Community Engagement Flagship Summary FY2010 - 3rd Quarter Progress on Projects/Efforts within our Flagship Initiative Approach S Our Flagship projects and efforts are in varying stages of progress, from planning to completed S A brief update is provided here, with a link to a fact sheet for each project S Lesson Learned: Being collected and will be posted to share what we learn throughout the Agency Enhances/updates Section V of the Plan V1.0 Flagship Theme: Expanding the Environmental Conversation with Communities S Urban Waters (Ongoing) ¦ Designed to help communities access, restore and benefit from their surrounding waters ¦ Conducted workshops/sessions, poster contest, and Summer Camp S Improve Communication of Sampling and Testing Results (Initiated) ¦ Methodology used to report results to residents impacted by the BP Oil Spill, during the National Liberty RadEx exercise, and presented in communication training to Region 10 staff S Improve Delivery of Information to At-Risk and Remote Communities (In Progress) ¦ Established National work group to capture experiences, tools and successes to date ¦ Partnered with National Enforcement Training Institute to leverage new technologies S Faces of the Grassroots Video Contest (Complete) ¦ 93 entries (music videos to documentary-style) on grassroots environmental projects ¦ Videos used for training internally (EPA) and externally (Boeing) Flagship Theme: Expanding Public Awareness & Involvement in Developing Rules and Regulations S Chesapeake Bay TMDL Webinar Series (Ongoing) ¦ Series to inform and hear from the public on progress putting the Bay on a "pollution diet" ¦ Since February we conducted 7 webinars averaging 300 people per session S NPDES Pre-proposal Involvement (Ongoing) ¦ Selected web 2.0 tools to provide stakeholders background information in advance of formal rulemaking, with a discussion forum for updated questions and topics S Rulemaking Gateway (Ongoing) ¦ Overall visits per month average over 6,500; top groups Children's Health and Env. Justice ¦ Reviewing public comments for improvements to Gateway Flagship Theme: EPA Mobile Apps to Empower Citizen's Environmental Decisions S Human Health Advisories and Green Product Information (Ongoing) ¦ These two Flagship efforts are in the early stages and are inter-related ¦ EPA identified Web 2.0 technologies for use: Webinars, Discussion threads on Exchange Network, Greenversations Blog, Facebook, Wikis, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Mobile apps ¦ SunWise, EPA's first mobile app, was released in June 2010 http://www.epa.gov/enviro/mobile/ EPA@40: Healthier Families, Cleaner Communities, A Stronger America EPA's Open Government Plan V1.1 - June 2010 1 ------- |