XL Publications and Guidance

Guidance for Project Development | XL Process Tools | Legal and Policy Documents | Evaluation Documents and Publications | General Publications

This page provides information on the criteria needed to evaluate XL projects. This page also provides guidance for EPA, sponsors, and state and tribal Agencies on relevant legal and policy issues.

Guidance for Project Development

Clarifying and streamlining the process used for developing Project XL projects. (Federal Register Notice, April 5, 1999)
Solicitation of Additional Pilot Projects Under Project XL text version (Federal Register Notice, June 23, 1998)
Pretreatment Program Reinvention Pilot Projects under Project XL text version (Federal Register Notice, June 23, 1998)
Clarifying certain aspects of the XL process (Federal Register Notice, April 23, 1997)
Soliciting proposals for innovative environmental technologies (Federal Register Notice, September 11, 1996)
Soliciting XL project proposals (Federal Register Notice, May 23, 1995)
Regulatory Reinvention (XL) Pilot Projects: XL Community Pilot Program (November 1, 1995)

XL Process Tools

Project XL Stakeholder Involvement: A Guide for Project Sponsors and Stakeholder (Helpful ideas and tools for successful interactions) (March 1999) (PDF 30 pages; 763K)
Project XL: Best Practices for Proposal Development (A Guide Designed to Help Project Sponsors Create Effective XL Proposals)
Manual for EPA Project XL Teams (Shows how to build effective internal teams to develop proposals) (March 31, 1999) (PDF 17 pages; 68K)
Project XL: Tools for EPA XL Teams (A collection of materials to help you develop specific documents for the project development process.)
Guide to Writing Final Project Agreements (PDF 23 pages; 58K)
Draft Project Tracking, Reporting and Evaluation: A Guide for XL Project Teams (PDF 8 pages; 21K)

Evaluation Documents and Publications

Project XL 2000 Comprehensive Report
Project XL 2000 project progress reports
Notice of proposed information collection - Evaluations of XL Innovations (PDF 1 Page 35K)
Draft Supporting Statement for Evaluations of XL Innovations ICR (PDF 21 pages - 50K)
Project XL Stakeholder Involvement Evaluation (Executive Summary; October 2000) (PDF 10 pages; 35K)
Project XL Stakeholder Involvement Evaluation (Final Report; October 2000) (115 pages; 372K)
Project XL 1999 Comprehensive Report
Project XL 1999 project progress reports
Evaluation of Project XL Stakeholder Processes (Executive Summary; September 1998) (PDF 8 pages; 151K)
Evaluation of Project XL Stakeholder Processes (Final Report; September 1998) (PDF 77pages; 350K)
Project XL Preliminary Status Report: An Evaluation of Projects in Implementation (September 1998) (PDF 51 pages; 419K)

Legal and Policy Guidance

OGC Legal Principles for FPA Drafting (Memorandum; December 18, 1997) (PDF 5 pages; 1.2M)
Compliance Screening (September, 1998)
EPA's Enforcement Policy for XL projects, (October 2, 1995)
A further clarification on EPA's enforcement policy for XL projects (February 23, 1996)
Executive Order 19898 On Evironmental Justice

General Publications
XL Projects in a nutshell (PDF 4 pages; 2.1MB) Individual Project Fact Sheets NEJAC Model Plan for Public Participation. New Directions: A report on Regulatory Reinvention Vea este informe en español. Environmental Law Review article by Lisa Lund, former Deputy Associate Administrator for Office of Reinvention	Project XL: Encouraging Innovation, Delivering Results (PDF 12 Pages; 1.4MB) Project XL: From Pilot to Practice - A Journey to System Change. (September 1999) (PDF 16 pages; 450K) Project XL Process Improvements (Fact Sheet; December 1998) (PDF 2 pages; 18K) Summary of Current Pilot Projects (Fact Sheet; August 2000) (PDF 19 pages; 77K)

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