**Scope 1**  **2 3**  **4 5**  **6 7**  **8 9**  **10**

**[Why ?]**  Supports

new EPA vision? Implies

new directions for the Agency? Beyond

current capabilities? Improves

performance throughout agency? Advances

environment, social & economic benefits? Simple &

intuitively understand able? Completeable in 3-5 years Measurable?Can be broken down into goals and indicato

rs Able to scale up?

1 EPA offices will create Zero waste by 2020 Enviro issue Internal In with change
1a By 2020 EPA will lead the US Government towards zero waste to landfill, and do so on a cost-neutral basis while creating millions of jobs Enviro issue Federal

government In

2 EPA offices will be carbon neutral by 2020 Enviro issue Internal In with change 2a By 2020 EPA will lead the US Government towards carbon neutraility, and do so on a cost-neutral basis while creating millions of jobs In

3 EPA will work with priority industries to reduce water, carbon and waste emissions by 33% by 2020 Industry Targeted external stakeholders In

4 By 2020 EPA will have facilitated 25 green infrastructure projects that deliver regulatory performance comparable to conventional pollution control systems, but at lower costs, with higher conservation values and outcomes, and measurable net job creation. Project Targeted external stakeholders In as detail

5 By 2020, work with at least 10 firms in high carbon industries (steel, cement, aluminum, paper and plastic) to develop production and purchasing standards to incentivize energy and carbon efficiency to drive 25% reduction in CO2 emissions from these firms - without reducing profitability or employment. Industry Targeted business stakeholders In as detail

6 By 2020, EPA will help America's industries achieve a 20% reduction inlifecycle environmental impacts, while improving their longterm economic competitiveness and job-creation potential Industry All industry In - add detail

6a By 2020, EPA will help America's industries understand their lifecycle environmental impacts and help them on a path to 20% reduction in impact, while improving their long-term economic competitiveness and job-creation potential Industry All industry In - add detail

6b By 2020, EPA will work with select industry sectors to help them understand their lifecycle environmental impacts, and develop plans to reduce their key impacts by 20%, whileimproving their long-term economic competitiveness and jobcreation potential Industry All industry In - add detail

7 By 2020 EPA will help improve the level of environmental literacy in American by training the next generation of environmental scientists Education Acedemia In - Combined

7a By 2020 EPA will help improve the nations understanding of sustainability by educating every american student on the what it means and how to achieve it Education Acedemia **# Evaluation criteria**  **Possible Breakthrough Objectives (cells shaded y** **ellow represent wording variations on the objective in the row above)**  **Theme Screen**  **in/out? Scope**  **1 2**  **3 4**  **5 6**  **7 8**  **9 10** 

**[Why ?]**  Supports

new EPA vision? Implies

new directions for the Agency? Beyond

current capabilities? Improves

performance throughout agency? Advances

environment, social & economic benefits? Simple &

intuitively understand able? Completeable in 3-5 years Measurable?Can be broken down into goals and indicato

rs Able to scale up? **# Evaluation criteria**  **Possible Breakthrough Objectives (cells shaded y** **ellow represent wording variations on the objective in the row above)**  **Theme Screen**  **in/out?**

7b By ___________, initiate programs and strategies for educating citizens about the scientific support for and health benefits of sustainable economic development and product selection Education Academia and Public In -

Combined

7c By ________partner with the Department of Education to develop grade/high school curricula designed to provide systematic environmental education with a goal of adoption by at least 5% of school districts nationwide by 2015. Education Select federal agencies In -

Combined

6 By _________, EPA formally adopts the “precautionary principle” in establishing EPA policy. Org & culture Internal Out

7 By __________partner with the Department of Agriculture to reduce fertilizer use by 20% over the next three years. Enviro issue Select federal

agencies Out

8 By ____________, EPA will adopt decision-making screens that ensure actions are moving us toward the Agency’s sustainability program goals. Org & culture Internal Out - general

recommen dation
9 By ___________, initiate leadership and set deadlines to accomplish the following: a. Validation of the Kyoto Protocols by publishing a timetable of carbon reduction targets consistent with our new scientific understanding of global warming. b. Develop an international database of cleanup technologies focused primarily on water and soil contamination. c. Develop an international database of closed loop industrial processes with emphasis on redefining the concept of waste. d. Review and put in place rules that create impediments to allowing one industrial processes waste to become another processors feedstock. e. Partner with others in the international community on cross border, cross-ocean contamination with a goal of a 20% reduction in shipments of waste by 2015 f. Define “technical nutrients” (Non-toxic, non-harmful synthetic materials that have no negative effects on the natural environment and thus can be used in continuous cycles as the same product without losing their integrity or quality) and support projects that endeavor to utilize and develop products composed of technical nutrients. g. Distribute key messages distributed through multiple channels publicizing the legitimacy of renewable energy, carbon-neutral fuels and substitution of toxic substances into the environment. Enviro issue Out - general

recommen dation**Scope 1**  **2 3**  **4 5**  **6 7**  **8 9**  **10**

**[Why ?]**  Supports

new EPA vision? Implies

new directions for the Agency? Beyond

current capabilities? Improves

performance throughout agency? Advances

environment, social & economic benefits? Simple &

intuitively understand able? Completeable in 3-5 years Measurable?Can be broken down into goals and indicato

rs Able to scale up? **# Evaluation criteria**  **Possible Breakthrough Objectives (cells shaded y** **ellow represent wording variations on the objective in the row above)**  **Theme Screen**  **in/out?**

10 By __________, establish an EPA policy that requires its permitting and research and development functions to work together to stimulate the development of alternative chemicals that would produce better more sustainable outcomes than those currently determined to be “legal”. Enviro issue Internal Out - general

recommen dation

11 By _________expand the number of Energy Star and/or LEED type industry programs prioritized by environmental impact and degree of risk. Program Internal Out - general

recommen dation
12 By _______ direct the Office of Research and Development (ORD) to focus its research on “families of chemicals” that have similar properties rather than individual chemicals. Enviro issue Internal Out - general

recommen dation
13 By __________partnering with the Department of Energy to evaluate “Clean Coal” to confirm its viability. Enviro issue Select federal

agencies Out -

general

recommen dation

14 By 2020 create ‘one EPA’ by dramatically increasing collaboration across departments and creating joint programs focused on sustainability Org & culture Internal Out - move to org

15 By 2020, inventory toxicity of all parcels of property in the U.S. Enviro issue Targeted

external stakeholdersOut - One

issue

16 Combine with others and include Environmental Justice Out - One issue

17 By 2020, improve air quality to meet national standards without raising the price of electricity in ways that cause disproportionate impacts on 90% of affected low-income communities or closure / relocation of enough firms to cause “significant” reduction in local employment. RegulationTargeted external stakeholdersOut - One

issue

18 By 2020, have completed actions resulting the reduction of body burden, (the total amount of a chemical, metal or radioactive substance present at any time after absorption in the body of man or animal), for EPA’s top 50 chemicals of

concern Enviro issue Targeted

external stakeholdersOut - One

issue**# criteria met** **# criteria met** **# criteria met**