of this project is to provide EPA’s Office of Environmental Information (OEI) and designated partners technical, programmatic, and strategic analysis and consultation towards… |
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| Northwest Ports |
| Ross and Associates is providing comprehensive facilitation, report writing, logistical support, and strategic guidance to a bi-national working group comprised of the three… |
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| NY NJ Clean Air Strategy |
| Ross and Associates is working with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to develop a clean air strategy (Strategy) for voluntarily… |
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| OAR Conference and Workshops on Performance Measures |
| Ross & Associates is providing support to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Program Management Operations (OPMO) to convene and facilitate a conference in Fall 2005 on the use of performance measures and indicators… |
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| Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) Verify |
| EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) Compliance and Innovative Strategies Division (CISD) develops, administers, and determines compliance with regulations concerning motor vehicle and engine pollution emissions, and fuel economy… |
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| Pacific Northwest Directors |
| In 1990, the state environmental directors of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, as well as the Deputy Minister for the Environment of the Province of British Columbia, the Regional Administrator of EPA Region 10… |
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| Port of Seattle Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy Stakeholder Process Support |
| Ross and Associates will assist the Port of Seattle in the stakeholder processes necessary to successfully implement the Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy. This includes facilitation… |
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| Public Health Assessment Technology Tools Needs Assessment |
| Ross & Associates is conducting a technology tools needs assessment for the Washington State Department of Health (DOH). Currently, two software tools (VistaPHw and EpiQMS) are available in Washington to collect analyze… |
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| Puget Sound Partnership |
| Ross & Associates is providing facilitation and strategic support to Governor Gregoire's Puget Sound Partnership. The Partnership is a public/private partnership of 19 elected officials and opinion leaders charged with making… |
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| Regulatory Analysis Support for Central Plateau Cleanup |
| Ross & Associates provided regulatory analysis and support to assist the central plateau cleanup executive team (made up of Ecology, the Department of Energy and the cleanup contractor… |
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| Shipbuilding Meeting Support |
| The shipbuilding and ship repair industry has worked in a collaborative partnership with EPA’s Sector Strategies Program since 1998 to improve industry-wide environmental… |
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| Strategic Support for National State-EPA Planning and Performance Partnership Improvements |
| Since 2003, Ross & Associates has been working with states and EPA on a national effort to improve joint state-EPA planning and the overall state-EPA partnership. The improvements put in place as a result of this effort are… |
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| Strategic Support to WHSR-6 Pilot Project |
| The EPA Water Security Division initiated this project to explore water sector security-related practices utilized within Washington State Homeland Security Region 6. The project focused on working with a Guidance Team… |
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| Support for Priest Rapids Coordinating Committee Hatchery Subcommittee |
| Ross & Associates is providing comprehensive facilitation support to a Workgroup made up of state, Federal and Tribal fisheries agencies and representatives of Grant County PUD to direct Grant’s Federally-required hatchery program Ross plans… |
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| Washington Closure |
| Working as a neutral third party, Ross & Associates is assisting Washington Closure, the Washington State Department of Ecology, and the Department of Energy in identifying and resolving issues… |
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| WEF Wet Weather National Policy Forum |
| The Water Environment Federation is sponsoring an invitation only national policy forum to discuss opportunities and options for national wet weather policy reform. Wet weather management has become a complicated, expensive… |
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| WEF/Washington State Department of Health Water Sector Preparedness Workshops |
| Ross & Associates, under contract to the Water Environment Federation working in collaboration with the Washington Department of Health, will facilitate two one-day workshops in Olympia and Everett, Washington. The workshops are meant… |
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| West Coast Collaborative |
| Supporting EPA Regions 9 and 10, Ross & Associates provides comprehensive facilitation, strategic program development, and management support for the West Coast Collaborative, a public-private… |
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| Western Climate Initiative Partner's Support |
| The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) is made up of the states of Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington and the Canadian Provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, and Quebec… |
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