Our Mission

VEAP’s mission is to provide cost-effective and sustainable environmental assistance to Vermont businesses, with the emphasis on long-term pollution prevention methods and processes wherever feasible.

How will we accomplish this? The partners in VEAP have put together a collaboration plan which details how we will work together. By formalizing this relationship through a Memorandum of Understanding, the infrastructure has been put in place for a long-term concerted effort to provide the best environmental assistance to Vermont companies.

VEAP has identified four major areas in which Vermont businesses need this kind of coordinated environmental assistance:

• Pollution Prevention
  Direct assistance to businesses in reducing and eliminating waste.
  
• Technical Improvements and Education
  Creating workshops and seminar opportunities for companies to learn about environmental technologies. Also, providing direct project management support to manufacturers engaged in technical improvements to their process.
• Environmental Management Systems-Related Activities
  Includes services to help businesses implement good environmental management practices.
• Permitting and Compliance Assistance
  These services help Vermont businesses simplify the permitting process and understand compliance issues.

About VEAP

VEAP is a network of four statewide organizations - two state agencies and two not-for-profit centers. Our state partners are the Vermont Department of Economic Development, and the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. The not-for-profit partners are the Vermont Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and the Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center (VMEC).