Resources for Web Policies and Procedures
This page links to information about how EPA's Web presence is managed. Content creators should comply with the applicable policies and procedures when publishing to www.epa.gov.
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On this page:
- EPA Web Governance
- EPA Web Standards
- One EPA Web
- EPA Web Policies and Procedures
- Historical Memoranda
EPA Web Governance
These pages link to the INTRANET
- Web Council
- National Content Manager
- National Infrastructure Manager
- Principles that Guide EPA's Web Governance
- Mobile Access Review Committee
EPA 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
EPA Web Policies and Procedures
Section 508 and Accessibility
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)
- Related documents:
- 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
- Ensuring EPA Public Content in the EPA Web Environment
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- Redundant, Outdated, and/or Trivial Content (ROT): Review and Clean Up Your Web AreaINTRANET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
- Procedure: Web Measurement and Customization Technology (Cookies)
- Process and Guidance: CGI Script Security Memo INTRANET
- Related Information:
Look and Feel
- Procedure: Complying with EPA.gov "Look and Feel"
- Standards and Guidelines: Video INTRANET
- Related Information:
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
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.