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Linking Assistance Agreements to Environmental Results

Description

Provides guidance on completing evaluations of environmental programs funded through US EPA grants. Provides examples of logic model elements and links to logic model resources.

Questions this resource can help answer

How can I evaluate the outcomes and impacts of my air quality programs?

How do I use this resource?

This website provides information about how to conduct evaluations of environmental programs to meet the requirements of EPA’s performance reporting. It provides basic information about terms used to describe environmental results, links to several external resources on how to create logic models that illustrate the logical relationship between goals, activities, outputs and outcomes.

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Government

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Website

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Update Frequency

Irregularly

Geographic Coverage

United States

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