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Planning

Officers

Chair: Wayne Gieselman, Administrator, Environmental Services Division, Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Vice-Chair: Tom Burack, Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
P&P Workgroup State Co-Chairs: Douglas Fine, Assistant Commissioner for Planning & Policy, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and Tom Lamberson, Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality
ECOS Staff: Beth Graves

The Planning Committee works to improve state strategic planning efforts nationwide. The Committee concentrates on aligning state and federal planning goals and objectives, as well as promoting NEPPS and helping increase communication between the states and EPA on planning and priority setting activities. For more information on the Committee and its activities please e-mail Beth Graves at bgravesatssodotorg or 202-624-3662.


ECOS Strategic Planning Workshop - "Meeting Future Environmental Challenges: Planning, Partnerships and Actions to Achieve Results" - to be held June 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA

Joint Meeting of the ECOS Planning Committee and the State/EPA Partnership and Performance Workgroup, ECOS 2008 Spring Meeting

ECOS-EPA Partnership and Performance Workgroup (P&P) Charter, re-adopted Sept. 17, 2007

Joint Meeting of the ECOS Planning Committee and the State/EPA Partnership and Performance Workgroup, ECOS 2007 Fall Meeting


Policy related to Planning
Projects

State Strategic Planning Workshop: February 23-24, 2006
The Environmental Council of the States (ECOS), with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has sponsored a workshop for planning and media program officials from state environmental agencies.

Strategic Planning and Budgeting
To work in cooperation with EPA regarding EPA's national strategic planning effort.

 


Documents

State-EPA Performance Partnership Agreements

(August 17, 2005)
Most State-EPA PPAs are available on the website of the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at EPA.

Final Report of Planning Pilot Projects

(March 11, 2005)

Report on the pilot projects that addresses state capacity to improve results-based management during calendar year 2004. Included are appendices with examples of activities and deliverables.

Summit: View from the States

(December 6, 2004, The document outlines the View from the States including a vision statement and an action agenda for the future. Steve Owens (AZ) and Stephanie Hallock (OR) prepared the two page blueprint detailing ECOS' commitments for promoting and implementing the planning innovations initiated by the ECOS Alignment and PPA workgroup.

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The following document was generated from the work that took place at the Washington D.C. November 30-December 1, 2004 EPA-ECOS Alignment and PPA Work Group Meeting entitled, “Turning Planning into Action and Results."