The Planning Unit coordinates a variety of activities and initiatives that have Department and State-wide applicability.  These include Strategic and Performance Partnership Planning, Pollution Prevention Coordination and Integration, One Stop Environmental Reporting and Information Access, Environmental Management Systems, Quality Assurance, and Special Projects Coordination.

Phone: (603) 271-8989
Fax: (603) 271-2867
E-mail: planning@des.state.nh.us

• Environmental Indicators And Performance Measures
• Environmental Innovations
• Environmental Management Systems (EMS)  -   The EMS is a comprehensive, organized and documented system for an organization to manage holistically all of its actions that affect the environment.
•  DES Environmental Management Systems Policy
• Proposed Environmental Performance Track Program
•  Gulf of Maine Council
•  Mercury and Dioxin Reduction Strategies
• Mercury Reduction Strategy  -  The NH Mercury Reduction Strategy was drafted by DES and released by Governor Shaheen in October, 1998. The Strategy contains 40 recommended actions for reducing man-made releases of mercury to the environment and contains a goal of 50% reduction in mercury emissions by 2003, with an overall goal of the virtual elimination of anthropogenic mercury releases. sources to increased source reduction and recycling efforts.
• Dioxin Reduction Strategy -  –  The Dioxin Reduction Strategy is similar in approach to the Mercury Reduction Strategy, seeking cost-effective ways to reduce dioxin emissions from New Hampshire sources.
• OneStop Environmental Reporting and Information Access
• Pollution Prevention Coordination and Integration – Department-wide initiatives to promote prevention as the environmental protection approach of first choice.
• Quality Assurance
• DES Quality Management Plan
• State of the Environment Reporting  -  DES's report on key environmental conditions and trends in New Hampshire, as well as  DES activities and initiatives of interest to its many stakeholders. 
•  Strategic and Performance Partnership Planning
•  DES Mission Statement and Guiding Principles
•  DES Strategic Goals
•  FFY '03-'04 Performance Partnership Agreement