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Budget, Goals and Performance
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The 1993 Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) holds federal agencies accountable for using resources wisely and achieving program results. GPRA requires agencies to develop:
- a five-year Strategic Plan, which includes a mission statement and sets out long-term goals and objectives;
- Annual Performance Plans (Budgets), which provide annual performance commitments toward achieving the goals and objectives presented in the Strategic Plan and;
- Annual Performance Reports (including financial statements), which evaluate an agency's progress toward achieving performance commitments.
These requirements forge links between planning -- to achieve goals and objectives; budgeting -- to ensure that resources are available to carry out plans; measuring -- to assess progress and link resources actually used to results achieved; and reporting -- to present progress achieved and impacts on future efforts.
Most Recent Documents
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FY 2008
Annual Performance Plan and Budget Overview (Budget in Brief) (PDF) (68 pp., 1.8 MB) (President's Budget as submitted to Congress) -
FY 2007
Annual Performance Plan and Budget Overview (Budget in Brief) (PDF) (91 pp., 583 K)
Annual Performance Plan and Congressional Justification (EPA's Proposed Budget) (President's Budget as submitted to Congress) -
FY 2006
Annual Performance Plan (PDF) (203 pp., 1.3 MB)
Summary of EPA's 2006 Budget (Budget in Brief) (PDF) (95 pp., 1.7 MB)
Annual Performance Plan and Congressional Justification (EPA's Proposed Budget)
Analysis, Bills and Reports (Analysis Books) (PDF) (295 pp., 3.0 MB)
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FY 2005
Annual Performance Plan
Annual Report
Annual Performance Plan and Budget Overview (Budget in Brief) (PDF) (131 pp., 797 K)
Financial Statement (PDF) (67 pp., 1.6 MB) -
FY 2004
Annual Performance Plan
Annual Report
Annual Performance Plan and Budget Overview (Budget in Brief) (PDF) (177 pp., 1.6 MB)
Financial Statement (PDF) (61 pp., 1.5 MB) - FY 2003
Annual Performance Plan
Annual Report
Annual Performance Plan and Budget Overview (Budget in Brief) (PDF) (139 pp., 488 K)
Financial Statement (PDF) (82pp., 386 K)
2003-2008 EPA Strategic Plan (PDF) (239pp, 4.7M)
EPA's Strategic Plan serves as the Agency’s road map for the next five years. It lays out EPA’s long-term goals, centered on the themes of air and global climate change, water, land, communities and ecosystems, and compliance and environmental stewardship. It provides a basis from which EPA's managers can focus on the highest priority environmental issues and ensure that we use taxpayer dollars effectively. GPRA requires that each federal agency Strategic Plan cover a period of not less than five years forward from the fiscal year in which it is submitted, and be updated and revised at least every three years.
EPA's Annual Performance Plan (Budget) -- For each fiscal year (which runs from October 1 through September 30), EPA develops a proposed budget, which defines the Agency's goals and objectives for that fiscal year, and describes the funding the Agency believes is necessary to accomplish these goals and objectives. The “Summary of the Budget” (also known as the “Budget in Brief”) provides an overview of the Agency’s Budget and of the Agency activities as a whole. The “Annual Performance Plan” defines the Budget’s goals and objectives in greater detail. It also ties the annual Budget to the five year Strategic Plan of the Agency.
- Budget home page
- Archive of Annual Performance Plans and Congressional Justifications (EPA's Proposed Budgets)
EPA's Annual Performance Reports highlight the Agency’s environmental, programmatic, and financial performance over the past fiscal year. The Reports also discuss progress in addressing management challenges and issues. Since 2002, EPA's financial statements have been included in the Annual Performance Reports.
Related Links
Government Performance and Results Act
- EPA information
- Text of the Act
- U.S. Office of Management and Budget information on budget and performance integration
Budget of the United States Government
- FY 2008
- FY 2008 Environmental Priorities (PDF) (3 pp., 39 K)
- FY 2007