Briefing Book

EPA Public Involvement Tools and Reports

• How to do Stakeholder Involvement

• EPA Resources for Non-Profit Organizations

• Other Stakeholder Resource Pages

  • The Common Sense Initiative

  • EPA Voluntary Programs: Partners for the Environment

  • Office of Air and Radiation Partners

  • Project XL Stakeholder Involvement: A Guide for Project Sponsors (PDF file)

  • Region 5 - Community-based Environmental Protection Resources

  • EPA Regional Brownfields Resources

• Major EPA Reports on Public Involvement

  • Stakeholder Involvement & Public Participation at the U.S. EPA: Lessons Learned, Barriers, and Innovative Approaches (January 2001, PDF file)

  • Engaging the American People: A Review of EPA's Public Participation Policy and Regulations with Recommendations for Action (December 2000, PDF file) - Report that serves as the framework for EPA's Strategic Plan for Public Participation. Appendices to the Report (PDF file)

  • Draft Report By EPA's Science Advisory Board, Improving Science-based Envirionmental Stakeholder Processes (April 2001)

  • Public Involvement in Environmental Permits: An Action Plan, June 25, 2001 Draft Report

  • EPA Stakeholder Involvement: Action Plan (December 1998)

  • Report of the Common Sense Initiative Council's Stakeholder Involvement Work Group (June 1998, PDF file)

  • The Model Plan for Public Participation developed by the Public Participation and Accountability subcommittee of the National Environmetnal Justice Advisory Councils (PDF file)

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