About E-Enterprise for the Environment
Mission
E-Enterprise for the Environment is a collaborative partnership through which EPA, states, and Tribes work together to improve the way we protect the environment and human health. For more information visit the E-Enterprise Fact Sheet.
Overview
States, Tribes and EPA share similar goals for the environment. Authority to implement environmental protection is also shared, making collaboration among the partners essential to ensuring that they can simultaneously address the following common goals and desires:
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Establish a more collaborative relationship, while still respecting delegated program responsibilities;
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Provide states and Tribes the opportunity for early and meaningful engagement with EPA on key issues and decisions that affect implementation of delegated programs and primary jurisdictional authorities;
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Incorporate the user’s perspective, improve customer service and institute business-friendly approaches;
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Deliver environmental programs and services with greater efficiency and effectiveness by streamlining and simplifying processes;
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Prevent or eliminate backlogs of agency actions and meet or beat required timelines for agency actions;
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Avoid duplication of efforts and make the best use of limited resources;
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Accomplish important environmental goals in the face of constrained, and sometimes decreasing, budgets; and
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Achieve improved and measurable environmental progress and results.
Environmental Information Exchange Network
E-Enterprise is built on the foundation of the Environmental Information Exchange Network, which was formed in 1998 as a collaborative leadership initiative of EPA, states, territories, and Tribes to provide an automated, standardized, real-time nationwide electronic communications, data, and services platform to enable the sharing of environmental data securely via the Internet. For example, states, territories, and Tribes use the Exchange Network to submit required data and reports to EPA under delegated programs, and universities and nonprofit organizations use it to share environmental monitoring data with the states and EPA.
In 2015, a restructuring formally integrated the governance of the Exchange Network and E-Enterprise to ensure that a single management board and operations team would support the goals and principles of both efforts under the strategic direction of the E-Enterprise Leadership Council (EELC).