PPG Guidance
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 4:43 pm
We are pleased to announce the availability of a new Best Practices
Guide for Performance Partnership Grants with Tribes. This joint
product of the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations,
the Office of International and Tribal Affairs and EPA Region 5 will
serve as a companion piece to the one developed for states in 2006.
While tribes have been participating in National Environmental
Performance Partnership System from the beginning, there are a number of
important differences in the PPG requirements for tribes than for the
states. The guide's user-friendly format displays the various elements
required for tribes in negotiating PPGs, including key regulations,
policies and procedures for developing and managing PPGs and examples of
how PPGs have been used to achieve administrative efficiencies and to
direct resources where they are needed most. The guide is posted on the
NEPPS website (http://www.epa.gov/ocir/nepps/).
The guide will help tribes develop and manage PPGs. We look forward to
continuing our important work together in protecting human health and
the environment, and toward an improved understanding of how PPGs are a
critical tool toward achieving that goal. A copy of the Best Practices
Guide for PPGs with Tribes is attached, and also is posted at
http://www.epa.gov/ocir/nepps. If you or your staff have any questions about
the guide, please call Jim Wieber in the Office of Intergovernmental
Relations at (202) 564-3662, Rodges Ankrah in the American Indian
Environmental Office at (202) 564-0280 or Eloise Mulford, in EPA Region
5 at (312) 353-2022.
(See attached file: PPG Guide for Tribes-Final.pdf)
Joyce Frank
Principal Deputy Associate Administrator
Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(202) 564-3699
Guide for Performance Partnership Grants with Tribes. This joint
product of the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations,
the Office of International and Tribal Affairs and EPA Region 5 will
serve as a companion piece to the one developed for states in 2006.
While tribes have been participating in National Environmental
Performance Partnership System from the beginning, there are a number of
important differences in the PPG requirements for tribes than for the
states. The guide's user-friendly format displays the various elements
required for tribes in negotiating PPGs, including key regulations,
policies and procedures for developing and managing PPGs and examples of
how PPGs have been used to achieve administrative efficiencies and to
direct resources where they are needed most. The guide is posted on the
NEPPS website (http://www.epa.gov/ocir/nepps/).
The guide will help tribes develop and manage PPGs. We look forward to
continuing our important work together in protecting human health and
the environment, and toward an improved understanding of how PPGs are a
critical tool toward achieving that goal. A copy of the Best Practices
Guide for PPGs with Tribes is attached, and also is posted at
http://www.epa.gov/ocir/nepps. If you or your staff have any questions about
the guide, please call Jim Wieber in the Office of Intergovernmental
Relations at (202) 564-3662, Rodges Ankrah in the American Indian
Environmental Office at (202) 564-0280 or Eloise Mulford, in EPA Region
5 at (312) 353-2022.
(See attached file: PPG Guide for Tribes-Final.pdf)
Joyce Frank
Principal Deputy Associate Administrator
Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(202) 564-3699