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XL Key Concepts

Concepts to be explored and/or demonstrated through the Lucent Microelectronics XL Project, cross linked to project elements

Draft: September 8, 1997

While individual elements will demonstrate various tools, Microelectronics hopes to demonstrate, or test, during the implementation of its XL project, the broad XL concepts (listed below) that will result in better future environmental improvement. Only under XL will such concepts be tested together in a multi-disciplinary approach that coordinates all agencies and provides the flexibility to fund environmental improvements that may not otherwise be made.

Concept	Relevant Elements These are the elements of the Microelectronics project that have the potential to demonstrate the concept. The numbers refer to the numbered elements on the attached key.	FY98 This is the fiscal year during which enough data should be available to develop conclusions about the concept that could be made public through the project's Web page or through other methods.	FY99	FY00	FY01
1. A high quality EMS will become a single vehicle for more efficiently governing and regulating all environmental activity at a facility or business.	SEP-16, SEP-30, SEP-35, SEP-36, SEP-38, SEP-39, F-1, F-3, F-6, F-7				X
2. An EMS will drive a business toward continuous environmental improvement.	All SEP elements, particularly SEP-30	X	X	X	X
3. An EMS will drive a business toward the "permitless" company and eventually toward sustainability.	SEP-35 with contributions from other SEP elements				X
4. An EMS will fully integrate pollution prevention, DfE and life cycle analysis into normal business processes.	SEP-22, SEP-23, SEP-24, SEP-25, SEP-27	X	X	X	X

Concept	Relevant Elements	FY98	FY99	FY00	FY01
5. An EMS will integrate public concerns into normal business processes in a manner that is efficient and acceptable both to the public and the business entity.	SEP-27, SEP-38, SEP-39, SEP-40		X	X	X
6. An EMS will provide an efficient and on-going process for evaluating and implementing regulatory efficiencies in a manner that encourages superior environmental performance.	F-2		X	X	X
7. An EMS will allow new regulations to be more efficiently and less contentiously integrated into business operations.	SEP-4, SEP-34	X		X
8. An EMS will foster transferability of sound environmental management practices, as well as efficiencies not just across a business but across a supplier and customer network.	SEP-31, SEP-32, SEP-33		X	X	X
9. An EMS will foster broader environmental management (including the management of non-regulated substances) better than the present system, perhaps someday making our traditional regulatory approach unnecessary.	All SEP elements, particularly SEP-16, SEP-30	X	X	X	X

Concept	Relevant Elements	FY98	FY99	FY00	FY01
10. An EMS will make sound environmental management practices consistent across business, geographical and political boundaries thereby eliminating the potential for domestic, or international, "environmental ghettos" and addressing environmental justice issues.	SEP 31		X	X
11. An EMS will create new metrics or indicators that will assist in measuring real costs and environmental progress and identifying effective environmental goals.	SEP-21, SEP-23, SEP-36	X	X	X	X
12. An EMS will incorporate employee disclosure and protection mechanisms into environmental management more effectively than other methods.	SEP-29, SEP-40		X	X
13. An EMS will create reporting programs that are more understandable, transparent and current, comprehensive and less costly than programs currently required.	SEP-21, SEP-23, SEP-36, SEP-37, SEP-38, SEP-39, SEP-40	X
14. An EMS will craft enforcement approaches that provide incentives to achieve better performance and cost less to manage.	SEP-36				X

Concept	Relevant Elements	FY98	FY99	FY00	FY01
15. Rather than merely considering compliance with traditional media specific permitting practices, an EMS asks of a business an entirely different, more integrated and more effective (from a sustainability perspective) set of questions regarding overall environmental loadings and performance. This fosters a holistic view of the environmental effects of a product or action. It naturally moves the decisions about pollution reduction and sustainability from factory managers to product designers and senior decision makers.	All SEP elements	X	X	X	X
16. An EMS will allow more effective enforcement that is less contentious and far more efficient for regulators and regulated entities.	SEP-36			X	X
17. An EMS will align manager and employee rewards and incentives with sound environmental practice.	All SEP items	X	X	X	X
18. An EMS will provide government environmental managers the capability to better understand business.	Regulator participation on EMS EnAcT teams	X	X	X	X
19. An EMS will foster technology improvements and transferability of technology.	SEP-22, SEP-25, SEP-31, SEP-32, SEP-33		X	X	X

Concept	Relevant Elements	FY98	FY99	FY00	FY01
20. An EMS will facilitate the development of de minimis thresholds below which regulation may not be necessary.	All SEP items, particularly SEP-30, SEP-35				X
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