4. It requires the Commissioner of Environmental Protection to adopt rules to establish guidelines for measuring the progress of new facilities toward minimizing toxics use, toxics release and hazardous waste generation.

5. It clarifies which facilities are required to prepare pollution prevention plans, plan summaries and annual progress reports and which facilities are exempt from planning, reporting and fee requirements.

6. It requires facilities to prepare pollution prevention plans by September 1, 2000 and every 3 years thereafter. In addition to the current plan requirements, a plan must include a financial analysis of the costs and benefits of reducing the amount of toxics used, toxics released and hazardous waste generated and the facility's goals for reducing the amount of extremely hazardous substances used, toxics released and hazardous waste generated.

7. It requires facilities to submit summaries of their pollution prevention plans to the Department of Environmental Protection and specifies what must be included in plan summaries.

8. It requires facilities to submit annual pollution prevention progress reports to the department.

9. It requires facilities to involve employees in developing pollution prevention plans and plan updates. It also requires facilities to notify the municipal officers in the municipality in which a facility is located of pollution prevention efforts and to provide the municipal officers with a copy of plan summaries.

10. It authorizes the Commissioner of Environmental Protection to review pollution prevention plans, plan summaries and progress reports and to require the owners or operators of a facility to revise or modify a plan, plan summary or progress report. It requires the commissioner to review a pollution prevention plan in the following situations: if the plan summary indicates significant deficiencies in the facility's pollution prevention efforts; if the facility fails to reach any of its reduction goals by more than 25%; or if the municipal officers or 50 registered voters in the municipality in which the facility is located submit a petition to review the plan.

11. It requires the Commissioner of Environmental Protection to organize and store in electronic form the