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• EPA Web Governance
• EPA Web Standards
• One EPA Web
• EPA Web Policies and Procedures
• Historical Memoranda

EPA Web Governance

• Web Council
• National Content Manager
• National Infrastructure Manager
• Principles that Guide EPA's Web Governance
• Mobile Access Review Committee

EPA Web Standards

• EPA Web Standards
• Legacy Web Standards

One EPA Web

• One EPA Web Principles that Guide Content Development INTRANET
• Web Plan (on SharePoint)INTRANET
• Web Topics Published
• One EPA Web Guidances and Checklists INTRANET
• Microsite Format
• Resource Directory Format
• Image Guidance
• Story Maps Guidance

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EPA Web Policies and Procedures

Section 508 and Accessibility

• Policy: Accessible Electronic and Information Technology
• Section 508 Resources

Resources for EPA Web Management

• Policy: Web Governance and Management
• Procedures:
  • Ensuring EPA Public Content in the EPA Web Environment
    • Related documents:
      • Template: Format for Memo Requesting a Waiver to Host Content Outside the EPA Web Environment(2 pp, 31 K, 07 July 2016)
      • Form: Notification of EPA Content Hosted on EPA Cloud Services(1 pg, 19 K, 4/27/2016)
      • Form: Notification of EPA Content Outside of EPA Web Environment(1 pg, 22 K, 4/27/2016)
  • External Site Links
  • Google Analytics (GA) Event Tracking  INTRANET
  • Maintaining the Agency Web Analytics Code on all Public HTML Pages INTRANET
  • Obtaining a Dot-Gov Domain
  • Obtaining an EPA.gov Subdomain
  • Protecting Content During Web Site Development
  • Web Content Types and Review INTRANET
  • Web Area Metrics Scorecard

Related Information and Guidance

• Posting Federal Register Documents on the Web  INTRANET(MS-Word)
• Replacing the Editor-in-Chief for a Web AreaINTRANET
• Review and Approval of Web Content INTRANET
• Office of Web Communications Process for Web Area Review INTRANET
• Rules of Behavior
• Guidance: Transforming Existing Multimedia Content for One EPA Web INTRANET
• Redundant, Outdated, and/or Trivial Content (ROT): Review and Clean Up Your Web AreaINTRANET
• Who Can Do What on the Web?  INTRANET

Web Security and Information Policy

• Policies
  • Children's Privacy and Children's Copyright PDF
  • Information Access
  • Posting Copyrighted Works on an EPA Web Site
• Procedure: Web Measurement and Customization Technology (Cookies)
• Process and Guidance: CGI Script Security Memo INTRANET
• Related Information:
  • Copyright Issues INTRANET
  • Personal Information about EPA Staff on the Web INTRANET

Look and Feel

• Procedure: Complying with EPA.gov "Look and Feel"
• Standards and Guidelines: Video INTRANET
• Related Information:
  • Request/Register an Exemption to Agency Look and Feel Intranet

Social Media

• Formal Policies and Procedures:
  • Policy: Social Media
  • Procedures:
    • Managing Social Media Records
    • Available off the Policy and Procedures for Using Social Media at EPA page:
    • Using Social Media Internally at EPA
    • Using Social Media to Communicate with the Public
    • Representing EPA Online Using Social Media
  • EPA Comment Policy and Using the EPA Comment Policy
• Additional guidance for EPA staff is on the Social Media Resources page INTRANET

Information Management and Information Technology Management

• Policies: Information Management and Information Technology
• Procedure: System Lifecycle Management
• Intranet Guide INTRANET

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Historical Memoranda

• "Changes and Improvements to EPA's Website" INTRANET, Stan Meiburg, September 28, 2015.
• "Completing One EPA Web " INTRANET, Stan Meiburg, September 9, 2015. 
• "One EPA Web Extension Concurrence Memo", Bob Perciasepe, May 12, 2014.
• "Fully Implementing One EPA Web", Bob Perciasepe, November 1, 2012.
• "OneEPA Web: Update on Rebuilding EPA's Web Site", Malcolm D. Jackson and Seth Oster, November 1, 2010.
• "Restructuring EPA's Website", Linda A. Travers and Seth Oster, April 15, 2010.
• "Restructuring EPA's Online Presence", Lisa P. Jackson, February 25, 2010.
• "Improving EPA's Public Access Website", Molly A. O'Neill and Lisa Lybbert, April 14, 2008.
• "EPA and Web 2.0 Technologies," Molly A. O'Neill, December 17. 2007.
• "Improving EPA's Website (Web Governance)," Mike Leavitt, December 6, 2004.
• "Improving EPA's Website (2002)," Christine Whitman, January 11, 2002.
• "EPA's Policy Regarding the Agency's Central Public Access Server," W. Michael McCabe, June 30, 2000.
• "OEI and OPA Issue Joint Memorandum of Understanding," Kimberly T. Nelson and Joseph J. Martyak.
• "Mandate to Publish EPA Information Via EPA Servers," Fred Hansen, 1997.

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