"Increasing the flow of information to cities, communities, and private citizens--giving you the tools to improve your quality of life as you see fit--is a very important part of our administrations's commitment to make environmental and public health protection for everyone."--Carol Browner

• Contains over 100,000 html pages

• Receives over 27,000,000 hits per month

• Organized to provide various access points

• Cataloging the Web by creating metadata records and conducting a Web inventory

• Developing an environmental thesaurus

• Developing reading rooms on various topics

• Redesign of the home page

• Migrate current Online Library System (OLS) to a Web-based system

• Reinventing Environmental Information

• Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking (EMPACT)

• Center for Environmental Information and Statistics (CEIS)

• Enhanced data quality and integration, and development of data standards

• Establishment of an Agency-wide Task Force to review the content of existing EPA Internet information products and make recommendations for their revision as needed

• Task Force ensures that information on EPA's Web site meets the customer needs

• Information is current, appropriate, and approved

• Design standards and Internet guidelines are followed

• Good Web practices are followed

• On the Web

• National Center for Environmental Publications and Information (NCEPI)

• National Environmental Publications Information System (NEPIS)

• Publications by Program Office

• National Center for Environmental Publications and Information (NCEPI)

• EPA Libraries

• Federal Depository Library Program

• FOIA

• NTIS

We have been emphasizing electronic access to information, BUT we are not abandoning our traditional methods. In fact, if we do a good job electronically it will help us to do a better job in providing information through traditional mechanisms.