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GAOREPORTS
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2010-08-12
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2000-10-03
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GA 1.13:GAO-01-97T
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-97T
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REPORT
GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-97T
GAO-01-97T
Risk management
Environmental policies
Environmental monitoring
Program evaluation
Information resources management
Performance measures
Data collection
Management information systems
Data integrity
EPA Integrated Risk Information System
Testimony
Environmental Information: EPA Needs Better Information to
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) needs comprehensive and
accurate data to manage its programs more effectively. In reports going
back to 1988, GAO has identified many long-standing problems in the
agency's efforts to collect and use environmental data. This report
summarizes GAO's findings on: (1) EPA's need to set risk-based
priorities for its programs, and (2) develop outcome-oriented measures
of its programs' results. EPA's ability to assess risks and establish
risk-based priorities has been hampered by data quality problems,
including critical data gaps, databases that do not operate compatibly
with one another, and persistent concerns about the accuracy of the data
in many of EPA's data systems. To ensure future success in developing
outcome measures, however, EPA will need to make a long-term commitment
to overcome major challenges to obtaining the data needed to show the
results of environmental programs.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-97T/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-97T.htm
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-97T/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-97T.pdf
GAO-01-97T
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-97T
Testimony
GAO-01-97T; Environmental Information: EPA Needs Better Information to;
Risk management
Environmental policies
Environmental monitoring
Program evaluation
Information resources management
Performance measures
Data collection
Management information systems
Data integrity
EPA Integrated Risk Information System