Information Infrastructure
- Archived: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:07:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Paul Orum <paul_orum@yahoo.com>
- Subject: Information Infrastructure
- X-topic: Outreach
For today's topic - information - let me restate my suggestion from day one:
EPA, States, and the public need a seamless, unified national facility registry that proactively provides permit application, renewal, and enforcement information for all EPA and State delegated sites.
A national facility registry would help people to monitor, investigate, and communicate on their own schedule and agenda. It should serve both those with and without computers. And it would also ensure that EPA and States are able to identify and characterize the facilities they regulate.
A simple example of where EPA CANNOT now readily identify regulated facilities is Section 302(d) of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, which requires facilities to notify States, and States to notify EPA about facilities subject to emergency planning for hazardous chemicals (some 850,000 facilities across the country).
[Follows "Goals (Information/Implementation)" from day one.]
Paul Orum
Working Group on Community Right-to-Know
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