3.3: Partnerships
Strengthen partnerships with Federal data collectors EPA and other Federal agencies collect environmental and related information
to meet their individual mission needs.
Other Information:
To meet the needs of other audiences, however, these individual collections of data must often be fit together to achieve
a mosaic effect—or holistic picture of the environmental conditions, causes and consequences of concern—unattainable using
data from any single source. Better information partnerships among Federal, state, tribal and local information sources are
needed to combine data easily. These partnerships will rest on two pillars. The first is a commonly-held understanding of
audience information needs, for which EPA should assume lead responsibility. The second is a build to share approach, composed
of common principles of data management, especially those governing data integration, documentation and delivery, for ensuring
basic compatibility of data collected by independent sources. Environmental information that is of interest to EPA’s audiences
is collected by many agencies throughout the Federal government and is maintained in different locations and formats. • What
technical issues must EPA and other Federal agencies address in order to allow EPA’s audiences to integrate and analyze their
data? • How can EPA ensure that these data are easily accessed and analyzed by its audiences?
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