This report demonstrates results-oriented management of Federal and State programs to address public health and environmental concerns in the Pacific Northwest. Our approach is to describe and rank the main environmental problems in Region 10 and to draw a clear line between those problems and programs under way to solve them. For the past several years, this approach has been a fundamental, underlying--and successful--principal in the development of annual agreements between EPA and the States. These agreements describe management priorities for synergistic Federal, State and local work on health and environmental concerns. The agreements also provide measurements by which the effectiveness of government actions and programs can be gauged. The report is in three parts. This report is submitted to the public and environmental program managers to advance efforts to evaluate regional problems in the context of national environmental goals. The authors believe it will contribute to a greater awareness of the distinctive character of the challenge faced by the Environmental Protection Agency in Region 10.

Cover title. "March 1983."