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Projects

ECOS is actively working on several environmental policy research efforts both independently and through cooperative agreements with the U.S. EPA and others. Read more about ECOS's current major activities here or in the lists below.

Active Projects

ACS Measures Review, State Reporting Burden Reduction Initiative, and OMB State Grant Template Measures

Element 13 of the State Review Framework
Documents related to Element 13 and the State Review Framework (SRF)

Federal Facilities Forum (FFF)

Providing a forum for inter-agency dialogue on environmental management of federal facilities.

Lean Government
Since 2003 public environmental agencies have dramatically improved agency permitting and administrative processes using Lean and Six Sigma process improvement methods.

Mercury In the Environment
States working through the Quicksilver Caucus to address mercury issues.

Small States Technical Assistance Initiative (SSTAI)

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

Sustainability at U.S. Defense Sites
The ECOS-DOD Sustainability Work Group provides a forum for dialogue between state and federal officials tasked with environmental management and oversight duties at defense facilities.

The Unsticking Process

TRI National Training Conference
ECOS works with U.S. EPA and the states and tribes to organize and conduct the annual TRI National Training Conference that seeks to increase interactions between state, tribal, federal, and industry representatives to help improve TRI programs.

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Key Partnerships

Exchange Network

WISER