Chair:  Sarah Drayna

Members: Nicholas Cory, Kim Dirks, Rob Harvey, C. K. Liu, Nathan Mullinix, Mila Ramos, Gary Rennerfeldt, and John Smith.

Subcommittee of Environmental Affairs:  Uses of Collagen and Its Coproducts

Purpose:  To provide information about potential uses for hide byproducts.

Chair:  Renee Latona
Members: Kenneth Boni, Eleanor Brown, Marjorie Hanson, Mainul Haque, C.K. Liu, Gennaro Maffia, Maryann Taylor, and Robert White.

These are some sites that may be helpful to those in the leather industry:
 
USEPA (general) http://www.epa.gov/
USEPA RCRA Online (for solid and hazardous waste questions) http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/inforesources/online/index.htm
State agency links http://www.caprep.com/stagency.htm
Federal laws and regulations http://www.archives.gov/index.html
Chemical information http://www.chemfinder.com/chembiofinder/Forms/Home/ContentArea/Home.aspx
State and local governments (helpful to get to state laws, etc) http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
Constants and conversions http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/
Financial reporting http://www.sec.gov/