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Mandate to Publish EPA Information Via EPA Servers
MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT: | Importance of Public Availability of EPA Information Via Internet |
TO: |
Assistant Administrators
Regional Administrators |
In recent meetings with external groups, members of
the public and our own EPA staff, the Administrator and I have become
increasingly aware of the importance of EPA information on the Internet
to our customers. Over 3 million "hits" are made each month on EPA's public
access server. With one simple address http://www.epa.gov, anyone
on the World Wide Web can reach the EPA home page and browse or search
through the thousands of files available.
We can continue this phenomenal outreach with our limited
resources only by maintaining a unified approach to our Internet presence.
Providing a central server cluster with one corporate address conserves
resources and best serves our customers. While linking to other servers
can be done, EPA corporate data must reside on our corporate server.
At the March 8 meeting of the Executive Steering Committee
for Information Resources Management, I asked each Office to load its
information directly on the EPA server. Information may be copied or mirrored
to other sites, but it must also reside on our corporate public access
server. If you are currently using another site, please take steps to
make the information available from the EPA server as soon as possible.
OARM's Internet team will help you with the technical options. See the
attached information sheet for contacts and online resources.
The Agency has committed to, make information from all
EPA programs available through the Internet and other electronic means
that Americans and local organizations can access in their homes, schools
and libraries. [Reinventing Environmental Regulation, #17] This goal cannot
be achieved through the independent actions of individual programs.
On October 15th, the Agency will be making public a
new EPA Home Page that will emphasize the needs of the general public.
It is vital that you make every effort to ensure that the information
we present about the Agency and our activities be current, accurate and
appropriate. I am looking to Al Pesachowitz, Chief Information Officer,
to provide leadership and coordination to this Agency priority.
Fred Hansen
Deputy Administrator
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