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Our Strategic  Plan
Goal 4 - Invest in capacity building with other
    federal, tribal, state, and local governments
    to implement community-based
    environmental protection and provide
    support to their key environmental efforts.

•   Provide technical and policy assistance to tribes,
    communities, agencies, and other EPA programs
    (GEO, NRMU, ARU, Pesticides)
•   Assist local communities to understand and meet
    environmental requirements (GEO, CIU)
•   Provide funding to tribes, states, and local
    governments for wetland conservation and nonpoint
    source management (ARU, NRMU)
•   Work with states and tribes to develop and
    implement nonpoint source management programs
    (NRMU)
•   Work with federal land managers and others to
    implement improved ecosystem management
    approaches emphasizing salmon recovery (NRMU,
    GEO, Immediate Office)
•   Work with federal agencies to improve their
    environmental review capacity to minimize impacts
    on local communities (GEO, Immediate Office)
Goal 5 - Build the Region's ability to provide
    timely, high quality outreach and public
    involvement.

•   Educate the public about EPA's work through fact
    sheets, brochures, and meetings (CIU)
•   Facilitate feedback from the public and ensure that
    it is considered in EPA's decisions (CIU)
•   Provide information and assistance to the public
    and other agencies on the requirements and benefits
    of EPA's programs (All)
•   Assess the effectiveness of public involvement,
    including how it affects EPA decisions (CIU)
Goal 6 - Make effective use of enforcement tools
    to reduce human health and environmental
    risks from wetland destruction, poor
    sediment disposal practices, and illegal
    pesticide use.

•   Ensure compliance with section 404, which
    regulates the discharge of dredged and fill material
    into waters of the U.S., including wetlands; take
    enforcement actions when necessary to rectify
    (remove the fill and restore the area) unpermitted
    fills or discharges of dredged materials (ARU)
•   Inspect imported pesticides to ensure they are
    registered and meet EPA requirements (Pesticides)
•   Inspect home and garden dealers to ensure that
    cancelled pesticides are not offered for sale
    (Pesticides)
•   Assess states' worker protection programs to ensure
    that farm workers are adequately protected
    (Pesticides)
•   Assess the impact of EPA enforcement actions and
    grant-funded work on human health risk (Pesticides)
Goal 7 - Create a work environment that
    maximizes staff satisfaction and
    productivity.

•   Provide staff with tools they need to work
    effectively (All)
•   Support peer feedback, supervisory feedback, and
    mentoring systems for staff and supervisors (All)
•   Align work with individual staff strengths and
    capacity (All)
•   Seek challenging work that contributes to personal
    and organizational growth (All)
•   Ensure training for our staff so they are
    knowledgeable and competent proponents of
    environmental and human health protection, and
    the work of ECO (All)
•   Ensure that community-based staff have the
    resources and technology to communicate and
    coordinate effectively with the Seattle office (All)
Our Vision: To protect and restore
the  environment  for  naturally
functioning ecosystems and healthy
human communities.
The Office of Ecosystems and Communities
leads Region 10 in implementing a strategy
to identify, develop, and support ecosystem,
geographic and community-based projects
to protect high quality ecosystems and to
reduce environmental and human health
impacts from agriculture, forestry, energy,
transportation,  and development.
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                                                                                                    Our  Strategic Plan
Partnerships with states and tribes, and
other EPA offices, ensure that the Region
has a true geographic problem solving
focus. We have oversight responsibility
for state and tribal nonpoint source
management and pesticide programs,  as
well as shared responsibilities with the
Corps and other partners for managing the
wetlands and sediment programs. When
necessary, we  can use our Clean Water
Act and pesticide enforcement authorities
to ensure compliance.

We manage an annual grants and contracts
budget of $65  million. Community
involvement is an essential element of the
Office, and staff located in the four state
capitals and nine other communities ensure
that we know how our work affects people
in the "real world."

A key focus area for all of our programs
is protecting and restoring habitat for
salmon and bull trout. Five of the seven
goals of our strategic plan directly support
salmon recovery. Much of our grant
money is directed at this issue, including
money for wetlands and nonpoint source
management, regional geographic
initiatives, forest planning, and state
revolving loan funds. Our staff work in
these areas, along with our decisions on
sediment management, pesticide use, and
our review of environmental impact
statements, plays a major role in salmon
recovery.
Who's Who in the Office of Ecosystems and
Communities

Director
    Elbert Moore, 206-553-4181

Associate Director
    Roger Mochnick, 206-553-1216

Forest and Rangeland Manager
    Dave Powers, 503-326-5874

Columbia River TMDL Project
    Rick Parkin, 206-553-8574

Columbia River Coordinator
    Mary Lou Soscia, 503-326-5873

Office Manager
    Jean Iriarte, 206-553-1644

Budget Analyst
    Hyesuk Riggall, 206-553-6334
Unit Managers

Aquatic Resources Unit (ARU)
    Sally Marquis, 206-553-0717

Community Involvement Unit
    KathyVeit, 206-553-1352

Geographic Unit (GEO)
    Judith Lee, 206-553-6911

Natural Resources Management Unit (NRMU)
    Gary Voerman, 206-553-8513

Pesticides Unit
    Marie Jennings, 206-553-1173
Goal 1 - Lead EPA Region 10 in collaborating
    internally and building partnerships with
    tribes, the public, and other agencies to solve
    environmental problems.

•   Build coalitions for large scale ecosystem protection
    and restoration projects (ARU, GEO, NRMU)
•   Provide funding, education, technical assistance,
    and training for research, conservation planning
    and restoration projects (ARU)
•   Work pro-actively with federal, state, and local
    agencies in the environmental review and decision
    process (GEO, ARU)
•   Collaborate with state and federal agencies in
    designating and managing environmentally sound
    aquatic sites for dredged material disposal (ARU)
•   Coordinate beneficial uses of dredged material for
    capping and other sediment projects to control
    pollutants or enhance natural recovery (ARU)
•   Support research projects to better understand the
    effects of human activities on the health of our
    aquatic resources and to improve protection of
    wetlands and other aquatic resources (ARU)
•   Work with states and tribes to develop groundwater
    management plans that address persistent pesticides
    (Pesticides)
•   Work with commodity and farm groups to ensure
    that EPA decisions on the availability of pesticides
    address both public and agricultural concerns
    (Pesticides)
    Community-based environmental protection
    is EPA's  strategy to solve environmental
    problems  in concert with local communities
    and to build lasting community support for
    environmental programs.  Our work ranges
    from identifying  opportunities  for
    collaboration, and providing  funding for
    technical assistance or environmental
    stewardship, to conducting scientific studies
    and investigations.  EPA staff working on
    these issues are located in nine communities,
    in addition to staff located in Seattle and the
    state offices.
Goal 2 - Focus resources and efforts in critical
    geographic areas where EPA participation
    will greatly enhance local environmental
    protection efforts.
•   Plan and implement regional geographic initiatives
    (GEO)
•   Assist in implementing comprehensive conservation
    and management plans in each of our national
    estuaries (NRMU, ARU)
•   Develop more integrated approaches (both internally
    and externally) for targeting funding and staff
    resources toward geographic areas (NRMU, ARU)
•   Place EPA staff in watersheds that are critical to
    salmon recovery (GEO)
•   Evaluate the states' use of the watershed protection
    approach in Region 10 (NRMU)

Goal 3 - Address environmental issues through
    cross program, integrated environmental
    protection.

•   Work with other EPA offices to implement the
    Aquatic Ecosystem Strategy to protect and restore
    salmon habitat, and to address environmental issues
    related to agriculture and forestry (NRMU,
    Immediate Office)
•   Focus restoration efforts on entire watersheds,
    including restoration of degraded streams, wetlands
    and riparian habitats for salmon protection (ARU,
    NRMU, GEO)
•   Conduct annual "listening tours" in strategic
    geographic areas (CIU)
•   Lead multimedia environmental reviews of major
    federal actions (GEO)
•   Develop total maximum daily loads for temperature
    and dissolved gas for the main stem of the Columbia
    River, in cooperation with tribes, states, and
    stakeholders (Immediate Office)
•   Comment on high priority section 404 draft permits
    and environmental impact statements,  represent
    the Agency on the NEPA/404 merger agreements,
    and assist Superfund in its section 404
    implementation (ARU)

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