§ 8-13-101. Purpose

It is recognized that:

1. (1) The improvement of the environment and the management of environmental concerns within the State of Arkansas are matters of interest to all citizens of this state;

2. (2) Environmental protection and improvement could be enhanced by authorizing the Director of the Division of Environmental Quality to design and establish a management organization which incorporates specific goals for environmental protection and uses environmental indicators to measure agency performance; and

3. (3) The director should execute a management process which:

   1. (A) Creates an integrated agency information system;

   2. (B) Organizes the Division of Environmental Quality according to business function;

   3. (C) Utilizes environmental indicators to measure progress in protecting and enhancing the environment;

   4. (D) Employs a collaborative public involvement process to define the environmental indicators to be used to measure environmental enhancement; and

   5. (E) Establishes a performance-based financial management system that links the funding of agency activities to environmental results.