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Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Policy, Standards and Procedure

The Policy establishes a standard approach for managing information held or catalogued in information management systems by and for EPA.
The Standards provide a consistent set of required and recommended metadata elements for information held or catalogued in information management systems by EPA.
The Procedure provides the processes for cataloguing and advancing the discovery, access, and sharing of information held or catalogued in EPA information management systems.

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