EPA Hazardous Waste Program Information Strategy Plan

摘要

Reassess the information and data quality needs of all stakeholders in the RCRA hazardous waste program Provide improved access to required information Reduce the burden of data generation and collection Identify the appropriate information technologies to provide more useful and accessible data to all users. Reinvention of information management in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hazardous waste program began in 1994, when the Office of Solid Waste (OSW) revised its strategic plan, and identified a series of information management objectives as part of its Five-Year Strategy. The Waste Information Needs (WIN) initiative evolved from that process. This initiative is an effort to reassess the information universe and the data quality needs of EPA, states and tribes, and public and private sector customers involved with hazardous waste management under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). WIN also seeks to provide improved access to hazardous waste information, to reduce the burden of data providers, and to match information technologies to the identified data and access needs.