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Advancing Environmental Indicators: EPA Region 3's State Outcomes Initiative

This initiative focuses on developing critical environmental indicators and outcomes for effective management in EPA Region 3. It aims to establish 5-7 outcome measures for public visibility, enhance efficiency in programs, and prioritize areas for targeted implementation using the best available data. The project emphasizes measurable benefits to human health and the environment, incorporating collaborative decision-making processes. Future goals include assessing environmental conditions, identifying vulnerable areas, and creating a Regional Environmental Index to improve communication and engagement with stakeholders.

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Advancing Environmental Indicators: EPA Region 3's State Outcomes Initiative

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  1. Developing Environmental Indicators with Our States EPA Region 3/State Indicators and Outcomes Initiative

  2. EPA/State Indicators & Outcomes Initiative • Overview of process • Where we are • Where we are going • Observations

  3. Planning for Environmental Results:EPA/State Indicators and Outcomes Workgroup The Charge: • Create a handful (5-7) of outcome measures/indicators for public display • Develop outcome and efficiency measures for all key programs • Within our programs, use best available data and tools to prioritize and target areas for implementation • Use best available data and tools to ID high priority/high vulnerability areas to target multiple program • Look forward – where should we be in the future?

  4. A Vision for • Environmental Success: • Focus on measurable, real outcomes (move beyond • outputs – Level 3 and above) • Use analytical science-based • targeting tools with best • available data. • Establish joint State/Regional indicators-based management strategy. • Provide Web access to • measures and data

  5. Guiding Management Questions: • What are the environmental • and human health results of • our work? • Where can we target the programmatic tools we have to achieve the greatest environmental and human health results? • Where are the greatest environmental and public health risks AND opportunities? • What does the future look like?

  6. Collaborative Indicators-Based Decision Process Public Interest/ Appeal

  7. What We Value Trends in Blue Crabs Condition Habitat Nutrients Water Clarity Stressors Etc. Public Interest/Appeal Point Sources Development Causes Farms State/EPA Programs Action 404/state Wetland NonPoint Source Fish Advisory Permits Enforcement Howare We Doing? Efficiency Effectiveness $’s Spent, FTE Monitoring Program

  8. State/EPA Region 3 Combined Indicators Reduction in Energy/GhG Emissions Percent of Population Breathing Clean Air Percent Assessed Waters Meeting Designated Uses Acres of Wetlands Restored/Improved/Protected Acres Cleaned- Up (SF/Solid Waste/ Brownfields) Percent of Population Drinking Safe Water Improvement in Living Resources Index in the Chesapeake & Delaware Bays Number of Population Protected from Exposure to Environmental Hazards

  9. State-EPA Combined Indicators Percent Assessed Waters Meeting Designated Uses Acres Cleaned- Up(SF/Solid Waste/Brownfields) Reduction in Energy/GhG Emissions/ Number of Population Protected from Exposure to Environmental Hazards Improvement in Living Resources Index in the Chesapeake & Delaware Bays Percent Population Breathing Clean Air Acres of Wetlands Restored/Improved/Protected % People Drinking Safe Water

  10. Initial Phase Targeting Results Final Ranking: High Restoration = 11 – 14 Medium Restoration = 8 – 10 Low Restoration = 5 – 7

  11. Potential Wetland Restoration Sites • Approximately 3.2% of Monocacy Watershed

  12. Where Are We ? • Combined list of indicators • Pilot demonstration projects • Initial list of key programs and outcomes; developing targeting strategies for FY07 • Communications strategy

  13. Where Are We Going? • Integrate outcomes and document partnership in grants and agreements • Begin Region-wide assessments for integrated State/EPA program implementation: • Assess the current environmental condition in Region III • Determine environmentally vulnerable areas (future) • Determine “environmental drivers/stressors” and indicators • Create a Regional Environmental Index

  14. Looking Forward on Targeting

  15. Predicting the Future Current Condition Future Condition Areas We Need To Work In worse same

  16. Observations • This is not easy to do – support from on high is crucial • Report to upper level management often • Don’t reinvent – build on what exists (data, indicators, outcomes) • Must deal with opposing forces: competition vs minimizing change • Make the process and results relevant to staff – show how what they do connects to the big picture • Make public information (indicators, outcomes) relevant, understandable, important – tell a story; change behavior? • Look toward the future, but don’t ignore the past • Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate – esp. with States: • Do they want to make sausage with you, or taste-test when it’s done? • Involvement: How, who and when? • What’s in it for them?

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