COMMENTS REQUESTED FOR EPA STRATEGIC PLAN REVISION
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Date:
Tuesday, October 15, 2002 3:07 PM
From:
Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide
Regulation
cc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
IN THIS EPA UPDATE:
1) EPA LAUNCHES INTERACTIVE COCKROACH ACTIVITY BOOK IN SPANISH
2) COMMENTS REQUESTED FOR EPA STRATEGIC PLAN REVISION
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1) EPA LAUNCHES INTERACTIVE COCKROACH ACTIVITY BOOK IN SPANISH
The Spanish version of the popular pest prevention activity book for children, Socorro! Una Cucaracha! (Help! It's a Roach!), is now on-line. The activities have been designed to be interactive, to provide a fun way to learn about managing indoor insect pests. The messages of removing food, water, and shelter apply to many pests, not just cockroaches. The web version is found at http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/kids/roaches/spanish/. Paper versions of this book are available from EPA's publication center, http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom/ordering.htm (EPA 735-F-98-016?English and EPA 735-F-01-004?Spanish).
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2) COMMENTS REQUESTED FOR EPA STRATEGIC PLAN REVISION
EPA is revising its Strategic Plan. The Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) is encouraging its stakeholders to provide comments electronically at http://www.epa.gov/edocket through Docket Number OPP-2002-0282. The following is a letter from Stephen Johnson, Assistant Administrator, OPPTS, inviting your comments.
October 8, 2002
Dear Colleagues and Citizens:
I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to provide input to EPA's Strategic Plan, which will guide resource and program decisions over the next five years. EPA developed its first Strategic Plan under in 1997 and revised it in 2000. EPA's next Strategic Plan will cover resource and program directions from FY2003 through FY2008.
As we establish our strategic goals for the next 5 years and develop the strategies we will employ to achieve our objectives, we want to be sure that we have reached a broad range of interested and affected parties, benefited from their input and advice, and prepared a sound, practical plan that addresses national priorities for protecting the environment and human health and will achieve results. In particular, we are interested in your views on the following questions:
1. What are the most important human health and environmental challenges related to pesticides, industrial chemicals and pollution prevention that EPA should address in the next 10 years?
2. What specific strategies and activities should EPA strengthen or initiate to address those challenges?
3. What specific accomplishments should EPA commit to achieve by FY2008 or beyond related to pesticides and industrial chemicals? Please be as quantitative and outcome-oriented as possible in your suggestions.
4. What do you think are the most important changes EPA could make to become more effective and efficient in the pesticide, industrial chemicals and pollution prevention program areas?
5. What other suggestions do you have regarding future challenges, accomplishments, strategies, activities, effectiveness and efficiency of other EPA programs )e.g., water, air, waste, research, enforcement, etc.)?
6. What organizational challenges are you currently facing that impact your organization's ability to carry out its mission?
You can provide comments to us through EPA's E-Docket at http://www.epa.gov/edocket. On this site, you will be able to access EPA's current Strategic Plan, including OPPTS' current priorities under Goal 3 (Safe Food), Goal 4 (Preventing Pollution and Reducing Risk in Communities, Homes, Workplaces and Ecosystems) and Goal 6 (Reduction of Global and Cross-Border Environmental Risks). In order to ensure that we can consider your input for the first draft of the next strategic plan, we ask that you provide input by November 11, 2002.
Over the years, we have achieved many environmental successes by working together. While we have many challenges ahead, I am confident that by continuing our work together, we can continue this record of achievement.
Sincerely,
/s/
Stephen L. Johnson
Assistant Administrator
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