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Environmental Protection Indicators
for California (EPIC)
April 2002

The 2002 EPIC report is available for download as either a series of pdf files or as one large file. You will need the free program Adobe Acrobat Reader to view or print these files.

This 300-page report describes the process for the identification and selection of environmental indicators that are adopted as part of the EPIC system, and presents the initial set of environmental indicators.

Contents		Page No
Cover Material
Message from the Secretaries
Front Matter (Inside cover, Acknowledgments and Table of Contents)
Executive Summary

Chapter 1	Introduction
	The Directive	1
	Overview of the Indicators	2
	Conceptual Model for Environmental Indicators	3

Chapter 2	The Environmental Indicators for California (EPIC) Process
	Scope of the EPIC Project	5
	The Indicator Identification and Selection Process	5

Chapter 3	The Environmental Indicators
	Introduction, Chapter Organization	11
	Background Indicators	13
	Air Quality	27
	Water	61
	Land, Waste and Materials Management	105
	Pesticides	137
	Transboundary Issues	157
	Environmental Exposure Impacts Upon Human Health	187
	Ecosystem Health	199

Chapter 4	Findings and the Future Directions
	Introduction	263
	Issue Area-Specific Findings and Future Directions	267
	Future Directions for the EPIC Project	277

Appendix A	EPIC Project Collaborators	279
Appendix B	Types of Indicators	281
Appendix C	Glossary	282

or if you prefer	Download the entire EPIC Report (3,212 kb)

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
Environmental Protection Indicators for California, http://oehha.ca.gov/multimedia/epic/index.html
For Information about the EPIC project contact Carmen Milanes, cmilanes@oehha.ca.gov