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B -- REVIEW OF COMMON SENSE INITIATIVE SOL PR-DC-00153 DUE 110696 POC Contact Point, Erich Fischer, (202)260-1434 The Contractor will support the Common Sense Initiative Program Staff by performing a review of the Common Sense Initiative (CSI), determining its level of success, identifying any changes needed to maximize CSI's effectiveness for the future, and identifying ways to institutionalize CSI as a new way to approach environmental management. The Common Sense Initiative is a cross-agency, multi-stakeholder, consensus-based, industrial sector program that works to create innovative ways to achieve strong environmental standards (going beyond compliance) through common sense approaches that are cleaner, cheaper, and smarter for industry, citizens and regulators. CSI's efforts are centered on pollution prevention, continuous improvement, self-management and active collaboration of the regulated entities, communities, workers, and the regulatory agencies (Federal, state, local, and tribes). Since CSI is one of the Agency's reinvention efforts, EPA needs to review the program to determine its level of success and to identify any efforts needed to maximize CSI's effectiveness for the future. Since it is essential that the review be independent, the Contractor shall have no prior association personally or as a member of a firm involved with CSI. The EPA Project Officer (PO) shall provide copies of background documents on CSI, rosters of CSI stakeholder members, and a list of upcoming CSI meetings. The Contractor shall meet with the EPA PO and CSI staff in person or on a conference call to ensure common understanding of the goals of the project, the balance and mix of persons to be interviewed, the protocols for conduct of the study, and outcomes expected. The Contractor shall review the Common Sense Initiative by identifying answers to a series of questions already developed (and others that the Contractor and EPA may jointly determine to be appropriate as the review proceeds (e.g., questions that arise during CSI's strategic planning session and interviews with stakeholders). The products of the review shall be a report and two briefings on the results of the review: one for for the EPA PO and other EPA officials, and one for the CSI Council at a Council meeting. The period of performance for this Purchase Order is from the date of issuance through February 28, 1997. (0296)

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