Review of EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program: Overall Evaluation -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- Statistics, Sampling, and Design -- Indicators -- Integration -- Appropriate Scale and Boundaries of Regions -- Coordination And Management -- External Scientific Review -- Information Management -- 1 Introduction -- BACKGROUND -- EMAP - Vision and Realities -- THE PRESENT STUDY -- Committee Charge -- This Report: the Final Review -- 2 Overall Assessment -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EMAP ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK -- Implications for EMAP Design -- Hybrid Assessment Models -- INDICATORS -- EMAP SAMPLING DENSITY AND SAMPLING FREQUENCY -- STATISTICS -- Trends -- PROBLEMS OF SUMMARIZING EMAP DATA TO STANDARD FEDERAL REGIONS -- INTEGRATION -- Need for Integration -- Demonstrations of Integration -- Concerns -- Recommendations -- Coordinated Sampling Between Terrestrial, Aquatic, and Atmospheric Resources1 -- Designate Resources for Integration -- PROGRAM COORDINATION WITHIN EMAP -- Coordination between EMAP and other parts of EPA -- EXTERNAL SCIENTIFIC REVIEW -- EMAP'S PLACE IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT -- The Administrative Setting for EMAP -- 3 Program-Wide Components -- LANDSCAPE CHARACTERIZATION AND ECOLOGY -- Overview -- The Place of Landscape Programs Within EMAP -- Evaluation -- EMAP INDICATOR DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY -- Introduction -- The EMAP Strategy -- Evaluation of the Indicator Development Strategy -- Summary -- INFORMATION SYSTEM -- Concerns About EMAP-Information System -- Summary -- 4 Resource Components -- AGROECOSYSTEMS -- Conclusion -- ESTUARIES (MODIFIED FROM NRC, 1994A, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY) -- Indicators -- Advice, Consultation, and Scientific Review -- Update -- Indicators -- Detecting Trends -- FORESTS (EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, FROM NRC 1994A) -- Lack of a Theoretical Basis.

Select a Set of Indicators -- Revise Sampling Design -- Information-Management System -- Publish Study Results -- Delay Full Implementation Until Results of Demonstration Projects are Evaluated -- GREAT LAKES -- Conclusions -- SURFACE WATERS -- Background and Objectives -- Assessment End Points -- Indicators -- Sampling Design -- Lake Pilot Project -- Streams -- Intra-Agency Cooperation -- Oversight And Coordination Among EMAP Resource Groups -- EMAP-Center Organization -- References -- Appendix A September 20, 1994 letter from Dr. Edward Martinko, Director, EMAP -- SELECTED EMAP CHANGES OCCURRING FROM 1992 TO THE PRESENT -- Indicator Development -- Sampling Design -- Detection of Trends -- Landscapes -- Analysis of EMAP Data, Particularly Estuaries, and Publication of Results -- Information Management -- Assessment, Integration and Coordination -- Cause-and-Effect Relationships Need More Focused Planning -- Program Management -- Involvement of the Scientific Community and Peer Review -- Inter-Agency and Intra-Agency Cooperation -- Appendix B May 4, 1994 letter from Gary J. Foley, EPA Acting Assistant Administrator for Research a ... -- Appendix C EMAP Documents Reviewed by NRC Committee -- Appendix D Biographical Sketches of Committee Members.