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Guidebook of Financial Tools U S Environmental Protection Agency

The "Guidebook of Financial Tools: Paying for Environmental Systems" is a reference work examining a wide range of different tools for financing sustainable environmental systems. The term "sustainable environmental systems" refers to virtually any successful or potentially successful environmental protection initiative, including public and private environmental protection programs. Environmental protection initiatives that were not previously sustainable can be made productive and sustainable with the proper financing. The ten sections of the Guidebook present outline information on over three hundred financial tools that can help make environmental protection initiatives more sustainable. This intensive revision includes the addition of a new section titled "Tools for Accessing State and Local Financing" which includes many state grant programs. The Guidebook is designed to assist all interested parties in the public and private sectors with finding the means of financing environmental protection initiatives that are appropriate for them.