Executive Summary

Prospective Indicators for State Use in Performance Partnership Agreements

The State Environmental Goals and Indicators Project (SEGIP) is a cooperative agreement between the Florida Center for Public Management of the Florida State University and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and represents an attempt to ensure the effective participation of state environmental agencies in the development of environmental goals and indicators. Within the context of this mission SEGIP has volunteered to provide U.S. EPA with a group of prospective indicators that are appropriate for use in structuring state agreements as conceptually proposed for Performance Partnership Agreements.

In identifying these indicators the following qualification standards were applied:

  1. The indicator is national in scope and can be consistently displayed at the state level.
  2. The indicator meets SEGIP Essential Indicator Selection Criteria (see Appendix C).
  3. The indicator currently exists and is available to the states.
  4. The indicator reflects a direct environmental value and not an administrative or program result. Administrative measures that summarize counts of definable environmental degradation (e.g., exceedances, spills) are acceptable.
  5. The indicator supports an environmental result relevant to the EPA-State relationship as envisioned in the proposed Performance Partnerships Agreements.

    Prospective indicators include:

    AIR

    1. Carbon Monoxide Emissions and Exceedances
    2. Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions and Exceedances
    3. Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and Exceedances
    4. Particulate Matter Emissions and Exceedances
    5. Lead Emissions and Exceedances
    6. Exceedances of the Ambient Standard for Ozone
    7. Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Emissions from Motor Vehicles

    ECOSYSTEMS

    1. Changes in Wetlands in the U.S.
    2. Cropland Erosion

    WASTE

    1. Hazardous Waste Generated
    2. Reductions in Toxic Releases
    3. Toxic Chemical Releases by Media

    WATER

    1. Total Pounds of Toxic Chemicals Released Annually to Land and Water
    2. Percentage of Streams and Rivers Impaired by Pollution
    3. Percentage of Lakes Impaired by Pollution
    4. Pollution Sources Affecting Harvest Limited Shellfish Bed Acreage
    5. Percent of Hazardous Waste Sites with Confirmed Contamination of Ground Water
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