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Response letter March 4, 2005: Environmental Indicators Database
National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy & Technology
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460
MAR - 4, 2005
OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
Ms. Dorothy Bowers, Chair
National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and
Technology
111 Aberdeen Road
Matawan, NJ 07747
Dear Ms. Bowers:
On behalf of Acting Administrator Stephen L. Johnson, I thank the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) and the NACEPT Report on the Environment Working Group for the recommendations provided to the Administrator on January 25, 2005. The NACEPT supplemental recommendations regarding an integrated national environmental indicator database support our goals of making environmental indicators available and useful to a variety of audiences.
EPA believes that information technology can enable the creation of a dynamic indicators system; i.e., automatic refreshing of indicator information as new data become available; access to indicator data and metadata; and presentation of indicator data at multiple geographic scales and from a variety of sources. Towards this end, EPA is developing the electronic Report on the Environment (e-ROE). In the near-term, the e-ROE will give users access to indicators, data, and metadata and it will permit easy navigation across topics. This will be the foundation for the dynamic refreshing that we envision.
We would like to discuss your recommendations further at the NACEPT April meeting. We look forward to the discussion. If you have any questions, please contact me at (202) 564-6665 or Mike Flynn, Director of OEI's Office of Information Analysis and Access at (202) 566-0600.
Sincerely
Kimberly T. Nelson
Assistant Administrator
and Chief Information Officer
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