Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-2-3-107: Pollution Prevention Program - Duties - Authority -

Award and recognition program - Confidentiality - Funding.

A. It shall be the duty of the Pollution Prevention Program

within the Department of Environmental Quality to create a

cooperative partnership among the business community,

municipalities, agencies of the state, the environmental community

and the Department of Environmental Quality and all other state

environmental agencies in which technical assistance, outreach, and

education activities are coordinated and conducted to achieve

pollution prevention, waste minimization and source reduction.

B. The Pollution Prevention Program is hereby authorized to and

may:

1. Encourage and assist facilities using toxic or hazardous

substances to engage in comprehensive pollution prevention planning

and develop measurable performance goals;

2. Offer and provide technical assistance, including audits, to

the users and generators of toxic or hazardous substances; provided,

however, the Program shall not duplicate services readily available

in the private sector;

3. Promote pollution prevention as the preferred means for

achieving compliance with the laws of this state and shall further

encourage all agencies and political subdivisions of the State of

Oklahoma to strongly pursue pollution prevention goals;

4. Promote research in toxics use reduction in order to spur

public and private investment in pollution prevention;

5. Develop and provide curriculum and training on pollution

prevention for students and faculty of educational institutions,

users and generators of toxic or hazardous substances and agencies

of the State of Oklahoma and its political subdivisions;

6. Sponsor and conduct conferences and workshops on pollution

prevention for specific classes of business or industry; and

7. Compile, organize and make information available for

distribution on pollution prevention.

C. The Pollution Prevention Program may develop an award and a

recognition program for the purpose of promoting pollution

prevention activities among businesses and governmental entities.

D. 1. The Pollution Prevention Program shall not make

available to the Department of Environmental Quality information the

Program obtains in the course of providing technical assistance to a

user or generator of toxic or hazardous waste, unless:

a. the user or generator agrees that such information may

be available to the Department,

b. the information is public record information,

c. the information pertains to an imminent threat to

public health or safety, or to the environment, or

d. disclosure to the Department is required by law.

2. The Program shall notify users or generators requesting

technical assistance of these provisions.

3. Any technical assistance or information obtained by the

Program shall not result in any regulatory inspections or other

enforcement actions unless there is a reasonable cause to believe

there exists a clear and imminent threat to the public health or

safety or to the environment.

E. Positions created pursuant to this article compensated with

federal funds shall be contingent upon the procurement of federal

funds and shall be terminated when federal support of those

positions is discontinued.