Performance Partnerships (NEPPS)
- Archived: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:30:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:26:00 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Bill Crews <crews.bill@epa.com>
- Subject: Performance Partnerships (NEPPS)
- X-topic: States/Tribes/Municipalities
Good morning,
I am a member of the National Environmental Performance Partnership System Team in the EPA Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations. For some reason there is no information about nor mention of NEPPS on this web site.
The National Environmental Performance Partnership System (NEPPS) was established in 1995 by EPA and the States to strengthen the management, efficiency and effectiveness of the nation's environmental programs by improving the partnership between EPA and the States.
NEPPS is designed to: promote joint planning and priority-setting by EPA and the States; provide States with greater flexibility to direct resources where they are needed most; foster use of integrated and innovative strategies for solving water, air, and waste problems; achieve a better balance in the use of environmental indicators and traditional activity measures for managing programs; and improve public understanding of environmental conditions and the strategies being used to address them.
NEPPS is an effort to improve EPA's partnership with all States. The primary mechanism for implementing NEPPS is for an EPA Regional Office and a state to develop a Performance Partnership Agreement (PPA) to detail the joint priorities and how the two partners will work together. In addition, program grants to a state can be combined into a Performance Partnership Grant (PPG) to better utilize grant money and reduce burden.
The NEPPS principles and components also are available for EPA - Tribal partnerships.
One of the 7 principles of NEPPS is: The new approach to the USEPA/State relationship should facilitate and encourage public understanding of environmental conditions and government activities.
I encourage participants to visit the NEPPS Web Site at http://www.epa.gov/ocir/nepps/index.htm
The NEPPS Team would be interested in participants' experience and comments on how Performance Partnerships can enhance involvement of the public in EPA decisions.
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