EPA/State Indicators & Outcomes Initiative

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?