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Community Based Environmental Protection (CBEP) Subcommittee
National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) Community Based Environmental Protection (CBEP) Committee
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) to provide environmental policy advice to the Administrator and other elements of the Agency. First chartered by EPA under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) in 1988, NACEPT is currently comprised of approximately 50 members who represent government (state, local, tribal) agencies, organized labor, business and industry, academia, public interest groups, and several other classes of organizations to provide the balanced viewpoints that FACA requires of federal advisory committees. The NACEPT members provide valuable advice and counsel based on their own extensive expertise and experience to the Administrator and the Agency. The Office of Cooperative Environmental Management (OCEM), within EPA's Office of the Administrator, provides management and analytical support to NACEPT.
The Council was established to advise EPA on wide-ranging environmental issues as it attempts to derive consensus views on complex subjects. Examples include: environmental policy and private citizen issues and concerns related to reauthorization of environmental legislation; recommendations for innovative ways to fulfill statutory requirements through the community-based environmental protection (CBEP) initiative; identify approaches for best environmental management activities nationally and internationally; identification of methods to reduce economic and other barriers to environmental technology development and transfer. Final recommendations are presented to the EPA Administrator as well as the Agency's Senior Management.
The major focus of NACEPT's work during fiscal year 1995 was providing advice to EPA on how to support community-based environmental protection (CBEP). NACEPT's recommendations were based on integrating ecological, economic, and social needs that are required to achieve a community-based approach to environmental protection.
In fiscal year 1996, NACEPT created a Community-Based Environmental
Protection Committee. The Committee's charge was to focus on the
benefits and impacts of four areas of community-based environmental
protection:
1) information and its availability;
2) measurements
of success;
3) public and private incentives.
For each topic,
recommendations will consider the range of geographic scale -
from micro-community and local levels to regional and global levels.
The recommendations for each of these separate areas will be combined
to produce a final report to EPA's Administrator in summer of
1997.