Regulatory Assistance Program

Vermont Small Business Development Center now offers Regulatory Assistance Services for Businesses, to provide small businesses with strategies for addressing complex permitting and regulatory issues that may affect their business. The goal of this program is to create linkages and partnerships with existing environmental & regulatory service providers. We offer free and confidential environmental opportunity assessments focusing on identifying energy conservation, waste reduction and resource conservation opportunities to both save your business money and promote a cleaner environment. Additionally, we offer low cost, high quality training seminars on a range of environmental, health and safety topics.

The VtSBDC Environmental Assistance Program offers:

• Options available for reducing hazardous materials and waste in your operations

• Free and confidential on-site assessment of your business for waste reduction, recycling, energy and water use to help reduce your operating costs

• Environmental health and safety overviews

• Neutral party assistance with regulatory and compliance questions and issues

• Procurement of products containing recycled materials and environmentally preferable products

• Referrals to other sources for technical assistance

• Financial analysis of implementing pollution prevention or energy efficiency investments

• Using your business’s environmental efforts as a marketing tool

• Networking with other businesses who are reducing their overhead through sound environmental management through the VT Business Environmental Partnership and Green Hotels programs.
  
• Vermont Business Environmental Partnership Challenge/Recognition Program
• Vermont Environmental Assistance Partnership (VEAP)
• Green Hotels in the Green Mountain State Program

• VT Environmental Health & Safety Resources
  • Vosha Fact Sheet
  • "Act 250 Fact Sheet"
  • "Energy Efficiency Pays - A Guide for the Small Business Owner:
  • Environmental Red Flags for New Property Purchases
  • New Business Environmental Fact Sheet
  • Vermont Small Business Environmental Primer
  • VT Safety Publication - Developing and Effective Safety and Health Program
  • "Workplace Safety Q's and A's for Vermont Small Business Employers"
  • Small Business On-line learning course explaining Vermont's Hazardous Waste Regulations
  • NEW - VT Brownfields Redevelopment Handbook for Communities, Developers and Property Owners
  • Energy Efficiency Self Audit Checklist
  • NEW - VEDA Energy Conservation Loan Summary
  • NEW - VEDA Energy Conservation Loan Application
  • Mesothelioma Prognosis
    
  For more information on how the VtSBDC Regulatory Assistance Services can assist your business or to inquire about a free on-site pollution prevention/waste reduction assessment, contact us.
  
  

  Peter Crawford PO Box 188, Randolph Center, VT 05061-0188 Phone: (802)728-1423 or 1 (800)464-7232 Fax: (802) 728-3026 E-Mail: pcrawford@vtsbdc.org Member Vermont Environmental Partnership