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EPA CIO, Molly A. O'Neill is named 2008 civilian IT Executive of the Year by Government Computer News. GCN is also honoring EPA for its Geospatial Gateway and Metadata Editor with a 2008 Agency Award. Visit the 2008 GCN Award Web page to see all award recipients.

National Dialogue on Access to Environmental Information Update. EPA’s Draft Information Access Strategy is available for public comment between now and November 14, 2008. Visit http://www.epa.gov/nationaldialogue/ to comment. Earlier this year, EPA conducted the National Dialogue on Access to Environmental Information. We have reviewed the thousands of comments we received related to environmental information needs and access preferences. The Draft Information Access Strategy was developed from this input and offers recommendations on how EPA can provide more effective information access in the future.

Getting information about EPA data and terminology just got easier. Try our new Web sites the System of Registries (SoR) and Data Standards. Submit online comments to help us make future releases even better.

The EPA Call Center receives Overall Excellence Award. The OEI-managed EPA Call Center won a Government Customer Support Award for Overall Excellence this month. This is the second consecutive year the EPA Call Center has been nominated and the first year as a finalist and winner. These awards recognize public sector help desks, contact centers, and other types of customer portals at all levels of Government.

EPA Scores an A+ on 2007 Congressional FISMA Report Card! Congratulations EPA! OEI is proud to announce that EPA scored an A+ on the just-released 2007 Congressional Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Report Card. This committee developed these scores to help Congress gauge a federal agency’s information security progress. This year’s score is up from an A- last year. EPA’s continued success story is the result of strong Agency-wide senior management support and hard work by the Agency’s information security community. We are particularly delighted that all of EPA’s current Information System Security Line of Business customers (other agencies that use EPA’s ASSERT tool) received a B- or higher. Our customer’s success further strengthens EPA as a leader in the world of Federal information security.

In the following articles, Molly O'Neill, EPA's CIO, talks about Web 2.0, information access, collaboration tools, and the Puget Sound Information Challenge.

• FederalTimes.com Interview
• FedTech Magazine Interview
• Government Computer News Interview
• The DotGovBuzz Interview
• TechBisNow Interview
• Government Computer News Article