Air Pollution Control (Clean Air Act, section 105)
Carbon monoxide emissions and exceedences
Nitrogen dioxide emissions and exceedences
Sulfur dioxide emissions and exceedences
Particulate matter emissions and exceedences
Lead emissions and exceedences
Exceedences for the ambient standard for ozone
Numbers of people living in metropolitan areas and counties where air does not meet criteria pollutant standards
Toxic Release Inventory emissions to air of Clean Air Act regulated Hazardous Air Pollutants
Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions from motor vehicles
Reductions in the estimated annual excess cancer incidence or other health effects attributed to reduced exposures to ambient air toxics
Forest vegetation conditions associated with air pollution effects

Water Pollution Control (Clean Water Act, section 106)
Trends in total loadings to waterbodies from selected conventional pollutants: total suspended solids, biological oxygen demand, fecal coliform, nutrients
Total pounds of toxic chemicals released annually to land and water
Pollution sources affecting harvest limited shellfish bed acreage
Fish kills--numbers and causes
Toxics in fish, shellfish, sediments
Point source loadings to surface and ground water
Percentage of streams and rivers impaired by pollution
Percentage of lakes impaired by pollution
Total population served by municipal wastewater treatment facilities
Trends in total loadings from sewage treatment plants of major sewage pollutants
Rivers/streams/lakes/estuaries (miles/acres/square miles) reported as meeting uses for fishing/swimming/boating or shellfishing
Fish consumption advisories by number of advisories and cause of advisory
Beach closures--numbers of closures and causes
Biological health of rivers and streams--biological integrity assessments
Ambient water quality in rivers and streams: exceedences for fecal coliform, dissolved oxygen, total phosphorus
Comparing proportion of species “at risk” that are dependent on aquatic or wetland habitats with the percent of species at risk that are dependent on terrestrial habitats
Nutrient and sediment pollution from land uses and by sources
Sediment contaminants by type having a probability of adverse ecological and/or human health effects

Public Water System Supervision (Safe Drinking Water Act)
Percent of community water systems with source water protection programs in place by type of system
Average blood levels in children attributable to drinking water
Waterborne disease outbreaks from public water supplies
Percent of population served by community water systems with no violations of maximum contaminant level standards

Underground Storage Tanks (Solid Waste Disposal Act)
Underground storage tanks--numbers of total tanks, leaking tanks, and mitigated tanks

Hazardous Waste Management (Solid Waste Disposal Act)
Hazardous waste generated--tons per year
Reductions in toxic releases--pounds per year
Toxic releases by media--pounds per media, per capita or square mile
Cleanup of Superfund sites--numbers of sites
Generation and management of municipal solid waste--tons generated, land-filled, incinerated, recycled
Percent of hazardous waste sites with confirmed contamination of ground water
Corrective actions data for RCRA sites--number of sites, corrective actions, sites closing/closed

Radon Assessment and Mitigation (Toxic Substances Control Act)
Percentage of homes tested for radon and those with indoor radon levels of 4pCi/L or above that have been mitigated

Pesticide Enforcement (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act)
Pesticides residues in food
Workplace pesticide exposure--acute and chronic
Integrated Pest Management--acres and level of use
Pesticide usage--total volume, acreage and crop type

Other Issues Not Covered By Grant Programs
Wetland change--acres lost/gained by type of wetland
Cropland erosion--tons per year
Changes in forest land area by acre and type
Forest vegetation conditions associated with air pollution effects
Trends in total wetland acreage
Ecological integrity/biodiversity