I.H: Flagship Initiative – Community Engagement

Promote a greater understanding of, participation in, and contribution by individuals regarding the environmental issues that affect or interest them most

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Flagship is a term that commonly means the most important or leading member of a group. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that each federal department or agency describe at least one specific new transparency, participation or collaboration initiative (a flagship) currently being implemented or planned. At EPA, we asked experts across the Agency to share new or proposed projects that promote EPA’s environmental protection mission, embrace the Administration’s principle of openness, have real impact and benefit, are feasible and likely to succeed, and have transformative value. We received and reviewed many individual projects and organized them into three themes: * Community Engagement * Regulatory Involvement * OneEPA EPA selected Community Engagement as our Flagship because of its wide applicability — promoting a greater understanding of, participation in, and contribution by individuals regarding the environmental issues that affect or interest them most. This flagship initiative offers EPA many opportunities to learn from individual projects and apply these lessons as we consider actions to ensure continued improvement. The anticipated benefits from this initiative are described in greater detail in Section V of this plan. The other two initiatives, Regulatory Involvement and OneEPA, represent additional areas where the Agency is committed to making improvements. A number of projects within these themes are planned or currently underway and also support the open government principles of transparency, participation and collaboration. Additional information on our Flagship initiative can be found in Section V of this document, and further detail is provided at http://www.epa.gov/open/flagship/index.html.

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