ECOS and EPA to Hold Webinars on E-Enterprise and Tradeoffs/Flexibility for Projects: January 28, and February 2, 2016

January 22nd, 2016

Two webinars are being held for States and EPA to discuss opportunities for tradeoffs and flexibility to work on E-Enterprise projects as reflected in EPA’s FY16 Partnerships Action Plan (PAP).
 
EPA and the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) worked together to include the following language in the PAP:
  1. By March 31, 2016, to have States and EPA Regions participate in building the E-Enterprise project portfolio by proposing business processes streamlining projects they are already working on together, that might become nationally scalable through joint governance.
  2. By September 30, 2016, to have States and EPA Regions look together at temporary tradeoffs in State workloads – generally reflected in their grant workplan – in exchange for the State focusing work on an E-Enterprise project.
The webinars will introduce E-Enterprise and explain these actions in the Partnerships Action Plan for managers and staff who are new to E-Enterprise to help them understand the E-Enterprise context for the actions and figure out some workable paths to carry them out.
 
The webinar will be offered on the following dates and times (information in the first webinar will be repeated in the second webinar):
 
Thursday, January 28, 2016, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET
and
Tuesday, February 2, 2016, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
 
E-Enterprise goals and objectives are to modernize by 1) streamlining co-regulatory business processes, 2) applying advanced technology where appropriate, and 3) managing collaboratively through joint governance to ensure ownership and adoption of E-Enterprise products. A key focus in 2016 is to broaden EPA and State participation in proposing and working on E-Enterprise projects, especially by States and Regions who have not been as involved in E-Enterprise so far.
 
For more information, please contact EPA’s Phil Metzger at metzger.phil [at] epa.gov or ECOS’ Beth Graves at bgraves [at] ecos.org.
 
Beth Graves
Environmental Council of the States
P: 202.266.4923
E: bgraves [at] ecos.org