The following are suggested ways businesses can voluntarily help to keep our air healthy and keep the Front Range region in compliance with federal health standards for ozone pollution. These strategies help reduce summer air pollution by limiting VOC and NOx emissions.

1. Keep fleet vehicles well tuned up, regularly check and correct tire pressure.
2. Pressure test fuel caps to ensure seal.
3. Avoid overfilling or "topping off" gas tanks on fleet vehicles when refueling.
4. Avoid idling vehicles when making deliveries or in rounds to customers.

1. Turn off delivery vehicles during loading and unloading and while in lines.
2. Refuel fleet vehicles after 6:00 p.m.
3. Reschedule discretionary activities such as equipment/vehicle degreasing.

1. Reduce travel--Allow telecommuting, compressed work schedules, and teleconferencing. 
2. Encourage on-site lunches. 
3. Promote biking to work, carpooling and transit use.
4. Encourage employees to maintain their cars and reduce vehicle travel through trip linking.

1. Postpone discretionary auto trips.
2. Support telecommuting.

1. Encourage use of low VOC paints & stains.
2. Suggest use of low VOC products for custodial care.
3. Use "Best Management Practices" in emissions control for company operations--tightly seal all solvents, properly dispose of rags with solvent waste, and use substitutes for solvents where possible. See web site resources, such as http://es.epa.gov/ssds/issds.htm or www.pacepartners.com.

1. Reschedule discretionary maintenance such as painting, varnishing, and stripping.

1. Reduce lawn areas--xeriscape to reduce mowing, or change to native western grasses to reduce the need for irrigation and mowing.
2. Reduce or eliminate the use of gas- powered blowers, trimmers and weeders, especially on high ozone days. 
3. Avoid using gasoline powered yard equipment, most of which have high emissions.
4. Ask contractors who do company grounds maintenance to observe these guides.

1. Reschedule discretionary maintenance such as:

• Landscape operations that utilize gas-powered mowers and equipment.
• Parking lot/driveway paving or painting lane stripes.
• Building and grounds painting, varnishing, and stripping.

1. Alert all company departments, employees and customers about the Front Rage region's summer air pollution problem.
2. Share information on pollution advisory system announcements.
3. Promote summertime pollution reduction strategies through staff newsletters, web pages, email, and bulletin boards. 
4. Underscore your commitment to ozone reduction through a memo or letter from your owner, president or CEO.

1. Share information on Ozone Action Days announcements.