NEWMOA has been facilitating regional projects to develop and implement metrics for states to use in tracking their pollution prevention (P2) and compliance assistance (CA) activities for over 15 years. The participating state programs believe that it is particularly important to work together to develop a consistent way to measure the impacts of P2 and CA efforts to:

• communicate the activities and accomplishments of the state and local agencies to policy makers
• improve program management
• measure progress toward goals
• provide program funders with relevant activity and outcome information
• influence policy development

To effectively share data, NEWMOA believes that programs need to use a common set of measures and compatible software tools. To support this goal, NEWMOA has been:

• developing and helping the state agencies to implement the P2 & Assistance Tracker software for managing data on activities and their outcomes
• overseeing ongoing development of the National Pollution Prevention Results System as well as assisting programs in the Northeast with sharing their results through the System
• developing and implementing the P2 Data Collection Tool to provide a way for programs to share their tools and learn from each other

For more information, contact Andy Bray at .