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EPA Ecological Research

EPA's Ecological Research program develops tools and protocols for EPA program offices, States, tribes, and other customers to improve their understanding and management of ecosystems.

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PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program recently adopted new performance measures that better demonstrate progress toward achieving its outcomes.
  • The program has taken steps to increase budget and performance transparency by instituting new financial tracking procedures. However, the program needs to further improve the linkages between its budget and performance results.
  • The program has not demonstrated how it uses performance information to manage its program. While data on program performance is collected, it's not clear how the program uses this information to improve performance.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Refining the questions used in independent scientific reviews to improve EPA's understanding of program utility and performance in relationship to environmental outcomes.
  • Increasing the transparency of budget, program, and performance information in budget documents.
  • Developing and publishing a revised multi-year research plan clearly demonstrating how the program's research supports the EPA mission and avoids duplication with other research programs.

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