Today Steve Curwood asked us to assess the information available on EPA's Web site in terms of quality, quantity, focus attitude of presentation, ease of use, accuracy, credibility and timeliness. We hope you will take the time tomorrow to respond to the issues that the Agency raises so that EPA can learn your views on these matters. We are also pleased that many of you are answering each other's requests for information. The public wants information on topics ranging from how to make sound environmental decisions in their personal lives to understanding issues as vast and as complicated as global warming.
People are interested in the compliance status of local companies.
Citizens need guides to help them navigate the EPA Web site. The EPA Web site should have a searchable Health Effects section. The individual EPA office sites provide good introductions, but there could be more on EPA's organizational structure. Timeliness is a problem. EPA gives the public only 30 days to comment on air permits that may have in its files for years.