Welcome to the "Catch-up Day" of the Dialogue

[Bonner.Patricia@epamail.epa.gov]

Welcome to the "Catch-up Day" of the Dialogue. If this is your first visit,
you'll be amazed at all the good ideas that people have been so freely
sharing.  Thanks for spending part of your weekend with the Public
Involvement Dialogue!

I'm Pat Bonner, EPA's lead staff person for the Agency's Draft Public
Involvement Policy and the plan being put together to implement it.  Lisa
Kahn and I will be "hosting" this day, trying our best to read your
messages and clarify any points about EPA, or we may ask you to clarify
something in your message that we do not understand.

Those of us who planned this two week event hoped this might be a day for
people who do not have work or home access to the Internet to go to a
library or community center and look at what's been going on for the past
four days. This is also the day we thought people might use for just that,
catching up on the messages they could not read during the week.  There
were 737 messages posted as of 6:45 PM  today.   The frantic pace everyone
set or the past four days is sure to slow down today.

If you are way behind, you may want to read the daily summaries as a
starting point.  They are all together @
http://www.info-ren.org/network-democracy//epa-pip/join/join.shtml     You will see
them if you scroll down a bit.    Then you may want to look for the
Subjects or Threads to see if you can track your particular interests.  If
you clicked on the sand dollar to jump into the discussion, you can do that
from the Date Index by going to the top of the page.

You can read and respond to any messages posted during the past four days.
Or, you can say what you would like to share and post those notes with your
own message title.  It would be good for those who have been participating
if you can use the same topics and treads in their original message.  That
way, they can review the new items that relate to their interests more
easily next week.

Whatever you do and for as long as you stay with us, thanks for
contributing your ideas.    Pat