EPA releases Draft Recommendations

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FWD: from EPA

Dear Dialogue Participants,

The Environmental Protection Agency just released its " Draft

Recommendations for Implementing the EPA Public Involvement Policy. "

EPA appreciates your interest in EPA's public involvement efforts

and invites your comments on the draft Implementation document

through March 17, 2002. Please see <A

HREF= " http://www.epa.gov/stakeholders " >http://www.epa.gov/stakeholders</A>

for the draft document and instructions on submitting comments.

This Implementation document describes a set of internal actions that

will help ensure that EPA's Public Involvement Policy is carried out

across the Agency. The thrust of the recommendations -- information

sharing, training, and evaluation -- is to share the best public

involvement methods used across EPA, promote their routine use, and

develop a means of measuring the results. The goal is for excellent

public involvement to become an integral part of EPA's culture, thus

improving the Agency's decisions.

EPA is currently revising its draft Public Involvement Policy

(<A HREF= " http://www.epa.gov/stakeholders/policy.htm " >

http://www.epa.gov/stakeholders/policy.htm</A>), and plans to release

the Final Policy, responses to comments, and the revised Implementation

document this Spring. For more information, please call

Bonner at 202-260-0599. To request a mailed copy of the draft

Implementation document, call Loretta Schumacher at 202-260-3096

or e-mail a request to <A HREF= " mailto:stakeholders@... " >

stakeholders@...</A>.

Bob Carlitz

Information Renaissance