Plain Writing Act: 2012 Annual Report

I. Senior Agency Official for Plain Writing

Eric E. Wachter
Director
Office of the Executive Secretariat
wachter.eric@epa.gov
(202) 564-7960

II. Training

1. EPA has an online training for all employees who produce documents for the public and for any employee who would like to be trained in plain writing.
2. EPA offers classroom workshops and training sessions for interested employees.

III. Ongoing compliance/sustaining change

1. Each national-program and regional office has appointed a designated official for plain writing. See appendix.
2. With institutional knowledge of the unique processes and various documents produced in their offices, these designated officials have implemented processes for ongoing compliance.
3. These processes include communications officials' approval of documents; multi-level managerial review for plain writing; designating plain-writing coordinators in individual offices; and refresher training courses.
4. Many offices had existing plain-writing procedures already in place to satisfy existing executive order and administrative orders.
5. The senior official for plain writing and the designated officials meet to oversee compliance.

IV. Agency's plain-writing website

1. EPA's plain-writing website is www.epa.gov/plain-writing.
2. The site is linked from www.epa.gov/opendata.

Appendix: EPA Plain Writing Designated Officials

Office of Administration and Resource Management

• Joanne Oxley

Office of the Administrator

• Eric Wachter

Office of Air and Radiation

• Wanda Farrar

Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance

• Lynne Davies

Office of Environmental Information

• Jonda Byrd

Office of the Chief Financial Officer

• Gene Pontillo

Office of the General Counsel

• Aditi Prabhu

Office of International and Tribal Affairs

• Chris Hoff

Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention

• Teresa Green

Office of Research and Development

• Dayna Gibbons

Office of Water

• Macara Lousberg

Region 1

• Nancy Grantham

Region 2

• Bonnie Bellow

Region 3

• Terry White

Region 4

• Bryan Myers

Region 5

• John Peterson

Region 6

• David Gray

Region 7

• vacant

Region 8

• Wendy Dew

Region 9

• Kelly Zito

Region 10

• Charles Bert