Common Measures Project

NEWMOA's Common Measures Project is designed to support state efforts to develop and use common measures of environmental performance for one or more business sectors/groups across several NEWMOA member and other states. The purpose is to advance the use of valid statistical methods and measurement tools to enable comparison of performance changes across states resulting from the use of various environmental compliance assurance approaches. The project goals are to:

• Improve the ability of state environmental agencies to develop, implement, and analyze innovative performance measures for targeted business sectors
  


• Improve the ability of the state environmental agencies to develop and implement innovative compliance strategies, including Environmental Results Projects (ERP)
  

This project relies on the models of innovative compliance strategies, including the Environmental Results Program (ERP) and other statistically valid compliance/performance rating approaches already in use by states. By developing and using shared measures, the participating state can evaluate the effectiveness of their own programs and the relative effectiveness of the other states' programs and decide to adopt the more successful compliance assurance approaches used throughout the region. Project objectives include:

• Develop and implement a common, core set of performance measures for business sectors or regulated groups on a multi-state basis
  


• Promote the implementation of innovative compliance strategies, including ERP, in the states in the Northeast that have not yet begun these initiatives, including New York
  


• Combine and present the environmental outcome data that is collected from the states using the core performance measures for at least one business sector and analyze and present the results.
  

This website provides access to key information and training materials of the Common Measures Workgroup. For more information on the Common Measures Project, contact Bill Cass at .