RE: Public Participation

[Amy Swiatek <amys@ncl.org>]

Thanks Rich for you comments to explain the perspective from the EPA employee perspective of eliciting public input and the position they are put in when it the input is late in the process and doesn't really have the impact they would like or the public would like, but that's sort of what they are stuck with. 

That even points more to the fact that it needs to be an organizational and paradigm shift in order to make public participation truly meaningful. It is not the fault of the employees per say, but it is a larger systemic issue that needs to be addressed.