EPA Strategic Plan

Developing the 2009-2014 EPA Strategic Plan

EPA has released the Agency’s 2009-2014 Strategic Plan Change Document for a 60-day public review and comment period ending November 30, 2008. This is the Agency’s initial draft document in carrying out the three-year update of the Strategic Plan, as required by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). The Strategic Plan identifies the measurable environmental and human health outcomes the public can expect over the next five years and describes how we intend to achieve those results.

This update focuses on a limited number of targeted areas where the Agency believes it can make the most significant improvements in our strategies and performance measurement in advancing the Agency’s mission of protecting human health and the environment. This approach acknowledges the change of administration in January 2009 and the need to deliver a final 2009-2014 Strategic Plan to the Congress and to the Office of Management and Budget by September 30, 2009, as required by law.

We will use public comments as well as input from Agency partners and stakeholders this fall as the Agency begins to prepare the full-text draft of the Plan, which we will issue for public review and comment in the spring of 2009.

The Strategic Plan Change Document is designed to facilitate readers’ review by highlighting the proposed changes we are considering in strategies and performance measurement. The Change Document also provides a side-by-side comparison of the Agency’s current (2006-2011) and proposed (2009-2014) strategic performance measure framework, which includes the Agency’s goals, objectives, sub-objectives, and strategic measures. The document consists of three sections:

Introduction and Overview
Summary of Proposed Changes in Strategies
Proposed Changes in the Strategic Measurement Framework

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Readers may view the 2009-2014 EPA Strategic Plan Change Document (PDF) (65pp, 904K) and, if interested, provide comments through the Public Comments Database by November 30, 2008.

2006 - 2011 EPA Strategic Plan

EPA submitted the Agency's 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan to Congress on September 29, 2006 as required under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. This revised Strategic Plan maintains the five goals that were described in the 2003 - 2008 Strategic Plan, but reflects a sharpened focus on achieving more measurable environmental results. The five goals are Clean Air and Global Climate Change, Clean and Safe Water, Land Preservation and Restoration, Healthy Communities and Ecosystems, and Compliance and Environmental Stewardship.

EPA’s Strategic Plan serves as the Agency’s road map and guides us in establishing the annual goals we need to meet along the way. It helps us to measure how far we have come toward achieving our strategic goals and to recognize where we need to adjust our approaches and programs to achieve better results. Finally, 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.

Printed copies of EPA's 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan are available from EPA's National Service Center for Environmental Publications at 1-800-490-9198 or by e-mail via nscep@bps-lmit.com. Please ask for publication number EPA-190-R-06-001.

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Full version of the 2006-2011 EPA Strategic Plan (PDF) (184pp, 9.8M)

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