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Policy and Strategy Documents

The Complete EPA Strategic Plan - This document serves as a blueprint for taking EPA into the 21st Century and achieving critical public health and environmental protections for the American people over the next five years.

Environmental Data Registry System - EPA's source of reference information about the definition, origin, source, and location of environmental data. It also serves as a major tool in supporting the Agency's standard-setting process, by recording and disseminating Agency standards, and ultimately facilitating data sharing between organizations and users.

Information Resources Management (IRM) Policy and Standards - this site provides access to materials the Agency uses for its' management of information resources and technology architecture.

Innovation Strategy - presents a framework for targeting priority problems, developing innovative tools, strengthening innovation efforts with states and tribes, and fostering innovation within the Agency.

Office of Cooperative Environmental Management - convenes advisory committees of experts such as the National Advisory Counsel for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) and performs other policy-related activities to help ensure flexible, efficient and effective decision making.

Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation - serves as the Agency's focal point for innovative policy development and testing, and is primarily responsible for economic analysis.

Science Policy Council - this is the site for a mechanism to address EPA's many significant science policy issues that go beyond regional and program boundaries with a goal of integrating policies that guide Agency decision-makers in their use of scientific and technical information.