Government Performance and Results Act

Government Performance and Results Act.

The 1993 Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), hold federal agencies accountable for using resources wisely and achieving program results. GPRA requires agencies to develop plans for what they intend to accomplish, measure how well they are doing, make appropriate decisions based on the information they have gathered, and communicate information about their performance to Congress and to the public.

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, which provide annual performance commitments toward achieving the goals and objectives presented in the Strategic Plan; and Annual Performance Reports, which evaluate an agency's progress toward achieving performance commitments.

GPRA requirements - a long-range Strategic Plan, Annual Performance Plans, and Annual Performance Reports - forge links between several activities:

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.

To comply with certain GPRA requirements and further enable the Agency to manage for results, EPA has built a framework that aligns planning, budgeting, and accountability in an integrated system. EPA continues to look for ways to improve our planning and priority-setting–both in terms of our annual planning and budgeting and our longer-range strategic planning.

Government Performance and Results Act

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