The Environmental Protection Agency must involve a broad range of interests and technological levels in its mission to improve the condition of the Nation's environment. Access to environmental information, collaboration among widely- distributed environmental scientists and decision makers within the Federal Government and States, and an informed public are essential elements in the combination of regulatory approaches and public action that are necessary to address the environmental problems of the twenty-first century. EPA requires a broad range of technologies and applications in order to synergize the diverse disciplines necessary to study the environment and to produce effective policies.
EPA envisions collaboration with other Federal Agencies such as NASA, NOAA, and DOE to create digital libraries of environmental monitoring data for the purpose of determining the health and potential for change in the Earth's environmental systems. Likewise, EPA envisions access to computational models of environmental systems by partners in the states to collaborate in predicting the effects of potential regulations or existing environmental conditions.