RE: Assisting Our Stakeholders

[alma lowry <alowry@sugarlaw.org>]

This is an important point, although not all necessary technical information can be provided in simplified form or in graphics.  Still, there are many issues which can be simplified and should.  For example, in a citizen's handbook that I've seen on the Title V permitting process, the steps in the process and the points where public participation is allowed were illustrated with a timeline.  Much clearer than a similar explanation in written form.  

Unfortunately, I found that handbook on-line -- are copies available in local libraries?  in government document centers? in regional EPA offices and/or state environmental agencies?  These are the places that people without access to the internet are going to look for information.  Technical resources, self-help manuals, even phone books for the regional offices, so that community members can place calls or write letters directly to the people responsible for a particular project or environmental area, should be distributed to the community centers where people are likely to go for information.

Are there other locations where folks think that such resources (or a list of those resources and information on how to get copies) should be made available?

Alma