Lab XL Environmental Performance Indicators

Performance Type	Purpose	EPI	Goal
1. Pollution Prevention and Risk Reduction	Annual surveys of Hazardous Chemicals of Concern (HCOC)	HCOC on shelf that exceed institution defined "shelf life"	All HCOC on shelf are within their defined "shelf life
2. Pollution Prevention	Verify annual surveys of Hazardous Chemicals of Concern	Surveys completed	100% completion of surveys each year
3. Pollution Prevention	Conduct pollution prevention opportunity assessments	Assessments completed	One opportunity assessment per laboratory per year*
4. Pollution Prevention	Measure hazardous materials reuse and redistribution	Amount reused or redistributed within the institution (normalized compared with and without RCRA in the lab) and cost savings	Twenty percent increase in reuse/redistribution from baseline over life of project (with attendant reduction in waste disposal)
5. Pollution Prevention	Measure laboratory waste generation rates	Total laboratory wastes per institution (normalized and compared with and without RCRA in the lab) and cost savings	Ten percent reduction 10% reduction of hazardous waste from baseline over life of project (resulting in reduced disposal)
6. Environmental Awareness and Risk Reduction	Assess hazardous materials and environmental awareness of laboratory workers	Survey scores	Scores demonstrate improvement over life of project (Note: the same people will not necessarily be tested)
7. Environmental Awareness	Provide environmental awareness training to more diverse group	Students in teaching labs and laboratory workers receiving training	Increase number or percentage of students and lab workers receiving training
8.Compliance	Evaluate Environmental Management Program effectiveness	Objectives and targets	Achievement of objectives and targets
9. Compliance	Audit Environmental Management Plan conformance **	Report of auditor ***	Reported improvement

* An opportunity assessment conducted for one laboratory wastestream may be broadly applied to other laboratories.

** EPA and the States are expected to evaluate program conformance as well as the XL Participants.

*** This internal EMS audit will assess laboratory conformance to the XL Participant’s Environmental Management Plan in accordance with audit or inspection protocols developed by the institution. It is expected that the EMS audits will be conducted by second or third party auditors.