It is recognized that:
(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) 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) The director should execute a management process which:
(A) Creates an integrated agency information system;
(B) Organizes the Division of Environmental Quality according to business function;
(C) Utilizes environmental indicators to measure progress in protecting and enhancing the environment;
(D) Employs a collaborative public involvement process to define the environmental indicators to be used to measure environmental enhancement; and
(E) Establishes a performance-based financial management system that links the funding of agency activities to environmental results.