Documentation created for the Program prior to this date may reflect the original 86 eligible MSAs and not the current 156. It stands for Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking. It is a new approach to working with communities to collect, manage, and present environmental information to the public.
Environmental information is important because it affects our daily lives.
In the past, the answers to environmental questions were unavailable or often slow in coming. And when you did get them, chances are the answers were outdated and difficult to understand. Giant leaps in modern technology can now make this daily environmental information possible. Put the latest technology to work in keeping track of environmental conditions. Present in plain language the information the communities want to know.