Integrating Performance-Based Programs Into EPA's Planning and Budgeting Processes

This initiative, launched at the request of the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS), focuses on the integration of performance-based environmental leadership programs into EPA’s planning and budgeting processes in each of the following programs: air, water, pollution prevention, waste, and the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA).

The main objective of this effort is to assess how to recognize and provide credit to states for environmental and/or compliance activities/outputs or outcomes achieved through performance-based environmental leadership programs. The first steps are to identify media-specific measures of such activities/outputs and outcomes, and to identify particular commitments or measures that constrain the flexibility of EPA regions and states to deploy resources for performance-based programs.

EPA will work with states to develop language for all of the media-specific National Program Manager (NPM) guidance documents on how performance-based environmental leadership programs should be recognized and credited for their contributions to national program goals. This step will serve mainly to acknowledge the role of performance-based environmental leadership programs in helping NPMs achieve program goals and commitments.

Integrating Performance-Based Programs Into EPA's Planning and Budgeting Processes

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