Budget
The Environmental Management (EM) program provides an opportunity for
participation in the federal budget process. The budget request is initially
formulated in the program offices, where EM considers public comments in
developing the program strategies, priorities, and funding requests that are
reflected in the budget that is submitted to the Congress. The EM budget
request is linked with program planning and execution through the use of a
common list of projects that describe packages of work to be performed by EM.
Measuring Performance
An indicator of whether the Department has met its cleanup mission is by
reporting progress against 16 cleanup performance measures. These measures are
quantitative and focus on the accomplishment of risk-reducing actions that lead
to completion of site cleanup consistent with each site’s baseline and
milestones. Each corporate (i.e., relating to the entire DOE-EM complex)
measure is tracked in the context of the total measure (life-cycle) necessary
to complete cleanup of each site as well as the EM program as a whole.
EM's corporate performance measures displayed at the complex level are
quantitative and focus on the accomplishment of risk-reducing actions that lead
to site completion. EM assigns specific measures to each site (displayed at the
office level), tailored to the unique nature of each site’s contamination and
the associated scope of cleanup work. Progress against these measures at a
specific site is a demonstrable indication of progress towards EM’s cleanup
goals; completion of all of the measures at the site results in completion of
that site. Therefore these measures provide a gauge of progress against cleanup
and associated cleanup milestones.
Senior management maintain strict control of all corporate performance measures
through the configuration control process. EM management, Congress, and the
public routinely monitor progress against these measures throughout the year.
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