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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
EPA's Mission I/O-l
Annual Performance Plan and Congressional Justification Overview I/O-l
Human Capital I/O-l
Workforce I/O-2
RESOURCE SUMMARY TABLES
Appropriation Summary RT-1
Budget Authority / Obligations RT-1
Full-Time Equivalents (FTE) RT-1
GOAL AND OBJECTIVE OVERVIEW
Goal, Appropriation Summary G/O-1
Budget Authority / Obligations G/O-1
Full-Time Equivalents (FTE) G/O-2
Clean Air and Global Climate Change G/O-5
Clean and Safe Water G/O-10
Land Preservation and Restoration G/O-14
Healthy Communities and Ecosystems G/O-20
Compliance and Environmental Stewardship G/O-26
PROGRAM PERFORMANCE AND ASSESSMENT
Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART) Follow-Up Actions Performance-1
Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART) Supplemental
Information Performance-20
Annual Performance Goals and Measures -Environmental Programs Performance-29
Clean Air and Global Climate Change Performance-30
Clean and Safe Water Performance-43
Land Preservation and Restoration Performance-53
Healthy Communities and Ecosystems Performance-62
Compliance and Environmental Stewardship Performance-89
Annual Performance Goals and Measures - Enabling Support Programs...Performance-97
Office of Administration & Resources Management Performance-97
Office of Environmental Information Performance-99
Office of the Inspector General Performance-101
APPENDIX
Coordination with Other Federal Agencies - Environmental Programs Appendix-1
Coordination with Other Federal Agencies - Enabling Support Programs Appendix-30
Major Management Challenges Appendix-35
EPA User Fee Program Appendix-52
Working Capital Fund Appendix-55
Acronyms for Statutory Authorities Appendix-56
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STAG Categorical Program Grants - Statutory Authority and Eligible Uses. Appendix-61
Program Projects by Appropriation Appendix-71
Long Term Initiatives Appendix-84
Expected Benefits Appendix-87
Discontinued Programs Appendix-96
Research: Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Appendix-97
Research: SITE Program Appendix-99
Categorical Grant: Wastewater Operator Training Appendix-100
Categorical Grant: Water Quality Cooperative Agreements Appendix-101
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Introduction and Overview
EPA's Mission
The mission of the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) is to protect and
safeguard human health and the
environment. This budget supports the
Administration's commitment to
environmental results as we work to increase
the pace of improvement and identify new
and better ways to carry out our mission. It
also emphasizes the need for sound
management of our federal resources, as
delineated in the President's Management
Agenda.
Annual Performance Plan and Congressional Justification
The EPA's Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Annual
Performance Plan and the Congressional
Justification requests $7.2 billion in
discretionary budget authority and 17,324
Full Time Equivalents (FTE). This request
reflects the Agency's efforts to work with its
partners towards protecting air, water, and
land, as well as providing for EPA's role in
safeguarding the nation from terrorist
attacks. This request echoes the
Administration's commitment to setting
high environmental protection standards,
while focusing on results and performance,
Homeland Security
Following the cleanup and decontamination
efforts of 2001, the Agency has focused on
ensuring we have the tools and protocols
needed to detect and recover quickly from
deliberate incidents. The emphasis for FY
2008 is on several areas: decontaminating
threat agents, protecting our water and food
Human Capital
EPA will continue its systematic approach to
workforce planning throughout the Agency
by setting targets and closing competency
gaps in the mission-critical occupations
(MCOs) that have been identified. This will
and achieving goals outlined in the
President's Management Agenda.
The budget builds on EPA's long record of
accomplishments since its founding 37 years
ago. The agency and nation as a whole has
achieved enormous successes. This budget
builds on these successes by strengthening
our geographic initiatives, better leveraging
our nation's resources, strengthening citizen
involvement, maintaining our enforcement
capabilities, and implementing the
President's commitment to efficiently
manage Federal resources.
supplies, and ensuring trained personnel and
key lab capacities are in place to be drawn
upon in the event of an emergency. Part of
these FY 2008 efforts will continue to
include activities to implement a common
identification standard for EPA employees
and contractors, the SmartCard initiative.
be done through the ongoing use of human
capital strategies to ensure that the Agency
recruits and retains a qualified pool of
employees to protect human health and
safeguard the air, water, and land. EPA has
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met many important milestones in
implementing its revised Human Capital
Strategy and the Human Capital
Accountability Plan.
In FY 2006, the core competencies were
assessed for the Agency's senior leadership,
human resources management, and
information technology positions. The
Agency will implement plans to close the
competency gaps identified. In FY 2007
Workforce
EPA values its world class workforce and its
expertise enables us to meet our urgent
responsibilities across a broad range of
national and local environmental issues. In
FY 2007, we are making adjustments to
EPA's workforce management strategy that
will help us better align resources, skills,
and Agency priorities. A key step in this
adjustment is improving the alignment
between the total number of positions
authorized and actual FTE utilization. As
such, in FY 2008 EPA is proposing to
reduce its Agency authorized FTE ceiling by
and 2008, the Agency will continue to assess
the competencies for its priority MCOs. The
assessment results will be used by the
Agency to target developmental resources
and recruiting practices to ensure that EPA
can meet its mission and retain a highly-
skilled, diverse, and results-oriented
workforce with the right mix of technical
expertise, professional experience, and
leadership capabilities.
approximately 235.9 positions to 17,323.8,
which is consistent with the Agency's
historical FTE levels. The result of these
reductions will not impede Agency efforts to
maximize efficiency and effectiveness in
carrying out its programs and will not result
in an overall change in the number of FTEs
at EPA. The program project descriptions
provided later in this document, provide the
details of these changes.
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Resource Tables
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Budget Authority
(Dollars in Thousands)
Science & Technology
Environmental Program &
Management
Inspector General
Building and Facilities
Oil Spill Response
Superfund Program
IG Transfer
S&T Transfer
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Leaking Underground Storage
Tanks
State and Tribal Assistance Grants
SUB-TOTAL, EPA
Rescission of Prior Year Funds
Rescission of Prior Year Funds
TOTAL, EPA
FY 2006
Actuals
$764,737.6
$2,331,934.7
$36,501.5
$41,672.2
$15,895.5
$1,294,641.5
$13,243.5
$32,283.4
FY 2007
Current
Rate CR
$766,465.0
$2,338,242.0
$35,100.0
$39,816.0
$16,506.0
$1,176,936.0
$13,316.0
$30,011.0
$86,184.4 $69,056.0
$3,409,572.7 $3,009,348.0
$8,026,667.0 $ 7,494,796.0
$0.0 $0.0
$8,026,667.0 $7,494,796.0
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$788,274.0
$2,306,617.0
$35,100.0
$39,816.0
$16,506.0
$1,217,827.9
$13,316.0
$27,811.1
$1,340,168.4 $1,220,263.0 $1,258,955.0
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$754,506.0
$2,298,188.0
$38,008.0
$34,801.0
$17,280.0
$1,211,431.0
$7,149.0
$26,126.0
$1,244,706.0
$72,759.0 $72,461.0
$2,797,448.0 $2,744,450.0
$7,315,475.0 $7,204,400.0
$0.0 ($5,000.0)
$7,315,475.0 $7,199,400.0
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APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Full-time Equivalents (FTE)
Science & Technology
Science and Tech. - Reim
Environmental Program & Management
Envir. Program & Mgmt - Reim
Inspector General
Oil Spill Response
Oil Spill Response - Reim
Superfund Program
IG Transfer
S&T Transfer
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Superfund Reimbursables
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
FEMA - Reim
WCF-REIMB
Rereg. & Exped. Proc. Rev Fund
Pesticide Registration Fund
TOTAL, EPA
FY 2006
Actuals
2,433.0
3.8
10,765.6
134.2
247.5
84.2
5.9
2,965.7
88.4
110.3
3,164.4
89.4
69.8
3.7
114.7
187.0
51.4
17,354.6
FY 2007
Pres Bud
2,431.6
3.0
11,007.5
1.5
267.7
98.7
0.0
3,097.1
94.1
106.2
3,297.4
77.5
76.9
0.0
110.7
187.2
0.0
17,559.7
FY 2008
Pres Bud
2,405.8
3.0
10,867.0
1.5
287.7
102.2
0.0
3,056.8
44.1
105.0
3,205.9
77.5
75.3
0.0
110.7
187.2
0.0
17,323.8
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Goal
and Objective Overview
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GOAL, APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Budget Authority
(Dollars in Thousands)
FY 2007
Clean Air and Global Climate
Change
Environmental Program &
Management
Science & Technology
Building and Facilities
State and Tribal Assistance
Grants
Inspector General
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Clean and Safe Water
Environmental Program &
Management
Science & Technology
Building and Facilities
State and Tribal Assistance
Grants
Inspector General
Land Preservation and Restoration
Environmental Program &
Management
Science & Technology
Building and Facilities
State and Tribal Assistance
Grants
Leaking Underground Storage
Tanks
Oil Spill Response
Inspector General
FY 2006
Actuals
$927,328.8
$441,310.4
$213,853.5
$9,101.0
$255,366.5
$4,816.5
$2,881.0
$3,314,952.7
$484,561.6
$131,483.3
$6,253.9
$2,672,948.2
$19,705.8
$1,760,905.0
$218,819.5
$16,756.8
$5,042.9
$117,693.0
$86,184.4
$15,895.5
$2,255.4
Current
Rate CR
$918,152.7
$454,102.6
$208,719.8
$8,748.4
$238,344.6
$4,864.4
$3,372.8
$2,824,280.4
$454,825.8
$165,869.6
$6,039.4
$2,180,239.7
$17,305.9
$1,653,880.8
$221,386.8
$11,806.4
$4,871.3
$145,158.0
$69,001.1
$16,506.0
$2,411.0
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$933,690.8
$447,900.0
$214,789.2
$8,748.4
$253,692.5
$5,174.0
$3,386.7
$2,729,396.0
$449,866.5
$170,692.3
$6,039.4
$2,085,435.0
$17,362.7
$1,690,385.8
$218,760.6
$12,149.9
$4,871.3
$140,912.2
$72,759.0
$16,506.0
$2,494.6
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$911,568.1
$439,346.3
$216,316.5
$7,636.6
$239,194.0
$5,550.1
$3,524.7
$2,714,315.3
$454,008.1
$150,194.4
$5,309.6
$2,085,766.0
$19,037.2
$1,663,120.2
$220,537.8
$12,367.4
$4,270.1
$125,620.0
$72,461.0
$17,280.0
$2,659.0
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Hazardous Substance Superfund
Healthy Communities and
Ecosystems
Environmental Program &
Management
Science & Technology
Building and Facilities
State and Tribal Assistance
Grants
Inspector General
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Compliance and Environmental
Stewardship
Environmental Program &
Management
Science & Technology
Building and Facilities
State and Tribal Assistance
Grants
Inspector General
Hazardous Substance Superfund
FY 2006
Actuals
$1,298,257.5
$1,264,197.4
$628,547.0
$345,535.3
$14,996.2
$251,621.8
$6,344.9
$17,152.3
$759,283.1
$558,696.3
$57,108.7
$6,278.3
$111,943.2
$3,378.9
$21,877.6
FY 2007
Current
Rate CR
$1,182,740.2
$1,353,184.0
$646,757.4
$338,578.8
$13,951.7
$338,253.9
$7,116.2
$8,526.1
$744,109.2
$560,920.1
$41,025.9
$6,205.1
$106,877.9
$3,402.5
$25,677.7
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$1,221,932.2
$1,227,659.4
$637,032.8
$348,424.1
$13,951.7
$213,656.3
$6,576.1
$8,018.3
$734,343.1
$553,057.1
$42,218.6
$6,205.1
$103,752.0
$3,492.5
$25,617.7
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$1,207,924.8
$1,171,565.0
$619,420.0
$332,682.3
$12,167.4
$192,117.0
$6,863.1
$8,315.2
$743,831.4
$564,875.8
$42,945.5
$5,417.3
$101,753.0
$3,898.6
$24,941.2
Sub-Total
Rescission of Prior Year Funds
Total
$8,026,667.0 $7,493,607.1 $7,315,475.0 $7,204,400.0
$8,026,667.0 $7,493,607.1 $7,315,475.0 $7,204,400.0
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GOAL, APPROPRIATION
SUMMARY
Authorized Full-time Equivalents (FTE)
Clean Air and Global Climate Change
Environmental Program & Management
Science & Technology
Inspector General
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Envir. Program & Mgmt - Reim
Science and Tech. - Reim
FEMA - Reim
WCF-REIMB
Clean and Safe Water
Environmental Program & Management
Science & Technology
Inspector General
Envir. Program & Mgmt - Reim
WCF-REIMB
Land Preservation and Restoration
Environmental Program & Management
Science & Technology
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
Oil Spill Response
Inspector General
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Envir. Program & Mgmt - Reim
Oil Spill Response - Reim
FEMA - Reim
Superfund Reimbursables
WCF-REIMB
Healthy Communities and Ecosystems
Environmental Program & Management
FY 2006
Actuals
2,623.7
1,859.9
680.6
32.7
17.5
2.9
2.7
2.3
25.0
2,888.3
2,221.6
495.7
133.6
19.4
18.0
4,624.4
1,190.0
51.5
69.8
84.2
15.3
3,012.0
91.8
5.9
1.4
89.4
13.1
3,808.5
2,420.2
FY 2007
Pres Bud
2,664.4
1,891.4
688.3
39.5
17.6
0.3
3.0
0.0
24.3
2,890.8
2,229.1
511.6
132.4
0.3
17.4
4,693.5
1,237.1
51.2
76.9
98.7
19.0
3,120.1
0.1
0.0
0.0
77.5
12.9
3,825.4
2,511.7
FY 2008
Pres Bud
2,620.6
1,853.4
680.0
42.0
17.5
0.3
3.0
0.0
24.3
2,895.6
2,229.6
504.1
144.1
0.3
17.5
4,582.0
1,203.7
50.8
75.3
102.2
20.1
3,039.4
0.1
0.0
0.0
77.5
13.0
3,743.9
2,441.8
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Science & Technology
Inspector General
Rereg. & Exped. Proc. Rev Fund
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Envir. Program & Mgmt - Reim
Science and Tech. - Reim
Pesticide Registration Fund
WCF-REIMB
Compliance and Environmental Stewardship
Environmental Program & Management
Science & Technology
Inspector General
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Envir. Program & Mgmt - Reim
WCF-REIMB
FY 2006
Actuals
1,028.1
43.0
187.0
27.5
9.5
1.1
51.4
40.7
3,409.1
3,073.4
176.9
22.9
107.4
10.5
17.9
FY 2007
Pres Bud
1,016.1
50.2
187.2
21.3
0.5
0.0
0.0
38.5
3,485.6
3,138.2
164.5
26.6
138.5
0.3
17.5
FY 2008
Pres Bud
1,002.9
51.9
187.2
21.1
0.5
0.0
0.0
38.4
3,481.7
3,138.5
167.9
29.5
127.9
0.3
17.6
Total
17,353.9
17,559.7
17,323.8
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CLEAN AIR AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Protect and improve the air so it is healthy to breath and risks to human health and the
environment are reduced. Reduce greenhouse gas intensity by enhancing partnerships with
businesses and other sectors.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:
Through 2011, working with
partners, protect human health and
the environment by attaining and
maintaining health-based air-quality
standards and reducing the risk from
toxic air pollutants.
Through 2012, working with
partners, reduce human health risks
by reducing exposure to indoor air
contaminants through the promotion
of voluntary actions by the public.
By 2030, through worldwide action,
ozone concentrations in the
stratosphere will have stopped
declining and slowly begun the
process of recovery, and
overexposure to ultraviolet radiation,
particularly among susceptible
subpopulations, such as children,
will be reduced.
Through 2011, working with
partners, minimize unnecessary
releases of radiation and be prepared
to minimize impacts to human health
and the environment
unwanted releases occur.
should
Through EPA's voluntary climate
protection programs, contribute 80
million metric tons of carbon
equivalent (MMTCE) annually to the
President's 18 percent greenhouse
gas (GHG) intensity goal by 2012.
(An additional 24 MMTCE to result
from the sustained growth in the
climate programs are reflected in the
Administration's business-as-usual
projection for GHG intensity
improvement.)
Through 2011, provide and apply
sound science to support EPA's goal
of clean air by conducting leading-
edge research and developing a
better understanding and
characterization of environmental
outcomes under Goal 1.
GOAL, OBJECTIVE SUMMARY
Budget Authority
Full-time Equivalents
(Dollars in Thousands)
Clean Air and Global Climate
Change
Healthier Outdoor Air
FY 2006
Actuals
$927,328.8
$599,210.0
FY 2007
Current
Rate CR
$918,152.7
$587,353.5
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$933,690.8
$628,676.1
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$911,568.1
$588,247.2
FY 2008 Pres
Budv.
FY 2007 Pres
Bud
($22,122.7)
($40,428.9)
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Healthier Indoor Air
Protect the Ozone Layer
Radiation
Reduce Greenhouse Gas Intensity
Enhance Science and Research
Total Authorized Workyears
FY 2006
Actuals
$46,589.0
$17,252.1
$38,012.1
$124,735.0
$101,530.5
2,623.7
FY 2007
Current
Rate CR
$48,768.1
$22,097.2
$39,447.7
$127,658.9
$92,827.4
2,660.0
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$47,831.5
$21,665.6
$39,452.7
$99,750.4
$96,314.5
2,664.4
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$45,698.8
$17,130.9
$39,318.1
$122,937.2
$98,235.9
2,620.6
FY 2008 Pres
Budv.
FY 2007 Pres
Bud
($2,132.7)
($4,534.7)
($134.6)
$23,186.8
$1,921.4
-43.8
EPA implements the Clean Air and Global
Climate Change goal through national and
regional programs designed to provide
healthier outdoor and indoor air for all
Americans, protect the stratospheric ozone
layer, minimize the risks from radiation
releases, reduce greenhouse gas intensity,
and enhance science and research. In
implementing the goal, EPA carries out its
responsibilities through programs that
include several common elements: setting
risk-based priorities; facilitating regulatory
reform and market-based approaches;
partnering with state, Tribal, and local
governments, non-governmental
organizations, and industry; promoting
energy efficiency; and using sound science.
EPA's key clean air programs - including
those addressing paniculate matter, ozone,
acid rain, air toxics, indoor air, radiation and
stratospheric ozone depletion - focus on
some of the highest health and
environmental risks faced by the Agency.
These programs have achieved results.
Every year, state and Federal air pollution
programs established under the Clean Air
Act prevent tens of thousands of premature
mortalities, millions of incidences of chronic
and acute illness, tens of thousands of
hospitalizations and emergency room visits,
and millions of lost work days.
Clean Air Rules
The Clean Air Rules are a major component
of EPA work under Goal 1 and include a
suite of actions that will dramatically
improve America's air quality. Three of the
rules specifically address the transport of
pollution across state borders (the Clean Air
Interstate Rule, Clean Air Mercury Rule and
Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Rule). These
rules provide national tools to achieve
significant improvement in air quality and
the associated benefits of improved health,
longevity and quality of life for all
Americans. Taken together, they will make
the next 15 years one of the most productive
periods of air quality improvement in
America's history. In FY 2008, EPA will be
working with the states and industry to
implement these rules.
Energy Policy Act
In addition to the suite of Clean Air Rules,
EPA is investing over $8 million to develop
and operate the market-based credit trading
system required by the Renewable Fuels
Standard (RFS) program, in addition to
annual State-by-State surveys to determine
market shares of conventional and
reformulated gasoline containing ethanol,
and data collection and analysis activities
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needed to evaluate the impacts of the RFS
program on the environment, air quality, and
on the nation's energy security. The
Renewable Fuels Standards (RFS) rule is
scheduled to be promulgated in 2007 and
work will continue on the development of
several more actions required by the Energy
Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005. Some of these
EPAct actions involve a study of the
changes in emissions of air pollutants and
air quality, and a fuel system harmonization
study. In 2008, EPA will promulgate new
standards for locomotives and marine diesel
engines, as well as new standards for large
commercial ships. EPA also will issue a
rule addressing exhaust and evaporative
emissions from small gasoline engines
(under 50 horsepower), including all
recreational marine gasoline engines, non-
handheld engines (such as those used in
lawnmowers), and handheld engines (such
as those used in trimmers and chainsaws).
Reduce Risks to Indoor Air and Radon
Programs
The Indoor Air Program characterizes the
risks of indoor air pollutants to human
health, develops techniques for reducing
those risks, and educates the public about
what they can do to reduce their risks from
indoor air. Through voluntary partnerships
with non-governmental and professional
organizations, EPA educates and encourages
individuals, schools, industry, the health
care community, and others to take action to
reduce health risks in indoor environments
using a variety of approaches, including
national public awareness and media
campaigns, as well as community-based
outreach and education. EPA also uses
technology-transfer to improve the design,
operation, and maintenance of buildings -
including schools, homes, and workplaces -
to promote healthier indoor air. EPA also
carries out a national radon program that
encourages and facilitates voluntary
national, regional, state, and Tribal programs
and activities that support initiatives targeted
to radon testing and mitigation, as well as
radon resistant new construction. Radon is
second only to smoking as a cause of lung
cancer.
Climate Protection
For more than a decade, businesses and
other organizations have partnered with
EPA through voluntary climate protection
programs to pursue common sense
approaches to reducing greenhouse gas
emissions and meeting the President's
greenhouse gas intensity goal. Voluntary
programs such as Energy Star and
SmartWay Transport have increased the use
of energy-efficient products and practices
and reduced emissions of carbon dioxide as
well as methane and other greenhouse gases
with very high global warming potentials.
These partnership programs spur investment
in advanced energy technologies and the
purchase of energy-efficient products and
create emissions reduction benefits that
accrue over the lifetime of the investment or
product. In 2008, EPA will invest $4.4
million in the Methane to Markets by
assessing the feasibility of methane recovery
and use projects at landfills, coal mines, and
natural gas and oil facilities and by
identifying and addressing institutional,
legal, regulatory and other barriers to project
development in partner countries. In
addition EPA plans to invest $5 million to
support the Asia-Pacific Partnership
programs. In FY 2008 this partnership
between the United States Australia, China,
India, Japan, and South Korea will focus on
developing country-specific strategies to
improve energy security and reduce
pollution. EPA also will work with the
Asia-Pacific region to develop and deploy
new and emerging technologies and tailor
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programs, such as methane capture and use,
to meet the specific conditions of each area.
Both the Methane to Markets program and
Asia Pacific Partnerships will coordinate
with other agencies to achieve the goals in
these programs.
Stratospheric Ozone — Domestic and
Montreal Protocol
In FY 2008 EPA's Domestic Stratospheric
Ozone Protection Program will invest $9.8
million support cost-effective projects that
are designed to build capacity and eliminate
ODS production and consumption in over 60
developing countries. The Multilateral Fund
continues to support over 5,150 activities in
139 countries, and when fully implemented,
will prevent annual emissions of more than
223,729 metric tons of ODS. Over 80% of
already agreed project activities have been
implemented to date, with remaining work
in these already agreed projects expected to
be fully implemented by 2009. In addition to
continuing to implement the provisions of
the Clean Air Act and the Montreal Protocol
on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
(Montreal Protocol), and contributing to the
reduction and control of ozone-depleting
substances (ODSs) in the U.S. and lowering
health risks to the American public
associated with exposure to UV radiation.
Radiation Monitoring
In FY 2008, EPA will continue upgrading
the national radiation monitoring system,
thus improving response time, data
dissemination, and population/geographic
coverage of the U.S., should there be an
accidental or intentional release of radiation
either domestically or internationally. EPA
will also maintain readiness of deployable
monitors allowing for sampling density at
locations near and downwind from
radiological incidents. The Agency will
continue to enhance laboratory response
capacity and capability to ensure a minimal
level of surge capacity for radiological
incidents.
Global Change Research
EPA conducts research that provides a
scientific foundation for the Agency's
actions to protect the air all Americans
breathe. In FY 2008, EPA's air research
program will supports implementation of the
Clean Air Act, especially the National
Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
The NAAQS program will focus on setting
limits on how much tropospheric ozone,
particulate matter, carbon monoxide; sulfur
dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and lead are
allowed in the atmosphere. EPA also
conducts research to improve understanding
of the risks from hazardous air pollutants,
also known as air toxics.
In FY 2008, the Agency's air research
program will continue research to
understand the sources and composition of
air pollution; develop methods for
controlling sources' emissions; study
atmospheric chemistry and model U.S. air
quality; investigate Americans' exposure to
air pollution; and conduct epidemiological,
clinical, and toxicological studies of air
pollution's health effects. The Agency also
will award research grants to universities
and nonprofits to study topics such as how
long-term exposure to fine particles in the
atmosphere influences heart disease. In
FY 2008, an important focus of the program
will be air pollution near roads.
Recognizing that environmental policy and
regulatory decisions will only be as good as
the science upon which they are based, EPA
makes every effort to ensure that its science
is of the highest quality and relevance,
thereby providing the basis for sound
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environmental results. EPA uses the federal
Research and Development (R&D)
Investment Criteria of quality, relevance,
and performance in its decision-making
processes through a) the use of research
strategies and plans, b) program review and
evaluation by the Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC) and the Science
Advisory Board (SAB), and c) peer review.
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Clean and Safe Water
Ensure drinking water is safe. Restore and maintain oceans, watersheds, and their aquatic
ecosystems to protect human health, support economic and recreational activities, and
provide healthy habitat for fish, plants, and wildlife.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:
• Protect human health by reducing
exposure to contaminants in drinking
water (including protecting source
waters), in fish and shellfish, and in
recreational waters.
• Protect the quality of rivers, lakes,
and streams on a watershed basis and
protect coastal and ocean waters.
• By 2011, conduct leading-edge,
sound scientific research to support
the protection of human health
through the reduction of human
exposure to contaminants in drinking
water, fish and shellfish, and
recreational waters and to support
the protection of aquatic ecosystems-
specifically, the quality of rivers,
lakes, and streams, and coastal and
ocean waters.
GOAL, OBJECTIVE SUMMARY
Budget Authority
Full-time Equivalents
(Dollars in Thousands)
Clean and Safe Water
Protect Human Health
Protect Water Quality
Enhance Research to Support
Clean and Safe Water
Total Authorized Workyears
FY 2006
Actuals
$3,314,952.7
$1,233,605.2
$1,953,776.5
$127,571.0
2,888.3
FY 2007
Current
Rate CR
$2,824,280.4
$1,186,716.6
$1,503,178.8
$134,385.0
2,896.3
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$2,729,396.0
$1,176,754.8
$1,412,834.3
$139,806.8
2,890.8
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$2,714,315.3
$1,155,717.4
$1,422,163.4
$136,434.5
2,895.6
FY 2008 Pres
Budv.
FY 2007 Pres
Bud
($15,080.7)
($21,037.4)
$9,329.1
($3,372.3)
4.8
EPA implements the Clean and Safe Water
goal through programs designed to provide
improvements in the quality of surface
waters and drinking water. In FY 2008,
EPA will work with states and Tribes to
continue to accomplish measurable
improvements in the safety of the nation's
drinking water and in the conditions of
rivers, lakes, and coastal waters. With the
help of these partners, EPA expects to make
significant progress in these areas, as well as
support a few more focused water
initiatives.
The National Water Program will continue
to pay special attention to sustainable
infrastructure and watershed stewardship,
through its "four pillars" program,
specifically focusing on innovative
financing and leveraging for infrastructure
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sustainability, banking for wetlands
conservation, and trading among point
sources and non-point sources for water
quality upgrades. Additionally, in FY 2008,
the Agency will continue advancing the
water quality monitoring initiative and a
water quality standards strategy under the
Clean Water Act, as well as, important rules
and activities under the Safe Drinking Water
Act, involving lead and emerging
contaminants. Related efforts to improve
monitoring and surveillance will help
advance water security nationwide.
Drinking Water
During FY 2008, EPA, the states and
community water systems will build on past
successes while working toward the FY
2008 goal of assuring that 90 percent of the
population served by community water
systems receives drinking water that meets
all applicable health-based standards. To
promote compliance with drinking water
standards, states carry out a variety of
activities, such as conducting onsite sanitary
surveys of water systems and working with
small systems to improve their capabilities.
EPA will work to improve compliance rates
by providing guidance, training, and
technical assistance; ensuring proper
certification of water system operators;
promoting consumer awareness of drinking
water safety; maintaining the rate of system
sanitary surveys and onsite reviews; and
taking appropriate action for
noncompliance. To help ensure that water is
safe to drink, the FY 2008 President's
Budget requests $842 million for the
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.
Clean Water
In FY 2008, EPA will work with states to
continue progress toward the clean water
goals to implement core clean water
programs, including innovations that apply
programs on a watershed basis, and to
accelerate efforts to improve water quality
on a watershed basis. Building on the
progress toward clean water achieved over
the past 30 years, EPA is working with
states and Tribes to implement the Clean
Water Act by focusing on: scientifically
sound water quality standards; effective
water monitoring; strong programs for
controlling nonpoint sources of pollution;
and strong discharge permit programs.
The Agency's request continues the
monitoring initiative begun in 2005 to
strengthen the nationwide monitoring
network and complete the baseline water
quality assessment of lakes and streams.
These efforts will result in scientifically
defensible water quality data and
information essential for cleaning up and
protecting the nation's waters. Progress in
improving coastal and ocean waters
documented in the National Coastal
Condition Report will be maintained by
focusing on: assessing coastal conditions;
reducing vessel discharges; implementing
coastal nonpoint source pollution programs;
managing dredged material; and supporting
international marine pollution control. EPA
will continue to provide annual
capitalization to the Clean Water State
Revolving Fund (CWSRF). The FY 2008
President's Budget provides $688 million
and will allow EPA to meet the
Administration's Federal capitalization
target of $6.8 billion total for 2004-2011 and
enable the CWSRF to eventually revolve at
a level of $3.4 billion.
Private Activity Bonds
Included in the President's Budget is a
proposal to exempt Private Activity Bonds
(PABs) used to finance drinking water and
wastewater infrastructure from the private
activity bond unified state volume cap.
PABs are tax-exempt bonds issued by a
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State or local government, the proceeds of
which are used by another entity for a public
purpose or by the government entity itself
for certain public-private partnerships. By
removing drinking water and wastewater
bonds from the volume cap, this proposal
will provide States and communities greater
access to PABs to help finance their water
infrastructure needs and increase capital
investment in the Nation's water
infrastructure.
This Water Enterprise Bond proposal would
provide an exception to the unified annual
State volume cap on tax-exempt qualified
private activity bonds for exempt facilities
for the "furnishing of water" or "sewage
facilities." To ensure the long-term
financial health and solvency of these
drinking water and wastewater systems,
communities using these bonds must have
demonstrated a process that will move
towards full-cost pricing for services within
five years of issuing the Private Activity
Bonds. This will help water systems
become self-financing and minimize the
need for future subsidies.
Homeland Security
EPA has a major role in supporting the
protection of the nation's critical water
infrastructure from terrorist threats. In FY
2008, EPA will continue to support the
Water Security Initiative (formerly known
as Water Sentinel) pilot program and water
sector-specific agency responsibilities,
including the Water Alliance for Threat
Reduction (WATR), to protect the nation's
critical water infrastructure. The FY 2008
budget provides $22 million for the Water
Security Initiative completing deployment of
final pilot systems. In FY 2008, the Agency
in collaboration with our water sector
security stakeholders will continue our
efforts to develop, implement and initiate
tracking of national measures related to
homeland security critical infrastructure
protection activities.
Research
EPA's drinking water and water quality
research programs conduct leading edge,
problem-driven research to provide a sound
scientific foundation for Federal regulatory
decision-making. These efforts will result in
strengthened public health and aquatic
ecosystem protection by providing data
methods, models, assessments, and
technologies for EPA program and regional
offices, as well as state and local authorities.
In FY 2008, these research programs will
conduct studies and deliver science products
needed by the nation to realize clean and
safe water. The drinking water research
program will focus on filling key gaps in
data, methods and technologies to support
the Agency's mission to protect drinking
water from chemical and microbial
contaminants including developing
contaminant detection methods, conducting
health effects studies, developing and
evaluating cost-effective treatment
technologies, and constructing tools to
protect source waters. The water quality
research program will continue providing
approaches and methods that the Agency
and its partners need to develop, and apply
criteria to support designated uses, tools to
diagnose and assess impairment in aquatic
systems, and tools to restore and protect
aquatic systems. These programs also will
conduct research that will yield tools and
strategies to manage our nation's aging
water infrastructure.
Other important areas of research in
FY2008 will include: 1) development of
molecular microarrays for detection of
bacterial pathogens and non-pathogenic
microbes in drinking water source waters;
2) epidemiological studies on the illness rate
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for untreated groundwater and distributions
systems; 3) studies on the practice of
blending together waste water effluents in
various stages of the disinfection process to
prevent peak wet weather flows from
overwhelming treatment facilities while
protecting water quality; and 4) providing
more efficient monitoring and diagnostic
tools through continued research to develop
methods of using landscape assessments for
monitoring and assessing watershed
conditions. These programs will help assess
risks and priorities for ensuring clean water.
Recognizing that environmental policy and
regulatory decisions will only be as good as
the science upon which they are based, EPA
makes every effort to ensure that its science
is of the highest quality and relevance,
thereby, providing the basis for sound
environmental results. EPA uses the
Research and Development (R&D)
Investment Criteria of quality, relevance,
and performance in its decision-making
processes through the use of research
strategies and plans, program review and
evaluation by the Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC) and the Science
Advisory Board (SAB), and peer review.
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Land Preservation and Restoration
Preserve and restore the land by using innovative waste management practices and cleaning
up contaminated properties to reduce risks posed by releases of harmful substances.
V '
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:
• By 2011, reduce adverse effects to
land by reducing waste generation,
increasing recycling, and ensuring
proper management of waste and
petroleum products at facilities in
ways that prevent releases.
• By 2011, control the risks to human
health and the environment by
mitigating the impact of accidental
or intentional releases and by
cleaning up and restoring
contaminated sites or properties to
appropriate levels.
Through 2011, provide and apply
sound science for protecting and
restoring land by conducting leading-
edge research, which through
collaboration, leads to preferred
environmental outcomes.
GOAL, OBJECTIVE SUMMARY
Budget Authority
Full-time Equivalents
(Dollars in Thousands)
Land Preservation and
Restoration
Preserve Land
Restore Land
Enhance Science and Research
Total Authorized Workyears
FY 2006
Actuals
$1,760,905.0
$223,407.8
$1,479,533.9
$57,963.3
4,624.4
FY 2007
Current
Rate CR
$1,653,880.8
$250,024.2
$1,350,189.8
$53,666.8
4,691.6
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$1,690,385.8
$242,510.5
$1,397,705.7
$50,169.6
4,693.5
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$1,663,120.2
$231,574.8
$1,382,938.7
$48,606.7
4,582.0
FY 2008 Pres
Budv.
FY 2007 Pres
Bud
($27,265.6)
($10,935.7)
($14,767.0)
($1,562.9)
-111.5
Land is one of America's most valuable
resources. Uncontrolled, hazardous and
nonhazardous wastes on the land can
migrate to the air, groundwater, and surface
water, contaminating drinking water
supplies, causing acute illnesses or chronic
diseases, and threatening healthy ecosystems
in urban, rural, and suburban areas. To
address these issues, EPA implements the
Land Preservation and Restoration goal
utilizing a three pronged approach—
prevention, protection, and response
activities to address immediate needs;
enforcement and compliance assistance to
determine what needs to be done and who
should pay; and sound science and research
to address risk factors and new, innovative
solutions.
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Prevention, Protection, and Response
Activities
EPA leads the country's activities to prevent
and reduce the risks posed by releases of
harmful substances and to preserve and
restore land with effective waste
management and cleanup methods. In FY
2008, the Agency will continue to apply the
most effective approach to controlling these
risks by developing and implementing
prevention programs, improving response
capabilities, and maximizing the
effectiveness of response and cleanup
actions. This approach will help ensure that
human health and the environment are
protected and that land is returned to
beneficial use.
In FY 2008, EPA also will continue to use a
hierarchy of approaches to protect the land:
reducing waste at its source, recycling
waste, managing waste effectively by
preventing spills and releases of toxic
materials, and cleaning up contaminated
properties. The Agency especially is
concerned about threats to our most
sensitive populations, such as children, the
elderly, and individuals with chronic
diseases, and prioritizes cleanups
accordingly.1
The Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA, or Superfund) and the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
provide the legal authority for most of
EPA's work toward this goal. The Agency
and its partners use Superfund authority to
clean up uncontrolled or abandoned
hazardous waste sites, allowing land to be
returned to productive use. Under RCRA,
1 Additional information on these programs can be found
at: www.epa.gov/superfund.
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/er/index.htm.
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/ca/. and
http://www.epa.gov/swerrims/landrevitalization.
EPA works in partnership with states and
Tribes to address risks associated with
leaking underground storage tanks and with
the generation and management of
hazardous and nonhazardous waste.
EPA also uses authorities provided under the
Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Oil
Pollution Act of 1990 to protect against
spills and releases of hazardous materials.
Controlling the many risks posed by
accidental and intentional releases of
harmful substances presents a significant
challenge. In FY 2008, EPA will continue
to ensure that it is adequately prepared to
minimize contamination and harm to the
environment from spills and releases of
hazardous materials by improving its
readiness to respond to emergencies through
training as well as maintaining a highly
skilled, well-trained, and equipped response
workforce.
The following themes characterize EPA's
land program activities under Goal 3 in FY
2008: Revitalization; Recycling, Waste
Minimization and Energy Recovery;
Emergency Preparedness, Response, and
Homeland Security; and implementation of
the recently-authorized Energy Policy Act of
2005 (EPAct).
• Revitalization: All of EPA's cleanup
programs (Superfund Remedial,
Superfund Federal Facilities Response,
Superfund Removal, RCRA Corrective
Action, Brownfields, and Underground
Storage Tanks) and their partners are
taking proactive steps to facilitate the
cleanup and revitalization of
contaminated properties. Revitalizing
these once productive properties helps
communities by removing blight,
satisfying the growing demand for land,
helping limit urban sprawl, fostering
ecologic habitat enhancements, enabling
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economic development, and maintaining
or improving quality of life. In
reflection of the high priority the Agency
has placed on land revitalization, the
Superfund program is participating in
efforts to implement cross-program
revitalization measures to capture a
broader array of accomplishments across
all of EPA's cleanup programs resulting
from the assessment and cleanup of
properties. One example is the new
Superfund Remedial PART measure
"Acres of land ready for reuse." In
addition, in FY 2006 the Superfund
program developed the "Site-wide
Ready for Anticipated Use" measure to
track National Priority List (NPL) sites
where construction of the remedy is
complete; where cleanup goals in the
Record of Decision (ROD) have been
achieved such that there are no
unacceptable risks associated with
current and reasonably anticipated future
uses; and where all institutional controls
required in the ROD have been
implemented. In FY 2008, the Agency
expects 30 NPL sites to achieve this
accomplishment.
Recycling, Waste Minimization and
Energy Recovery: EPA's strategy for
reducing waste generation and
increasing recycling will continue to be
based on: 1) establishing and expanding
partnerships with businesses, industries,
Tribes, states, communities, and
consumers; 2) stimulating infrastructure
development and environmentally
responsible behavior by product
manufacturers, users, and disposers; and
3) helping businesses, government,
institutions, and consumers reduce waste
generation and increase recycling
through education, outreach, training,
and technical assistance. In FY 2008,
EPA will continue the Resource
Conservation Challenge as a major
national effort to find flexible, yet more
protective ways to conserve our valuable
natural resources through waste
reduction, energy recovery, and
recycling.
• Emergency Preparedness, Response, and
Homeland Security: EPA has a major
role in reducing the risk to human health
and the environment posed by accidental
or intentional releases of harmful
substances and oil. In FY 2008, EPA
will continue to improve its capability to
effectively prepare for and respond to
these incidents, including natural
disasters such as hurricanes, by working
closely with other Federal agencies
within the National Response Plan. EPA
will also continue to develop a national
environmental laboratory capability and
decontamination options to ensure that
the nation can quickly recover from
nationally significant incidents.
• Implementing the EPAct: The EPAct2
contains numerous provisions that
significantly affect Federal and state
underground storage tank (UST)
programs and requires that EPA and
states strengthen tank release and
prevention programs. In FY 2008, EPA
is requesting $34 million to provide
assistance to states to help them meet
their new responsibilities, which include
1) mandatory inspections every three
years for all underground storage tanks,
2) operator training, 3) prohibition of
delivery for non-complying facilities3, 4)
2 For more information, refer to
http: //frwebgate. access, gpo. go v/cgi-
bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_public_laws&docid=f:p
ubl058.109.pdf (scroll to Title XV - Ethanol And Motor
Fuels, Subtitle B - Underground Storage Tank Compliance,
on pages 500-513 of the pdf file).
3 Refer to Grant Guidelines to States for Implementing the
Delivery Prohibition Provision of the Energy Policy Act of
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secondary containment or financial
responsibility for tank manufacturers and
installers, 5) various compliance reports,
and 6) grant guidelines. EPA is also
submitting new legislative language to
allow states to use alternative
mechanisms such as the Environmental
Results Program (ERP) to meet the
mandatory three-year inspection
requirement. This proposal provides
States with a less costly alternative to
meet the objectives of the Energy Policy
Act. In FY 2008, EPA will also
implement the UST Tribal strategy4
developed in FY 2006 in Indian country.
Enforcement
Enforcement authorities play a unique role
under the Superfund program: they are used
to leverage private-party resources to
conduct a majority of the cleanup actions
and to reimburse the Federal government for
cleanups financed by appropriations. The
Superfund program's "enforcement first"
policy ensures that sites that have viable
potentially responsible parties (PRPs) are
cleaned up by those parties, allowing EPA to
focus appropriated resources on sites where
viable PRPs either do not exist or lack funds
or capabilities needed to conduct the
cleanup. In tandem with this approach,
various reforms have been implemented to
increase fairness, reduce transaction costs,
and promote economic development.5
EPA has ongoing cleanup and property
transfer responsibilities at some of the
2005, August 2006, EPA-510-R-06-003,
http://www.epa.gov/oust/fedlaws/epactJ35.htmtfFinal.
4 Refer to Strategy for an EPA/Tribal Partnership to
Implement Section 1529 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005,
August 2006, EPA-510-F-06-005,
http://www.epa.gov/oust/fedlaws/epactJ35.htmtfFinal.
5 For more information regarding EPA's enforcement
program and its various components, please refer to
http://www.epa.gov/compliance/cleanup/superfund/.
Nation's most contaminated Federal
properties, which range from realigning and
closing military installations and former
military properties containing unexploded
ordnance, solvents, and other industrial
chemicals to Department of Energy sites
containing nuclear waste. EPA's Superfund
Federal Facilities Response and
Enforcement program helps Federal and
local governments, Tribes, states,
redevelopment authorities and the affected
communities ensure contamination at
Federal or former Federal properties is
addressed in a manner that protects human
health and the environment.6
In FY 2008, the Agency will continue to
encourage the establishment and use of
Special Accounts within the Superfund
Trust Fund. As of the end of FY 2006, EPA
maintains more than 500 Special Accounts
within the Superfund Trust Fund. These
accounts segregate site-specific funds
obtained from responsible parties that
complete settlement agreements with EPA.
These funds may create an incentive for
other PRPs at that specific site to perform
work they otherwise might not be willing to
perform. In addition, these funds may be
used by the Agency to fund cleanup
activities if there are not known or viable
PRPs. As a result, the Agency can get more
sites cleaned up while preserving the
appropriated Trust Fund dollars for sites
without viable PRPs.
In FY 2008, the Agency will negotiate
remedial design/remedial action cleanup
agreements and removal agreements at
contaminated properties. Where
negotiations fail, the Agency will either take
unilateral enforcement actions to require
PRP cleanup or use appropriated dollars to
6 For more information on the Superfund Federal
Facilities Response and Enforcement program, please
refer to http://www.epa.gov/fedfac.
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remediate sites. When appropriated dollars
are used to clean up sites, the program will
recover this money from the PRPs whenever
possible.
EPA's financial management offices provide
a full array of support services to the
Superfund program including managing
oversight billing for Superfund site cleanups
and financial cost recovery. The Department
of Justice supports EPA's Superfund
Enforcement program through negotiations
and judicial actions to compel PRP cleanup
and litigation to recover Trust Fund monies
spent.
Enhancing Science and Research to
Restore and Preserve Land
The FY 2008 land research program
supports the Agency's objective of reducing
and controlling potential risks to human
health and the environment at contaminated
waste sites by providing the science to
accelerate scientifically defensible and cost-
effective decisions for cleanup of sites in
accordance with CERCLA, RCRA and other
applicable statutes. Recognizing that
environmental policy and regulatory
decisions will only be as good as the science
upon which they are based, EPA makes
every effort to ensure that its science is of
the highest quality and relevance, thereby
providing the basis for sound environmental
results.
In FY 2008, EPA is requesting $48.6 million
to enhance science and research in support
of EPA's land preservation and restoration
programs. Research activities in FY 2008
will focus on contaminated sediments,
ground water contamination, site
characterization, analytical methods, and
site-specific technical support. Research
activities will advance EPA's ability to
accurately characterize the risks posed by
contaminated sediments and determine the
range and scientific foundation for remedy
selection options. EPA's land research
program will also address the transport of
contaminants in ground water and
subsequent intrusion of contaminant vapors
into buildings. Oil spill remediation research
will continue to focus on physical, chemical,
and biological risk management methods for
petroleum and non-petroleum oils spilled
into freshwater and marine environments, as
well as development of a protocol for testing
solidifiers and treating oil. UST research
will address the development of online
transport models that can be used by state
project managers. Research in resource
conservation, corrective action, hazardous
waste treatment, landfills, leaching,
containment systems, and landfill
bioreactors will constitute the major areas of
research and support for RCRA activities in
FY 2008. In addition, EPA's land research
program will continue to provide site-
specific assistance on technical issues across
the land remediation and restoration
programs.
EPA will continue to collaborate with states
and the private sector to conduct field
sampling and optimize operations and
monitoring of long-term remedies and
research activities. Furthermore, in response
to an independent review of the RCRA
portion of the land research program, a shift
in the research program will be made in FY
2008 to address nanotechnology fate and
transport research issues in an effort by the
program to focus on emerging issues and
strategic research topics.
2006 PART
The following programs were assessed by
OMB's Program Assessment Rating Tool
(PART) for the 2006 PART process:
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Land Protection and Restoration More detailed information is provided in
Research specific program project descriptions.
Underground Storage Tank Program
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FY 2008 Annual Plan
HEALTHY COMMUNITIES AND ECOSYSTEMS
Protect, sustain, or restore the health of people, communities, and ecosystems using
integrated and comprehensive approaches and partnerships.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:
By 2011, prevent and reduce
pesticide and industrial chemical
risks to humans, communities, and
ecosystems.
Sustain, clean up, and restore
communities and the ecological
systems that support them.
Protect, sustain, and restore the
health of critical natural habitats and
ecosystems.
Through 2011, identify and
synthesize the best available
scientific information, models,
methods, and analyses to support
Agency guidance and policy
decisions related to the health of
people, communities, and
ecosystems. Focus research on
pesticides and chemical toxicology;
global change; and comprehensive,
cross-cutting studies of human,
community, and ecosystem health.
GOAL, OBJECTIVE SUMMARY
Budget Authority
Full-time Equivalents
(Dollars in Thousands)
Healthy Communities and
Ecosystems
Chemical and Pesticide Risks
Communities
Restore and Protect Critical
Ecosystems
Enhance Science and Research
Total Authorized Workyears
FY 2006
Actuals
$1,264,197.4
$400,291.2
$288,984.5
$190,453.1
$384,468.6
3,808.5
FY 2007
Current
Rate CR
$1,353,184.0
$397,124.7
$377,124.2
$200,050.5
$378,884.6
3,820.7
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$1,227,659.4
$386,011.2
$251,034.0
$198,150.5
$392,463.7
3,825.4
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$1,171,565.0
$387,165.5
$234,758.2
$178,373.7
$371,267.6
3,743.9
FY 2008 Pres
Budv.
FY 2007 Pres
Bud
($56,094.4)
$1,154.3
($16,275.8)
($19,776.8)
($21,196.1)
-81.5
In FY 2008, the Environmental Protection
Agency will protect, sustain or restore the
health of communities and ecosystems by
bringing together a variety of programs,
tools, approaches and resources, including
partnerships with stakeholders and Federal,
state, Tribal, and local government agencies.
EPA manages environmental risks to
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watersheds, communities, homes, and
workplaces to protect human health and the
environmental integrity of ecosystems. The
Agency employs a mix of regulatory
programs and partnership approaches to
achieve results in ways that are efficient,
innovative, and sustainable. Ideally, EPA
can implement a strategy of preventing
pollution at the source; however, where
programs to prevent pollution or ecosystem
damage are not viable, EPA promotes waste
minimization, avoidance of impact on
habitat, safe disposal, and remediation.
In managing risk, EPA directs its efforts
toward the greatest threats in our
communities, homes, and workplaces,
including threats to sensitive populations
such as children and the elderly, and to
communities with potential
disproportionately high and adverse
environmental and public health effects
including minorities and/or low-income
communities. Pound for pound, children
breathe more air, drink more water, and eat
more food than adults, and their behavior
patterns may increase their exposure to
potential toxics. Even older Americans in
good health may be at increased risk from
exposure to environmental pollutants. As
people age, their bodies are less able to
detoxify and eliminate toxins. Native
Americans represent another segment of the
population with a different risk profile.
Their traditional sources for food and ways
of life may lead to higher levels of exposure
to certain toxics.
Pesticides Programs
A key component of protecting the health of
people, communities, and ecosystems is
identifying, assessing, and reducing the risks
presented by the thousands of chemicals on
which our society and economy have come
to depend. Toward that end, EPA is
investing $122.4 million in Pesticides
Licensing programs in FY 2008. Chemical
and biological pesticides help meet national
and global demands for food; provide
effective pest control for homes, schools,
gardens, highways, utility lines, hospitals,
and drinking water treatment facilities; and
control animal vectors of disease. In
accordance with the provisions of the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the Agency is
restructuring the presentation of FIFRA
implementation funding and replacing the
Pesticides Registration, Reregi strati on and
Field programs with these new programs in
FY2008:
• Pesticides: Protect Human Health
from Pesticides Risk
• Pesticides: Protect the Environment
from Pesticides Risk, and
• Pesticides: Realize the Value of
Pesticides Availability
In 2008, as required by the Food Quality
Protection Act (FQPA), EPA will continue
to establish a process for periodic review of
pesticide registrations with the goal of
completing the process every 15 years. The
Agency will also focus its reregi strati on
resources to support the 2008 FQPA
deadline for completing non-food use
Registration Eligibility Decisions (REDs).
Toxics Programs
EPA programs under this goal have many
indirect benefits. For example, each year
the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
New Chemicals program reviews and
manages the potential risks from
approximately 1,500 new chemicals and 40
products of biotechnology that enter the
marketplace. This new chemical review
process not only protects the public from the
possible immediate threats of harmful
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chemicals, but it has also contributed to
changing the behavior of the chemical
industry, making industry more aware and
responsible for the impact these chemicals
have on human health and the environment.
The Acute Exposure Guideline Levels
(AEGLs) program was designed by EPA to
provide scientifically credible data to
directly support chemical emergency
planning, response, and prevention programs
mandated by Congress. Emergency workers
and first responders addressing accidental or
intentional chemical releases need to know
how dangerous a chemical contaminant may
be to breathe or touch, and how long it may
remain dangerous. The program develops
short-term exposure limits applicable to the
general population for a wide range of
extremely hazardous substances and has
assigned values to 190 chemicals to date.
In addressing chemicals that have entered
the market before the inception of the New
Chemical Review program, EPA will
continue to implement its voluntary High
Production Volume (HPV) Chemicals
program. The HPV Chemicals Program
challenges industry to develop chemical
hazard data on existing chemicals that it
chooses to "sponsor." EPA will make data
publicly available for approximately 1,400
HPV chemicals sponsored under the
program and issue initial risk screening
reports for the highest priority of those
chemicals. Complementing HPV is the
Voluntary Children's Chemical Evaluation
Program (VCCEP), a high-priority screening
program targeting existing chemicals
believed to have particular impact on
children's health.
The Agency will continue to manage its
programs to address specific chemicals and
toxics of concern, including lead, mineral
fibers, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), and
persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT)
chemicals generally. The Lead program is
focusing efforts on reducing lead hazards,
and a $1 million investment, as requested for
FY 2008, will allow the Agency to
promulgate a final regulation to address
lead-safe work practices for renovation,
repair and painting activities in homes with
lead-based paint. The program will also
continue to improve methods to reach
vulnerable populations and communities
with a high concentration of children with
elevated blood-lead levels and emphasize
grant-supported activities such as state-
implemented lead-based paint training and
certification programs.
EPA's Community Action for a Renewed
Environment (CARE) is a competitive grant
program that offers an innovative way for
communities to take action to reduce toxic
pollution. Through CARE, communities
create local collaborative partnerships that
implement local solutions to reduce releases
of toxic pollutants and minimize exposure to
toxic pollutants.
Water Programs
EPA's ecosystem protection programs
encompass a wide range of approaches that
address specific at-risk regional areas and
larger categories of threatened systems, such
as estuaries and wetlands. Locally
generated pollution, combined with
pollution carried by rivers and streams and
through air deposition, can accumulate in
these ecosystems and degrade them over
time. Large water bodies, such as the Gulf
of Mexico, the Great Lakes, and the
Chesapeake Bay, have been exposed to
substantial pollution over many years.
Coastal estuaries and wetlands are also
vulnerable. As the populations in coastal
regions grow, the challenges to preserve and
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protect these important ecosystems increase.
Working with stakeholders, EPA has
established special programs to protect and
restore these unique resources.
In FY 2008, EPA will continue cooperation
with Federal, state and Tribal governments
and other stakeholders to achieve the
President's goal, set in 2004, to restore,
improve, and protect three million acres of
wetlands by 2009. A $17.2 million request
in FY 2008 will support and monitor all 28
NEPs in implementing approved
Comprehensive Conservation and
Management Plans (CCMPs), which
identify more than 2,000 priority actions
needed to protect and restore the estuaries.
The Great Lakes program ecosystem is
requesting $21.8 million in the FY 2008
budget to continue support of the Great
Lakes Regional Collaboration and the Great
Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The
program will monitor ecosystem indicators;
support toxics reduction through
contaminated sediment remediation and
pollution prevention; protect and restore
habitat; and address strategic issues such as
aquatic invasive species and the need to
investigate the decline of Diporeia, a key
lower-food web organism. The FY 2008
request to implement the Great Lakes
Legacy Act, which supports cleanup of
contaminated sediments, is $35 million.
EPA is committed to its long-term goal of
100 percent attainment of dissolved oxygen
standards in waters of the Chesapeake Bay
and 185,000 acres of submerged aquatic
vegetation (SAV). In FY 2008, $4.5 million
will bring the Agency closer to improving
key priority coastal and ocean issues in the
Gulf of Mexico.
Brownfields
Building the capacity for a community to
make decisions that affect their environment
is at the heart of EPA's community-centered
work. EPA's efforts to share information
and build community capacity offer the tools
communities need to consider the many
aspects of planned development or
redevelopment. EPA encourages community
development by providing funds to assist
communities with inventory, assessment,
and clean up the lightly contaminated
properties ("Brownfields") that lie
abandoned or unused. In addition, along the
U.S.-Mexico border, addressing local
pollution and infrastructure deficiencies are
priorities for Mexico and the United States
under the Border 2012 Agreement.
Addressing these challenges requires
combining innovative and community-based
approaches with national guidelines and
interagency coordination to achieve results.
Smart Growth
The Smart Growth program works with
stakeholders to create an improved
economic and institutional climate for
Brownfields redevelopment. Critical issues
for Brownfield redevelopment in FY 2008
include land assembly, development
permitting issues, financing, parking and
street standards, and other factors that
influence the economic viability of
Brownfields redevelopment. The Smart
Growth program removes barriers and
creates incentives for Brownfield
redevelopment by changing development
standards that affect the viability of
Brownfields redevelopment; and creating
cross-cutting solutions that improve the
economic, regulatory and institutional
climate for Brownfield redevelopment.
International Affairs
To sustain and enhance domestic and
international environmental progress, the
Agency collaborates with other nations and
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international organizations to identify,
develop, and implement policy options to
address environmental problems of mutual
concern. By assisting developing countries
in managing their natural resources and
protecting the health of their citizens, EPA
helps reduce transboundary movement of
pollution in the air and in water. EPA also
works to include environmental protection
provisions and commitments to effectively
enforce environmental laws and regulations
in all international trade agreements
negotiated by the United States.
Environmental Justice
EPA is committed to environmental justice
for all people, regardless of race, color,
national origin, or income. Toward that
end, the Agency will focus its environmental
justice efforts on the following eight
priorities:
• Reducing asthma attacks,
• Reducing exposure to air toxics,
• Increasing compliance with
regulations,
• Reducing incidence of elevated
blood lead levels,
• Ensuring that fish and shellfish are
safe to eat,
• Ensuring that water is safe to drink,
• Revitalizing brownfields and
contaminated sites, and
• Using collaborative problem-solving
to address environmental and public
health concerns.
Research
In order to adequately protect or restore the
health of communities and ecosystems,
environmental policy and regulatory
decisions must be based on sound science.
Strong science allows identification of the
most important sources of risk to human
health and the environment as well as the
best means to detect, abate, and avoid
possible environmental problems, and
thereby guides our priorities, policies, and
deployment of resources.
To enable the Agency to enhance science
and research for healthy people,
communities, and ecosystems, EPA will
continue to conduct high priority,
multidisciplinary research in the areas of
human health, ecosystems, mercury, global
change, pesticides and toxics, endocrine
disrupters, computational toxicology,
nanotechnology, and Homeland Security.
The Agency also will cultivate the next
generation of environmental scientists by
awarding fellowships to pursue higher
education in environmentally related fields
and by hosting recent graduates at its
facilities.
In FY 2008, the human health research
program will continue research efforts on
cumulative risks. Research will focus on
risk intervention and prevention strategies
that ultimately reduce human risk associated
with exposures to single and multiple
environmental stressors, including reducing
chemical exposure in schools. The
Agency's human health risk assessment
(HHRA) research program will develop and
implement a process to identify, compile,
characterize, and prioritize new scientific
studies for science assessments of criteria air
pollutants to assist EPA's air and radiation
programs in determining the National
Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
Also, the HHRA research program will
complete 16 human health assessments of
high priority chemicals for interagency
review or external peer review and deliver
revised science assessments for Sulfur
Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides.
In order to balance human well-being with
the need to protect the environment, it is
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important to understand the type of services
that ecosystems provide, the stressors that
affect these services, and how to
successfully optimize the services provided
by the ecosystem as a whole. In FY 2008,
the ecosystems protection program will
continue research on the development of
decision-support tools for managing
resources in ways that improve their
resilience to disturbance, thus reducing the
need for future costly restoration efforts.
The program will also use spatial analysis
methods to develop options for maximizing
existing ecosystem services and for
analyzing tradeoffs among the types of
services that can be achieved.
Computational toxicology research, which
facilitates a better understanding of the
relationships between sources of
environmental pollutant exposure and
adverse outcomes, will support four key
areas in FY 2008:
• Information technology,
• Chemical prioritization and
categorization tools,
• Systems biology models, and
• Cumulative risk assessment.
Specifically, initial results for the
"ToxCast," will emerge in FY 2008. The
"ToxCast" is the Agency's chemical
prioritization research program that offers
promise in revolutionizing the effective and
efficient use of animals in toxicology testing
schemes. In addition, modeling research,
which now plays a crucial role in practically
all areas of biological research, will begin
developing a computational model of the
liver by integrating biological information in
order to achieve an improved understanding
of how susceptibility to toxicant exposure
depends on environmental, behavioral and
genetic factors, and on age and health status.
Endocrine Disrupters research will continue
to develop methods and models to evaluate
the effects associated with exposure to
endocrine disrupters as well as continue to
develop improved molecular and
computational tools that can be used to
prioritize endocrine disrupting chemicals for
screening and testing. Nanotechnology
research is another area of high visibility in
FY 2008. Efforts will continue to focus on
nanotechnology's environmental
applications and investigate its implications
on the environment, health, and safety.
In FY 2008, continued research in the
pesticides and toxics research program will
characterize toxicity and pharmacokinetic
profiles of perfluoroalkyl chemicals,
examine the potential for selected
perfluorinated telomers to degrade to
perfluoroctanoic acid or its precursors, and
develop methods and models to forecast the
fate of pesticides and byproducts from
source waters through drinking water
treatment systems and ultimately to the U.S.
population.
Recognizing that environmental policy and
regulatory decisions will only be as good as
the science upon which they are based, EPA
makes every effort to ensure that its science
is of the highest quality and relevance,
thereby providing the basis for sound
environmental results. EPA uses the
Research and Development (R&D)
Investment Criteria of quality, relevance,
and performance in its decision-making
processes through the use of research
strategies and plans, program review and
evaluation by the Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC) and the Science
Advisory Board (SAB), and peer review.
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Compliance and Environmental Stewardship
Improve environmental performance through ensuring compliance with environmental
requirements by enforcing environmental statutes, preventing pollution, and promoting
environmental stewardship. Protect human health and the environment by encouraging
innovation and providing incentives for governments, businesses, and the public that
remote environmental stewardship and long-term sustainable outcomes.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:
• By 2011, maximize compliance to
protect human health and the
environment through enforcement
and other compliance assurance
activities by achieving a 5 percent
increase in the pounds of pollution
reduced, treated, or eliminated by
regulated entities, including those in
Indian country. (Baseline to be
determined in 2006)
• Improve Environmental Performance
through Pollution Prevention and the
Adoption of other Stewardship
Practices that Lead to Sustainable
Outcomes. By 2011, enhance public
health and environmental protection
and increase conservation of natural
resources by promoting pollution
prevention and the adoption of other
stewardship practices by companies,
communities, governmental
organizations, and individuals.
Protect human health and the
environment on tribal lands by
assisting federally-recognized tribes
to: build environmental management
capacity; assess environmental
conditions and measure results; and
implement environmental programs
in Indian country.
Conduct leading-edge, sound
scientific research on pollution
prevention, new technology
development, socioeconomic,
sustainable systems, and decision-
making tools. By 2011, the products
of this research will be
independently recognized as
providing critical and key evidence
in informing Agency polices and
decisions and solving problems for
the Agency and its partners and
stakeholders
GOAL, OBJECTIVE SUMMARY
Budget Authority
Full-time Equivalents
(Dollars in Thousands)
Compliance and Environmental
Stewardship
Achieve Environmental Protection
through Improved Compliance
FY 2006
Actuals
$759,283.1
$487,509.6
FY 2007
Current
Rate CR
$744,109.2
$499,045.8
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$734,343.1
$491,948.8
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$743,831.4
$508,148.3
FY 2008 Pres
Budv.
FY 2007 Pres
Bud
$9,488.3
$16,199.5
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Improve Environmental
Performance through Pollution
Prevention and Innovation
Improve Human Health and the
Environment in Indian Country
Enhance Societies Capacity for
Sustainability through Science and
Research
Total Authorized Workyears
FY 2006
Actuals
$124,170.1
$78,499.8
$69,103.6
3,409.1
FY 2007
Current
Rate CR
$115,775.8
$76,018.8
$53,268.9
3,491.1
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$113,157.8
$74,073.6
$55,163.0
3,485.6
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$108,612.8
$74,303.9
$52,766.5
3,481.7
FY 2008 Pres
Budv.
FY 2007 Pres
Bud
($4,545.0)
$230.3
($2,396.5)
-3.9
The Environmental Protection Agency will
work to improve the nation's environmental
protection practices and enhance natural
resource conservation on the part of
government, business, and the public. To
accomplish these goals, the Agency will
employ a mixture of effective inspection,
enforcement and compliance assistance
strategies; provide leadership and support
for pollution prevention and sustainable
practices; reduce regulatory barriers; and
refine and apply results-based, innovative,
and multi-media approaches to
environmental stewardship and safeguarding
human health.
In addition, EPA will assist Federally-
recognized Tribes in assessing
environmental conditions in Indian country,
and will help build their capacity to
implement environmental programs. EPA
will also strengthen the scientific evidence
and research supporting environmental
policies and decisions on compliance,
pollution prevention, and environmental
stewardship.
Improving Compliance
Environmental Laws
with
In order to be effective, the EPA requires a
strong enforcement and compliance
program, one which: identifies and reduces
noncompliance problems; assists the
regulated community in understanding
environmental laws and regulations;
responds to complaints from the public;
strives to secure a level economic playing
field for law-abiding companies; and deters
future violations.
In order to meet the Agency's goals, the
program's strategy employs an integrated,
common-sense approach to problem-solving
and decision-making. An appropriate mix of
data collection and analysis; compliance
monitoring, assistance and incentives; civil
and criminal enforcement resources; and
innovative problem-solving approaches are
used to address significant environmental
issues and achieve environmentally
beneficial outcomes.
Further, the Agency's Enforcement and
Compliance Assurance program uses
compliance assistance and incentive tools to
encourage compliance with regulatory
requirements and reduce adverse public
health and environmental problems. To
achieve compliance, the regulated
community must first understand its
obligations and then learn how to best
comply with regulatory obligations.
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The Agency's Compliance Monitoring
program reviews and evaluates the activities
of the regulated community to determine
compliance with applicable laws,
regulations, permit conditions and
settlement agreements, and to determine
whether conditions presenting imminent and
substantial endangerment exist. FY 2008
Compliance Monitoring activities will be
both environmental media- and sector-
based. The traditional media-based
inspections complement those performed by
states and Tribes, and are a key part of our
strategy for meeting the long-term and
annual goals established for the air, water,
pesticides, toxic substances, and hazardous
waste environmental goals included in the
EPA Strategic Plan.
The Enforcement program addresses
violations of environmental laws, to ensure
that violators come into compliance with
Federal laws and regulations. In FY 2008,
the program will work to achieve the
Agency's environmental goals through
consistent, fair and focused enforcement of
all environmental statutes. The overarching
goal of the Enforcement program is to
protect human health and the environment,
targeting its actions according to degree of
health and environmental risk. In FY 2008,
EPA will continue to implement its National
Compliance and Enforcement Priorities
(NCEP), which address the most widespread
types of violations that also pose the most
substantive health and environmental risks.
The NCEP list will use statistically valid
noncompliance information developed by
Compliance Monitoring. In addition, in FY
2008 EPA anticipates reducing, treating, or
eliminating an estimated 550 million pounds
of pollutants building upon our
achievements to date in reducing pollution
through enforcement settlement agreements
and compliance incentives by an estimated
4.5 billion pounds over the last six fiscal
years.
Maximum compliance requires the active
efforts of the regulated community.
Evaluation of self-reporting will occur in
order to understand the effectiveness and
accuracy of such self-reporting. Throughout
FY 2008, EPA will continue to investigate
options for encouraging self-directed audits
and disclosures. Also in FY 2008, EPA's
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
program will continue to develop
meaningful measures to assess the impact of
enforcement and compliance activities and
target areas that pose the greatest risks to
human health or the environment, display
patterns of noncompliance, or include
disproportionately exposed populations.
NEPA Federal Review: EPA fulfills its
uniquely Federal responsibilities under the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
and Section 309 of the Clean Air Act by
reviewing and commenting on other Federal
agency Environmental Impact Statements
(EISs), and making the comments available
to the public. NEPA requires that Federal
agencies prepare and submit EISs to identify
potential environmental consequences of
major proposed activities, and develop plans
to mitigate or eliminate adverse impacts.
Improving Environmental Performance
through Innovation and Pollution
Prevention and Stewardship
Pollution prevention will continue being one
of the Agency's primary tools for
minimizing and preventing adverse
environmental impacts by preventing the
generation of pollution at the source.
Through pollution prevention integration,
EPA will work to bring about a
performance-oriented regulatory system that
develops innovative, flexible strategies to
achieve measurable results; promotes
environmental stewardship in all parts of
society; supports sustainable development
and pollution prevention; and fosters a
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culture of creative environmental problem
solving.
Partnering with Businesses and
Consumers: In 2008, through the Pollution
Prevention (P2) program, EPA will promote
stronger regional partnerships and
geographically tailored approaches to
address unique community problems. Also
in FY 2008, EPA will continue to
encourage, empower, and assist government
and business to "green" the nation's supply
and demand structures to make them more
environmentally sound. Through the
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
Program, the Agency will provide enhanced
guidance to the Federal building community
on model green construction specifications
and help Federal agencies identify and
procure those products that generate the
least pollution, consume fewest non-
renewable natural resources, and constitute
the least threat to human health and to the
environment. EPA's innovative Green
Suppliers Network (GSN) Program works
with large manufacturers to increase energy
efficiency; identify cost-saving
opportunities; optimize resources and
technology through the development of
sound business approaches incorporating
pollution prevention; and to promote those
approaches among their numerous suppliers.
P2 Grants to states and Tribes enable them
to provide technical assistance, education
and outreach to assist businesses and
industries in identifying strategies and
solutions to reduce wastes and pollution at
the source. The importance of tracking
outcomes from P2 grants has been
reinforced by adding key P2 environmental
outcome targets to program guidance
reporting measures.
In FY 2008, through the National
Partnership for Environmental Priorities
(NPEP), the Agency will continue to reduce
priority chemicals in wastes. As of August
2006, the NPEP program has obtained
industry commitments for 2.1 million
pounds of priority chemical reductions
through 2011. Reductions will be achieved
primarily through source reduction made
possible by safer chemical substitutes.
Promoting Innovation and Stewardship:
In FY 2008, EPA will work to bring about a
performance-oriented regulatory system that
develops innovative, flexible strategies to
achieve measurable results; promote
environmental stewardship in all parts of
society; support sustainable development
and pollution prevention; and foster a
culture of creative environmental problem
solving.
The Performance Track (PT) program will
improve program reporting, develop and
implement national and regional challenge
commitments, and leverage state
environmental leadership programs by
aligning PT with 20 state programs. In
addition, EPA will sponsor a formal
program evaluation of the program in FY
2008 and FY 2009.
Also in FY 2008, EPA will continue to grow
its partnerships and track environmental
performance trends with major
manufacturing sectors, such as steel, cement,
forest products, and shipbuilding, plus
important non-manufacturing sectors like
agribusiness, construction, and ports. The
Agency will address barriers to improved
performance, provide sector-specific
"drivers" for continuous improvement and
stewardship, and use the partnerships to
tackle high priority environmental issues.
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EPA will also continue to promote
environmental performance through the
Environmental Results Program (ERP), a
state-run program promoting environmental
performance and efficiency through
assistance and incentives to both states and
businesses. In FY 2008, EPA will support
the growing demand for the ERP program,
beyond the 15 States and 10 sectors
currently active in the program.
Finally, EPA will continue the State
Innovation Grant (SIG) program in FY
2008, which provides support to states,
allowing them to develop their own
innovative approaches, including flexible
permitting, ERP, and environmental
leadership programs (e.g. PT).
Measurement and program evaluation also
will continue to be priorities.
Building Tribal Capacity
The EPA Indian Policy of 1984 promotes
working with federally recognized Tribes on
a government-to-government basis. Under
Federal environmental statutes, the Agency
will work to assure human health and
environmental protection in Indian country.
EPA has worked to establish the internal
infrastructure and organize its activities in
order to meet this responsibility. EPA's
American Indian Environmental Office
works to ensure environmental protection in
Indian country. EPA's strategy for achieving
this objective has three major components:
Establish an Environmental Presence in
Indian Country: The Agency will continue
to work to create an environmental presence
for each Federally-recognized Tribe.
Provide Access to Environmental
Information: EPA will provide the
information Tribes need to meet EPA and
Tribal environmental priorities, as well as
characterize the environmental and public
health improvements that result from joint
actions.
Implementation of Environmental Goals:
The Agency will provide opportunities for
the implementation of Tribal environmental
programs by Tribes, or directly by EPA, as
necessary.
In FY 2008, the budget provides $56.9
million for GAP grants, which will build
Tribal environmental capacity to assess
environmental conditions, utilize available
Federal information, and build an
environmental program tailored to Tribes'
needs. The grants will develop
environmental education and outreach
programs, develop and implement integrated
solid waste management plans, and alert
EPA to serious conditions that pose
immediate public health and ecological
threats. Through GAP program guidance,
EPA emphasizes outcome based results.
Sustainability
EPA has developed and evaluated tools and
technologies to monitor, prevent, control,
and clean up pollution throughout its
history. Since the Pollution Prevention Act
of 1990, the Agency has increasingly
focused on preventative and sustainable
approaches to health and environmental
problems. EPA's efforts in this area support
research specifically designed to address the
issue of advancing sustainability goals -
EPA's Science and Technology for
Sustainability (STS) program.
Sustainable approaches require: innovative
design and production techniques that
minimize or eliminate environmental
liabilities; integrated management of air,
water, and land resources; and changes in
the traditional methods of creating and
distributing goods and services.
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In FY 2008, EPA's Sustainability research
program will embark on a new effort that is
aimed at creating a suite of science-based
sustainability metrics that are readily
understood by the public. This work will
address both large and small systems. In
addition, the People, Prosperity, and Planet
(P3) Award will support up to 50 student
design projects from around the country,
focusing on challenges in areas such as
materials and chemicals, energy, resources,
and water.
FY2006 PART
• EPA's Pollution Prevention
Program, including the Categorical
Grant Program, underwent PART
review in FY 2006 and received a
"moderately effective" rating.
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This table lists PART Follow-Up Actions, also known as Improvement Plans that EPA programs
are implementing in response to PART assessments.
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•Year :
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Started.
2006
2006
2006
2006
2006
2006
2006
2006
2005
; PART .Program "Title :
Air Quality Grants and
Permitting
Air Quality Grants and
Permitting
Air Quality Grants and
Permitting
Air Quality Grants and
Permitting
Alaska Native Village Water
Infrastructure
Alaska Native Village Water
Infrastructure
Alaska Native Village Water
Infrastructure
Alaska Native Village Water
Infrastructure
Brownfields Revitalization
• Follow-Up Action
Develop a measure that assesses the
State permitting programs' quality,
efficiency, and compliance.
Develop at least one efficiency
measure that adequately reflects
program efficiency.
Develop policy and criteria for
transitioning the fine paniculate
matter (PM2.5) monitoring program
from Clean Air Act Section 103 grant
funding to Clean Air Act Section 105
grant funding.
Review and update current grant
allocation processes to ensure
resources are properly targeted.
Correcting incomplete data fields and
reporting deficiencies in database to
support analysis for cost effectiveness
and efficiency by January 30, 2007.
Finalizing web based project reporting
system to include all projects funded
by EPA dollars by April 30, 2007.
EPA will develop regulations for the
management and oversight of the
program, including all grant funds to
the State of Alaska and any subsidiary
recipients of EPA funds via the State
of Alaska. By March 1, 2007, EPA
shall provide a draft regulation to
OMB for review and comment.
The program will issue a contract for
an independent review of the Alaska
Native Tribal Health Consortium
financial processes and records. The
independent review will begin in
January 2007.
Complete performance measures that
are under development including a
new cross-agency measure that tracks
brownfields redevelopment.
Action Taken** '•'
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
No action taken
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
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Action Taken*
2005
Brownfields Revitalization
Conduct regional program reviews to
share and implement best practices
among regional offices that will
improve the program's overall
performance and efficiency.
Action taken, but not
completed
2005
Brownfields Revitalization
Improve grantee use of electronic
reporting systems to reduce data lags
in performance information.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Chesapeake Bay Program
Investigating potential methods to
more transparently characterize the
uncertainty of the watershed and water
quality models, ideally leading to
implementation of a method, if
feasible.
Action taken, but not
completed
Developing a comprehensive
implementation strategy that is
coordinated between program partners
and accurately accounts for available
2006
Chesapeake Bay Program
resources.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Chesapeake Bay Program
Promoting and tracking
implementation of the most cost
effective restoration activities to
maximize water quality
improvements.
Action taken, but not
completed
2004
Clean Water State Revolving
Fund
EPA will focus on improving the
quality and breadth of CWSRF
performance data. In particular, EPA
needs to focus on collecting data on
minor systems, which receive a
significant proportion of CWSRF
funding, and waterborne disease.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Drinking Water Protection
Program
Developing a long-term outcome
performance measure to assess the
public health impacts of
improvements in drinking water
compliance.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Drinking Water Protection
Program
Revising the current drinking water
small system affordability
methodology to address negative
distributional impacts.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Drinking Water Protection
Program
Implementing data quality review
recommendations to improve the
overall quality of the data in EPA's
drinking water compliance reporting
system.
Action taken, but not
completed
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2006
2006
2005
2005
2005
2005
2005
2006
'; PART Program Title '
Drinking Water Protection
Program
Drinking Water Research
Drinking Water Research
Drinking Water Research
Drinking Water State Revolving
Fund
Drinking Water State Revolving
Fund
Endocrine Disrupters
Endocrine Disrupters
Endocrine Disrupters
Endocrine Disrupters
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: • Follow-Up Action •' \
The program is developing an
efficiency measure that is more useful
and meaningful for tracking annual
programmatic efficiency.
Develop a performance measure
which tracks the efficiency with which
the program delivers its services to its
primary client, the EPA Office of
Water.
Develop baselines and targets for all
long term and annual performance
measures. These will allow the
program to set quantitative goals and
assess progress through time.
Improve oversight of non-grant
partners and require non-grant
partners to work towards the annual
and long term goals of the program.
Develop a new long-term outcome
performance measure to assess the
impact of drinking water compliance
improvements on public health.
Implement recommendations from the
second triennial drinking water data
quality review which are designed to
improve the overall quality of the data
in EPA's drinking water compliance
reporting system.
Articulate clearly R&D priorities to
ensure compelling, merit-based
justifications for funding allocations.
By the end of CY 2006, develop
baseline data for an efficiency
measure that compares dollars/labor
hours in validating chemical assays.
Maintain funding at approximately the
FY 2005 President's Budget level.
By the end of CY 2007, collect data
for first year of new contracts and
compare to baseline efficiency
measures.
Action Taken**,
No action taken
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Completed
Completed
Completed
Action taken, but not
completed
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Action Taken*
2004
EPA Acid Rain Program
Remove statutory requirements that
prevent program from having more
impact including (but not limited to)
barriers that; set maximum emissions
reduction targets, exempt certain
viable facilities from contributing, and
limit the scope of emission reduction
credit trading. The Administration's
Clear Skies proposal adequately
addresses these and other statutory
impediments. Program should work as
appropriate to promote the enactment
of the Clear Skies legislation.
Action taken, but not
completed
2004
EPA Acid Rain Program
Program should develop efficiency
measures to track and improve overall
program efficiency. Measures should
consider the full cost of the program,
not just the federal contribution.
Action taken, but not
completed
2005
EPA Climate Change Programs
EPA will complete an assessment and
comparison of the potential benefits
and efforts of the Clean Automotive
Technology program to other agency's
efforts with similar goals by April 1,
2005.
Action taken, but not
completed
2005
EPA Climate Change Programs
The Clean Automotive Technology
program will work to develop better
performance measures that more
clearly link to greenhouse gas
reduction potential in the near term.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
EPA Ecological Research
Develop a program-specific customer
survey to improve the program's
utility to the Agency.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
EPA Ecological Research
Link budget resources to annual and
long-term performance targets by
requesting and reporting Human
Health Research and Ecosystem
Research funding separately.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
EPA Ecological Research
Refine the questions used in
independent scientific reviews to
improve EPA's understanding of
program utility and performance in
relationship to environmental
outcomes.
Action taken, but not
completed
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2004
2004
2005
2005
2006
2004
2004
2004
2006
2003
2003
'; PART Program Title '
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws (Civil)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws (Civil)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws (Civil)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws (Civil)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws (Civil)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws (Civil)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws (Civil)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws (Criminal)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws (Criminal)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws (Criminal)
EPA Environmental Education
EPA Existing Chemicals
Program
EPA Existing Chemicals
Program
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: • Follow-Up Action •' \
Continue to expand and improve use
of statistically valid non-compliance
rates.
Develop meaningful baseline and
targets for outcome oriented
performance measures, with particular
emphasis on pounds of pollutants
reduced characterized for risk.
Direct funds toward completion of the
Permit Compliance System (PCS)
Target resources based on workload
analysis and take into account
recommendations by the intra-agency
Superfund Review completed in April
2004.
EPA will consider contracting for an
independent evaluation of the program
that can serve as the basis for further
improvements.
Calculate and evaluate recidivism
rates.
Begin to transition from a tool-
oriented to a problem-oriented GPRA
Architecture; and incorporate in the
next EPA Strategic Plan.
Created standardized definitions
(completed) and merging data bases
from within the agency to allow easier
implementation and evaluation of
measures.
Developing baselines and targets to
measure recidivism.
Developing a baseline and targets for
the outcome measure, pounds of
pollutants reduced, that is
characterized as to risk.
The administration is continuing its
recommendation to terminate the
program at EPA and rely on NSF
programs to fulfill scientific education
initiatives.
Develop a long-term outcome
efficiency measure.
Maintain funding at the 2004
President's Budget level.
Action Taken**,
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Completed
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Action Taken*
2005
EPA Existing Chemicals
Program
Develop a cost efficiency measure for
management of the Toxic Substances
Control Act 8(e) Hazard Notification
process.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
EPA Existing Chemicals
Program
Develop a long-term outcome measure
for the PFOA Stewardship Initiative
for inclusion in the FY 2009 OMB
Submission.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
EPA Existing Chemicals
Program
Assess initial year actual data for the
AEGL efficiency measure to identify
issues requiring resolution prior to
second year implementation of the
measure in the FY 2008 Annual Plan.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
EPA Existing Chemicals
Program
Update baseline data for TSCA 8(e)
efficiency measure through FY 2007.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
EPA Existing Chemicals
Program
Develop an efficiency measure for
Acute Exposure Guideline Levels
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
EPA Human Health Research
Develop ambitious long-term
performance targets that clearly define
what outcomes would represent a
successful program.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
EPA Human Health Research
Improve ability to link budget
resources to annual and long-term
performance targets by requesting and
reporting Human Health research and
Ecosystem research funding as
separate program-projects.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
EPA Human Health Research
Implement follow up
recommendations resulting from
external expert review by the Human
Health Subcommittee of the Board of
Scientific Counselors (BOSC).
Follow up actions are those actions
committed to in the Human Health
Research program's formal response to
the BOSC in September 2005.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
EPA Indoor Air Quality
Improve transparency by making State
radon grantee performance data
available to the public via a website or
other easily accessible means.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
EPA Indoor Air Quality
Link budget requests more explicitly
to accomplishment of performance
goals, specifically by stipulating how
adjustments to resource levels would
impact performance.
Action taken, but not
completed
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2006
2006
2006
2006
2003
2003
2003
2005
'; PART Program Title '
EPA Indoor Air Quality
EPA Lead-Based Paint Risk
Reduction Program
EPA Lead-Based Paint Risk
Reduction Program
EPA Lead-Based Paint Risk
Reduction Program
EPA Lead-Based Paint Risk
Reduction Program
EPA Lead-Based Paint Risk
Reduction Program
EPA New Chemicals Program
EPA New Chemicals Program
EPA New Chemicals Program
EPA New Chemicals Program
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Use efficiency measures to
demonstrate improved efficiencies or
cost effectiveness in achieving
program goals.
Develop and implement a method of
measuring the impacts of the
program's outreach and education
efforts.
Improve the consistency of grantee
and regional office accountability
mechanisms and develop a system that
ensures all relevant performance data
from grantees and the Regional offices
is being collected for the purposes of
focusing program actions.
Improve the linkage between program
funding and the associated
contributions towards progress in
achieving program goals, especially
for program grant and contractor
funding.
Refine/Improve measures used in
State Grant Reporting Template to
improve accountability of program
partners for achievement of program
goals.
Further improve results reporting from
program partners.
Establish targets and timeframes for
its measures, including efficiency
measures.
Maintain funding at the 2004
President's Budget level.
Propose appropriations language to
change the Toxic Substances Control
Act to lift the cap on fees that the
Agency can collect for new chemical
reviews.
Develop an efficiency measure to
target improvements in the initial
phases of EPA' s management of Pre-
Manufacture Notices (PMNs).
Action Taken**,
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Completed
Completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Completed
Completed
Completed
Completed
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2006
2006
2006
2006
2005
2005
2005
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'; PART Program Title '
EPA New Chemicals Program
EPA New Chemicals Program
EPA Oil Spill Control
EPA Oil Spill Control
EPA Oil Spill Control
EPA Oil Spill Control
EPA Pesticide Enforcement
Grant Program
EPA Pesticide Enforcement
Grant Program
EPA Pesticide Enforcement
Grant Program
EPA Support for Cleanup of
Federal Facilities
EPA Support for Cleanup of
Federal Facilities
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Develop a long-term/annual output
measure addressing the program's
recognition of PMN submissions for
advancing pollution prevention, or a
suitable alternative measure, for
inclusion in the FY 2009 OMB
Submission.
Develop baselines and targets for the
efficiency measure targeting
improvements in the initial phases of
EPA's management of Pre-
Manufacture Notices (PMNs).
Develop a forum for sharing and
implementing best practices among
regional offices that will improve the
program's overall performance and
efficiency.
Develop a second long-term outcome
measure and at least one annual
outcome measure.
Develop stronger strategic planning
procedures to ensure continuous
improvement in the program,
including regular procedures that will
track and document key decisions and
work products.
Evaluate the data quality of key data
sources used by the program to
improve the accuracy and reliability of
performance information.
Develop targets and baselines.
Evaluate why cost effectiveness
appears inversely proportional to
amount of Federal funding.
Work to develop appropriate outcome
performance measures.
Conduct one evaluation on an aspect
of the program to identify areas and
means for program improvements.
Work with other Federal agencies to
support attainment of long-term
environmental and human health
goals.
Action Taken**,
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Completed
Completed
Completed
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2006
2006
2005
2005
2006
2006
2006
2006
2006
'; PART Program Title '
EPA Tribal General Assistance
Program
EPA Tribal General Assistance
Program
EPA Tribal General Assistance
Program
EPA Tribal General Assistance
Program
EPA's Recycling, Waste
Minimization, and Waste
Management Program
EPA's Recycling, Waste
Minimization, and Waste
Management Program
EPA's Recycling, Waste
Minimization, and Waste
Management Program
Global Change Research
Global Change Research
Global Change Research
Global Change Research
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EPA will develop ambitious
performance targets for its annual and
efficiency measures.
EPA will improve the program's
accountability.
Improving data quality both in terms
of scope and reliability to assist in
setting meaningful targets for program
improvement.
Work to increase the implementation
and delegation of environmental
programs on Indian lands.
Continuously improving the program
by identifying where compliance costs
are excessive and reducing the cost of
compliance where appropriate (i.e.
RCRA manifest rule).
Develop an efficiency measure for the
waste minimization component of the
RCRA base program.
Develop a new regulatory definition
of solid waste that satisfies the judicial
requirements while ensuring that costs
are not inappropriately shifted to the
Superfund or other corrective action
programs by narrowing the exclusion
of previously regulated substances.
Finalize ambitious long-term outcome
measures that assess the utility of the
program's research products and
services with respect to the outcome
goals of its clients.
More clearly define the program's
framework and mission to help focus
assessment efforts and provide
structure for setting priorities.
Develop an efficiency measure that
captures the cost effectiveness of
research activities.
Develop and implement a protocol for
more frequent review and use of
financial and performance tracking
data to improve budget-performance
integration.
Action Taken**,
Action taken, but not
completed
Completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
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2006
2006
2006
2006
2006
2003
2005
2005
2005
'; PART Program Title '
Human Health Risk Assessment
Program
Human Health Risk Assessment
Program
Human Health Risk Assessment
Program
Human Health Risk Assessment
Program
Land Protection and Restoration
Research
Land Protection and Restoration
Research
Land Protection and Restoration
Research
Leaking Underground Storage
Tank Cleanup Program
Leaking Underground Storage
Tank Cleanup Program
Leaking Underground Storage
Tank Cleanup Program
Mobile Source Air Pollution
Standards and Certification
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Expand efficiency measure to include
all major work products.
Implement new IRIS review process.
Implement regular, independent
evaluations that assess the program's
effectiveness specifically related to its
influence on key risk management
decisions made by the Agency's
environmental media offices.
Investigate alternative approaches for
measuring progress related to
providing timely, high quality
scientific assessments.
Finalize ambitious, long-term outcome
performance measures that assess the
utility of the program's research
products and services with respect to
the outcome goals of its clients.
Develop and implement a protocol for
more frequent review and use of
financial and performance tracking
data to improve budget-performance
integration.
Develop a new efficiency measure
that captures the cost effectiveness of
research activities.
In response to initial findings that the
program needed better long-term
outcome goals with adequate baselines
and targets, the program will conduct
a baseline characterization study.
Programs initiative on performance
indicators. The program has proposed
new measures for this reassessment.
Seek out regular independent
evaluations and a systematic process
to review the program's strategic
planning.
Begin collecting data to support two
new efficiency measures - one long
and one short-term - to enable the
program to measure further efficiency
improvements.
Action Taken**,
No action taken
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
No action taken
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Completed
Completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
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2005
Mobile Source Air Pollution
Standards and Certification
Request $66 million for EPA's mobile
source programs, $1.5 million more
than the 2005 President's Budget
request.
Completed
2005
Mobile Source Air Pollution
Standards and Certification
Systematically review existing
regulations to maintain consistency
and ensure that regulations maximize
net benefits. Conduct thorough ex
ante economic analyses and
evaluations of alternatives in support
of regulatory development.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards and Regional Haze
Programs
Develop at least one efficiency
measure that adequately reflects
program efficiency.
Completed
2006
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards and Regional Haze
Programs
Implement improvements within
current statutory limitations that
address deficiencies in design and
implementation and identify and
evaluate needed improvements that
are beyond current statutory authority.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards and Regional Haze
Programs
Improve the linkage between program
funding and the associated
contributions towards progress in
achieving program goals.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards Research
Develop an annual measure that more
directly demonstrates progress on
toward the long-term goal of reducing
uncertainty in identified research areas
of high priority.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards Research
Develop and implement adequate
methods for determining progress on
the program's two new long-term
measures (uncertainty and source-to-
health linkage measures) as well as for
the new annual measure (customer
survey measure).
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards Research
Improve multi-year plan (MYP) and
financial data tracking systems and
procedures to better and more
transparently integrate grantee and
program performance with financial
information.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards Research
The program must develop at least one
efficiency measure that adequately
reflects the efficiency of the program.
Action taken, but not
completed
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Action Taken*
2006
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards Research
Convene annual program reviews in
which extramural expert discipline
scientists and clients will assess the
state of ORD science, ensure progress
toward outcome goals, and determine
the need for strategic mid-course
adjustments to maximize program
efficiency and assist with outyear
planning.
Action taken, but not
completed
2005
Nonpoint Source Pollution
Control Grants
EPA will consider contracting for an
independent evaluation of the program
that can serve as the basis for further
improvements.
Action taken, but not
completed
2005
Nonpoint Source Pollution
Control Grants
To continue to improve this program
and meet its long-term goals, EPA
will focus on ensuring its funds are
used for the most beneficial projects.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Ocean, Coastal, and Estuary
Protection
Develop an additional performance
measure for non-estuary program
activities.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Ocean, Coastal, and Estuary
Protection
Develop an annual performance
measure for the Ocean Dumping
Program.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Ocean, Coastal, and Estuary
Protection
Developing more ambitious targets for
the National Estuary Program's annual
and long term measures on habitat
acres protected and restored.
Action taken, but not
completed
2005
Pesticide Field Programs
Develop and implement a method of
compiling and disseminating Field
Programs grantee performance data in
a manner easily accessible to the
public. EPA worked with states to
develop a simplified, electronic, EOY
reporting system for worker safety
activities. Will expand to other field
programs by EOY 2007.
Completed
2005
Pesticide Field Programs
Develop and implement annual goals
and efficiency measures and continue
development of baselines and targets
for long-term outcome measures for
all Field Programs.
Completed
2005
Pesticide Field Programs
Make the Field Programs budgeting
more transparent and more clearly link
to adequate and relevant program-
specific measures.
Completed
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Pesticide Field Programs
Pesticide Field Programs
Pesticide Registration
Pesticide Registration
Pesticide Registration
Pesticide Registration
Pesticide Registration
Pesticide Registration
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Include a $1 million reduction in
funding for the Field Programs, WQ
program in the FY2006 President's
Budget. EPA must ensure that WQ
program activities affected by this
reduction are adequately addressed in
the Office of Water's Surface Water
Protection program.
Implement new strategic plan
architecture into FY 08 management
activities and day-to-day operations.
Establish executive leads to provide
senior leadership for each of the 3
mission areas in the new Strategic
Plan.
Brief staff on new Strategic Plan in
order to incorporate stronger
alignment between Strategic Plan
individual Performance Agreement
and Recognition System (PARS)
agreements.
The Administration recommends
maintaining funding at the 2004
President's Budget level adjusted for
the annual pay increase.
The program will also work on long-
term outcome efficiency measures.
The program will develop long-term
risk-based outcome performance
measures that will supplement the
existing long-term measures.
Implement new strategic plan
architecture into FY 08 management
activities and day-to-day operations.
Establish executive leads to provide
senior leadership for each of the 3
mission areas in the new Strategic
Plan.
Brief staff on new Strategic Plan in
order to incorporate stronger
alignment between Strategic Plan
individual Performance Agreement
and Recognition System (PARS)
agreements.
Action Taken**,
Completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Completed
Completed
Completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
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Per the Agency targets develop and
finalize appropriate regional
performance targets.
Action Taken*
2004
Pesticide Reregistration
Completed
2004
Pesticide Reregistration
To address the issue of not meeting
annual targets and concerns about
meeting statutorily-required deadlines,
the program did use additional
resources for reviewing antimicrobial
pesticides and inert ingredients as
proposed in the FY 2004 President's
Budget.
Completed
2004
Pesticide Reregistration
The original PART assessment found
that the program was not measuring its
level of efficiency. As a result, the
program has proposed new output
efficiency measures that will promote
better management and a more direct
focus on efficiently achieving
outcomes.
(Management/Performance)
Completed
2006
Pesticide Reregistration
Implement new strategic plan
architecture into FY 08 management
activities and day-to-day operations.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Pesticide Reregistration
Establish executive leads to provide
senior leadership for each of the 3
mission areas in the new Strategic
Plan.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Pesticide Reregistration
Brief staff on new Strategic Plan in
order to incorporate stronger
alignment between Strategic Plan
individual Performance Agreement
and Recognition System (PARS)
agreements.
Action taken, but not
completed
2004
Pollution Prevention and New
Technologies Research
Establish performance measures,
including efficiency measures.
Action taken, but not
completed
2004
Pollution Prevention and New
Technologies Research
Shift funding from this research
program to another Environmental
Protection Agency pollution
prevention program that has shown
results (see New Chemicals PART).
Completed
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Action Taken
.**
2004
Pollution Prevention and New
Technologies Research
Improve the program's strategic
planning. These improvements should
include a plan for independent
evaluation of the program, responses
to previous evaluations, and should
clearly explain why the program
should pursue projects instead of other
capable parties.
Completed
2005
Pollution Prevention and New
Technologies Research
Develop and publish a revised multi-
year research plan with an improved
strategic focus and clear goals and
priorities. This plan must include
explicit statements of: specific issues
motivating the program; broad goals
and more specific tasks meant to
address the issue; priorities among
goals and activities; human and capital
resources anticipated; and intended
program outcomes against which
success may later be assessed.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Pollution Prevention and New
Technologies Research
Institute a plan for regular, external
reviews of the quality of the program's
research and research performers,
including a plan to use the results
from these reviews to guide future
program decisions.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Pollution Prevention Program
Evaluate Science Advisory Board
Report recommendations for
improving performance measures to
better demonstrate P2 results.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Pollution Prevention Program
Identifying and reducing barriers
associated with core EPA activities
that limit implementation of pollution
prevention practices by industry.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Pollution Prevention Program
Developing additional P2 Program
efficiency measures to expand the
portion of the program's resources that
are addressed.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Pollution Prevention Program
Fully implement Grant Track and P2
State Reporting System. Obtain
consistent 2007 results from Regions.
Action taken, but not
completed
2005
Public Water System Supervision
Grant Program
Develop a new long-term outcome
performance measure to assess the
impact of drinking water compliance
improvements on public health.
Action taken, but not
completed
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Action Taken
.**
2005
Public Water System Supervision
Grant Program
Implement recommendations from the
second triennial drinking water data
quality review which are designed to
improve the overall quality of the data
in EPA's drinking water compliance
reporting system.
Action taken, but not
completed
2004
Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act Corrective Action
Program must define a new baseline
for performance measures and
establish appropriate annual targets to
make goals more ambitious in
achieving long-term objectives of the
program.
Completed
2004
Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act Corrective Action
Program should establish appropriate
efficiency measures to adequately
track program efficiency over time.
Action taken, but not
completed
2005
Stratospheric Ozone Protection
Continue to monitor progress to
ensure that the program is on track to
meet goals.
Action taken, but not
completed
2005
Stratospheric Ozone Protection
Continue to support the Multilateral
Fund for the Implementation of the
Montreal Protocol.
Action taken, but not
completed
2005
Stratospheric Ozone Protection
Convert long-term health effects
measure into a rate of skin cancer
prevalence so that an actual baseline
can be established once statistics are
available.
Completed
Program will develop a long-term
performance measure and set
ambitious targets for reduced
incidence of non-melanoma skin
2006
Stratospheric Ozone Protection
cancers.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Stratospheric Ozone Protection
Program will develop a performance
measure and targets to track
intermediate outcomes by measuring
"thickness" of the ozone layer in the
atmosphere. Many of the program's
outcome performance measures are
extremely long-term, so it is important
to establish measurable performance
objectives for the near term.
Action taken, but not
completed
2005
Superfund Remedial Action
Implement the recommendations of
the Agency's 120-day study on
management of the Superfund
program.
Action taken, but not
completed
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2006
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2006
2006
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Superfund Remedial Action
Superfund Removal
Superfund Removal
Superfund Removal
Surface Water Protection
Surface Water Protection
Surface Water Protection
Toxic Air Pollutants -
Regulations and Federal Support
Toxic Air Pollutants -
Regulations and Federal Support
Toxic Air Pollutants -
Regulations and Federal Support
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Modernize the program's data
repository (CERCLIS) to ensure
accurate and complete information on
program performance and financial
management.
Validate the reporting method for
performance data and develop a new
Superfund cleanup efficiency
measure.
Investigate the feasibility of outcome
oriented measures that test the linkage
between program activities and
impacts on human health and the
environment.
Modernize the program's data
repository (CERCLIS) to ensure
accurate and complete information on
program performance and financial
management.
Develop a plan for regular,
comprehensive and independent
assessments of program performance.
Require that 106 State workplans and
performance data are formatted and
reported consistently and directly
support specific goals in EPA's
strategic plan.
Working with States and other
partners, EPA will assess 100% of
rivers, lakes, and streams in the lower
48 states using statistically -valid
surveys by 2010.
Working with States and other
partners, EPA will issue water quality
reports based on the statistically -valid
surveys in the lower 48 states by 201 1.
Establish better performance
measures, including an appropriate
efficiency measure.
Focus on maximizing programmatic
net benefits and minimizing the cost
per deleterious health effect avoided.
Increase funding for toxic air pollutant
programs by $7 million in State grants
for monitoring to help fill data gaps.
Action Taken**,
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
Completed
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2006
Toxic Air Pollutants -
Regulations and Federal Support
Use the newly developed efficiency
measure to demonstrate efficiency
improvements.
No action taken
2005
U. S.-Mexico Border Water
Infrastructure
Develop baselines and targets for its
long-term and efficiency measures.
Completed
2005
U. S.-Mexico Border Water
Infrastructure
Follow-up on the results of the
business process review to help EPA
implement program changes that
could improve effectiveness.
Completed
2005
Underground Injection Control
Grant Program
Develop an outcome-based annual
performance measure and an
efficiency measure, which
demonstrate the protection of source
water quality.
Action taken, but not
completed
2005
Underground Injection Control
Grant Program
Implement recommendations from the
second triennial drinking water data
quality review which are designed to
improve the overall quality of the data
in EPA's drinking water compliance
reporting system.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Water Pollution Control Grants
Provide incentives for States to
implement or improve their permit fee
programs, increasing the resources
available for water quality programs.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Water Pollution Control Grants
Require that State workplans and
performance data are formatted and
reported consistently and directly
support specific goals in EPA's
strategic plan.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Water Pollution Control Grants
Target additional program funding to
States implementing probabilistic
monitoring activities in support of the
national probabilistic monitoring
survey.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Water Quality Research
Finalize ambitious long-term outcome
performance measures, which assess
the utility of the program's research
products and services with respect to
the outcome goals of its clients.
Action taken, but not
completed
2006
Water Quality Research
Developing and implementing a
protocol for more frequent review and
use of financial and performance
tracking data to improve budget and
performance integration.
Action taken, but not
completed
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Develop a new outcome efficiency
measure that captures the cost
effectiveness of research activities.
Improve the collection of partner
performance information to more
clearly link to programmatic goals so
managers can take appropriate actions
to improve overall program
performance.
Action Taken**,
Action taken, but not
completed
Action taken, but not
completed
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This table includes PART performance measures that do not report annual results (long-term
performance measures) or that has targets under development (UD). The annual and efficiency
measures included in this table will be incorporated into EPA's budget and GPRA documents as
data become available. The "Year Data Available" column provides the most current estimate
for the date EPA expects to report on each measure.
PART Program-': •-
Goal 1:
EPA Acid Rain
Program
EPA Acid Rain
Program
EPA Climate Change
Programs
EPA Climate Change
Programs
EPA Climate Change
Programs
Mobile Source Air
Pollution Standards
and Certification
Mobile Source Air
Pollution Standards
and Certification
Mobile Source Air
Pollution Standards
and Certification
EPA Indoor Air
Quality
EPA Indoor Air
Quality
NAAQS and Regional
Haze Programs
NAAQS and Regional
Haze Programs
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Clean Air and Global Climate Change
Long-Term Performance Measure
Percent of change in number of chronically acidic waterbodies in acid
sensitive regions.
Tons of sulfur dioxide emissions reduced from electric power
generating sources.
Million metric tons of carbon equivalent (mmtce) of greenhouse gas in
the building sector.
Million metric tons of carbon equivalent (mmtce) of greenhouse gas in
the industry sector.
Million metric tons of carbon equivalent (mmtce) of greenhouse gas
reductions in the transportation sector.
Millions of tons of nitrogen oxides (NOX) reduced since 2000 from
mobile sources.
Millions of tons of volcanic organic compounds (VOCs) reduced since
2000 from mobile sources.
Tons of fine paniculate matter (PM2.5) reduced since 2000 from
mobile sources.
Estimated future premature lung cancer deaths prevented annually
through lowered radon exposure.
Total number of schools implementing an effective Indoor Air Quality
Plan.
Percent improvement in visibility on 20% worst days, on average for all
eastern Class I areas.
Percent improvement in visibility on 20% worst days, on average to
western Class I areas.
• Year Data'
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FY 2030
FY2010
FY2012
FY2012
FY2012
FY2010
FY2010
FY2010
FY2012
FY 2009
FY2018
FY2018
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NAAQS and Regional
Haze Program,
Air Quality Grants and
Permitting
NAAQS and Regional
Haze Program,
Air Quality Grants and
Permitting
National Ambient Air
Quality Standards
Research
National Ambient Air
Quality Standards
Research
National Ambient Air
Quality Standards
Research
Stratospheric Ozone
Protection
Stratospheric Ozone
Protection
Stratospheric Ozone
Protection
Toxic Air Pollutants
Toxic Air Pollutants
Air Quality Grants and
Permitting
National Ambient Air
Quality Standards
Research
Mobile Source Air
Pollution Standards
and Certification
PROGRAM ASSESSMENT.RATING TOOL (PART)
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Percent reduction in population-weighted ambient concentration of fine
paniculate matter (PM 2.5) in all monitored counties from 2003
baseline.
Percent reduction in population-weighted ambient concentration of
ozone in all monitored counties from 2003 baseline.
Percentage of ORD-developed outputs appearing in the Office of Air
and Radiation National Ambient Air Quality Standard Staff Paper (SP)
Progress in assessing the linkage between health impacts and air
pollutant sources and reducing the uncertainties that impede the
understanding and usefulness of these linkages.
Progress toward reducing uncertainty in the science that supports
standard setting and air quality management decisions.
By 2011, total equivalent stratospheric chlorine will have reached its
peak, and begun its gradual decline to a value less than 3.4 parts per
billion of air by volume.
Elimination of U.S. consumption of Class II Ozone Depleting
substances measured intons/yr. of Ozone Depleting Potential (OOP).
Reduced incidence of melanoma skin cancers, measured by new skin
cancer cases avoided per 100,000 population.
Percentage reduction in tons toxicity-weighted cancer risk emissions
from 1993 baseline.
Percentage reduction in tons toxicity-weighted of non-cancer risk
emissions from 1993 baseline.
Annual Performance Measure
Average number of days during the ozone season that the ozone
standard is exceeded in baseline non-attainment areas, weighted by
population.
Percentage of program publications rated as highly cited papers.
Efficiency Performance Measure
Percent reduction in time (days) per certificate approval for large
engines (nonroad ci, Heavy duty gas and diesel engines).
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FY2015
FY2015
FY2010
FY 2009
FY 2009
FY2011
FY2010
FY 2050
FY2010
FY2010
UD
FY 2007
FY2012
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Mobile Source Air
Pollution Standards
and Certification
NAAQS and Regional
Haze Programs
Toxic Air Pollutants -
Regulations and
Regional Support
Goal 2:
Alaska Native Villages
Alaska Native Villages
Clean Water State
Revolving Fund
Drinking Water
Research
Drinking Water
Research
Drinking Water State
Revolving Fund
Nonpoint Source
Tribal General
Assistance Program
Tribal General
Assistance Program
Tribal General
Assistance Program
Underground Injection
Control
PROGRAM ASSESSMENT.RATING TOOL (PART)
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
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Tons of pollutants (VOC, NOX, PM, CO) reduced per total emission
reduction dollars spent.
Cumulative percent reduction in the number of days to process State
Implementation Plan revisions, weighted by complexity
Tons of toxicity-weighted (for cancer and noncancer risk) emissions
reduced per total cost ($).
Clean and Safe Water
Long-Term Performance Measure
100% of serviceable rural Alaska homes will have access to drinking
water supply and wastewater disposal by 20 1 1 .
100% of Alaska rural population served by public water systems in
compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act regulatory requirements
by 2011.
CWSRF Long-Term Revolving Level ($billions/yr)
Indep. Exp. Rev. Panel summary score on tool designed to measure the
use of ORD data, tools, and technologies for key decisions leading to
scientifically-sound 6 Year Review Decisions made by OW
Indep. Exp. Rev. Panel summary score on tool designed to measure the
use of ORD data, tools, and technologies for key decisions leading to
scientifically-sound CCL decisions made by the OW
DWSRF Long-Term Revolving Level ($billions/yr)
Number of waterbodies identified by states (in 2000 or subsequent
years) as being primarily NPS-impaired that are partially or fully
restored.
Percent decrease in the number of homes on tribal lands lacking access
to safe drinking water.
Percent decrease in the number of homes in Indian Country with
inadequate wastewater sanitation systems.
Show an improvement for each of four parameters — total nitrogen, total
phosphorus, dissolved oxygen, and fecal coliforms — at not fewer than
90 monitoring stations in tribal waters.
Percent of CWS for which minimized risk to public health through
source water protection is achieved.
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UD
FY 2008
UD
FY2011
FY2011
FY2011
FY2010
FY2010
FY2018
FY2011
FY 2007
FY 2007
UD
FY2011
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Research
Water Quality
Research
Drinking Water
Protection Program
Drinking Water
Research
Drinking Water
Research
Drinking Water State
Revolving Fund
Underground Injection
Control Grant Program
Goal 3:
EPA's Recycling,
Waste Minimization,
and Waste
Management Program
EPA Support for
Cleanup of Federal
Facilities
EPA Support for
Cleanup of Federal
Facilities
Land Protection and
Restoration Research
Land Protection and
Restoration Research
Leaking Underground
Storage Tank Cleanup
Program
PROGRAM ASSESSMENT.RATING TOOL (PART)
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
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Percentage of WQRP publications rated as highly cited publications.
Percentage of WQRP publications in "high impact" journals.
Annual Performance Measure
Percent of data for violations of health-based standards at public water
systems that is accurate and complete in SDWIS/FED for all MCL and
TT rules.
Percentage of research products used by the Office of Water as the
basis of or in support of Contaminant Candidate List Decisions.
Percentage of research products used by the Office of Water as the
basis of or in support of Six Year Review Decisions.
Efficiency Performance Measure
Average funding (millions of dollars) per project initiating operations
Dollars per well to move Class V wells back into compliance
Land Preservation and Restoration
Long-Term Performance Measure
By 2008, update controls for preventing releases at 150 RCRA HWM
facilities due for permit renewal.
Federal Facility Superfund sites with contaminated groundwater under
control (exposure pathways eliminated or potential exposures under
health-based levels for current use of land/water resources).
Federal Facility Superfund sites with human exposures under control
(exposure pathways are eliminated or potential exposures are under
health-based levels for current use of land or water resources).
Percentage of Land research publications rated as highly cited
publications.
Percentage of Land publications in "high impact" journals.
Increase the number of cleanups that meet state risk-based standards for
human exposure and groundwater migration on Indian County.
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FY 2008
UD
UD
UD
FY 2008
FY2011
FY 2008
FY2011
FY2011
FY 2008
FY 2008
FY2011
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Leaking Underground
Storage Tank Cleanup
Program
Oil Spill Control
Superfund Remedial
Action
Superfund Remedial
Action
Superfund Remedial
Action
Superfund Removal
Superfund Removal
EPA's Recycling,
Waste Minimization,
and Waste
Management Program
Leaking Underground
Storage Tank Cleanup
Program
Goal 4:
Brownfields
Revitalization
Chesapeake Bay
Program
Chesapeake Bay
Program
Ecological Research
Ecological Research
PROGRAM ASSESSMENT.RATING TOOL (PART)
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
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Increase the number of cleanups that meet state risk-based standards for
human exposure and groundwater migration.
Gallons of oil spilled to navigable waters by facilities subject to the
Facility Response Plan (FRP) regulations.
Superfund sites with contaminated groundwater migration under
control.
Acres of land ready for re-use at Superfund sites.
Superfund sites with human health protection achieved (exposure
pathways are eliminated or potential exposures are under health-based
levels for current use of land or water resources.
Total Superfund-lead removal actions completed.
Total voluntary removal actions, overseen by EPA, completed.
Efficiency Performance Measure
Tons of municipal solid waste recycled over total net costs of recovery.
Cleanups complete (3 -year rolling average) per total cleanup dollars.
Healthy Communities and Ecosystems
Long-Term Performance Measure
Assessed or cleaned Brownfields properties redeveloped.
Percent of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation goal of 185,000 acres
achieved, based on annual monitoring from prior year.
Percent of Dissolved Oxygen goal of 100% standards attainment
achieved, based on annual monitoring from the previous calendar year
and the preceding 2 years.
States use a common monitoring design and appropriate indicators to
determine the status and trends of ecological resources and the
effectiveness of programs and policies.
States, tribes and EPA offices improved their ability to determine
causes of eco degradation through the application of recently developed
(within 5 years) ORD causal diagnostic tools and methods
: , ,/ .'Year Data, '
'•'_ , Available '
FY2011
FY2011
FY2011
FY2010
FY2011
FY2011
FY2011
UD
UD
UD
FY2011
FY2011
FY 2008
FY 2009
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Ecological Research
Ecological Research
Endocrine Disrupters
Endocrine Disrupters
Human Health
Research
Human Health
Research
Human Health
Research
Human Health
Research
Human Health
Research
Human Health
Research
Human Health
Research
Human Health
Research
Human Health Risk
Assessment
PROGRAM ASSESSMENT.RATING TOOL (PART)
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
:\ . \'!" - V PART Measures ' ;." ,, •' .
States, tribes and EPA offices improved their ability to forecast eco
impacts of actions through the application of recently developed (within
5 years) ORD environmental forecasting tools and methods
States, tribes and EPA offices improved their ability to protect/restore
eco condition and services through the application of recently dev.
(within 5 years) ORD environ, restoration tools and methods
Determination of the extent of the impact of endocrine disrupters on
humans, wildlife, and the environment to better inform the federal and
scientific communities.
Reduction in uncertainty regarding the effects, exposure, assessment,
and management of endocrine disrupters so that EPA has a sound
scientific foundation for environmental decision-making
Percentage of peer-reviewed EPA RAs where ORD methods, models or
data for assessing risk to susceptible subpops is cited as supporting a
decision to move away from or apply default risk assessment
assumptions
Percentage of peer-reviewed EPA risk assessments in which ORD's
characterization of aggregate/cumulative risk is cited as supporting a
decision to move away from or to apply default risk assessment
assumptions
Percentage of human health program publications rated as highly cited
papers.
Percentage of peer-reviewed EPA risk assessments in which ORD's
mechanistic information is cited as supporting a decision to move away
from or to apply default risk assessment assumptions.
Risk assessors and risk managers use ORD's methods and models to
evaluate the effectiveness of public health outcomes (as evaluated by
external expert review).
Risk assessors and risk managers use ORD's methods, models and data
to characterize aggregate and cumulative risk in order to manage risk of
humans exposed to multiple environmental stressors.
Risk assessors and risk managers use ORD's methods, models and data
to characterize and provide adequate protection of susceptible
subpopulations (as evaluated by external expert review).
Risk assessors and risk managers use ORD's methods, models and data
to use mechanistic (mode of action) information to reduce uncertainty
in risk assessment (as evaluated by external expert review).
Percentage of regulatory decisions in which decision-makers used
HHRA peer-reviewed health assessments.
: , ,/ .'Year Data, '
'•'_ , Available '
FY 2009
FY 2009
FY 2009
FY 2009
FY 2009
FY 2009
FY 2007
FY 2009
FY 2009
FY 2009
FY 2009
FY 2009
FY 2008
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PAR*T Program '' '•
Human Health Risk
Assessment
Lead-Based Paint Risk
Reduction Program
Pesticide Registration
Pollution Prevention
Program
Pollution Prevention
Program
U.S. -Mexico Border
Water Infrastructure
U.S. -Mexico Border
Water Infrastructure
U.S. -Mexico Border
Water Infrastructure
Brownfields
Revitalization
New Chemicals
Pesticide Field
Program
Pesticide Field
Program
Pesticide
Reregistration
Goal 5:
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws
(Civil)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws
(Criminal)
PROGRAM ASSESSMENT.RATING TOOL (PART)
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
:\ . \'!" - V PART Measures ' ;." ,, •' .
Usefulness of HHRA's Air Quality Criteria Documents (AQCDs),
represented by the number of days between the completion of AQCD
peer review and publication of the EPA staff document that relies on
AQCD findings.
Number of cases of children (aged 1-5 years) with elevated blood lead
levels (>10ug/dl).
Percent of agricultural watersheds that exceed EPA aquatic life
benchmarks for two key pesticides.
Cumulative pounds of hazardous materials reduced by P2 program
participants.
Cumulative business, institutional and government costs reduced by P2
program participants.
Percentage of water quality standards met in shared and transboundary
surface waters.
Number of additional homes provided adequate wastewater sanitation
in the Mexican Border area that lacked access to adequate wastewater
sanitation in 2003.
Number of additional homes provided safe drinking water in the
Mexican Border area that lacked access to safe drinking water in 2003.
Efficiency Performance Measure
Acres of brownfields made ready for reuse per million dollars.
Review costs per chemical (for EPA and industry.)
Average cost and average time to produce or update an Endangered
Species List.
Reduced cost per pesticide occupational incident avoided.
Reduction in cost per Reregistration Eligibility Decision
Compliance and Environmental Stewardship
Long-Term Performance Measure
Pounds of pollution reduced, treated, or eliminated, (civil enforcement)
Pounds of pollution reduced, treated, or eliminated. (criminal
enforcement)
: , ,/ .'Year Data, '
'•'_ , Available '
FY 2007
FY2010
FY2011
FY2011
FY2011
FY2012
FY2011
FY2011
UD
UD
FY2011
FY2011
FY 2008
FY 2007
FY 2007
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EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws
(Criminal)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws
(Criminal)
EPA Environmental
Education
EPA Environmental
Education
EPA's Recycling,
Waste Minimization,
and Waste
Management Program
EPA Tribal General
Assistance Program
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws
(Criminal)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws
(Criminal)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws
(Criminal)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws
(Criminal)
EPA Environmental
Education
EPA Pesticide
Enforcement Grant
Program
PROGRAM ASSESSMENT.RATING TOOL (PART)
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
:\ . \'!" - V PART Measures ' ;." ,, •' .
Reduction in recidivism, (criminal enforcement)
Change in behavior to use Improved management practices, (criminal
enforcement)
Number of states adopting or aligning Guidelines for Learning curricula
and standards to state academic standards or number of states
developing new environmental education standards based on Guidelines
for Learning.
Percent of all students and teachers targeted demonstrate increased
environmental knowledge, as measured by Guidelines for Learning K-
12, developed by North American Assoc for Environmental Education.
By 2008, reduce priority list chemicals in hazardous waste streams
reported by businesses to the Toxic Release Inventory by 10% (8.4
million tons) from a 2001 baseline.
Show improvement for each of 4 parameters -total nitrogen, total
phosphorus, DO, and fecal coliforms — at not fewer than 90 monitoring
stations in tribal waters for which baseline data are available.
Annual Performance Measure
Change in behavior to use Improved Management practices, (criminal
enforcement)
Pollutant impact.
Pounds of pollution reduced, treated or eliminated, (criminal
enforcement)
Reduction in recidivism (criminal enforcement).
Number of NNEMS fellows who pursue environmental careers.
Percent of compliance actions taken as a result of
inspection/enforcement, (pesticide enforcement)
: , ,/ .'Year Data, '
'•'_ , Available '
FY 2007
FY 2007
FY 2008
FY 2008
FY 2008
FY2012
FY 2007
FY2008
FY 2007
FY 2007
FY 2007
FY 2007
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EPA Pesticide
Enforcement Grant
Program
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws
(Civil)
EPA Enforcement of
Environmental Laws
(Criminal)
EPA Environmental
Education
EPA Pesticide
Enforcement Grant
Program
EPA's Recycling,
Waste Minimization,
and Waste
Management Program
PROGRAM ASSESSMENT.RATING TOOL (PART)
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
:\ . \'!" - V PART Measures ' ;." ,, •' .
Percent of violators committing subsequent violations, (pesticide
enforcement)
Efficiency Performance Measure
Pounds of pollutants reduced, treated, or eliminated per FTE. (civil
enforcement)
Pounds of pollutant reduction per FTE. (criminal enforcement)
Ratio of number of students/teachers that have improved environmental
knowledge per total dollars expended.
Number of enforcement actions taken (Federal + State) per million
dollars of cost (Federal + State), (pesticide enforcement)
Pounds of priority chemicals reduced in waste streams per federal and
private sector costs.
: , ,/ .'Year Data, '
'•'_ , Available '
FY 2007
FY 2007
FY 2007
FY 2008
FY 2007
UD
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Environmental Programs
INTRODUCTION:
The table included in this appendix presents targets and results for all of EPA's annual performance goals (APGs) and measures for FY 2005 and FY
2006 and targets for FY 2007 and FY 2008. It contains the most current performance data and targets available.
As EPA has continued to improve and refine its performance measures, it has changed some APGs and measures over the years. As a result, targets
and data may not be available for all four fiscal years included in the table, and some cells will appear blank.
The table groups performance measures first by Goal, then by Strategic Objective, and finally under the APGs to which they apply. Measures that
are not currently used for the Office of Management and Budget's Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics. The
background information included with APGs provides context for EPA's statement of intended performance with respect to its past accomplishments
and progress towards longer-term strategic objectives.
Data that EPA has used to measure its performance are described in the "Supplemental Information" to this report, provided on the internet at
www.epa.gov/ocfo/budget/2008/verify validation.pdf
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Environmental Programs
GOAL 1: CLEAN AIR AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Protect and improve the air so it is healthy to breathe and risks to human health and the environment are reduced. Reduce greenhouse gas intensity
by enhancing partnerships with businesses and other sectors.
OBJECTIVE: HEALTHIER OUTDOOR AIR
Through 2011, working with partners, protect human health and the
standards and reducing the risk from toxic air pollutants.
Air Quality Index
In 2008 Cumulative percent reduction in the number of days with Air Quality
In 2007 Cumulative percent reduction in the number of days with Air Quality
In 2006 Cumulative percent reduction in the number of days with Air Quality
In 2005 Cumulative percent reduction in the number of days with Air Quality
FY 2005
Performance Measures Target Actual
environment by attaining and maintaining health-based air-quality
Index (AQI) values over 100 since 2003, weighted by population and AQI value.
Index (AQI) values over 100 since 2003, weighted by population and AQI value.
Index (AQI) values over 100 since 2003, weighted by population and AQI value.
Index (AQI) values over 100 since 2003, weighted by population and AQI value.
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Target Target
Unit
Cumulative percent reduction in the number of days with
Air Quality Index (AQI) values over 100 since 2003,
weighted by population and AQI value.
13
32.1
17
Data Avail
2007
21
26
Percent
Background: Baseline was zero in 2003.
Reduce Exposure to Unhealthy PM Levels - PM-10
In 2008 Tons of paniculate matter (PM-10) reduced since 2000 from mobile sources.
GOAL 1: CLEAN AIR AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
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In 2007 Tons of paniculate matter (PM-10) reduced since 2000 from mobile sources.
In 2006 The number of people living in areas with monitored ambient PM concentrations below the NAAQS for the PM-10 standard will increase by 4%
(relative to 2005) for a cumulative total of 11% (relative to 1992).
In 2005 The number of people living in areas with monitored ambient PM concentrations below the NAAQS for the PM-10 standard will increase by 1%
(relative to 2004) for a cumulative total of 7% (relative to 1992).
FY 2005
Performance Measures Target Actual
Tons of PM-10 Reduced since 2000 from Mobile Sources 62,161 62,161
FY 2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Target Actual Target Target
74,594 Data Avail 87,026 99,458
2007
Unit
Tons
Background: Beginning in FY 2005, the 2000 Mobile6 inventory is used as the baseline for mobile source emissions. The 2000 baseline for PM-10 from mobile
source is 613,000 tons.
Reduce Exposure to Unhealthy Ozone Levels - 8 Hour
In 2008 Cumulative percent reduction in population-weighted ambient concentration of ozone in all monitored counties from 2003 baseline.
In 2007 The number of people living in areas with monitored ambient ozone concentrations below the NAAQS for the 8-hour ozone standard.
In 2006 The number of people living in areas with monitored ambient ozone concentrations below the NAAQS for the 8-hour ozone standard will increase by
1% (relative to 2005) for a cumulative total of 8% (relative to 2001).
In 2005 The number of people living in areas with monitored ambient ozone concentrations below the NAAQS for the 8-hour ozone standard will increase by
4% (relative to 2004) for a cumulative total of 7% (relative to 2001).
FY 2005 FY 2006 FY 2007
Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target
Cumulative percent reduction in population-weighted 3
ambient concentration of ozone in monitored counties
6 5 Data Avail 6
2007
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target Unit
8 Percent
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Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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Performance Measures
from 2003 baseline.
Limit the increase of CO emissions (in tons) from mobile
sources compared to a 2000 baseline.
Millions of Tons of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
Reduced since 2000 from Mobile Sources
Millions of Tons of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) Reduced
since 2000 Reduced from Mobile Sources
FY
Target
0.84
0.86
1.69
2005
Actual
0.84
0.86
1.69
FY
Target
1.01
1.03
2.03
2006
Actual
Data Avail
2007
Data Avail
2007
Data Avail
2007
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
1.18
1.20
2.37
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
1.35
1.37
2.71
Unit
Million Tons
Million Tons
Million Tons
Background: The ozone concentration measure reflects improvements (reductions) in ambient ozone concentrations across all monitored counties, weighted by the
populations in those areas. To calculate the weighting, pollutant concentrations in monitored counties are multiplied by the associated county
populations. The units for this measure are therefore, "million people parts per billion. The 2003 baseline is 15,972 million people-ppb. The 1995
baseline was 8.1M tons for mobile source VOC emissions, and 12.0M tons for mobile source NOx emissions. Beginning in FY 2005, the Mobile6
inventory is used as the baseline year for mobile source emissions. The 2000 baseline was 7.7M tons for mobile source VOC emissions, 11.8M tons for
mobile source NOx emissions, and 79.2 M tons for CO.
Reduce Exposure to Unhealthy PM Levels - PM- 2.5
In 2008 Cumulative percent reduction in population-weighted ambient concentration of fine paniculate matter (PM-2.5) in all monitored counties from 2003
baseline.
In 2007 The number of people living in areas with monitored ambient PM concentrations below the NAAQS for the PM-2.5 standard.
In 2006 The number of people living in areas with monitored ambient PM concentrations below the NAAQS for the PM-2.5 standard will increase by 1%
(relative to 2005) for a cumulative total of less than 1% (relative to 2001).
In 2005 The number of people living in areas with monitored ambient PM concentrations below the NAAQS for the PM-2.5 standard will increase by 1%
(relative to 2003) for a cumulative total of less than 1% (relative to 2001).
GOAL 1: CLEAN AIR AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
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Performance Measures
Cumulative percent reduction in population-weighted
ambient concentration of fine paniculate matter (PM-2.5)
in all monitored counties from 2003 baseline.
Tons of PM-2.5 Reduced since 2000 from Mobile
Sources
FY 2005
Target Actual
2 Data Avail
2007
61,217 61,217
FY 2006
Target Actual
2 Data Avail
2007
73,460 Data Avail
2007
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
3
85,704
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
4
97,947
Unit
Percent
Tons
Background:
Acid Rain
In 2008
In 2007
In 2007
In 2007
In 2006
In 2005
The PM 2.5 concentration reduction annual measure reflects improvements (reductions) in the ambient concentration of fine paniculate matter PM2.5
pollution across all monitored counties, weighted by the populations in those areas. To calculate this weighting, pollutant concentrations in monitored
counties are multiplied by the associated county populations. Therefore, the units for this measure are "million people micrograms per meter cubed:
(million people ug/mg3. The 2003 baseline is 2.581 baseline is 2,581 million people-ug/mg3. Beginning in FY 2005, the 2000 Mobile6 inventory is
used as the baseline for mobile source emissions. The 2000 baseline for PM 2.5 from mobile sources is 510,550 tons.
Keep annual emissions below level authorized by allowance holdings and make progress towards achieving the year 2010 SO2 emissions cap for
utilities. Annual emissions reduction target is 8.0 million tons from the 1980 baseline.
Keep annual emissions below level authorized by allowance holdings and make progress towards achieving the year 2010 SO2 emissions cap for
utilities. Annual emissions reduction target is 7.5 million tons from the 1980 baseline.
Reduce total annual average nitrogen deposition and total ambient nitrate concentrations 10% from baseline. Baseline for annual targets up through
2010 is 1990 monitored levels.
Reduce total annual average sulfur deposition and ambient sulfate concentrations 29% from baseline.
Keep annual emissions below level authorized by allowance holdings and make progress towards achieving the year 2010 SO2 emissions cap for
utilities. Annual emissions reduction target is 7.0 million tons from the 1980 baseline.
Keep annual emissions below level authorized by allowance holdings and make progress towards achieving the year 2010 SO2 emissions cap for
utilities. Annual emissions reduction target is 6.9 million tons from the 1980 baseline.
GOAL 1: CLEAN AIR AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
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Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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Performance Measures
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target
Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
Unit
Tons of sulfur dioxide emissions from electric power
generation sources
Percent change in average nitrogen deposition and mean
total ambient nitrate concentrations reduced.
6,900,000 7,200,000
7,000,000 Data Avail 7,500,000 8,000,000 Tons Reduced
2007
10
No Targets Percentage
Established
Percent change in average sulfur deposition and mean
ambient sulfate concentrations reduced.
29
No Targets
Established
8
Percentage
Background: The baseline year is 1980. The 1980 SO2 emissions inventory totals 17.4 million tons for electric utility sources. This inventory was developed by
National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP) and is used as the basis for reductions in Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments. This
data is also contained in EPA's National Air Pollutant Emissions Trends Report. Statutory SO2 emissions cap for year 2010 and later is at 8.95 million
tons, approximately 8.5 million tons below 1980 emissions level. "Allowable SO2 emission level" consists of allowance allocations granted to sources
each year under several provisions of the Act and additional allowances carried over, or banked, from previous years. Sulfur and nitrogen deposition
contribute to acidification of lakes and streams, making them unable to support fish and other aquatic life. Reductions in sulfur and nitrogen deposition
are critical to reducing the number of chronically acidic water bodies. Ambient sulfate and ambient nitrate ("acid rain" paniculate") contribute to
unhealthy air and respiratory problems in humans, especially children and other sensitive populations. The baseline is established from monitored site
levels based on consolidated map of 1989-1991 showing a three year of deposition levels produced from the CASTNET sites
(http://www.epa.gov/castnet/sites.html).
Air Toxicity-Weighted
In 2008 Cumulative reduction in tons of toxicity-weighted for non-cancer emissions of air toxics from 1993 baseline.
In 2008 Cumulative reduction in tons of toxicity-weighted for cancer emissions of air toxics from 1993 baseline.
7 EPA will track progress against this performance metric triennially with the next planned report date in FY 2010. There is no performance target for FY 2008.
8 EPA will track progress against this performance metric triennially with the next planned report date in FY 2010. There is no performance target for FY 2008.
GOAL 1: CLEAN AIR AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
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In 2007
In 2006
Annual Performance Goals and Measures
Environmental Programs
Reduction in tons of toxicity-weighted for cancer and non-cancer emissions of air toxics from 1993 baseline.
Reduction in tons of toxicity-weighted for cancer and non-cancer emissions of air toxics from 1993 baseline.
FY 2005
Performance Measures Target Actual
Cumulative percentage reduction in tons of toxicity-
weighted (for cancer risk) emissions of air toxics from
1993 baseline.
Cumulative percentage reduction in tons of toxicity-
weighted (for noncancer risk) emissions of air toxics from
1993 baseline.
FY
Target
34
58
2006
Actual
Data Avail
2007
Data Avail
2007
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
35
58
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
35
59
Unit
Percent
Percent
Background: The toxicity-weighted emission inventory will utilize the National Emissions Inventory (NEI) for air toxics along with the Agency's compendium of
cancer and noncancer health risk criteria to develop a risk metric that can be tabulated and tracked on an annual basis. The baseline is based on emission
inventory data from 1990-1993. The baseline is in 1993. Air toxics emissions data are revised every three years to generate inventories for the NEI,
which replaced the National Toxics Inventory (NTI). In intervening years between updates of the NEI, the model EMS-HAP (Emissions Modeling
System for Hazardous Air Pollutants) is used to estimate and project annual emissions of air toxics. As new inventories are completed and improved
inventory data is added, the baseline (or total tons of air toxics) is adjusted. The toxicity-weighted emission inventory will also utilize the NEI for air
toxics along with the Agency's compendium of cancer and noncancer health risk criteria to develop a risk metric that can be tabulated and tracked on an
annual basis, the baseline is based on emission inventory data from 1990-1993.
New Source Review
In 2008 Percent of major NSR permits issued within one year of receiving a complete permit application.
In 2007 Percent of major NSR permits issued within one year of receiving a complete permit application.
In 2006 Percent of major NSR permits issued within one year of receiving a complete permit application.
In 2005 Percent of major NSR permits issued within one year of receiving a complete permit application.
GOAL 1: CLEAN AIR AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Performance-35
Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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FY 2005
Performance Measures Target Actual
Percent of major NSR permits issued within one year of 65 69
receiving a complete permit application.
FY 2006 FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target Actual Target
70 Data Avail 75
2007
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target Unit
78 Percent
Background: The baseline for NSR permits issued within one year of receiving a complete permit application is 61% in 2004.
Title V
In 2008 Percent of significant and new Title V operating permit revisions issued within 18 months of receiving a complete permit application.
In 2007 Percent of significant and new Title V operating permit revisions issued within 18 months of receiving a complete permit application.
In 2006 Percent of significant and new Title V operating permit revisions issued within 18 months of receiving a complete permit application.
In 2005 Percent of significant and new Title V operating permit revisions issued within 18 months of recieving a complete permit application.
FY 2005 FY 2006 FY 2007
Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target
Percent of significant Title V operating permit revisions 88
issued within 18 months of receiving a complete permit
application.
Percent of new Title V operating permits issued within 18 79
months of receiving a complete permit application.
88 91 Data Avail 94
2007
79 83 Data Avail 87
2007
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target Unit
97 Percentage
91 Percentage
Background: The 2004 baseline for significant title V operating permit revisions issued within 18 months of receiving a complete permit application is 85% and the
baseline for new title V operating permits issued within 18 months of receiving a complete permit application.
GOAL 1: CLEAN AIR AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Performance-36
Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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OBJECTIVE: HEALTHIER INDOOR AIR
Through 2012, working with partners, reduce human health risks by reducing exposure to indoor air contaminants through the promotion of
voluntary actions by the public.
Healthier Residential Indoor Air
In 2008 Additional people will be living in homes with healthier indoor air.
In 2007 Additional people will be living in homes with healither indoor air.
In 2006 850,000 additional people will be living in homes with healthier indoor air.
In 2005 Additional people will be living in homes with healthier indoor air.
Performance Measures
Number of additional homes (new and existing) with
radon reducing features
Number of people taking all essential actions to reduce
exposure to indoor environmental asthma triggers.
Percent of public that is aware of the asthma program's
FY 2005 FY 2006
Target Actual Target Actual
173,000 Data Avail 180,000 Data Avail
2007 2007
4,100,000 Data Avail
2007
31 31 >20 33
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
190,000
No Target
Established
9
>20
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target Unit
225,000 Homes
No Target Number
Established
10
>20 Percentage
media campaign.
Additional health care professionals trained annually by
EPA and its partner on the environmental management of
asthma triggers.
3380
3380
2000
Data Avail
2007
2000
2000
Number
9 EPA will track performance against this metric triennially with the next planned report date in FY 2009. There are no performance targets for FY 2007 and FY 2008.
10 EPA will track performance against this metric triennially with the next planned report date in FY 2009. There are no performance targets for FY 2007 and FY 2008.
GOAL 1: CLEAN AIR AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
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Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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Background: This performance measure includes EPA radon and asthma work. By 2008, the number of people living in homes built (new or existing) with radon
reducing features will be 225,000. The baseline for the performance measure is 1996 (107,000 homes). Annual Surveys are conducted by our partners
to gather information such as types of houses built, lot sizes, foundation designs, types of lumber used, types of doors and windows used, etc. Also, the
surveys gather information on the use of radon-resistant design features in new houses. Each year, the survey of building practices is mailed to home
builders. The survey responses are analyzed, with respect to State market areas and Census Division in the U.S., to assess the percentage and number of
homes built each year that incorporate radon-reducing features. The data are also used to assess the percentage and number of homes built with radon-
reducing features in high radon potential areas in the United States (high risk areas). Other analyses include radon-reducing features as a function of
housing type, foundation type, and different techniques for radon-resistant new home construction.
Healthier Indoor Air in Schools
In 2008 Students, faculty and staff will experience improved indoor air quality in their schools.
In 2007 Students, faculty and staff will experience improved indoor air quality in their schools.
In 2006 630,000 students, faculty and staff will experience improved indoor air quality in their schools.
In 2005 Students, faculty and staff will experience improved indoor air quality in their schools.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures
Estimated annual number of schools establishing indoor
air quality programs based on EPA's Tools for Schools
guidance.
Target
3000
Actual
3000
Target
1200
Actual
Data Avail
2007
Target
1100
Target
1100
Unit
Number
Background: The nation has approximately 118,000 (updated to include new construction) schools. Each school has an average of 525 students, faculty,and staff for
a total estimated population of 62,000,000. The IAQ "Tools for Schools" Guidance implementation began in 1997. Results from a 2002 IAQ practices
in schools survey suggest that approximately 20-22% of U.S. schools report an adequate effective IAQ management plan that is in accordance with EPA
guidelines.
OBJECTIVE: PROTECT THE OZONE LAYER
By 2030, through worldwide action, ozone concentrations in the stratosphere will have stopped declining and slowly begun the process of
recovery, and overexposure to ultraviolet radiation, particularly among susceptible subpopulations, such as children, will be reduced.
GOAL 1: CLEAN AIR AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE Performance-3 8 Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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Restrict Domestic Consumption of Class II HCFCs
In 2008 Remaining U.S. consumption of class II HCFCs will be below 9,900 OOP-weighted metric tonnes (OOP MTs).
In 2007 Remaining U.S. consumption of class II HCFCs will be below 9,900 OOP-weighted metric tonnes (OOP MTs).
In 2006 Restrict domestic annual consumption of class II HCFCs below 9,906 OOP-weighted metric tonnes (OOP MTs) and restrict domestic exempted
production and import of newly produced class I CFCs and halons below 10,000 OOP MTs.
In 2005 Restrict domestic annual consumption of class II HCFCs below 9,906 OOP-weighted metric tonnes (OOP MTs) and restrict domestic exempted
production and import of newly produced class I CFCs and halons below 10,000 OOP MTs.
Performance Measures
Remaining U.S. Consumption of HCFCs in tons of Ozone
Depleting Potential (OOP).
FY 2005
Target Actual
<9,900 Data Avail
2007
FY 2006
Target Actual
<9,900 Data Avail
2008
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
<9,900
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
<9,900
Unit
OOP MTs
Background: The base of comparison for assessing progress on the 2005 annual performance goal is the domestic consumption cap of class II HCFCs as set by the
Parties to the Montreal Protocol. Each Ozone Depleting Substance (ODS) is weighted based on the damage it does to the stratospheric ozone - this is its
ozone-depletion potential (OOP). Beginning on January 1, 1996, the cap was set at the sum of 2.8 percent of the domestic OOP-weighted consumption
of CFCs in 1989 plus the OOP-weighted level of HCFCs in 1989. Consumption equals production plus import minus export.
OBJECTIVE: RADIATION
Through 2011, working with partners, minimize unnecessary releases of radiation and be prepared to minimize impacts to human health and
the environment should unwanted releases occur.
EPA is developing new outcome-oriented performance measures for this program in preparation for a 2007 PART assessment. The program
will have new performance measures to report in FY 2009. EPA will continue to track progress on routine program indicators such as
preparedness and response capability for radiological incidents.
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OBJECTIVE: REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS INTENSITY
Through EPA's voluntary climate protection programs, contribute 80 million metric tons of carbon equivalent (MMTCE) annually to the
President's 18 percent greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity goal by 2012. (An additional 24 MMTCE to result from the sustained growth in the
climate programs are reflected in the Administration's business-as-usual projection for GHG intensity improvement. )
Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
In 2008 Million metric tons of carbon equivalent (mmtce) of greenhouse gas reductions in the building, industrial, and transportation sectors.
In 2007 Greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced from projected levels by approximately 96.2 MMTCE per year through EPA partnerships with businesses,
schools, state and local governments, and other organizations.
In 2006 Greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced from projected levels by approximately 102 MMTCE per year through EPA partnerships with businesses,
schools, state and local governments, and other organizations.
In 2005 Greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced from projected levels by approximately 90 MMTCE per year through EPA partnerships with businesses,
schools, state and local governments, and other organizations.
Performance Measures
Million metric tons of carbon equivalent (mmtce) of
greenhouse gas reductions in the buildings sector.
Million metric tons of carbon equivalent (mmtce) of
greenhouse gas reductions in the transportation sector.
Million metric tons of carbon equivalent (mmtce) of
greenhouse gas reductions in the industry sector.
FY
Target
23.8
2.9
53.5
2005
Actual
29.9
2.9
58.7
FY
Target
26.5
1.2
58
2006
Actual
Data Avail
2007
Data Avail
2007
Data Avail
2007
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
29.4
1.6
62.6
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
32
1.5
68
Unit
MMTCE
MMTCE
MMCTE
Background: The baseline for evaluating program performance is a projection of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in the absence of the U.S. climate change programs.
The baseline was developed as part of an interagency evaluation of the U.S. climate change programs in 2002, which built on similar baseline forecasts
developed in 1997 and 1993. Baseline data for carbon emissions related to energy use is based on data from the Energy Information Agency (EIA) and
from EPA's Integrated Planning Model of the U. S. electric power sector. Baseline data for non-carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, including nitrous oxide
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and other high global warming potential gases are maintained by EPA. Baseline information is discussed at length in the U.S. Climate Action Report
2002 (http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/GlobalWarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterPublicationsUSClimate ActionReport.html), which provides a discussion
of differences in assumptions between the 1997 baseline and the 2002 update, including which portion of energy efficiency programs are included in the
estimates. EPA develops the non-CO2 emissions baselines and projections using information from partners and other sources. EPA continues to
develop annual inventories as well as update methodologies as new information becomes available.
OBJECTIVE: ENHANCE SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
Through 2011, provide and apply sound science to support EPA's goal of clean air by conducting leading-edge research and developing a
better understanding and characterization of environmental outcomes under Goal 1.
Research
Clean Air Research
In 2008 Increased use of clean air research program products.
In 2007 Increased use of paniculate matter research program products.
In 2006 By 2006, develop and report on new data on the effects of different PM sizes or components to improve understanding of the health risks associated
with short-term exposure to PM in healthy and select susceptible populations so that, by 2010, the Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) has improved
assessments of health risks to develop PM standards that maximize protection of human health, as determined by independent expert review.
In 2005 By FY 2005, deliver and transfer improved receptor models and data on chemical compounds emitted from sources so that, by 2006, EPA's Office of
Air and Radiation and the states have the necessary new data and tools to predict, measure, and reduce ambient PM and PM emissions to attain the
existing PM National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for the protection of public health.
FY 2005
Performance Measures
Percent progress toward complet
Target
ion of a hierarchy of air Baseline
Actual
5
FY 2006
Target
10
Actual
10
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
30
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
50
Unit
Percent
pollutant sources based on the risk they pose to human
health. (Research)
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Percent planned actions accomplished t
FY 2005
Target Actual
oward the long- 91 94
FY 2006
Target Actual
100 94
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
100
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
100
Unit
Percent
term goal of reducing uncertainty in the science that
support standard setting and air quality management
decisions. (Research)
Background: By FY 2006, the program established 10% of a hierarchy of air pollutant sources based on the risk they pose to human health. By FY 2008, the program
plans to complete 50% of this hierarchy. Additionally, the program plans to meet 100% of its planned actions in FY 2008, an improvement from 94%
completion in FY 2005. In achieving these targets, the program will contribute to EPA's goal of developing a better understanding and characterization
of human health and environmental outcomes related to clean air.
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GOAL 2: CLEAN AND SAFE WATER
Ensure drinking water is safe. Restore and maintain oceans, watersheds, and their aquatic ecosystems to protect human health, support economic and
recreational activities, and provide healthy habitat for fish, plants, and wildlife.
OBJECTIVE: PROTECT HUMAN HEALTH
Protect human health by reducing exposure to contaminants in drinking water (including protecting source waters), in fish and shellfish, and
in recreational waters.
Safe Drinking Water
In 2008 90% of the population served by community water systems that meets all applicable health-based drinking water standards through approaches
including effective treatment and source water protection.
In 2007 94% of the population will be served by community water systems in compliance with health-based drinking water standards.
In 2006 90% of the population served by community water systems in Indian country will receive drinking water that meets all applicable health-based drinking
water standards.
In 2006 93% of the population served by community water systems will receive drinking water that meets all applicable health-based drinking water standards
through effective treatment and source water protection.
In 2005 93% of the population served by community water systems will receive drinking water that meets all applicable health-based drinking water standards
through effective treatment and source water protection.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
93
Percent of the population served by community water 86.3 86.3 90 86.6 86 % Population
systems in Indian country that receives drinking water
that meets all applicable health-based drinking water
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FY 2005 FY 2006
Target Actual Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
Unit
standards.
% population served by CWS that receive drinking water
that meets all applicable health-based DW standards
through approaches including effective treatment and
source water protection.
Fund utilization rate for the DWSRF
Number of additional projects initiating operations
Percent of community water systems that have undergone
a sanitary survey within the past three years (five years
for outstanding performance).
Percentage of identified Class V motor vehicle waste
disposal wells closed or permitted.
Percentage of Class I, II, and III wells that maintain
mechanical integrity without a failure that releases
contaminants to underground sources of drinking water
(under development).
Percentage of prohibited Class IV and high-priority,
identified, potentially endangering Class V wells closed
or permitted in ground-water based source water areas
(under development).
Percent of community water systems that meet all
applicable health-based standards through approaches that
include effective treatment and source water protection.
Percent of person months during which community water
systems provide drinking water that meets all applicable
health-based standards.
93
89
94
90
90
98
96
93
89
93
89
94
95
% population
81.9
415
94
84.7
43.9
94
83.3
425
98
86.9
399
94
84
433
98
86
440
95
% Rate
Projects
% CWS
Wells
Wells
Wells
89.5 % Systems
% CWS
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Background: In 1998, 85% of the population that was served by community water systems and 96% of the population served by non-community, non-transient
drinking water systems received drinking water for which no violations of Federally enforceable health standards had occurred during the year. Year-
to-year performance is expected to change as new standards take effect. Covered standards include: Stage 1 disinfection by-products/interim enhanced
surface water treatment rule/long-term enhanced surface water treatment rule/arsenic.
River/Lake Assessments for Fish Consumption
In 2008 Improve the quality of recreation waters.
In 2008 Reduce public health risk and allow increased consumption of fish and shellfish.
In 2007 Coastal and Great Lakes beaches monitored by State beach safety programs will be open and safe for swimming in over 95% of the days of the beach
season.
In 2006 Coastal and Great Lakes beaches monitored by State beach safety programs will be open and safe for swimming in over 94% of the days of the beach
season.
In 2005 Coastal and Great Lakes beaches monitored by State beach safety programs will be open and safe for swimming in over 94% of the days of the beach
season.
Performance Measures
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
Unit
Percentage of women of childb earing age having mercury
levels in blood above the level of concern.
Percent of state-monitored shellfish-growing acres
impacted by anthropogenic sources that are approved or
conditionally approved for use.
Maintain the number ofwaterborne disease outbreaks
attributable to swimming in or other recreational contact
with coastal and Great Lakes waters measured as a 5-
year average.
5.5 % of women
65-85
% Areas
Outbreaks
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Days (of beach season) that coastal and Great Lakes
FY 2005
Target Actual
96 96
FY 2006
Target Actual
94 97
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
95
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
96
Unit
%
beaches monitored by State beach safety programs are
open and safe for swimming.
Days/Season
Background: In 1999, 7% of the Nation's rivers and 15% of the Nation's lakes were assessed to determine if they contained fish that should not be eaten or should be
eaten in only limited quantities. In September 1999, 25 states/tribes are monitoring and conducting assessments based on the national guidance to
establish nationally consistent fish advisories. In the 2000 Report to Congress on the National Water Quality Inventory, 69% of assessed river and
stream miles; 63% of assessed lake, reservoir, and pond acres; and 53% of assessed estuary square miles supported their designated use for fish
consumption. For shell fish consumption, 77% of assessed estuary square miles met this designated use.
OBJECTIVE: PROTECT WATER QUALITY
Protect the quality of rivers, lakes, and streams on a watershed basis and protect coastal and ocean waters.
GOAL 2: CLEAN AND SAFE WATER
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Watershed Protection
In 2008 Use pollution prevention and restoration approaches to protect the quality of rivers, lakes, and streams on a watershed basis.
In 2007 Water quality standards are fully attained in over 25% of miles/acres of waters by 2012, with an interim milestone of restoring 8.0% of these waters
identified in 2000 as not attaining standards - by 2005.
In 2006 Water quality standards are fully attained in over 25% of miles/acres of waters by 2012, with an interim milestone of restoring 5% of these waters
identified in 2000 as not attaining standards - by 2005.
In 2005 Water quality standards are fully attained in over 25% of miles/acres of waters by 2012, with an interim milestone of restoring 2% of these waters
identified in 2000 as not attaining standards - by 2005.
Performance Measures
Number of waterbody segments identified by States in
2002 as not attaining standards, where water quality
standards are now fully attained (cumulative).
Fund utilization rate for the CWSRF
Percentage of all major publicly -owned treatment works
(POTWs) that comply with their permitted wastewater
discharge standards.
Reduction in phosphorus loadings (millions of pounds).
Additional pounds (in millions) of reduction to total
nitrogen loadings.
Additional tons of reduction to total sediment loadings.
Number of waterbodies identified by States (in 2000 or
FY 2005 FY 2006
Target Actual Target Actual
90 95.4 93.3 94.7
4.5 Data Avail
2007
8.5 Data Avail
2007
700,000 Data Avail
2007
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
93.4
4.5
8.5
700,000
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
1100
93.5
86
4.5
8.5
700,000
250
Unit
Number of
Segments
Rate
POTWs
Ibs in millions
Ibs in millions
Ibs
waterbodies
subsequent years) as being primarily NPS-impaired that
are partially or fully restored.
GOAL 2: CLEAN AND SAFE WATER
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Number of TMDLs that are establi
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
shed by States and 14,462 15,338 18,692 19,368 21,923 24,411 TMDLs
approved by EPA on schedule consistent with national
policy, (cumulative)
Percentage of high priority state NPDES permits that are 95 104 95 96.4 95 95
scheduled to be reissued.
Percentage of majors in Significant Noncompliance 19.7 19.70 22.5 Data Avail 22.5 22.5
(SNC) at any time during the fiscal year. 2007
Percentage of submissions of new or revised water quality 89.5 83.5 90.9 89 85 87
standards from States, and Territories that are approved
by EPA.
Number of TMDLs required that are established or 17,767 18,660 20,501 23,185 25,811 28,401
approved by EPA on a schedule consistent with national
policy, (cumulative)
Percentage of waters accessed using statistically valid 38 38 54 54 54 54
surveys.
Percent of high priority EPA and state NPDES permits 95 100 95 98.5 95 95
that are reissued on schedule.
% of S & Terr, that, within the preceding 3-yr. period, 68
submitted new or revised wq criteria acceptable to EPA
that reflect new scientific info from EPA or sources not
considered in prev stnd.
Background: As of 2002, states report 453 watersheds had met the criteria that greater than 80% of assessed waters met all water quality standards. For a watershed
to be counted toward this goal, at least 25% of the segments in the watershed must be assessed within the past 4 years consistent with assessment
guidelines developed pursuant to section 305(b) of the Clean Water Act. In 2002, 0% of the 255,408 miles/and 6,803,419 acres of waters identified on
1998/2000 lists of impaired waters developed by States and approved by EPA under section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act.
% permits
% majors
% submissions
TMDLs
% waters
% permits
% wq criteria
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Coastal and Ocean Waters
In 2008 Improve National Coastal Condition Report (NCCR) score for overall aquatic ecosystem health of coastal waters nationally (1-5 scale.)
In 2007 Scores for overall aquatic system health of coastal waters nationally, and in each coastal region, is improved on the (good/fair/poor) scale of the
National Coastal Condition Report by at least 0.1 point
In 2006 Scores for overall aquatic system health of coastal waters nationally, and in each coastal region, is improved on the (good/fair/poor) scale of the
National Coastal Condition Report by at least 0.1 point
In 2005 Scores for overall aquatic system health of coastal waters nationally, and in each coastal region, is improved on the "good/fair/poor" scale of the
National Coastal Condition Report by at least 0.1 point
Performance Measures
National Coastal Condition Report (NCCR) score for
overall aquatic ecosystem health of coastal waters
nationally (1-5 scale).
FY 2005
Target Actual
2.7 Data Avail
2008
FY 2006
Target Actual
2.7 Data Avail
2008
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
2.8
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
2.8
Unit
Scale score
Active dredged material ocean dumping sites will have
achieved environmentally acceptable conditions (as
reflected in each site's management plans.)
95
% Sites
Background: National rating of "fair/poor" or 2.4 where the rating is based on a 5-point system where 1 is poor and 5 is good and is expressed as an aerially weighted
mean of regional scores using the National Coastal Condition Report indicators [i.e., water clarity, dissolved oxygen, coastal wetlands loss, eutrophic
conditions, sediment contamination, benthic health, and fish tissue contamination]. The 2002 National Coastal Condition Report indicated 4.3 for water
clarity and 4.5 for dissolved oxygen, 1.4 for coastal wetlands loss; 1.3 for contamination of sediments in coastal waters; 1.4 for benthic quality; & 1.7
for eutrophic condition.
Alaska Native Villages
In 2008 Percent serviceable rural Alaska homes with access to drinking water supply and wastewater disposal.
GOAL 2: CLEAN AND SAFE WATER
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Percent of serviceable rural Alaska homes with access to
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
88
Unit
Homes
drinking water supply and wastewater disposal.
Background: In 2003, 77% of serviceable rural Alaska homes had access to drinking water supply and wastewater disposal.
OBJECTIVE: ENHANCE RESEARCH TO SUPPORT CLEAN AND SAFE WATER
By 2011, conduct leading-edge, sound scientific research to support the protection of human health through the reduction of human exposure
to contaminants in drinking water, fish and shellfish, and recreational waters and to support the protection of aquatic ecosystems-specifically,
the quality of rivers, lakes, and streams, and coastal and ocean waters.
Research
Drinking Water Research
In 2008 Increased use of drinking water research products
In 2007 Increased use of drinking water research products
In 2006 By 2006, provide results of full-scale treatment demonstration projects and evaluations of other approaches for managing arsenic in drinking water, so
that by 2010, the Office of Water, states, local authorities and utilities have scientifically sound data and approaches to manage risks to human health
posed by exposure to arsenic, as determined by independent expert review.
In 2005 Increased use of drinking water research products
FY 2005
Performance Measures
Percentage of planned outpi
its delivered in support ol
Target
f Six 100
Actual
90
FY 2006
Target
100
Actual
94
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
100
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
100
Unit
Percent
Year Review decisions. (Research)
GOAL 2: CLEAN AND SAFE WATER
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Performance Measures
Percentage of planned outpi
its delivered in support ol
Target
f 100
Actual
60
FY 2006
Target
100
Actual
100
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
100
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
100
Unit
Percent
Contaminate Candidate List Decisions. (Research)
Background: In FY 2008, the program plans to deliver 100% of its planned outputs in support of both Contaminant Candidate List and Six Year Review decisions. In
2006, the program completed 100% and 94% of its planned outputs in these areas, respectively. In achieving its 2008 targets, the program will
contribute to EPA's goal of supporting the protection of human health through the reduction of human exposure to contaminants in drinking water.
Water Quality Research
In 2008 Increased use of water quality research products
In 2007 Increased use of water quality research products
In 2006 By 2006, provide demonstrations of bioassessment methods for Mid-Western U.S. rivers, so that, by 2010, the Office of Water, states, and tribes have
approaches and methods to develop and apply criteria for habitat alteration, nutrients, suspended and bedded sediments, pathogens, and toxic chemicals
that will support designated uses for aquatic ecosystems, as determined by independent expert review.
In 2005 By 2005, provide methods for developing water quality criteria so that, by 2008, approaches and methods are available to States and Tribes for their use
in developing and applying criteria for habitat alteration, nutrients, suspended and bedded sediments, pathogens and toxic chemicals that will support
designated uses for aquatic ecosystems and increase the scientific basis for listing and delisting impaired water bodies under Section 303(d) of the Clean
Water Act.
Performance Measures
Percentage of planned outputs (in support of WQRP long-
term goal #1) delivered. (Research)
Percentage of planned outputs (in support of WQRP long-
term goal #2) delivered. (Research)
Percentage of planned outputs (in support of WQRP long-
FY
Target
100
100
100
2005
Actual
100
67
71
FY
Target
100
100
100
2006
Actual
100
100
92
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
100
100
100
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
100
100
100
Unit
Percent
Percent
Percent
term goal #3) delivered. (Research)
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Background: In FY 2008, the program plans to deliver 100% of its planned outputs in support of each of its long-term goals. In FY 2006, the program completed
100% of its planned outputs in support of two of its long-term goals, and 92% of its planned outputs in support of its third. In achieving its FY 2008
targets, the program will contribute to EPA's goal of supporting the protection of human health through the reduction of human exposure to
contaminants in fish, shellfish, and recreational waters, and to support the protection of aquatic ecosystems.
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GOAL 3: LAND PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION
Preserve and restore the land by using innovative waste management practices and cleaning up contaminated properties to reduce risks posed by
releases of harmful substances.
OBJECTIVE: PRESERVE LAND
By 2011, reduce adverse effects to land by reducing waste generation, increasing recycling, and ensuring proper management of waste and
petroleum products at facilities in ways that prevent releases.
Municipal Solid Waste Source Reduction
In 2008 Divert 35% (87.3 million tons) of municipal solid waste from land filling and combustion, and maintain per capita generation of RCRA municipal solid
waste at 4.5 pounds per day.
In 2008 Increase reuse and recycling of construction and demolition debris.
In 2008 Increase the number of tribes covered by an adequate and recently-approved integrated solid waste management plan, and close, clean up, or upgrade
open dumps in Indian Country and on other tribal lands.
In 2008 Increase use of coal combustion ash rather than disposing of it.
In 2007 Divert 34.2% (85.2 million tons) of municipal solid waste from land filling and combustion, and maintain per capita generation of RCRA municipal
solid waste at 4.5 pounds per day.
In 2007 Increase reuse and recycling of construction and demolition debris.
In 2007 Increase the number of tribes covered by an adequate and recently-approved integrated solid waste management plan, and close, clean up, or upgrade
open dumps in Indian Country and on other tribal lands.
In 2007 Increase use of coal combustion ash rather and disposing of it.
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In 2006 Divert 33.4% (83.1 million tons) of municipal solid waste from land filling and combustion, and maintain per capita generation of RCRA municipal
solid waste at 4.5 pounds per day.
In 2005 Divert an additional 1% (for a cumulative total of 35% or 81 million tons) of municipal solid waste from land filling and combustion, and maintain per
capita generation of RCRA municipal solid waste at 4.5 pounds per day.
Performance Measures
Percentage of construction and demolition debris that is
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
62
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
62.8
Unit
percent
reused or recycled.
Millions of tons of municipal solid waste diverted.
Percentage of coal combustion ash that is used instead of
disposed.
Daily per capita generation of municipal solid waste.
Number of closed, cleaned up, or upgraded open dumps
in Indian Country or on other tribal lands.
Number of tribes covered by an adequate and recently-
approved integrated solid waste management plan.
81
79
83.1
4.5
4.5
4.5
Data Avail
2008
Data Avail
2008
85.2
4.5
30
27
87.3
1.8
4.5
30
26
million tons
percent
Ibs. MSW
open dumps
tribes
Background: An analysis conducted at the end of FY 2005 shows approximately 79 million tons (33%) of municipal solid waste diverted and 4.5 Ibs of MSW per
person daily generation. There is a two-year data lag in reporting these data. In terms of construction and demolition debris, in 2003, 164 million tons
was generated from buildings (of which 28% was recycled), and 167.3 million tons was generated from roads (of which 88% was recycled). The total
C&D debris generated was 331.3 million tons with 59% recycled (or 195.3 million tons). Debris from bridges, land clearing and excavations are not
included in EPA's characterization. The annual percentage increase in C&D debris reuse and recycling is expected despite an anticipated increase in
debris generation. There is a two-year data lag in reporting these data. For coal combustion ash, approximately 125 millions tons are generated annually,
and in 2001, 32% was used rather than landfilled. The annual increase in use is targeted although associated increases in generation are also expected
annually. There is a one-year data lag in reporting these data. With respect to the tribal data, targets are established relative to 2006 when new criteria
for reporting were identified.
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Waste and Petroleum Management Controls
In 2008 Reduce releases to the environment by managing hazardous wastes and petroleum products properly.
In 2007 Reduce releases to the environment by managing hazardous wastes and petroleum products properly.
In 2006 Reduce releases to the environment by managing hazardous wastes and petroleum products properly.
In 2005 Reduce releases to the environment by managing hazardous wastes and petroleum products properly.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
Annual increase in the percentage of RCRA hazardous 2.8 3.1 2.5
waste management facilities with permits or other
approved controls.
No more than 10,000 confirmed releases peryear. <10,000 7,421 <10,000
Increase the rate of significant operational compliance by 65 66 66
1% over the previous year's rate (target).
4.3 2.4 1.8 percent
8,361 <10,000 <10,000 UST releases
62 67 68 percent
Background: FY 2004 was the first year that states and regional offices reported the percentage of UST facilities that are in significant operational compliance with
both release detection and release prevention (spill, overfill, and corrosion protection) requirements, out of a total estimated universe of approximately
256,000 facilities. At the end of FY 2006, 62 percent of USTs were in significant operational compliance with both release detection and release
prevention requirements. Given the inspection requirements of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, some states are now targeting previously un-inspected
facilities, and these are more likely to be out-of-compliance. Between FY 1999 and FY 2006, confirmed UST releases averaged 10,534. At the end of
FY 2006, the percentage of hazardous waste management facilities with permits or other approved controls nationwide was 91.4 percent.
OBJECTIVE: RESTORE LAND
By 2011, control the risks to human health and the environment by mitigating the impact of accidental or intentional releases and by cleaning
up and restoring contaminated sites or properties to appropriate levels.
GOAL 3: LAND PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION
Performance-55
Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
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Environmental Programs
Superfund Cost Recovery
In 2008 Ensure trust fund stewardship by getting PRPs to initiate or fund the work and recover costs from PRPs when EPA expends trust fund monies. Address
cost recovery at all NPL and non-NPL sites with a statute of limitations (SOL) on total past costs equal to or greater than $200,000.
In 2007 Ensure trust fund stewardship by getting PRPs to initiate or fund the work and recover costs from PRPs when EPA expends trust fund monies. Address
cost recovery at all NPL and non-NPL sites with a statute of limitations (SOL) on total past costs equal to or greater than $200,000.
In 2006 Ensure trust fund stewardship by getting PRPs to initiate or fund the work and recover costs from PRPs when EPA expends trust fund monies. Address
cost recovery at all NPL and non-NPL sites with a statute of limitations (SOL) on total past costs equal to or greater than $200,000.
In 2005 Ensure trust fund stewardship by getting PRPs to initiate or fund the work and recover costs from PRPs when EPA expends trust fund monies. Address
cost recovery at all NPL and non-NPL sites with a statute of limitations (SOL) on total past costs equal to or greater than $200,000.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
Refer to DOJ, settle, or write off100% of 'Statute of 100 99 100 100 100 100 Percent
Limitations (SOLs) cases for SF sites with total
unaddressedpast costs equal to or greater than $200,000
and report value of costs recovered.
Background: In FY 1998 the Agency will have addressed 100% of Cost Recovery at all NPL & non-NPL sites with total past costs equal or greater than $200,000.
Superfund Potentially Responsible Party Participation
In 2008 Reach a settlement or take an enforcement action by the time of the Remedial Action start at 95 percent of non-Federal Superfund sites that have viable,
liable parties.
In 2007 Reach a settlement or take an enforcement action by the time of the Remedial Action start at 95 percent of non-Federal Superfund sites that have viable,
liable parties.
In 2005 Reach a settlement or take an enforcement action by the time of the Remedial Action start at 90 percent of non-Federal Superfund sites that have viable,
liable parties.
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Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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In 2005 Reach a settlement or take an enforcement action by the time of the Remedial Action start at 90 percent of non-Federal Superfund sites that have viable,
liable parties.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
Percentage of Superfund sites at which settlement or 90 100 90 100 95 95 Percent
enforcement action taken before the start ofRA.
Background: In FY 1998 approximately 70% of new remedial work at NPL sites (excluding Federal facilities) was initiated by private parties. In FY 2003, a
settlement was reached or an enforcement action was taken with non-Federal PRPs before the start of the remedial action at approximately 90 percent of
Superfund sites.
Assess and Cleanup Contaminated Land
In 2008 Control the risks to human health and the environment at contaminated properties or sites through cleanup, stabilization, or other action, and make land
available for reuse.
In 2007 Control the risks to human health and the environment at contaminated properties or sites through cleanup, stabilization, or other action, and make land
available for reuse.
In 2006 Control the risks to human health and the environment at contaminated properties or sites through cleanup, stabilization, or other action, and make land
available for reuse.
In 2005 Control the risks to human health and the environment at contaminated properties or sites through cleanup, stabilization, or other action, and make land
available for reuse.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
Number of cleanups that meet state risk-based standards 14,500 14,583 13,600 14,493 13,000 13,000 cleanups
for human exposure and groundwater migration (tracked
as the number LUST cleanups completed).
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Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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Performance Measures
Number of cleanups that meet risk-based standards for
human exposure and groundwater migration on Indian
Country.
Superfund final site assessment decisions completed.
Annual number of Superfund sites with remedy
Environmental Programs
FY 2005 FY 2006 FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target Actual Target Actual Target
30 53. 30 43 30
500 551 419 518 350
40 40 40 40 24
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
30
272
30
Unit
cleanups
assessments
completions
construction completed.
Superfund sites with human health protection achieved
(exposure pathways are eliminated or potential exposures
are under health-based levels for current use of land or
water resources).
Superfund sites with contaminated groundwater migration
under control.
Number of Federal Facility Superfund sites where all
remedies have completed construction.
Number of Federal Facility Superfund sites where the
final remedial decision for contaminants at the site has
been determined.
Percent of RCRA construction completions using 2008
baseline.
Percentage of RCRA CA facilities with current human
exposures under control (using 2008 baseline).
Percentage of RCRA CA facilities with migration of
contaminated groundwater under control (using 2008
baseline).
Number of Superfund sites ready for reuse site-wide.
10
10
46
56
no data*
23
47
61
10
10
51
61
13
82
68
34
21
55
70
22
89
74
10
10
56
76
25
92
77
10
15
60
81
27
95
81
sites
sites
sites
remedies
percent
percent
percent
sites
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Background: In FY 2004, Superfund controlled human exposures at 83% (1,242 of 1,493) of eligible NPL sites and controlled groundwater migration at 67% (875 of
1,306) of eligible NPL sites, completed construction at 62% (926 of 1,498) of the eligible NPL sites, selected final remedies at 67% (1,003 of 1,498) of
the eligible NPL sites. Of the 1,714 RCRA Corrective Action high priority facilities, 84% (1,440) have human exposures controlled and 70% (1,199)
have groundwater migration controlled, reflecting the strong EPA/state partnership in this program. The new performance measures for the RCRA
program reflect establishment of a new facility baseline (1,968 facilities) established in October 2004. In FY 2004, EPA completed 317,405 leaking
underground storage tank cleanups by the end of FY 2004. The Agency has worked with state partners to evaluate multi-year cleanup goals in light of
new pressures that have slowed the pace of cleanup in recent years. The result of this process has been a reduction of multi-year goals to a target
number that better reflects the current challenges. ( *In 2005, EPA conducted a comprehensive reassessment of the data used to determine the number of
Superfund sites with human exposure controlled in order to improve how actual conditions are accounted for at these sites. As a result, the definition of
the measure was revised to include achieving more permanent, long-term control and protection at these sites, which included a new baseline from
which to measure. Thus, there is no result for FY 2005.)
Prepare/Respond to Accidental/Intentional Release
In 2008 Reduce and control the risks posed by accidental and intentional releases of harmful substances by improving our Nation's capability to prepare for and
respond more effectively to these emergencies.
In 2007 Reduce and control the risks posed by accidental and intentional releases of harmful substances by improving our Nation's capability to prepare for and
respond more effectively to these emergencies.
In 2006 Reduce and control the risks posed by accidental and intentional releases of harmful substances by improving our Nation's capability to prepare for and
respond more effectively to these emergencies.
In 2005 Reduce and control the risks posed by accidental and intentional releases of harmful substances by improving our Nation's capability to prepare for and
respond more effectively to these emergencies.
Performance Measures
Superfund-lead removal actions completed annually.
Voluntary removal actions, overseen by EPA, completed.
Number of inspections and exercises conducted at oil
FY 2005
Target Actual
195
105
360
172
137
335
FY 2006
Target Actual
195
115
100
157
93
345
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
195
120
200
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
195
125
250
Unit
removals
removals
inspections/
storage facilities that are required to have Facility
Response Plans.
exercises
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Performance Measures
Percentage of inspected facilities subject to Spill
FY 2005
Target Actual
100 100
FY 2006
Target Actual
100 50
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
53
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
55
Unit
percent
Prevention, Control and Countermeasures (SPCC)
regulations found to be in compliance.
Percentage of inspected facilities subject to Facility
Response Plan (FRP) regulations found to be in
compliance.
Average state of emergency response readiness as
determined by readiness criteria.
100
77
100
71
75
55
78
65
percent
percent
Background: By the end of FY 2004, there have been cumulative total of over 8,280 Superfund removal response actions initiated since 1980. EPA exceeded its FY
2004 expectations for readiness by reducing the core emergency response readiness deficit by 56%. EPA was involved in 308 oil spill responses in FY
2004. The Agency typically responds to or monitors 300 oil spill cleanups per year.
OBJECTIVE: ENHANCE SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
Through 2011, provide and apply sound science for protecting and restoring land by conducting leading-edge research, which through
collaboration, leads to preferred environmental outcomes
Research
Land Protection and Restoration Research
In 2008 Increased use of land protection and restoration research products
In 2007 Increased use of land protection and restoration research products
In 2006 Document the performance, including cost savings, of innovative characterization and remediation options, so that newer approaches with cost or
performance advantages are applied for Superfund and other cleanup projects.
GOAL 3: LAND PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION
Performance-60
Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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Environmental Programs
In 2005 In FY 2005, complete at least four SITE demonstrations, with emphasis on NAPLs and sediments, in order to, by 2010, develop or evaluate 40 scientific
tools, technologies, methods, and models, and provide technical support that enable practitioners to 1) characterize the nature and extent of multimedia
contamination; 2) assess, predict, and communicate risks to human health and the environment; 3) employ improved remediation options; and 4)
respond to oil spills effectively.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in support of the 100 100 100 100 100 100 Percent
management of material streams, conserve resources and
appropriately manage waste long-term goal.
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in support of the 100 70 100 96 100 100 Percent
mitigation, management and long-term stewardship of
contaminated sites long-term goal.
Background: In FY 2008, the program plans to deliver 100% of its planned outputs in support of each of its long-term goals. In FY 2006, the program completed
100% of its planned outputs in support of its two long-term goals. In achieving its FY 2008 targets, the program will contribute to EPA's goal of
applying sound science in the protection and restoration of land.
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Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITIES AND ECOSYSTEMS
Protect, sustain, or restore the health of people, communities, and ecosystems using integrated and comprehensive approaches and partnerships.
OBJECTIVE: CHEMICAL AND PESTICIDE RISKS
By 2011, prevent and reduce pesticide and industrial chemical risks to humans, communities, and ecosystems.
Protect Human Health from Pesticide Risk
In 2008 Decrease cost per pesticide occupational incident avoided.
In 2008 Ensure new pesticide registration actions (including new active ingredients, new uses) meet new health standards and are environmentally safe.
In 2008 Improve the health of those who work in or around pesticides by reaching a 50% reduction in moderate to severe incidents for six acutely toxic
agricultural pesticides with the highest incident rate.
In 2008 Percentage of acre treatments that will use applications of reduced-risk pesticides.
In 2008 Protect those occupationally exposed to pesticides by improving or maintaining a rate of 3.5 or less incidents per 100,000 potential risk events.
In 2008 Reduce concentration of pesticides detected in general population.
In 2008 Reduce decision times for registration of reduced risk chemicals.
In 2008 Register reduced risk pesticides, including biopesticides.
In 2007 Decrease cost per pesticide occupational incident avoided.
In 2007 Ensure new pesticide registration actions (including new active ingredients, new uses) meet new health standards and are environmentally safe.
In 2007 Improve the health of those who work in or around pesticides by reducing moderate to severe incidents for six acutely toxic agricultural pesticides with
the highest incident rate.
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Management and Budget's Program Assessment
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In 2007 Percentage of acre treatments that will use applications of reduced-risk pesticides.
In 2007 Reduce concentration of pesticides detected in general population.
In 2007 Reduce decision times for registration of reduced risk chemicals.
In 2007 Register reduced risk pesticides, including biopesticides.
In 2006 Ensure new pesticide registration actions (including new active ingredients, new uses) meet new health standards and are environmentally safe.
In 2006 Percentage of acre treatments that will use applications of reduced-risk pesticides
In 2006 Reduce decision times for registration of reduced risk chemicals.
In 2006 Register reduced risk pesticides, including biopesticides.
In 2005 Ensure new pesticide registration actions (including new active ingredients, new uses) meet new health standards and are environmentally safe.
In 2005 Percentage of acre treatments that will use applications of reduced-risk pesticides
In 2005 Reduce decision times for registration of reduced risk chemicals.
In 2005 Register reduced risk pesticides, including biopesticides.
Performance Measures
Register reduced risk pesticides, including biopesticides.
New Chemicals (Active Ingredients)
New Uses
Percentage of agricultural acres treated with reduced-risk
pesticides.
FY
Target
14
8
200
13.5
2005
Actual
14
3
164
16
FY
Target
14
8
200
17
2006
Actual
15
19
235
Data Avail
2007
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
14
8
200
18.0
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
14
8
200
18.0
Unit
Registrations
Registrations
Actions
% Acre-
Treatments
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Performance-63
Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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Performance Measures
Environmental Programs
FY 2005 FY 2006
Target Actual Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
Unit
Incidents per 100,000 potential risk events in population
occupationally exposed to pesticides.
Percent reduction in concentrations of pesticides detected
in general population.
Percent reduction in moderate to severe incidents for six
acutely toxic agricultural pesticides with the highest
incident rate.
<- 3.5 Incidents per
100,000
10 Bi-Annual % Reduction
10 Bi-Annual % Reduction
Background: The baseline for registration of reduced risk pesticides, new chemicals, and new uses, is zero in 1996 (the year FQPA was enacted). Cumulative actuals
in FY 2006 for reduced risk pesticides are 172 registrations, 101 new chemicals (AI) and 3,541 new use actions. These performance measures are now
counted on an annual basis in order to better address PRIA requirements.
The baseline for reducing registration decision times for reduced risk chemicals is 32.5 months in 2002.
According to NHANES data for 1999-2002 the concentration of pesticides residues detected in blood samples from the general population are:
Dimethylphosphaste = 0.41 ug/L; Dimethylthiophosphate = 1.06 ug/L; Dimethyldithiophosphate = 0.07 ug/L; Diethylphosphate = 0.78 ug/L;
Diethylthiophosphate = 0.5 ug/L; Diethyldithiophosphate = 0.07 ug/L; and 3,5,6-Trichloro-2-pyridinol = 1.9 ug/L. There were 1,385 incidents out of
39,850,000 potential risk events for those occupationally exposed to pesticides in 2003. The rates for moderate to severe incidents for exposure to
agricultural pesticides with the highest incident rates base on 1999 -2003 data were: diazinon, 51 incidents; malathion, 36 incidents; pyrethrins, 29
incidents; 2, 4-D, 27 incidents; carbofuran, 24 incidents; based on data from Poison Control Centers' Toxic Exposure Surveillance System (TESS), and
NIOSH's Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational Risk (SENSOR).
Protect the Environment from Pesticide Risk
In 2008 Ensure that through ongoing data reviews, pesticide active ingredients, and products that contain them are reviewed to assure adequate protection for
human health and the environment, taking into consideration exposure scenarios such as subsistance lifestyles of the Native Americans
In 2008 Reduce the average cost and average time to produce or update an Endangered Species Bulletin.
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITITES AND ECOSYSTEMS
Performance-64
Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
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In 2008 Reduce the percent of urban watersheds sampled that exceeds EPA aquatic life benchmarks for three key pesticides of concern (diazinon, chlorpyrifos,
malathion).
In 2007 Ensure that through ongoing data reviews, pesticide active ingredients, and products that contain them are reviewed to assure adequate protection for
human health and the environment, taking into consideration exposure scenarios such as subsistance lifestyles of the Native Americans
In 2007 Reduce the average cost and average time to produce or update an Endangered Species Bulletin.
In 2006 Ensure that through ongoing data reviews, pesticide active ingredients, and products that contain them are reviewed to assure adequate protection for
human health and the environment, taking into consideration exposure scenarios such as subsistance lifestyles of the Native Americans
In 2005 Ensure that through ongoing data reviews, pesticide active ingredients, and products that contain them are reviewed to assure adequate protection for
human health and the environment, taking into consideration exposure scenarios such as subsistance lifestyles of the Native Americans
FY 2005
Performance Measures Target Actual
Product Reregistration 400 501
Percent of urban watersheds that exceeds EPA aquatic life
FY 2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Target Actual Target Target
545 545 545 545
25, 25, 30
Unit
Actions
% Watersheds
benchmarks for three key pesticides of concern.
Background: The baseline for REDs is completion of 612 REDs by 2008. A total of 7,358 product reregistrations were completed by 2006. Reregistration decision
time baseline is 30 months in 2002.
Based on 1992 - 2001 data, 40% of urban watersheds exceeded aquatic life benchmarks for diazinon, 37% for chlorpyrifos, and 30% of urban
watersheds exceeded aquatic life benchmarks malathion. Based on 1992 - 2001 data, 18% percent of agricultural watersheds exceeded aquatic life
benchmarks for azinphos-methyl and 18% of agricultural watersheds exceeded aquatic life benchmarks for chlorpyrifos.
In 2004, the average cost per Endangered Species Bulletin produced or updated was $4,000 and 100 hours.
Endocrine Disrupters
In 2008 Endocrine Disrupter Screening Program will continue its progress toward completing the validation of endocrine test methods.
In 2007 Endocrine Disrupter Screening Program will continue its progress toward completing the validation of endocrine test methods.
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In 2006
In 2005
Annual Performance Goals and Measures
Environmental Programs
Endocrine Disrupter Screening Program will continue its progress toward completing the validation of endocrine test methods.
Standardization and validation of screening assays
Performance Measures
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
Unit
Cumulative number of assays validated.
11/20
2/21
8/20
13/20
Assays
Background: The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA) requires EPA to use validated assays to screen chemicals for their potential to affect the endocrine
system. The development and validation of assays is currently the principal effort in implementing the Endocrine Disrupter Screening Program (EDSP).
The validation process consists of several discrete steps: Detailed Review Paper is the first stage of the overall validation process. It is a review of the
scientific literature relevant to an assay and discusses the scientific principles on which the assay is based, reviews candidate protocols and makes
recommendations as to which is most suitable as a starting point for assay refinement and validation. Prevalidation consists of studies to optimize and
standardize the protocol and verify the ability of the protocol to accurately measure the endpoints of concern. Validation determines the transferability
of the protocol to other laboratories and determines inter-laboratory variability. Peer review is the review by an independent group of experts of the
scientific work establishing the validity of the protocol.
Realize the Value from Pesticide Availability
In 2008 Maintain timeliness of S18 decisions.
In 2008 Number of acres using reduced risk pest management practices compared to the grant and/or contract funds expended on environmental stewardship.
In 2007 Maintain timeliness of S18 decisions.
In 2006 Maintain timeliness of S18 decisions.
In 2005 Maintain timeliness of S18 decisions.
Performance Measures
Maintain timeliness of SI 8 decisions
FY 2005
Target Actual
45 42
FY 2006
Target Actual
45 48
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
45
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
45
Unit
Days
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Performance Measures
Millions of dollars in termite structural damaj
?e avoided
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
900
Unit
Million dollars
annually by ensuring safe and effective pesticides are
registered/re-registered and available for termite
treatment.
Billions of dollars in crop loss avoided by ensuring that
effective pesticides are available to address pest
infestations.
1.5
Billion dollars
loss avoided
Background: The Section 18's 2005 baseline is 45 days. EPA's FY 2006 response time for Section 18 decisions (emergency pesticide use exemptions for pest
infestations) was slightly higher than the target of 45 days because the program's focus was diverted to address Homeland Security and food security
concerns associated with soybean rust.
According to EPA and USDA data for the years 2000-2005, emergency exemptions issued by EPA resulted in $1.5 billion in avoided crop loss. In a
similar manner, based on U.S Census housing data, industry data, and academic studies on damage valuation, EPA calculates that in 2003 there were
$900 million in annual savings from structural damage avoided due to availability of registered termiticides. For 2005, funding of Strategic Agriculture
Initiative grants resulted in $2.63 per acre impacted.
Lead Gasoline Phase-Out
In 2008 Eliminate use of lead in gasoline in remaining countries that still use lead as an additive, affecting more than 700 million people.
In 2008 Increase access to low-sulfur fuels in developing countries.
Performance Measures
FY 2005 FY 2006 FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target Actual Target Actual Target
Number of countries completing phase out of leaded
gasoline, (incremental)
Number of countries introdut
:ing low sulfur in fuels.
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
7
2
Unit
Countries
Countries
(incremental)
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Performance-67
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Management and Budget's Program Assessment
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Background: As of June 2005, 122 countries have phased out the use of lead in gasoline. As of 2005, United States, Japan, Canada, and the European Community
have introduced low-sulfur fuels.
Exposure to Industrial / Commercial Chemicals
In 2008 Reduce exposure to and health effects from priority industrial/commercial chemicals
In 2007 Reduce exposure to and health effects from priority industrial/commercial chemicals
In 2006 Reduce exposure to and health effects from priority industrial/commercial chemicals
In 2005 Reduce exposure to and health effects from priority industrial / commercial chemicals
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures
Percent difference in the geometric mean blood level in
low-income children 1-5 years old as compared to the
geometric mean for non-low income children 1-5 years
old.
Number of cases of children (aged 1-5 years) with
elevated blood lead levels (>10ug/dl).
Target
29
38,700
Actual
Data
Available
2009
Data
Available
2009
Target
29
216,000
Actual
Data
Available
2009
Data
Available
2009
Target
Biannual
Data
199,000
Target
29
90,000
Unit
Percent
Children
Background: Baseline for percentage of lead-based paint certification and refund applications that require less than 40 days of EPA effort to process is 54% in 2004.
Baseline for percent difference in the geometric mean blood level in low-income children 1-5 years old as compared to the geometric mean for non-low
income children 1-5 years old is 37% in 1991-1994.
Data released by CDC from the National Health and Nutritional Evaluation Survey (NHANES) in May of 2005 estimated a population of 310,000
children aged 1-5 with lead poisoning (blood lead levels of 10 ug/dl or greater). EPA has incorporated into its Strategic Plan the federal government
goal to eliminate childhood lead poisoning as a public health concern by 2010.
Risks from Industrial / Commercial Chemicals
In 2008
Identify, restrict, and reduce risks associated with industrial/commercial chemicals.
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITITES AND ECOSYSTEMS
Performance-68
Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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In 2007 Identify, restrict, and reduce risks associated with industrial/commercial chemicals.
In 2006 Identify, restrict, and reduce risks associated with industrial/commercial chemicals.
In 2005 Identify, restrict, and reduce risks associated with industrial/commercial chemicals.
FY 2005 FY 2006
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual
Cumulative number of chemicals with proposed, interim, 125 165 145 185
and/or final values for Acute Exposure Guidelines Levels
(AEGL).
Percent of chemicals or organisms introduced into 100 100
commerce that do not pose unreasonable risks to workers,
consumers, or the environment.
Percentage of HPV chemicals identified as priority TBD 100 100
concerns through assessment of Screening Information
Data Sets (SIDS) and other information with risks
eliminated or effectively managed.
Cumulative number of chemicals for which VCCEP data TBD 8 6
needs documents are issued by EPA in response to
Industry sponsored Tier 1 risk assessments.
Reduction in the current year production-adjusted risk- 2 Data 3 Data
based score of releases and toxic transfers. Available Available
2008 2008
Percent reduction from prior year in total EPA cost per
chemical for which proposed AEGL value sets are
FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Target Target Unit
209 233 Total number
chemicals
100 100 Percent
100 100 % of HPV
Chemicals
9 10 Cumulative
Chemicals
2.5 2.5 % RSEI
relative risk
34,160 34,160 Cost savings
(2) (2) (%)
developed.
Percent change from prior year in cost savings due to
new chemical prescreening.
6.7
% cost savings
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Background: In 2006, additional 23 chemicals with proposed, interim, or final AEGL Values were reported for the AEGL Program (annual count).
The baseline for percent of chemicals or organisms introduced into commerce that do not pose unreasonable risks to workers, consumers, or the
environment in 2004 and 2005 islOO%.
The baseline for HPV measure is zero chemicals in 1998. EPA screening of data obtained through the HPV Challenge Program is commencing in 2006;
actions to obtain additional information needed to assess risks will commence subsequently as chemicals are identified as priority concerns through the
screening process.
Baseline for the VCCEP Program is 0 for FY 2003.
Baseline for the Risk Screening Environmental Indicators Model Program is based on the cumulative reduction that was reported in 2002-2003 and is
6.6 percent.
Chemical Facility Risk Reduction
In 2008 Protect human health, communities, and ecosystems from chemical risks and releases through facility risk reduction efforts and building community
infrastructures.
In 2007 Protect human health, communities, and ecosystems from chemical risks and releases through facility risk reduction efforts and building community
infrastructures.
In 2006 Protect human health, communities, and ecosystems from chemical risks and releases through facility risk reduction efforts and building community
infrastructures.
In 2005 Protect human health, communities, and ecosystems from chemical risks and releases through facility risk reduction efforts and building community
infrastructures.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
Number of risk management plan audits completed. 400 885 400 550 400 400 Audits
Background: 1,059 Risk Management Plan audits were completed between FY 2000 and FY 2003.
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Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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OBJECTIVE: COMMUNITIES
Sustain, clean up, and restore communities and the ecological systems that support them.
U.S. - Mexico Border Water/Wastewater Infrastructure
In 2008 Sustain and restore the environmental health along the United States-Mexico Border through implementation of the "Border 2012" plan.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
Number of additional homes provided adequate safe 2,500 More homes
drinking water in the Mexican border area that lacked
access to wastewater sanitation in 2003.
Number of additional homes provided adequate 15,000 More homes
wastewater sanitation in the Mexican border area that
lacked access to wastewater sanitation in 2003.
Background: The US-Mexico border region extends more than 3,100 kilometers (2,000 miles) from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, and 62.5 miles on each
side of the international border. More than 11.8 million people reside along the border and this figure is expected to increase to 19.4 million by 2020.
Ninety percent of the population reside in the 14 impaired, interdependent sister cities. Rapid population growth in urban areas has resulted in
unplanned development, greater demand for land and energy, increased traffic congestion, increased waste generation, overburdened or unavailable
waste treatment and disposal facilities, and more frequent chemical emergencies. Rural areas suffer from exposure to airborne dust, pesticide use, and
inadequate water supply and treatment facilities. EPA, other US Federal agencies, and the Government of Mexico have partnered to address these
environmental problems.
Environmental Justice
In 2008 In FY 08, four communities with potential environmental justice concerns will achieve significant measurable environmental or public health
improvement through collaborative problem-solving strategies.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITIES AND ECOSYSTEMS Performance-? 1 Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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FY 2005
FY 2006
Performance Measures
Target
Actual
Target
Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
Unit
Communities with Environmental Justice Concerns
Communities
Background: The Agency works to address issues affecting disproportionately exposed and under-represented populations from adverse health or environmental
effects. EPA identifies problem areas through: public comments received during the National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (NEJAC)
meetings; reviewing Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) filed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in which environmental justice
(EJ) indicators occur; concern from communities about new or renewals of permits under RCRA, CWA, CAA, etc.; and complaints filed under Title VI
of the Civil Rights Act. EPA also works to address these issues through the Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice and by
awarding grants to communities for addressing environmental problems.
Reducing POPs
In 2008 Reduce mean maternal blood levels of chlordane in indigenous populations in the Arctic
In 2008
Reduce mean maternal blood levels of poly chlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in indigenous populations in the Arctic
FY 2005
FY 2006
Performance Measures
Target
Actual
Target
Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
Unit
Mean maternal blood levels of polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs) (measured as Aroclor 1260) in indigenous
populations in the Arctic, (cumulative)
Mean maternal blood levels of chlordane (measured as
the metabolites oxychlordane and trans-nonachlor) in
indigenous populations in the Arctic, (cumulative)
6.3
1.3
6.15
1.25
ug/1
ug/1
Background: Data for these measures are not available annually because of the long biological residence of the selected congeners of about 3-5 years. With the
signing of the global POPs convention in May 2001 EPA will work on domestic implementing legislation (e.g., a FIFRA amendment) and projects to
support implementation by key developing countries (e.g., China). In FY2001 EPA worked with UNEP to identify regions (e.g., Sub-Saharan Africa,
Central America, Southeast Asia) which would benefit from such support from EPA, and we have started projects on the basis of available funding.
Whenever possible EPA will support projects, which also promote compliance with the global Prior Informed Consent (PIC) regime and the
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITITES AND ECOSYSTEMS
Performance-72
Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
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international commitment to improve chemicals management capabilities, as set out in the Bahia Declaration from the Third Session of the
Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety in October 2000.
Mexico Border Outreach
In 2008 Cleanup waste sites in the United States-Mexico border region
In 2006 Develop air quality assessments and programs to improve air quality standards in border communities.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
Cleanup waste sites in the United States-Mexico border 1 Sites
region, (incremental)
Background: In 2004, there are no border communities monitoring for pollutants that have not previously been monitored in their community. There are 17
monitoring stations along the US-Mexico Border (source: US-Mexico Border XXI Program: Progress Report 1996-2000). Monitoring for: carbon
monoxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, paniculate matter 2.5 micrometers or less in diameter U.S. only, paniculate matter 10 micrometers
or less in diameter, total suspended paniculate matter Mexico only, lead.
Revitalize Properties
In 2008 Assess, clean up and promote the reuse of Brownfields properties, and leverage jobs and cleanup/redevelopment funding.
In 2007 Assess, clean up and promote the reuse of Brownfields properties, and leverage jobs and cleanup/redevelopment funding.
In 2006 Assess, clean up and promote the reuse of Brownfields properties, and leverage jobs and cleanup/redevelopment funding.
In 2005 Leverage jobs by assessing, promoting the cleanup and reuse of Brownfields properties.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
Brownfield properties assessed. 1,000 1,381.00 1,000 Data 1,000 1,000 Assessments
Available
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Acres of Brownfields properties made ready for reuse.
Jobs leveraged from Brownfields activities.
Billions of dollars of cleanup and redevelopment funds
leveraged at Brownfields sites.
FY 2005 FY 2006
Target Actual Target Actual
2007
5,000 6,128.00 5,000 Data
Available
2007
0.9 1.00 1.0 Data
Available
2007
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
5,000
0.9
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
225
5,000
0.9
Unit
Acres
Jobs
Billion dollars
funds
Background: By the end of FY 2005, the Brownfields program assessed 1,381 properties, leveraged 6,128 jobs, and leveraged $1.0B in cleanup and redevelopment
funding.
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Pacific Island Territories
In 2008 Sustain and restore the environmental health of the U.S. Pacific Island Territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands (CNMI).
Performance Measures
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
Unit
% of population in each of U.S. Pacific Island Territories
served by CWS will receive drinking water that meets all
applicable health-based drinking water standards
throughout the year.
The sewage treatment plants in the U.S. Pacific Island
Territories will comply with permit limits for biochemical
oxygen demand (BOD) and total suspended solids (TSS).
Beaches in each of the U.S. Pacific Island Territories
monitored under the Beach Safety Program will be open
and safe for swimming during the beach season.
72
67
70
% Population
% Time
% Days
Background: In 2005, 95% of the population in American Samoa, 10% in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and 80% of Guam served by
CWS received drinking water that meets all applicable health-based standards. The sewage treatment plants in the Pacific Island Territories compiled
59% of the time with BOD & TSS permit limits. Beaches were open and safe 64% of the beach season in American Samoa, 97% in the CNMI & 76%
in Guam.
OBJECTIVE: RESTORE AND PROTECT CRITICAL ECOSYSTEMS
Protect, sustain, and restore the health of critical natural habitats and ecosystems.
Protecting and Enhancing Estuaries
In 2008 Working with partners, protect or restore additional (i.e., measuring from 2008 forward) acres of habitat within the study area for the 28 estuaries that
are part of the National Estuary Program.
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITIES AND ECOSYSTEMS
Performance-75
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In 2007 Working with NEP partners, protect or restore an additional 25,000 acres of habitat within the study areas for the 28 estuaries that are part of the
National Estuary Program (NEP).
In 2006 Working with NEP partners, protect or restore an additional 25,000 acres of habitat within the study areas for the 28 estuaries that are part of the
National Estuary Program (NEP).
In 2005 Working with NEP partners, protect or restore an additional 25,000 acres of habitat within the study areas for the 28 estuaries that are part of the
National Estuary Program (NEP).
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
Acres protected or restored in NEP study areas. 25,000 103,959 25,000 140,033 75,000 50,000 Acres
Background: 2005 Baseline: 449,242 acres of habitat protected or restored; cumulative from 2002.
Gulf of Mexico
In 2008 Improve the overall health of coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico on the "good/fair/poor" scale of the National Coastal Condition Report.
In 2007 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic species in order to improve the health of the Gulf of Mexico.
In 2006 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic species in order to improve the health of the Gulf of Mexico.
In 2005 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic species in order to improve the health of the Gulf of Mexico.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
Improve overall health of coastal waters of the Gulf of 0.1 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.5 Scale
Mexico on the "good/fair/poor" scale of the National
Coastal Condition Report.
Reduce releases of nutrients throughout the Mississippi 12700 12,700 14,128 14,944 14,128 13,500 Square miles
River Basin to reduce the size of the hypoxic zone in the
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Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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Environmental Programs
FY 2005 FY 2006
Target Actual Target Actual
FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Target Target
Unit
Gulf of Mexico, as measured by the five year running
average
Percentage of water and habitat quality restored to meet
water quality standards in impaired segments in 13
priority coastal areas.
Acres of important coastal and marine habitats restored,
enhanced or protected.
64
18,200
% Impaired
segments
Acres
Background: In 2004, the Gulf of Mexico rating of fair/poor was 2.4 where the rating is based on a 5-point system in which 1 is poor and 5 is good and is expressed
as an aerially weighted mean of regional scores using the National Coastal Condition Report II indicators: water quality index, sediment quality index,
benthic index, coastal habitat index, and fish tissue contaminants.
The hypoxia running average size for 1996-2000 = 14,128 km2. The 2002-2006 running average size = 14,944 km2.
In 2002, 812 impaired segments identified in Section 303(d) listings. In 2005, 16,000 acres restored, enhanced, or protected; Gulf of Mexico coastal
wetlands habitats include 3,769,370 acres.
Great Lakes Implementation Actions
In 2008 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic systems so that overall ecosystem health of the Great Lakes is improved.
In 2007 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic systems so that overall ecosystem health of the Great Lakes is improved.
In 2006 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic systems so that overall ecosystem health of the Great Lakes is improved.
In 2005 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic systems so that overall ecosystem health of the Great Lakes is improved by at least 1 point
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITITES AND ECOSYSTEMS
Performance-77
Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
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Preven
t water pollution and protect i
FY 2005
Target Actual
aquatic systems so 21.9 21.9
FY 2006
Target Actual
21 21.1
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
21
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
21
Unit
Scale
that overall ecosystem health of the Great Lakes is
improved (cumulative)
Cubic yards (in millions) of contaminated sediment 3.7
remediated in the Great Lakes, (cumulative from 1997)
Average concentrations ofPCBs in whole lake trout and 6.2
walleye samples will decline.
Average concentrations of toxic chemicals in the air in 7.1
the Great Lakes basin will decline
Restore and delist Areas of Concern (AOCs) within the 0
Great Lakes basin (1C: Fed/State/Tribal Gov. Activities)
3.7
3.2
4.1
Data
Available
2007
5.0
Million cubic
yards per
meter
% Annual
decrease
% Annual
decrease
Areas of
concern
Background: Great Lakes rating of 20 9 reported in 2003, based on most current data available, generally from 2001) on a 40 point scale where the rating uses select
Great Lakes State of the Lakes Ecosystem indicators based on a 1 to 5 rating system for each indicator, where 1 is poor and 5 is good, (ii) 2.1 million
cubic yards of contaminated sediments were remediated from 1997 through 2001 of the 40 million requiring remediation, (iii) On average, total PCB
concentrations in whole Great Lakes top predator fish have recently declined 5 percent annually - average concentrations at Lake sites from 2002 were:
L Superior-9ug/g; L Michigan- 1.6ug/g; L Huron- .8ug/gL Erie- 1.8ug/g; andL Ontario- 1.2ug/g. 9iv) Average concentrations of toxic chemicals in the
air (PCBs) from 2002 were; L Superior- 60 pg/m2; L Michigan- 87 pg/m2; L Huron-19 pg/m2; L Erie- 183 pg/m2; and L Ontario- 36 pg/m2. (v) In
2002, no Areas of Concern had been delisted.
Wetland and River Corridor Projects
In 2008 Working with partners, achieve a net increase in wetlands acres with additional focus on assessment of wetland condition.
In 2007 Working with partners, achieve no net loss of wetlands.
In 2006 Working with partners, achieve no net loss of wetlands.
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITITES AND ECOSYSTEMS
Performance-78
Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
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In 2005
Working with partners, achieve no net loss of wetlands.
Performance Measures
Annually, in partnership with the Corps of Engineers and
States, achieve no net loss of wetlands in the Clean Water
Act Section 404 regulatory program
Working with partners, achieve a net increase in wetlands
FY
Target
No Net
Loss
100,000
2005
Actual
Data
Available
2011
Data
Available
2011
FY
Target
No Net
Loss
200,000
2006
Actual
Data
Available
2011
Data
Available
2011
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
No Net
Loss
100,000
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
No Net
Loss
100,000
Unit
Acres
Acres per year
Background: Annual net wetland loss of an estimated 58,500 acres as measured by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and reported in Status and Tends of Wetlands
in the Conterminous United States, 1986-1997. The United States achieved a net cumulative increase of 32,000 acres per year of wetlands over a 6-year
period, from 1998 through 2004, as measured by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and reported in Status and trends of Wetlands in the Conterminous
United States, 1998 to 2004. (Dahl, T.E. 2006. Status and Trends of Wetlands in the Conterminous United States, 1998 to 2004. U.S. Department of
the Interior; Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C. 112 pp.)
Chesapeake Bay Habitat
In 2008 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic systems so that the overall aquatic system health of the Chesapeake Bay is improved.
In 2007 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic systems so that overall aquatic system health of the Chesapeake Bay is improved enough so that there are
100,000 acres of submerged aquatic vegetation, (cumulative)
In 2007 Reduce nitrogen loads by 80 million pounds per year; phosphorus loads by 9.0 million pounds per year, and sediment loads by 1.16 million tons per
year from entering the Chesapeake Bay, from 1985 levels.
In 2006 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic systems so that overall aquatic system health of the Chesapeake Bay is improved enough so that there are
100,000 acres of submerged aquatic vegetation, (cumulative)
In 2006 Reduce nitrogen loads by 80 million pounds per year; phosphorus loads by 9.0 million pounds per year, and sediment loads by 1.16 million tons per
year from entering the Chesapeake Bay, from 1985 levels
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITITES AND ECOSYSTEMS
Performance-79
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Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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In 2005 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic systems so that overall aquatic system health of the Chesapeake Bay is improved enough so that there are
90,000 acres of submerged aquatic vegetation, (cumulative)
In 2005 Reduce nitrogen loads by 74 million pounds per year; phosphorus loads by 8.7 million pounds per year, and sediment loads by 1.06 million tons per
year from entering the Chesapeake Bay, from 1985 levels
Performance Measures
Reduction, from 1985 levels, of nitrogen (M/lbs),
phosphorus (M/lbs), and sediment loads (tons) entering
Chesapeake Bay. (cumulative)
Percent of point source nitrogen reduction goal of 49.9
million pounds achieved.
Percent of point source phosphorus reduction goal of 6.16
million pounds achieved.
Percent of forest buffer planting goal of 10,000 miles
achieved.
Acres of submerged aquatic vegetation (SA V) present in
the Chesapeake Bay. (cumulative)
Percent of goal achieved for implementation of nitrogen
FY
Target
74/8.7/1.06
Greater
Reduction
Greater
Reduction
40
89,659
46
2005
Actual
67/8.4/0.9
61
80
38
72,942
41
FY
Target
74/8.7/1.1
65
82
46
90,000
44
2006
Actual
72.3/8.7/1
65
82
46
78,259
44
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
80/9.0/1.16
70
84
53
90,000
47
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
74
85
60
50
Unit
% Reductions
% Goal
% Goal
% Goal
Acres
% Reduction
reduction practices (expressed as progress meeting the
nitrogen reduction goal of 162.5 million pounds).
Percent of goal achieved for implementation of 60.6
phosphorus reduction practices (expressed as progress
meeting the phosphorus reduction goal of 14.36 million
pounds).
Percent of goal achieved for implementation of sediment 63
reduction practices (expressed as progress meeting the
sediment reduction goal of 1.69 million pounds).
58
54
61
57
61
57
64
61
66
64
% Reduction
% Reduction
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Background: In 1984, there were 38,230 acres of submerged aquatic vegetation in the Chesapeake Bay. In 2002, baseline for nitrogen load reductions was 53 million
pounds per year; phosphorus load reductions was 8.0 million pounds per year; and sediment load reductions was 0.8 million tons per year. *Fiscal year
data in this table reflects prior calendar year performance data.
In 2006, there were 32.68 million Ibs of point source nitrogen reduced, 65% towards the goal. There were 5.07 million Ibs of point source phosphorus
reduced, 82% towards the goal. Four thousand six hundred six miles of forest buffer were planted, 46% towards the goal.
Long Island Sound
In 2008 Prevent water pollution, improve water quality, protect aquatic systems, and restore the habitat of Long Island Sound by working through the Long
Island Sound Management Study Conference partnership.
Performance Measures
Reduce point source nitrogen discharges to LIS.
Acres of coastal habitat, including tidal wetlands, dunes,
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
8,303
50
Unit
Ibs/day
Acres
riparian buffers, and freshwater wetlands restored or
protected.
Additional miles of river and stream corridor reopened to 8.3 Miles
anadramous fish passage through removal of dams and
barriers or installation of by-pass structures such as
fishways.
Background: In 2000, TMDL baseline is 213,151 pounds/day. In 2005, 562 acres restored (cumulative) and 150 acres protected (cumulative). Eighty-one miles of
river and stream corridor re-opened.
South Florida Ecosystem
In 2008 Protect and maintain the South Florida Ecosystem, including the Everglades and coral reef ecosystems.
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Performance Measures
Mean percent stony coral cover in the Florida Keys
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
6.7/5.9
Unit
Mean % area
National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) and in the coastal
waters of Bade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties,
Florida, working with all stakeholders.
Maintain the overall water quality of the near shore and
coastal waters of the FKNMS.
Total phosphorous in Everglades surface waters.
Maintain Water quality
Maintain
Parts per
billion
Background: In 2005, the mean percent of stony coral cover is 6.7% in FKNMS and 5.9% in Southeast Florida. The average annual geometric mean phosphorus
concentrations were 5 ppb in the Everglades National Park, 10 ppb in Water Conservation 3 A, 13 ppb in the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, and
18 ppb in Water Conservation Area 2A; annual average flow-weighted from total phosphorus discharges from storm water treatment areas ranged from
13 ppb for area 3/4 and 98 ppb for area 1W.
Columbia River Basin
In 2008 Prevent water pollution, and improve and protect water quality and ecosystems in the Columbia River Basin to reduce risks to human health and the
environment.
Performance Measures
Acres of wetland habitat and acres of upland habi
FY 2005
Target Actual
tat
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
3,000
Unit
Acres
protected, enhanced, or restored in the Columbia River
Basin.
Background: In 2005, 96,770 acres of wetland and upland habitat available for protection, enhancement or restoration.
OBJECTIVE: ENHANCE SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITIES AND ECOSYSTEMS
Performance-82
Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
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Through 2011, identify and synthesize the best available scientific information, models, methods, and analyses to support Agency guidance
and policy decisions related to the health of people, communities, and ecosystems. Focus research on pesticides and chemical toxicology;
global change; and comprehensive, cross-cutting studies of human, community, and ecosystem health.
Research
Research on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
In 2008 Increased use of endocrine disrupters research program products
In 2007 By 2007, develop improved protocols for screening and testing for the Agency's Endocrine Disrupters Screening Program and reduce scientific
uncertainty on effects, exposure, and risk management issues
In 2006 By 2006, develop and transfer standardized protocols for screening chemicals for their potential effects on the endocrine system, so that EPA's Office of
Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances has the necessary protocols to validate for use in the Agency's Endocrine Disrupters Screening Program,
mandated by the Food Quality Protection Act, as determined by independent expert review.
In 2005 Increased use of endocrine disrupters research program products
Performance Measures
Improved protocols for screening and testing (Research)
Effects and exposure milestones met (Research)
Assessment milestones met (Research)
Risk management milestones met (Research)
FY
Target
2
5
0
5
2005
Actual
2
5
0
5
FY
Target
1
9
1
3
2006
Actual
1
9
0
3
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
6
4
0
3
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
1
3
0
2
Unit
Reports
Reports
Reports
Reports
Background: In 2008, the program plans to accomplish its goals of completing 1) one report relating to improved protocols for screening and testing; 2) three reports
related to effects and exposure; and 3) two reports related to risk management. In achieving these targets, the program will contribute to EPA's goal of
providing scientifically sound guidance and policy decisions related to the health of people, communities, and ecosystems, with regard to chemical
toxicology.
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITITES AND ECOSYSTEMS
Performance-83
Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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Homeland Security Research
In 2008 Enhance public health and safety and mitigate adverse effects of the purposeful introduction of hazardous chemical, biological, or radiological materials
into the environment.
In 2007 Enhance public health and safety and mitigate adverse effects of the purposeful introduction of hazardous chemical, biological, or radiological materials
into the environment.
In 2006 Provide methods, guidance documents, technologies and tools to first responders and decision-makers to enhance safety and to mitigate adverse effects
of the purposeful introduction of hazardous chemical or biological materials into the environment.
In 2005 By FY 2005, provide tools, case studies, and technical guidance so that, by FY 2006, first responders and decision-makers will have the methods,
guidance documents, and technologies to enhance safety and to mitigate adverse effects of the purposeful introduction of hazardous chemical or
biological materials into the environment.
Performance Measures
Percentage of planned outputs delivered to support
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
100
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
100
Unit
Percent
efficient and effective clean-ups and safe disposal of
decontamination wastes. (Research)
Percentage of planned outputs delivered to support water
security initiatives. (Research)
Percentage of planned outputs delivered to support risk
assessors and decision-makers in the rapid assessment of
risk and the determination of cleanup goals and
procedures following contamination. (Research)
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in support of
establishment of the environmental National Laboratory
Response Network (Research)
100
100
100
100
100
100
Percent
Percent
Percent
Background: EPA's homeland security research provides appropriate, effective, and rapid risk assessment guidelines and technologies to help decision-makers
prepare for, detect, contain, and decontaminate building and water treatment systems against which chemical and/or biological attacks have been
directed. The Agency intends to expand the state of the knowledge of potential threats, as well as its response capabilities, by assembling and evaluating
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITITES AND ECOSYSTEMS
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private sector tools and capabilities so that preferred response approaches can be identified, promoted, and evaluated for future use by first responders,
decision-makers, and the public. This APG will provide guidance documents for the restoration of buildings and water systems and the establishment of
remediation goals. These products will enable first responders to better deal with threats to the public and the environment posed by the intentional
release of toxic or infectious materials.
Human Health Research
In 2008 Increased use of human health research products
In 2007 Increased use of human health research products
In 2006 Increased use of human health research products
In 2005 By FY 2005, provide risk assessors and managers with methods and tools for measuring exposure and effects in children, and characterizing and
reducing risks to children from environmental agents in schools so that, by 2014, EPA will be able to demonstrate why some groups of people, defined
by life stage, genetic factors, and health status, are more vulnerable than others to adverse effects from exposure to environmental agents.
FY 2005
Performance Measures
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in support of
Target
100
Actual
100
FY 2006
Target
100
Actual
100
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
100
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
100
Unit
Percent
public health outcomes long-term goal. (Research)
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in support of 100 100 100 92 100 100 Percent
mechanistic data long-term goal. (Research)
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in support of 100 86 100 100 100 100 Percent
aggregate and cumulative risk long-term goal. (Research)
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in support of the 100 100 100 100 100 100 Percent
susceptible subpopulations long-term goal. (Research)
Background: In FY 2008, the program plans to accomplish its goals of completing 100% of its planned outputs toward its four long-term goals. In achieving these
targets, the program will contribute to EPA's goal of providing scientifically sound guidance and policy decisions related to human health.
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITITES AND ECOSYSTEMS Performance-85 Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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Global Change Research
In 2008 Increased use of global change research products
In 2007 Increased use of global change research products
In 2006 Increased use of global change research products
In 2005 Increased use of global change research products
FY 2005
Performance Measures Target Actual
FY 2006
Target
Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
Unit
Percentage of planned outputs delivered. (Research)
Percent progress toward completion of framework linking
global change to air quality. (Research)
45
47.5
60
65
Baseline
75
100
85
Percent
Percent
Background: In FY 2008, the program plans to accomplish its goal of completing and delivering 100% of its planned outputs. In achieving these targets, the program
will contribute to EPA's goal of providing scientifically sound guidance and policy decisions related to the health of people, communities, and
ecosystems, with regard to global change.
Human Health Risk Assessment
In 2008 Increased use of human health risk assessment program products
In 2007 Increased use of human health risk assessment program products
In 2006 By 2006, deliver at least 20 dose-response assessments, provisional values, or pathogen risk assessments so that by 2010, at least 100 assessments have
been made available through the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) database and other communications to EPA program offices, regions, states
and Tribes providing the necessary information to predict risk and make risk management decisions that protect public health.
In 2005 Through FY2005, initiate or submit to external review 28 human health assessments and complete 12 human health assessments through the Integrated
Risk Information System (IRIS). This information will improve EPA's and other decisionmakers' ability to protect the public from harmful chemical
exposure
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITITES AND ECOSYSTEMS
Performance-86
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FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in support of Air N/A 100 N/A 100 90 90 Percent
Quality Criteria/Science Assessment documents.
(Research)
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in support of N/A 80 N/A 100 90 90 Percent
HHRA health assessments. (Research)
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in support of N/A 44 N/A 81 90 90 Percent
HHRA Technical Support Documents. (Research)
Background: In FY 2008 the program plans to complete 90% of its planned outputs in support of HHRA health assessments, 90% of its planned outputs in support of
Air Quality Criteria/Science Assessment documents, and 90% of its planned outputs in support of HHRA Technical Support Documents. In achieving
these targets, the program will contribute to EPA's goal of providing scientifically sound guidance and policy decisions related to the health of people,
communities, and ecosystems.
Ecosystems Research
In 2008 Increased use of ecosystems research products
In 2007 Increased use of ecosystems research products
In 2006 Increased use of ecosystems research products
In 2005 By FY 2005, provide technical guidance for implementing and evaluating projects to restore riparian zones, which are critical landscape components for
the restoration of aquatic ecosystems and water quality, so that, by 2010, watershed managers have state-of-the-science field-evaluated tools, technical
guidance, and decision-support systems for selecting, implementing, and evaluating cost-effective and environmentally-sound approaches to restore
ecosystem services as part of watershed management
FY 2005
Performance Measures
Number of states using a common mo:
Target
tutoring design and 20
Actual
22
FY 2006
Target
25
Actual
25
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
30
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
35
Unit
States
appropriate indicators to determine the status and trends
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Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
of ecological resources and the effectiveness of national
programs and policies. (Research)
Background: By FY 2008, the program expects that 35 states will use a common monitoring design and appropriate indicators to determine the status and trends of
ecological resources and the effectiveness of national programs and policies. This will represent an increase of 13 states since FY 2005. In achieving its
FY 2008 targets, the program will contribute to EPA's goal of providing scientifically sound guidance and policy decisions related to the health of
ecosystems.
GOAL 4: HEALTHY COMMUNITIES AND ECOSYSTEMS Performance-88 Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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GOAL 5: COMPLIANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
Improve environmental performance through ensuring compliance with environmental requirements by enforcing environmental statutes, preventing
pollution, and promoting environmental stewardship. Protect human health and the environment by encouraging innovation and providing incentives
for governments, businesses, and the public that promote environmental stewardship and long-term sustainable outcomes.
OBJECTIVE: ACHIEVE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION THROUGH IMPROVED COMPLIANCE
By 2011, maximize compliance to protect human health and the environment through enforcement and other compliance assurance activities
by achieving a 5 percent increase in the pounds of pollution reduced, treated, or eliminated by regulated entities, including those in Indian
country.
Monitoring and Enforcement
In 2008 Through monitoring and enforcement actions, EPA will increase complying actions, pollutant reduction or treatment, and improve environmental
management practices.
In 2007 Through monitoring and enforcement actions, EPA will increase complying actions, pollutant reduction or treatment, and improve environmental
management practices.
In 2006 Through monitoring and enforcement actions, EPA will increase complying actions, pollutant reduction or treatment, and improve environmental
management practices.
In 2005 Through monitoring and enforcement actions, EPA will increase complying actions, pollutant reduction or treatment, and improve environmental
management practices.
FY2005 FY2006 FY2007 FY2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Target Target Unit
Pounds of pollution estimated to be reduced, treated, or 300 1,100 450 890
eliminated as a result of concluded enforcement actions.
(civil enf)
500
550
Million
Pounds
GOAL 5: COMPLIANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP Performance-89 Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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FY 2005
Performance Measures Target Actual
Percentage of concluded enforcement cases requiring that 30 28.8
pollution be reduced, treated or eliminated (civil enf.)
FY 2006 FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target Actual Target
30 Data 30
Available
2008
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target Unit
30 Percentage
70 Percentage
Percentage
4.3 Billion Dollars
Percentage of concluded enforcement cases requiring 60 72.5 65 82 70
implementation of improved environmental management
practices.
Percentage of regulated entities taking complying actions 10 19 25 16 30
as a result ofon-site compliance inspections and
evaluations.
Dollars invested in improved environmental performance 4.0 10.0 4.1 5.0 4.2
or improved environmental management practices as a
result of concluded enforcement actions (i.e., injunctive
relief and SEPs)
Background: The FY 2004-2006 rolling average baseline for pounds of pollution reduced, treated, or eliminated is 997,000,000 pounds of pollutants. The FY 2006
baseline for the percentage of concluded enforcement cases requiring that pollutants be reduced, treated, or eliminated is the FY2005 result which is
28.8%. The reason for using the FY2005 result as the FY2006 baseline is due to the data lag in the FY2006 result. The FY2006 baseline for the
percentage of concluded enforcement cases requiring implementation of improved environmental management practices is 82%. The FY 2006 baseline
for the percentage of regulated entities taking complying actions as a result ofon-site compliance inspections and evaluations is 16%. The FY 2004-
2006 rolling average baseline for dollars invested in improved environmental performance or improved environmental management practices is
$6,600,000,000.
With the adoption of the Clean Air Interstate Rule, pollution reductions will move from an enforcement category to a regulatory category; therefore, the
enforcement targets should not be expected to increase, although overall pollution reduction is certain to increase.
Compliance Incentives
In 2008 Identify and correct noncompliance and reduce environmental risks through an increase in the percent of facilities that use EPA incentive policies to
conduct environmental audits or other actions that reduce, treat, or eliminate pollution or improve environmental management practices.
GOAL 5: COMPLIANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
Performance-90
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In 2007 Identify and correct noncompliance and reduce environmental risks through an increase in the percent of facilities that use EPA incentive policies to
conduct environmental audits or other actions that reduce, treat, or eliminate pollution or improve environmental management practices.
In 2006 Through self-disclosure policies, EPA will increase the percentage of audits or other actions reducing pollutants or improving environmental
management practices.
In 2005 Through self-disclosure policies, EPA will increase the percentage of audits or other actions reducing pollutants or improving BMP.
Performance Measures
Pounds of pollutants reduced, treated, or eliminated, as a
result of audit agreements.
FY 2005
Target Actual
0.25 1.9
FY 2006
Target Actual
0.4 0.05
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
0.4
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
0.4
Unit
Million
Pounds
Background: The FY 2006 baseline for pounds of pollutants reduced, treated, or eliminated as a result of audit agreements is 0.05 million pounds of pollutants.
Compliance Assistance
In 2008 Prevent noncompliance or reduce environmental risks through EPA compliance assistance by achieving: an increase in the percent of regulated entities
that improve their understanding of environmental requirements; an increase in the number of regulated entities that improve environmental
management practices; and an increase in the percentage of regulated entities that reduce, treat, or eliminate pollution.
In 2007 Prevent noncompliance or reduce environmental risks through EPA compliance assistance by achieving: an increase in the percent of regulated entities
that improve their understanding of environmental requirements; an increase in the number of regulated entities that improve environmental
management practices; and an increase in the percentage of regulated entities that reduce, treat, or eliminate pollution.
In 2006 Through compliance assistance, EPA will increase the understanding of regulated entities, improve environmental management practices, and reduce
pollutants.
In 2005 Through compliance assistance, EPA will increase the understanding of regulated entities, improve environmental management practices, and reduce
pollutants.
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Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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Performance Measures
Percentage of regulated entities receiving direct
compliance assistance from EPA reporting that they
improved EMP as a result of EPA assistance.
Percentage of regulated entities receiving direct
FY
Target
50
25
2005
Actual
51
13
FY
Target
50
15
2006
Actual
74
28
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
50
15
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
50
15
Unit
Percentage
Percentage
assistance from EPA reporting that they reduced, treated,
or eliminated pollution, as a result of EPA assistance.
Background: The FY 2006 baseline for the percentage of regulated entities receiving direct compliance assistance from EPA reporting that they improved EMP as a
result of EPA assistance is 74%. The FY 2006 baseline for the percentage of regulated entities receiving direct compliance assistance from EPA
reporting that they reduced, treated, or eliminated pollution as a result of EPA compliance assistance is 28%.
OBJECTIVE: IMPROVE ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE THROUGH POLLUTION PREVENTION AND INNOVATION
Improve Environmental Performance through Pollution Prevention and the Adoption of other Stewardship Practices that Lead to Sustainable
Outcomes. By 2011, enhance public health and environmental protection and increase conservation of natural resources by promoting
pollution prevention and the adoption of other stewardship practices by companies, communities, governmental organizations, and
individuals.
Reducing PBTs in Hazardous Waste Streams
In 2008 Reduce pollution in business operations.
In 2007 Reduce pollution in business operations.
In 2006 Reduce pollution in business operations.
GOAL 5: COMPLIANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
Performance-92
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FY 2005
FY 2006
Performance Measures
Target
Actual
Target
Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
Unit
Number of pounds (in millions) of priority chemicals
reduced, as measured by National Partnership for
Environmental Priorities members.
0.5
1.0
Pounds
Background: The new performance measure reflects the fact that the National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP) has quadrupled its members and now
has over 100 partners, who have removed more than one million pounds of priority chemicals from the environment. As of August 2006, the NPEP
program had also obtained industry commitments for 2.1 million pounds of priority chemical reductions through the year 2011. Reductions will be
achieved primarily through source reduction made possible by safer chemical substitutes.
Innovation Activities
In 2008 75% of innovation projects completed under the State Innovation Grant (SIG) Program and through other piloting mechanisms will achieve, on average,
an 8% or greater improvement in environmental results from a project initiation baseline measure for the sectors and facilities involved (e.g., reductions
in air or water discharges, improvements in ambient water or air quality, or improvements in compliance rates), or a 5% or greater improvement in cost-
effectiveness and efficiency.
In 2008 Performance Track facilities collectively will meet 3 of the 5 annual performance improvement targets for reducing, on a normalized basis, water use,
hazardous materials use, production of greenhouse gases, toxic discharges to water and combined NOx, SOx, VOC and PM emissions.
In 2007 Performance Track facilities collectively will meet 4 of the 6 annual performance improvement targets for 3.7 billion gallons of water use, 16.3 million
MMBTUs of energy use, 1,050 tons materials use, 460,000 tons of non-hazardous solid waste, 66,000 tons of air releases, and 12,400 tons of discharges
to water.
In 2006 Performance Track members collectively will achieve an annual reduction of: 600 million gallons in water use; 2.5 million MMBTUs in energy use;
15,000 tons of solid waste; 20,000 tons materials reduced; 6,000 tons of air releases; and 10,000 tons in water discharges, compared with 2001 results.
In 2005 In 2005 Performance Track members collectively will achieve an annual reduction of 600 million gallons in water use; 2.5 million MMBTUs in energy
use; 15,000 tons of solid waste; 6,000 tons of air releases; 10,000 tons in water discharges; and 15,000 tons of materials compared with 2001 results.
GOAL 5: COMPLIANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
Performance-93
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Performance Measures
Reduce 3. 7 billion gallons of water use; 16.3 million
MMBTUs of energy use; 1, 050 tons of materials use;
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
4
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
Unit
Media
Reduction
3,900,000,000 Gallons
10,000 Tons
175,000 MTCO2E
460,000 tons of solid waste; 66,000 tons of air releases;
& 12,400 tons of water discharges.
Reduce water use at Performance Track facilities.
Reduce hazardous materials use at Performance Track
facilities.
Reduce production of greenhouse gases at Performance
Track facilities.
Reduce toxic releases to water at Performance Track
facilities.
Reduce combined NOx, SOx, VOC and PM emissions at
Performance Track facilities.
75% of innovation projects completed under the State
Innovation Grants program will achieve, on average, 8%
or greater improvement in envtl results for sectors and
facilities involved, or 5% or greater improvement in cost-
effectiveness & efficiency.
Background: For Performance Track, the baseline year is 2001 for FY 2005, 2006, and 2007. Performance will be measured against the 2001 baseline annual
reduction of 475 M gallons of water conserved, 0.24 million MMBTUs of energy conserved, 150,000 tons of solid waste reduced, 1,113 tons of air
emissions reduced, 6,870 tons of water discharged, and -2,154 tons of materials reduced. For FY 2008, the baseline year is 2005. The 2005 baseline
annual normalized reductions are:, 3,387,333,545 gallons of water reduced, 8,794 tons of hazardous materials reduced, 151,129 MTCO2Es of
greenhouse gas emissions reduced, 186 tons of toxic discharges to water reduced, and 3,533 tons of NOx, SOx, VOCs and PM emissions reduced.
EPA's State Innovation Grant program promotes the testing of innovative approaches in State environmental permitting programs. Individual projects
are designed to test innovation that improves compliance rates, often within an entire business sector or across an entire permitting program, or
improves the efficiency of permitting programs for either the regulated sector or the state environmental agency. Because each grant-supported project
220
4,000
75
Tons
Tons
Percentage
GOAL 5: COMPLIANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
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is unique, results can only be reported on a project-by project basis. EPA does not report program-wide results (e.g., total tons of air or water pollutants
removed or prevented in a year) because not every project selected in a competition year focuses on a single environmental medium or pollutant.
Rather, the EPA-funded projects help states test approaches that improve results, often in ways that address multi-media concerns. Similarly, these
projects are demonstrations, or pilot tests of new approaches and the projects take 2-4 years to complete. Therefore, results for individual projects are
reported at the end of each project. Results are usually described in terms such as an improvement in overall compliance rates at the end of a project
above a baseline condition measured at the beginning of the project.
Reduction of Industrial / Commercial Chemicals
In 2008 Prevent, reduce and recycle hazardous industrial/commercial chemicals and improve environmental stewardship practices.
In 2007 Prevent, reduce and recycle hazardous industrial/commercial chemicals and municipal solid wastes.
In 2005 Prevent, reduce and recycle hazardous industrial/commercial chemicals and improve environmental stewardship practices.
Performance Measures
BTUs of energy reduced, conserved or offset by Pollution
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
1,106,800
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
1,217,462
Unit
BTUs
Prevention (P2) program participants.
Gallons of water reduced by P2 program participants.
Business, institutional and government costs reduced by
P2 program participants.
Pounds of hazardous materials reduced by P2 program
participants.
1,790.1 1,640.4
44.3
414
45.9
429.4
Million
Gallons
Million
Dollars
Million
Pounds
Background: The baseline for the TRI non-recycled wastes measure is the amount of non-recycled wastes in 2001 reported FY2003. The baseline for eco-friendly
detergents is 0 formulations in 1997. The baseline for the alternative feed stocks / processes measure is zero in 2000. The baseline for the quantity of
hazardous chemicals / solvents measures is zero pounds in the year 2000. The baseline for the hospitals measure is zero in FY2001. The baseline
reference point for reductions of pollution and conservation of BTUs and water is zero for 2003. The baseline for money saved will be 2003. The
baseline for reduction in CO2 will be zero for 1996. The baseline for the Clean and Green Index is 2001 levels. The baseline for chemical releases is
2001 level. The baseline for chemical production related wastes is 2001 level. Note: Several output measures were changed to internal-only reporting
GOAL 5: COMPLIANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
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status in 2005. Annual Performance measures are under development for EPA's Environmentally Preferable Purchasing program for the FY2006
Annual Performance Plan.
OBJECTIVE: IMPROVE HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN INDIAN COUNTRY
Protect human health and the environment on tribal lands by assisting federally-recognized tribes to: build environmental management
capacity; assess environmental conditions and measure results; and implement environmental programs in Indian country.
Tribal Environmental Baseline/Environmental Priority
In 2008 Protect human health and the environment on tribal lands by assisting federally recognized tribes to: build environmental capacity; assess
environmental conditions and measure results; and implement environmental programs in Indian country.
In 2007 Assist federally recognized tribes in assessing the condition of their environment, help in building their capacity to implement environmental programs
where needed to improve tribal health and environments, and implement programs in Indian country where needed to address environmental issues.
In 2006 Assist federally recognized tribes in assessing the condition of their environment, help in building their capacity to implement environmental programs
where needed to improve tribal health and environments, and implement programs in Indian country where needed to address environmental issues.
In 2005 Assist federally recognized tribes in assessing the condition of their environment, help in building their capacity to implement environmental programs
where needed to improve tribal health and environments, and implement programs in Indian country where needed to address environmental issues.
FY 2005
Performance Measures
Percent of tribes with EPA-approved multimedia
Target
39
Actual
33
FY 2006
Target
18
Actual
33
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Target
42
FY 2008
Pres Bud
Target
45
Unit
% Tribes
workplans.
Percent of tribes with delegated and non-delegated
programs (cumulative).
Percent of Tribes with EPA-reviewed monitoring and
assessment occuring.
44
25.0
47
29.0
42
20.0
49
31.0
50
31.0
% Tribes
% Tribes
GOAL 5: COMPLIANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
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Background: There are 572 tribal entities that are eligible for GAP program funding. These entities are the ones for which environmental assessments of their lands
will be conducted.
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Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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NPM: OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION AND RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Energy Consumption Reduction
In 2008 As required by the Executive Order: Strengthening Federal Environment, Energy, and Transportation Management, EPA will achieve a 8% reduction in
energy consumption from the Agency's 2003 baseline.
In 2007 As required by the Executive Order: Strengthening Federal Environment, Energy, and Transportation Management, EPA will achieve a 5% reduction in
energy consumption from the Agency's 2003 baseline.
In 2006 As required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, EPA will achieve a 2% reduction in energy consumption from the Agency's 2003 baseline.
FY2005 FY2006 FY2007 FY2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Unit
Cumulative percentage reduction in energy consumption. 2258 Percent
Background: On January 24, 2007, the President signed Executive Order: Strengthening Federal Environment, Energy, and Transportation Management, requiring all
Federal Agencies to reduce its Green House Gas intensity and its energy use by 3% annually through FY 2015. For the Agency's 29 reporting facilities,
the FY 2003 energy consumption of British Thermal Units (BTUs) per square foot is 346,518 BTUs per square foot.
Human Capital
In 2008 EPA will develop workforce planning strategies that link current and future Human Capital needs to mission accomplishments which will result in
significant reductions in skill gaps for Mission Critical Occupations. In addition, EPA's recruitment strategy will focus on hiring needs that will
encourage the use of hiring flexibilities, build on centralized and local recruitment approaches, and focus on attracting applicants who are talented,
diverse, and committed to EPA's mission.
In 2007 EPA will develop workforce planning strategies that link current and future Human Capital needs to mission accomplishments which will result in
significant reductions in skill gaps for Mission Critical Occupations. In addition, EPA's recruitment strategy will focus on hiring needs that will
encourage the use of hiring flexibilities, build on centralized and local recruitment approaches, and focus on attracting applicants who are talented,
diverse, and committed to EPA's mission.
NPM: OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Performance-98 Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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Performance Measures
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Unit
Percent increase in the number ofnon-SES managers and
supervisors at the targeted proficiency level
(intermediate) for "Interpersonal Skills and Oral
Communication ".
Percent increase in the number ofnon-SES managers and
supervisors at the targeted proficiency level (advanced)
for "Interpersonal Skills and Oral Communication ".
Average time to hire non-SES positions from date
vacancy closes to date offer is extended, expressed in
working days.
For SES positions, the average time from date vacancy
closes to date offer is extended, expressed in working
days.
25
15
45
90
10
15
45
73
Percent
Percent
Days
Days
Background: Human capital performance measures and targets were selected from EPA's President's Management Agenda, Proud-To-Be, Human Capital annual
goal setting and measurement program and from EPA's human capital accountability system.
NPM: OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Performance-99
Measures that are not currently used for the Office of
Management and Budget's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) assessments appear in italics.
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NPM: OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
Information Exchange Network
In 2008 Improve the quality, comparability, and availability of environmental data for sound environmental decision-making through the Central Data Exchange
(CDX).
In 2007 Improve the quality, comparability, and availability of environmental data for sound environmental decision-making through the Central Data Exchange
(CDX).
In 2006 Improve the quality, comparability, and availability of environmental data for sound environmental decision-making through the Central Data Exchange
(CDX).
In 2005 Improve the quality, comparability, and availability of environmental data for sound environmental decision-making through the Central Data Exchange
(CDX).
Performance Measures
FY 2005 FY 2006
Target Actual Target Actual
FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Unit
Number of major EPA environmental systems that use the 12 22
CDX electronic requirements enabling faster receipt,
processing, and quality checking of data.
States, tribes and territories will be able to exchange data 40 40
with CDX through nodes in real time, using standards
and automated data-quality checking.
Number of users from states, tribes, laboratories, and 20,000 45,000
others that choose CDX to report environmental data
electronically to EPA.
29
Target Not Target Not Target Not
Established Established Established
47,000
62,000
55,000
43
55
70,000
Systems
Users
Users
Background: The Central Data Exchange program began in FY 2001.
Information Security
In 2008 OMB reports that all EPA information systems meet/exceed established standards for security.
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Enabling Support Programs
In 2007 OMB reports that all EPA information systems meet/exceed established standards for security.
In 2006 OMB reports that all EPA information systems meet/exceed established standards for security.
In 2005 OMB reports that all EPA information systems meet/exceed established standards for security.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Unit
Percent of Federal Information Security Management Act 75 90 100 100 100 100 Percent
reportable systems that are certified and accredited.
Background: In FY 2002, the Agency started planning an effort to expand and strengthen its information security infrastructure.
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Fraud Detection and Deterrence
In 2008 In 2008, the OIG will improve public confidence and integrity in EPA program operations by detecting and preventing fraud, abuse and breaches of
security.
In 2007 In 2007, OIG will improve public confidence and integrity in EPA program operations by detecting and preventing fraud, abuse and breaches of
security.
In 2006 In 2006, the OIG will improve public confidence and integrity in EPA program operations by detecting and preventing fraud, abuse and breaches of
security.
In 2005 In 2005, the OIG will improve Agency business and operations by identifying 800 recommendations, potential savings and recoveries equal to 150
percent of the annual investment in the OIG, 220 actions for better business operations, and 80 criminal, civil, or administrative actions reducing risk or
loss of integrity.
FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Performance Measures Target Actual Target Actual Unit
Criminal, civil, administrative, and fraud prevention 80 125 80 121 80 70 Actions
actions.
Background: In FY 2005, the OIG established a baseline of 83 criminal, civil, administrative, and fraud prevention actions. Revised FY 2008 performance targets are
reduced proportionally to the OIG FY 2008 Congressional Justification Budget level.
Audit and Advisory Services
In 2008 In 2008, the OIG will contribute to human health and environmental quality through audits, evaluations, advisory services, inspections, and
investigations for improved Agency business practices, accountability, and performance.
In 2007 In 2007, the OIG will contribute to human health and environmental quality through audits, evaluations, advisory services, inspections, and
investigations for improved Agency business practices, accountability, and performance.
In 2006 In 2006, the OIG will contribute to human health and environmental quality through audits, evaluations, advisory services, inspections, and
investigations for improved Agency business practices, accountability, and performance.
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In 2005 In 2005, the OIG will contribute to improved environmental quality and human health by identifying 95 environmental recommendations, best practices,
risks, or opportunities for improvement; contributing to the reduction or elimination of 23 environmental or infrastructure security risks; and 45 actions
influencing environmental improvements or program changes.
Performance Measures
FY 2005
Target Actual
FY 2006
Target Actual
FY 2007 FY 2008
Pres Bud Pres Bud
Unit
Environmental and business actions taken for improved 288 794 303 407 318 291
performance or risk reduction.
Environmental and business recommendations or risks 895 1,231 925 1,024 955 805
identified for corrective action.
Return on the annual dollar investment, as a percentage of 150 285 150 1,100 150 100
the OIG budget, from audits and investigations.
Actions
Recommendations
Percentage
Background: In FY 2005, the OIG established a revised baseline of 564 environmental and business actions taken for improved performance or risk reduction; 885
environmental and business risks or recommendations identified for corrective action; and 150% in potential dollar return on investment as a percentage
of OIG budget, from savings, questioned costs, fines, recoveries, and settlements. The baselines increased because the OIG began including the non-
monetary results of "Single Audits" and audits performed for the OIG in its targets and results by acknowledging the increasing number and significance
of actionable recommendations in these audits to improve the management of assistance agreements. Revised FY 2008 performance targets are reduced
proportionally to the OIG FY 2008 Congressional Justification Budget level.
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COORDINATION WITH OTHER AGENCIES - ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
Goal 1- Clean Air and Global Climate Change
Objective: Healthier Outdoor Air
The Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) cooperates with other Federal, state,
Tribal, and local agencies in achieving goals
related to ground level ozone and PM. EPA
continues to work closely with the
Department of Agriculture and the Forest
Service in developing its burning policy and
reviewing practices that can reduce
emissions. EPA, the Department of
Transportation (DOT), and the Army Corps
of Engineers (COE) work with state and
local agencies to integrate transportation and
air quality plans, reduce traffic congestion,
and promote livable communities. EPA
continues to work with the Department of
the Interior (DOT), National Park Service
(NFS), in developing its regional haze
program and deploying the IMPROVE
visibility monitoring network. The
operation and analysis of data produced by
the paniculate matter (PM) monitoring
system is an example of the close
coordination of effort between the EPA and
state and Tribal governments.
For pollution assessments and transport,
EPA is working with the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) on technology transfer using
satellite imagery. EPA will be working to
further distribute NASA satellite products to
and NOAA air quality forecast products to
Regions, states, local agencies, and Tribes to
provide better understanding of air quality
on a day-to-day basis and to assist with PM
forecasting. EPA will also work with
NASA to develop a better understanding of
PM formation using satellite data. EPA
works with the Department of the Army,
Department of Defense (DoD) on advancing
emission measurement technology and with
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), Department of
Commerce for meteorological support for
our modeling and monitoring efforts.
To better understand the magnitude, sources,
and causes of mobile source pollution, EPA
works with the Departments of Energy
(DOE) and DOT to fund research projects.
A program to characterize the exhaust
emissions from light-duty gasoline vehicles
is being co-funded by DOE and DOT. Other
DOT mobile source projects include
TRANSIMS (TRansportation ANalysis and
SEVIulation System) and other transportation
modeling projects; DOE is funding these
projects through the National Renewable
Energy Laboratory. EPA also works closely
with DOE on refinery cost modeling
analyses and the development of clean fuel
programs. For mobile sources program
outreach, the Agency is participating in a
collaborative effort with DOT's Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA) and the
Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
designed to educate the public about the
impacts of transportation choices on traffic
congestion, air quality, and human health.
This community-based public education
initiative also includes the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC). In addition, EPA is
working with DOE to identify opportunities
in the Clean Cities program. EPA also
works with other Federal agencies such as
the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) on air
emission issues. Other programs targeted to
reduce air toxics from mobile sources are
coordinated with DOT. These partnerships
can involve policy assessments and toxic
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emission reduction strategies in different
regions of the country.
To develop new continuous source
monitoring technology for toxic metals
emitted from smokestacks, EPA has
partnered with the DoD. This partnership
will provide a new source monitoring tool
that will streamline source monitoring
requirements that a number of DoD
incinerators are required to meet and
improve the operation of DoD incinerators
with real-time emissions information
resulting in reduced releases of air toxics to
the environment. In time, this technology is
expected to be available for use at non-DoD
facilities.
For the clean fuel programs, EPA works
closely with the DOE on refinery cost
modeling analyses. For mobile sources
program outreach, the Agency is
participating in a collaborative effort with
FHWA and FTA designed to educate the
public about the impacts of transportation
choices on traffic congestion, air quality,
and public health. This community-based
public education initiative also includes the
CDC. In addition, EPA works with DOE to
identify opportunities in the Clean Cities
program. EPA also works cooperatively
with DOE to better characterize gasoline PM
emissions and characterize the contribution
of gasoline vehicles and engine emissions to
ambient PM levels.
To reduce air toxic emissions that do not
inadvertently increase worker exposures,
EPA is continuing to work closely with the
Department of Labor's Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA) to
coordinate the development of EPA and
OSHA standards. EPA also works closely
with other health agencies such as the CDC,
the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS), and the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
on health risk characterization. To assess
atmospheric deposition and characterize
ecological effects, EPA works with NOAA
and the Department of the Interior's U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).
The Agency has worked extensively with
the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) on the National Health and
Nutritional Evaluation Study to identify
mercury accumulations in humans. EPA
also has worked with DOE on the 'Fate of
Mercury' study to characterize mercury
transport and traceability in Lake Superior.
To determine the extent to which
agricultural activities contribute to air
pollution, EPA will continue to work closely
with the USD A through the joint
USDA/EPA Agricultural Air Quality Task
Force (AAQTF). The AAQTF is a
workgroup set up by Congress to oversee
agricultural air quality-related issues and to
develop cost-effective ways in which the
agricultural community can improve air
quality. In addition, the AAQTF
coordinates research on agricultural air
quality issues to avoid duplication and
ensure data quality and sound interpretation
of data.
In developing regional and international air
quality programs and projects and working
on regional agreements, EPA works
primarily with the Department of State, the
Agency for International Development
(USAID), and the DOE as well as with
regional organizations. EPA's international
air quality management program will
complement EPA's programs on children's
health, Trade and the Environment, and
trans-boundary air pollution. In addition,
EPA will partner with others worldwide,
including international organizations such as
the United Nations Environment
Programme, the European Union, the
Organization for Economic Development
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and Co-operation (OECD), the North
American Commission for Environmental
Cooperation (CEC), the World Bank, the
Asian Development Bank, and our
colleagues in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and
Japan. EPA is working with DOE and
USTR under the CEC to promote renewable
energy markets in North America.
Objective: Healthier Indoor Air
EPA works closely through a variety of
mechanisms with a broad range of Federal,
state, Tribal, and local government agencies,
industry, non-profit organizations, and
individuals, as well as other nations, to
promote more effective approaches to
identifying and solving indoor air quality
problems. At the Federal level, EPA works
closely with several departments or
agencies:
• Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) to develop and
conduction programs aimed at
reducing children's exposure to
known indoor triggers of asthma,
including secondhand smoke;
• Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) on home
health and safety issues, especially
those affecting children;
• Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC) to identify and
mitigate the health hazards of
consumer products designed for
indoor use;
• Department of Education (DoEd) to
encourage construction and
operation of schools with good
indoor air quality; and
• Department of Agriculture (USDA)
to encourage USDA Extension
Agents to conduct local projects
designed to reduce risks from indoor
air quality. EPA plays a leadership
role on the President's Task Force
on Environmental Health Risks and
Safety Risks to Children,
particularly with respect to asthma
and school environmental health
issues.
As Co-chair of the interagency Committee
on Indoor Air Quality (CIAQ), EPA works
with the CPSC, DOE, the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health, and
OSHA to review EPA draft publications,
arrange the distribution of EPA publications,
and coordinate the efforts of Federal
agencies with those of state and local
agencies concerned with indoor air issues.
Objective: Protect the Ozone Layer
In an effort to curb the illegal importation of
ozone depleting substances (ODSs), an
interagency task force was formed
consisting of representatives from EPA, the
Departments of Justice (DOJ), Department
of Homeland Security (DHS), Department
of State, Department of Commerce, and the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Venting of
illegally imported chemicals has the
potential to prevent the United States from
meeting the goals of the Montreal Protocol
to restore the ozone layer.
EPA works very closely with the
Department of State and other Federal
agencies as appropriate in international
negotiations among Parties to the Protocol.
EPA works with the Office of the United
States Trade Representative to analyze
potential trade implications in stratospheric
protection regulations that affect imports
and exports.
EPA is working with USDA and the
Department of State to facilitate research
and development of alternatives to methyl
bromide. EPA collaborates with these
agencies to prepare U.S. requests for
emergency and critical use exemptions of
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methyl bromide. EPA is providing input to
USDA on rulemakings for methyl bromide-
related programs. EPA consults with the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the
potential for domestic methyl bromide
needs.
EPA also coordinates closely with FDA to
ensure that sufficient supplies of
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are available
for the production of life-saving metered-
dose inhalers for the treatment of asthma
and other lung diseases. This partnership
between EPA and FDA combines the critical
goals of protecting public health and
limiting damage to the stratospheric ozone
layer.
EPA works with the CDC and the National
Weather Service (NWS) to coordinate the
Ultraviolet Radiation (UV) Index and the
health messages that accompany index
reports. EPA is a member of the Federal
Council on Skin Cancer Prevention, which
educates and protects all Federal employees
from the risks of overexposure to UV
radiation.
In addition to collecting its own UV data,
EPA coordinates with NASA and NOAA to
monitor the state of the stratospheric ozone
layer. EPA works with NASA on assessing
essential uses and other exemptions for
critical shuttle and rocket needs, as well as
effects of direct emissions of high-speed
aircraft flying in the stratosphere.
EPA coordinates with the Small Business
Administration (SBA) to ensure that
proposed rules are developed in accordance
with the Small Business Regulatory
Flexibility Act.
Objective: Radiation
In addition to the specific activities
described above, EPA continues to work
with Federal agencies including Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC), DOE, and
DHS to prevent metals and finished products
suspected of having radioactive
contamination from entering the country.
EPA also works with the DOT on initiatives
to promote use of non-nuclear density
gauges for highway paving, and with the
DOE and NRC to develop state-of-the-art
tracking systems for radioactive sources in
U.S. commerce.
Objective: Reduce Greenhouse Gas
Intensity
Voluntary climate protection programs
government-wide stimulate the development
and use of renewable energy technologies
and energy efficient products that will help
reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The
effort is led by EPA and DOE with
significant involvement from USDA, HUD
and the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST).
Agencies throughout the government make
significant contributions to the climate
protection programs. For example, DOE
will pursue actions such as promoting the
research, development, and deployment of
advanced technologies (for example,
renewable energy sources). The Treasury
Department will administer proposed tax
incentives for specific investments that will
reduce emissions. EPA is working with
DOE to demonstrate technologies that
oxidize ventilation air methane from coal
mines. EPA is broadening its public
information transportation choices campaign
as a joint effort with DOT. EPA coordinates
with each of the above-mentioned agencies
to ensure that our programs are
complementary and in no way duplicative.
This coordination is evident in work recently
completed by an interagency task force,
including representatives from the
Department of State, EPA, DOE, USDA,
DOT, Office of Management and Budget
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(OMB), Department of Commerce,
USGCRP, NOAA, NASA, and the DoD, to
prepare the Third National Communication
to the Secretariat as required under the
Framework Convention on Climate Change
(FCCC). The FCCC was ratified by the
United States Senate in 1992. A portion of
the Third National Communication
describes policies and measures (such as
ENERGY STAR and EPA's Clean
Automotive Technology initiative)
undertaken by the U.S. to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, implementation status of the
policies and measures, and their actual and
projected benefits. One result of this
interagency review process has been a
refinement of future goals for these policies
and measures which were communicated to
the Secretariat of the FCCC in 2002. The
"U.S. Climate Action Report 2002: Third
National Communication of the United
States of America under the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change"
is available at:
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/natc/usnc3 .pdf
EPA works primarily with the Department
of State, USAID and DOE as well as with
regional organizations in implementing
climate-related programs and projects. In
addition, EPA partners with others
worldwide, including international
organizations such as the United Nations
Environment Programme, the United
Nations Development Programme, the
International Energy Agency, the OECD,
the World Bank, the Asian Development
Bank, and our colleagues in Canada,
Mexico, Europe and Japan.
Objective: Enhance Science and Research
EPA works with the National Park Service
in operating Clean Air Status and Trends
Network (CASTNET). In addition, DOE
will pursue actions such as promoting the
research, development, and deployment of
advanced technologies (for example,
renewable energy sources). In the case of
fuel cell vehicle technology, EPA is working
closely with DOE as the Administration's
FreedomCAR initiative develops, taking the
lead on emissions-related issues.
EPA coordinates its air quality research with
other Federal agencies through the
Subcommittee on Air Quality Research11 of
the NSTC Committee on Environment and
Natural Resources (CENR). The Agency
and NIEHS co-chaired the subcommittee's
Particulate Matter Research Coordination
Working Group, which produced a strategic
plan12 for Federal research on the health and
environmental effects, exposures,
atmospheric processes, source
characterization and control of fine airborne
particulate matter. The Agency is also a
charter member of NARSTO,13 an
international public-private partnership
established in 1995 to improve management
of air quality across North America. EPA
coordinates specific research projects with
other Federal agencies where appropriate
and supports air-related research at
universities and nonprofit organizations
through its Science to Achieve Results
(STAR) research grants program.
1: For more information, see
.
12 For more information, see
13 For more information, see
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Goal 2- Clean and Safe Water
Objective: Protect Human Health
The 1996 SDWA amendments include a
provision that mandates joint EPA/CDC
study of waterborne diseases and occurrence
studies in public water supplies. CDC is
involved in assisting EPA in training health
care providers (doctors, nurses, public health
officials, etc.) on public health issues related
to drinking water contamination and there is
close CDC/EPA coordination on research on
microbial contaminants in drinking water.
EPA has in place a MOU and an Interagency
Agreement (IAG) with the CDC to
implement this provision.
In implementing its source water assessment
and protection efforts, the Agency
coordinates many of its activities with other
Federal agencies. There are three major
areas of relationships with other agencies
concerning source water assessments and
protection.
Public Water Systems (PWS)
Some Federal agencies, (i.e., USDA (Forest
Service), DoD, DOE, DOI/NPS, and USPS),
own and operate public water systems.
EPA's coordination with these agencies
focuses primarily on ensuring that they
cooperate with the states in which their
systems are located, and that they are
accounted for in the states' source water
assessment programs as mandated in the
1996 amendments to the SDWA.
Data Availability, Outreach and Technical
Assistance
EPA coordinates with USGS, USDA (Forest
Service, Natural Resources Conservation
Service, Cooperative State Research,
Education, and Extension Service
(CSREES), Rural Utilities Service); DOT,
DoD, DOE, DOT (NFS and Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA), Land Management, and
Reclamation); HHS (Indian Health Service)
and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Tribal Access Coordination
EPA will continue to work with other
Federal agencies to develop a coordinated
approach to improving Tribal access to safe
drinking water. In response to commitments
made during the 2002 World Summit in
Johannesburg, the EPA committed to the
goal of coordinating with other Federal
agencies to reduce by half the number of
households on Tribal lands lacking access to
safe drinking water by 2015. United
Nations. 2002. Report of the World Summit
on Sustainable Development: Johannesburg,
South Africa, 26 August - 4 September,
2002. New York, NY: United Nations.
Collaboration with USGS
EPA and USGS have identified the need to
engage in joint, collaborative field activities,
research and testing, data exchange, and
analyses, in areas such as the occurrence of
unregulated contaminants, the
environmental relationships affecting
contaminant occurrence, evaluation of
currently regulated contaminants, improved
protection area delineation methods,
laboratory methods, and test methods
evaluation. EPA has an IAG with USGS to
accomplish such activities. This
collaborative effort has improved the quality
of information to support risk management
decision-making at all levels of government,
generated valuable new data, and eliminated
potential redundancies.
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Collaboration with Public and Private
Partners on Critical Water Infrastructure
Protection
EPA coordinates with other Federal
agencies, primarily DHS, CDC, FDA and
DoD on biological, chemical, and
radiological contaminants, and how to
respond to their presence in drinking water
and wastewater systems. A close linkage
with the FBI, particularly with respect to
ensuring the effectiveness of the ISAC, will
be continued. The Agency is strengthening
its working relationships with the American
Water Works Association Research
Foundation, the Water Environment
Research Federation and other research
institutions to increase our knowledge on
technologies to detect contaminants,
monitoring protocols and techniques, and
treatment effectiveness.
Collaboration with FDA
EPA and FDA have issued joint national
fish consumption advisories to protect the
public from exposure to mercury in
commercially and recreationally caught fish,
as well as fish caught for subsistence.
EPA's advisory covers the recreational and
subsistence fisheries in fresh waters where
states and Tribes have not assessed the
waters for the need for an advisory, ibid.
http://map 1 .epa.gov/html/federaladv FDA's
advisory covers commercially caught fish,
and fish caught in marine waters. Ibid.
http://map 1 .epa.gov/html/federaladv EPA
works closely with FDA to distribute the
advisory to the public. In addition, EPA
works with FDA to investigate the need for
advisories for other contaminants and to
ensure that these federal advisories support
and augment advisories issued by states and
Tribes.
Beach Monitoring and Public Notification
The BEACH Act requires that all Federal
agencies with jurisdiction over coastal and
Great Lakes recreation waters adjacent to
beaches used by the public implement beach
monitoring and public notification
programs. These programs must be
consistent with guidance published by EPA.
ibid. "National Beach Guidance and
Required Performance Criteria for Grants."
EPA will continue to work with the USGS
and other Federal agencies to ensure that
their beach water quality monitoring and
notification programs are technically sound
and consistent with program performance
criteria published by EPA.
Objective: Protect Water Quality
Watersheds
Protecting and restoring watersheds will
depend largely on the direct involvement of
many Federal agencies and state, Tribal and
local governments who manage the
multitude of programs necessary to address
water quality on a watershed basis. Federal
agency involvement will include USDA
(Natural Resources Conservation Service,
Forest Service, Agriculture Research
Service), DOI (Bureau of Land
Management, Office of Surface Mining,
USGS, USFWS, and the Bureau of Indian
Affairs), NOAA, DOT, and DoD (Navy and
COE). At the state level, agencies involved
in watershed management typically include
departments of natural resources or the
environment, public health agencies, and
forestry and recreation agencies. Locally,
numerous agencies are involved, including
Regional planning entities such as councils
of governments, as well as local departments
of environment, health and recreation who
frequently have strong interests in watershed
projects.
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System Program (NPDES)
Since inception of the NPDES program
under Section 402 of the CWA, EPA and the
authorized states have developed expanded
relationships with various Federal agencies
to implement pollution controls for point
sources. EPA works closely with USFWS
and the National Marine Fisheries Service
on consultation for protection of endangered
species through a Memorandum of
Agreement. EPA works with the Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation on
National Historic Preservation Act
implementation. EPA and the states rely on
monitoring data from USGS to help confirm
pollution control decisions. The Agency
also works closely with SBA and the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) to
ensure that regulatory programs are fair and
reasonable. The Agency coordinates with
the NOAA on efforts to ensure that NPDES
programs support coastal and national
estuary efforts; and with the DOT on mining
issues.
Joint Strategy for Animal Feeding
Operations
The Agency is working closely with the
USDA to implement the Unified National
Strategy for Animal Feeding Operations
finalized on March 9, 1999. The Strategy
sets forth a framework of actions that USDA
and EPA will take to minimize water quality
and public health impacts from improperly
managed animal wastes in a manner
designed to preserve and enhance the long-
term sustainability of livestock production.
EPA's recent revisions to the CAFO
Regulations (effluent guidelines and NPDES
permit regulations) will be a key element of
EPA and USDA's plan to address water
pollution from CAFOs. EPA and USDA
senior management meet routinely to ensure
effective coordination across the two
agencies.
Clean Water State Revolving Fund
(CWSRF)
Representatives from EPA's SRF program,
HUD's Community Development Block
Grant program, and USDA's Rural Utility
Service have signed a MOU committing to
assisting state or Federal implementers in:
(1) coordination of the funding cycles of the
three Federal agencies; (2) consolidation of
plans of action (operating plans, intended
use plans, strategic plans, etc.); and (3)
preparation of one environmental review
document, when possible, to satisfy the
requirements of all participating Federal
agencies. A coordination group at the
Federal level has been formed to further
these efforts and maintain lines of
communication. In many states,
coordination committees have been
established with representatives from the
three programs.
In implementation of the Indian set-aside
grant program under Title VI of the CWA,
EPA works closely with the Indian Health
Service to administer grant funds to the
various Indian Tribes, including
determination of the priority ranking system
for the various wastewater needs in Indian
Country. In 1998, EPA and the Rural
Utilities Service of the USDA formalized a
partnership between the two agencies to
provide coordinated financial and technical
assistance to Tribes.
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Nonpoint Sources
EPA will continue to work closely with its
Federal partners to achieve our goals for
reducing pollutant discharges from nonpoint
sources, including reduction targets for
sediments, nitrogen and phosphorous. Most
significantly, EPA will continue to work
with the USDA, which has a key role in
reducing sediment loadings through its
continued implementation of the
Environmental Quality Incentives Program,
Conservation Reserve Program, and other
conservation programs. USDA also plays a
major role in reducing nutrient discharges
through these same programs and through
activities related to the AFO Strategy. EPA
will also continue to work closely with the
Forest Service and Bureau of Land
Management especially on the vast public
lands that comprise 29 percent of all land in
the United States. EPA will work with these
agencies, USGS, and the states to document
improvements in land management and
water quality.
EPA will also work with other Federal
agencies to advance a watershed approach to
Federal land and resource management to
help ensure that Federal land management
agencies serve as a model for water quality
stewardship in the prevention of water
pollution and the restoration of degraded
water resources. Implementation of a
watershed approach will require
coordination among Federal agencies at a
watershed scale and collaboration with
states, Tribes and other interested
stakeholders.
Vessel Discharges
Regarding vessel discharges, EPA will
continue working closely with the USCG on
addressing ballast water discharges
domestically, and with the interagency work
group and U.S. delegation to Marine
Environmental Protection Committee
(MEPC) on international controls. EPA will
continue to work closely with the USCG,
Alaska and other states, and the
International Council of Cruise Lines
regarding regulatory and non-regulatory
approaches to managing wastewater
discharges from cruise ships. EPA will also
continue to work with the Coast Guard
regarding the vessel sewage discharge
standards and with the Navy on developing
Uniform National Discharge Standards for
Armed Forces vessels. Regarding dredged
material management, EPA will continue to
work closely with the COE on standards for
permit review, as well as site
selection/designation and monitoring.
OIA also serves as the primary point-of-
contact and liaison with USAID. Specially
drawing on expertise from throughout EPA,
OIA administers a number of interagency
agreements for environmental assistance.
EPA works closely with a number of other
Federal agencies with environmental, health,
or safety mandates. These include (among
others) the DOL, DOT, USDA, DOI, HHS
and FDA.
EPA works with the Department of State,
NOAA, USCG, Navy, and other Federal
agencies in developing the technical basis
and policy decisions necessary for
negotiating global treaties concerning
marine antifouling systems, invasive
species, and air pollution from ships. EPA
also works with the same Agencies in
addressing land-based sources of marine
pollution in the Gulf of Mexico and Wider
Caribbean Basin.
Objective: Enhance Science and Research
While EPA is the Federal agency mandated
to ensure safe drinking water, other Federal
and non-Federal entities are conducting
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research that complements EPA's research
program on priority contaminants in
drinking water. For example, the CDC and
NIEHS conduct health effects and exposure
research. FDA also performs research on
children's risks. Many of these research
activities are being conducted in
collaboration with EPA scientists. The
private sector, particularly the water
treatment industry, is conducting research in
such areas as analytical methods, treatment
technologies, and the development and
maintenance of water resources.
Cooperative research efforts have been
ongoing with the American Water Works
Association Research Foundation and other
stakeholders to coordinate drinking water
research. EPA is also working with USGS
to evaluate performance of newly developed
methods for measuring microbes in potential
drinking water sources.
EPA has developed joint research initiatives
with NOAA and USGS for linking
monitoring data and field study information
with available toxicity data and assessment
models for developing sediment criteria.
EPA is also working with other agencies
(FDA, USGS, USDA, NOOA, CDC) on
new contaminants of concern in the
environment. EPA and others are gathering
information on the occurrence, health and
ecological effects, and is developing
techniques to measure these emerging
contaminants in water, fish tissue and
biosolids. These emerging contaminants
include pharmaceuticals and personal care
products (PPCPs), endocrine disrupting
compounds (EDCs), polybrominated
diphenyl ether flame retardants (PBDEs),
perfluorooctanoate (PFOA), nanomaterials,
and prions. Data gaps are being identified
for further research into whether there is a
link between specific contaminants and
adverse impacts to humans or aquatic
organisms.
The issue of eutrophication, hypoxia, and
harmful algal blooms (HABs) is a priority
with the Committee on Environment and
Natural Resources (CENR). EPA is
working closely with NOAA on the issue of
nutrients and risks posed by HABs. The
CENR is also coordinating the research
efforts among Federal agencies to assess the
impacts of nutrients and hypoxia in the Gulf
of Mexico.
Urban wet weather flow research is being
coordinated with other organizations such as
the Water Environment Research
Foundation's Wet Weather Advisory Panel,
the ASCE Urban Water Resources Research
Council, the COE, and USGS. Research on
the characterization and management of
pollutants from agricultural operations (e.g.,
CAFOs) is being coordinated with USDA
through workshops and other discussions.
EPA is pursuing collaborative research
projects with the USGS to utilize water
quality data from urban areas obtained
through the USGS National Ambient Water
Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program,
showing levels of pesticides that are even
higher than in many agricultural area
streams. These data have potential uses for
identifying sources of urban pesticides, and
EPA will evaluate how the USGS data could
be integrated into the Geographic
Information System (GIS) database
system.with the Committee on Environment
and Natural Resources (CENR). An
interagency research strategy for pfiesteria
and other harmful algal species was
developed in 1998, and EPA is continuing to
implement that strategy. EPA is working
closely with NOAA on the issue of nutrients
and risks posed by HABs. This CENR is
also coordinating the research efforts among
Federal agencies to assess the impacts of
nutrients and hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Urban wet weather flow research is being
coordinated with other organizations such as
the Water Environment Research
Foundation's Wet Weather Advisory Panel,
the ASCE Urban Water Resources Research
Council, the COE, and USGS. Research on
the characterization and management of
pollutants from agricultural operations (e.g.,
CAFOs) is being coordinated with USDA
through workshops and other discussions.
EPA is pursuing collaborative research
projects with the USGS to utilize water
quality data from urban areas obtained
through the USGS National Ambient Water
Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program,
showing levels of pesticides that are even
higher than in many agricultural area
streams. These data have potential uses for
identifying sources of urban pesticides, and
EPA will evaluate how the USGS data could
be integrated into the Geographic
Information System (GIS) database system.
Goal 3-Land Preservation and Restoration
Objective: Preserve Land
Pollution prevention activities entail
coordination with other Federal departments
and agencies. EPA coordinates with the
General Services Administration (GSA) on
the use of safer products for indoor painting
and cleaning, with the Department of
Defense (DoD) on the use of safer paving
materials for parking lots, and with the
Defense Logistics Agency on safer solvents.
The program also works with the National
Institute of Standards and Technology and
other groups to develop standards for
Environmental Management Systems.
In addition to business, industry, and other
non-governmental organizations, EPA
works with Federal, state, Tribal, and local
governments to encourage reduced
generation and safe recycling of wastes.
Partners in this effort include the
Environmental Council of States and the
Association of State and Territorial Solid
Waste Management Officials.
The Federal government is the single largest
potential source for "green" procurement in
the country, for office products as well as
products for industrial use. EPA works with
the Office of Federal Environmental
Executive and other Federal agencies and
departments in advancing the purchase and
use of recycled-content and other "green"
products. In particular, the Agency is
currently engaged with other organizations
within the Executive Branch to foster
compliance with Executive Order 13101 and
in tracking and reporting purchases of
products made with recycled contents.
In addition, the Agency is currently engaged
with the DoD, the Department of Education,
the Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S.
Postal Service, and other agencies to foster
proper management of surplus electronics
equipment, with a preference for reuse and
recycling. With these agencies, and in
cooperation with the electronics industry,
EPA and the Office of the Federal
Environmental Executive launched the
Federal Electronics Challenge which will
lead to increased reuse and recycling of an
array of computers and other electronics
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hardware used by civilian and military
agencies.
Objective: Restore Land
Super/and Remedial Program
The Superfund Remedial program
coordinates with several other Federal and
state agencies in providing numerous
Superfund related services in order to
accomplish the program's mission. In FY
2008, EPA will have active interagency
agreements with the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration and the
Department of the Interior (DOI).
The Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of
Reclamation also contribute to the cleanup
of Superfund sites by providing technical
support for the design and construction of
many remediation projects through site-
specific interagency agreements. These
Federal partners have the technical design
and construction expertise and contracting
capability needed to assist EPA regions in
implementing most of Superfund's high-cost
fund-financed remedial action projects. The
two agencies also provide technical on-site
support to Regions in the enforcement
oversight of numerous construction projects
performed by Potentially Responsible
Parties (PRPs).
Superfund Federal Facilities Program
The Superfund Federal Facilities Program
coordinates with Federal agencies, states,
Tribes and state associations and others to
implement its statutory responsibilities to
ensure cleanup and property reuse. The
Program provides technical and regulatory
oversight at Federal facilities to ensure
human health and the environment are
protected.
In expediting the DOE's cleanup program,
DOE has signed lAGs with EPA for
technical input regarding innovative and
flexible regulatory approaches, streamlining
of documentation, integration of projects,
deletion of sites from the National Priorities
List (NPL), field assessments, and
development of management documents and
processes. The lAGs have received
recognition by DOE as a model for potential
use at other DOE field offices.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
The Agency coordinates efforts with the
DOE to study the energy and environmental
benefits of re-refining used oil, including
such actions as providing tax incentives for
re-refiners, banning used oil in space
heaters, and directing the federal
government to send its used oil to re-
refiners.
The RCRA Permitting and Corrective
Action Programs also coordinate closely
with other Federal agencies, primarily the
DoD and DOE, which have many sites in
the corrective action universe. Encouraging
Federal facilities to meet the RCRA
Corrective Action program's goals remains
a top priority.
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
EPA, with very few exceptions, does not
perform the cleanup of leaking underground
storage tanks (LUST). States and territories
use the LUST Trust Fund to administer their
corrective action programs, oversee
cleanups by responsible parties, undertake
necessary enforcement actions, and pay for
cleanups in cases where a responsible party
cannot be found or is unwilling or unable to
pay for a cleanup.
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States are key to achieving the objectives
and long-term strategic goals. Except in
Indian Country, EPA relies on state agencies
to implement the LUST Program, including
overseeing cleanups by responsible parties
and responding to emergency LUST
releases. LUST cooperative agreements
awarded by EPA are directly given to the
states to assist them in implementing their
oversight and programmatic role.
Emergency Preparedness and Response
EPA plays a major role in reducing the risks
that accidental and intentional releases of
harmful substances and oil pose to human
health and the environment. This requires
continuous coordination with many Federal,
state and local agencies. As the Federal On-
Scene Coordinator in the inland zone, EPA
evaluates and responds to thousands of
releases annually as part of the National
Response System (NRS). The organizations
in the NRS work with state and local
officials to develop and maintain
contingency plans to enable the Nation to
respond effectively to hazardous substance
and oil emergencies.
The National Response Plan (NRP), under
the direction of the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), provides for the
delivery of Federal assistance to states to
help them deal with the consequences of
terrorist events as well as natural and other
significant disasters. EPA maintains the
lead responsibility for the NRP's Emergency
Support Function covering inland hazardous
materials and petroleum releases and
participates in the Federal Emergency
Support Function Leaders Group which
addresses NRP planning and implementation
at the operational level.
EPA coordinates its preparedness activities
with DHS, FEMA, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and other Federal agencies,
states and local governments. EPA will
continue to clarify its roles and
responsibilities to ensure that Agency
security programs are consistent with the
national homeland security strategy.
Oil Spills
Under the Oil Spill Program, EPA works
with other Federal agencies such as U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Coast
Guard (USCG), NOAA, FEMA, DOI, DOT,
DOE, and other Federal agencies and states,
as well as with local government authorities
to develop Area Contingency Plans. The
Department of Justice also provides
assistance to agencies with judicial referrals
when enforcement of violations becomes
necessary. In FY 2008, EPA will have an
active interagency agreement with the
USCG. EPA and the USCG work in
coordination with other Federal authorities
to implement the National Preparedness for
Response Program.
Objective: Enhance Science and Research
EPA expends substantial effort coordinating
its research with other Federal agencies,
including work with DoD in its Strategic
Environmental Research and Development
Program (SERDP) and the Environmental
Security Technology Certification Program,
DOE and its Office of Health and
Environmental Research. EPA also conducts
collaborative laboratory research with DoD,
DOE, DOI (particularly the USGS), and
NASA to improve characterization and risk
management options for dealing with
subsurface contamination.
The Agency is also working with NIEHS,
which manages a large basic research
program focusing on Superfund issues, to
advance fundamental Superfund research.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and
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Disease Registry (ATSDR) also provides
critical health-based information to assist
EPA in making effective cleanup decisions.
EPA works with these agencies on
collaborative projects, information
exchange, and identification of research
issues and has a MOU with each agency.
EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, and Navy
recently signed a MOU to increase
collaboration and coordination in
contaminated sediments research.
Additionally, the Interstate Technology
Regulatory Council (ITRC) has proved an
effective forum for coordinating Federal and
state activities and for defining continuing
research needs through its teams on topics
including permeable reactive barriers,
radionuclides, and Brownfields EPA has
developed an MOU14 with several other
agencies [DOE, DoD, NRC, USGS, NOAA,
and USDA] for multimedia modeling
research and development.
Other research efforts involving
coordination include the unique controlled-
spill field research facility designed in
cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation.
Geophysical research experiments and
development of software for subsurface
characterization and detection of
contaminants are being conducted with the
USGS and DOE's Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory.
14 For more information please go to: Interagency Steering
Committee on Multimedia Environmental Models MOU,
http://www.iscmem.org/Memorandum.htm
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Goal 4-Healthy Communities and Ecosystems
Objective: Chemical, Organism and
Pesticide Risks
Coordination with state lead agencies and
with the USDA provides added impetus to
the implementation of the Certification and
Training program. States also provide
essential activities in developing and
implementing the Endangered Species and
Worker Protection programs and are
involved in numerous special projects and
investigations, including emergency
response efforts. The Regions provide
technical guidance and assistance to the
states and Tribes in the implementation of
all pesticide program activities.
EPA uses a range of outreach and
coordination approaches for pesticide users,
agencies implementing various pesticide
programs and projects, and the general
public. Outreach and coordination activities
are essential to effective implementation of
regulatory decisions. In addition
coordination activities protect workers and
endangered species, provide training for
pesticide applicators, promote integrated
pest management and environmental
stewardship, and support for compliance
through EPA's Regional programs and those
of the states and Tribes.
In addition to the training that EPA provides
to farm workers and restricted use pesticide
applicators, EPA works with the State
Cooperative Extension Services designing
and providing specialized training for
various groups. Such training includes
instructing private applicators on the proper
use of personal protective equipment and
application equipment calibration, handling
spill and injury situations, farm family
safety, preventing pesticide spray drift, and
pesticide and container disposal. Other
specialized training is provided to public
works employees on grounds maintenance,
to pesticide control operators on proper
insect identification, and on weed control for
agribusiness.
EPA coordinates with and uses information
from a variety of Federal, state and
international organizations and agencies in
our efforts to protect the safety of America's
health and environment from hazardous or
higher risk pesticides. In May 1991, the
USDA implemented the Pesticide Data
Program (PDF) to collect objective and
statistically reliable data on pesticide
residues on food commodities. This action
was in response to public concern about the
effects of pesticides on human health and
environmental quality. EPA uses PDF data
to improve dietary risk assessment to
support the registration of pesticides for
minor crop uses.
PDF is critical to implementing the Food
Quality Protection Act (FQPA). The system
provides improved data collection of
pesticide residues, standardized analytical
and reporting methods, and sampling of
foods most likely consumed by infants and
children. PDF sampling, residue, testing
and data reporting are coordinated by the
Agricultural Marketing Service using
cooperative agreements with ten
participating states representing all regions
of the country. PDF serves as a showcase
for Federal-state cooperation on pesticide
and food safety issues.
FQPA requires EPA to consult with other
government agencies on major decisions.
EPA, USDA and FDA work closely together
using both a MOU and working committees
to deal with a variety of issues that affect the
involved agencies' missions. For example,
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agencies work together on residue testing
programs and on enforcement actions that
involve pesticide residues on food, and we
coordinate our review of antimicrobial
pesticides. The Agency coordinates with
USDA/ARS in promotion and
communication of resistance management
strategies. Additionally, we participate
actively in the Federal Interagency
Committee on Invasive Animals and
Pathogens (ITAP) which includes members
from USDA, DOL, DoD, DHS and CDC to
coordinate planning and technical advice
among Federal entities involved in invasive
species research, control and management.
While EPA is responsible for making
registration and tolerance decisions, the
Agency relies on others to carry out some of
the enforcement activities. Registration-
related requirements under FIFRA are
enforced by the states. The HSS/FDA
enforces tolerances for most foods and the
USDA/Food Safety and Inspection Service
enforces tolerances for meat, poultry and
some egg products.
Internationally, the Agency collaborates
with the Intergovernmental Forum on
Chemical Safety (IFCS), the CODEX
Alimentarius Commission, the North
American Commission on Environmental
Cooperation (CEC), the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) and NAFTA Commission. These
activities serve to coordinate policies,
harmonize guidelines, share information,
correct deficiencies, build other nations'
capacity to reduce risk, develop strategies to
deal with potentially harmful pesticides and
develop greater confidence in the safety of
the food supply.
One of the Agency's most valuable partners
on pesticide issues is the Pesticide Program
Dialogue Committee (PPDC), which brings
together a broad cross-section of
knowledgeable individuals from
organizations representing divergent views
to discuss pesticide regulatory, policy and
implementation issues. The PPDC consists
of members from industry/trade
associations, pesticide user and commodity
groups, consumer and environmental/public
interest groups and others.
The PPDC provides a structured
environment for meaningful information
exchanges and consensus building
discussions, keeping the public involved in
decisions that affect them. Dialogue with
outside groups is essential if the Agency is
to remain responsive to the needs of the
affected public, growers and industry
organizations.
EPA works closely with Federal agencies to
improve the health of children and older
adults. Working with the CDC, the
Environmental Council of the States
(ECOS), and the Association of State and
Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), a
national action agenda to reduce
environmental triggers of childhood asthma
was developed and implemented.
The Agency continues to work with other
Federal agencies in the development of
children's environmental health indicators
used to monitor the outcomes of children's
health efforts. The Agency collaborates
with the CDC, National Center for Health
Statistics and obtains approval from the
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and
Family Statistics (www.childstats.gov) on
the reporting of appropriate children's health
indicators and data. EPA also participates in
the development of the annual report entitled
"America's Children: Key National
Indicators of Weil-Being."
As a member of the Interagency Forum on
Aging Related Statistics, EPA helps to
assure that key indicators associated with
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important aspects of older Americans' lives
are considered in reports such as "Older
Americans 2004: Key Indicators of Weil-
Being."
EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry (ATSDR) support the
Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty
Units (PEHSUs) which provide education
and consultation services on children's
environmental health issues to health
professionals, public health officials, and the
public.
EPA works closely with other Federal
agencies to improve children's health in
schools. For example, EPA has incorporated
into the new Healthy School Environments
Assessment Tool (Heal thy SEAT), a number
of recommendations and requirements from
the Department of Education, the CDC,
DOT, DOE, CPSC and OSHA.
EPA relies on data from HHS to help assess
the risk of pesticides to children. Other
collaborative efforts that go beyond our
reliance on the data they collect include
developing and validating methods to
analyze domestic and imported food
samples for organophosphates, carcinogens,
neurotoxins and other chemicals of concern.
These joint efforts protect Americans from
unhealthful pesticide residue levels.
EPA's chemical testing data provides
information for the OSHA worker protection
programs, NIOSH for research, and the
Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC) for informing consumers about
products through labeling. EPA frequently
consults with these Agencies on project
design, progress and the results of chemical
testing projects.
The Agency works with a full range of
stakeholders on homeland security issues:
USDA, CDC, other Federal agencies,
industry and the scientific community.
Review of the agents that may be effective
against anthrax has involved GSA, State
Department, Research Institute for
Infectious Disease, FDA, EOSA, USPS, and
others, and this effort will build on this
network.
The Acute Exposure Guidelines (AEGL)
program is a collaborative effort that
includes ten Federal agencies (EPA, DHS,
DOE, DoD, DOT, NIOSH, OSHA, CDC,
ATSDR, and FDA), numerous state
agencies, private industry, academia,
emergency medical associations, unions, and
other organizations in the private sector.
The program also has been supported
internationally by the OECD and includes
active participation by the Netherlands,
Germany and France.
The success of EPA's lead program is due in
part to effective coordination with other
Federal agencies, states and Indian Tribes
through the President's Task Force on
Environmental Health Risks and Safety
Risks to Children. EPA will continue to
coordinate with HUD to clarify how new
rules may affect existing EPA and HUD
regulatory programs, and with the FHWA
and OSHA on worker protection issues.
EPA will continue to work closely with state
and Federally recognized Tribes to ensure
that authorized state and Tribal programs
continue to comply with requirements
established under TSCA, that the ongoing
Federal accreditation certification and
training program for lead professionals is
administered effectively, and states and
Tribes adopt the Renovation and
Remodeling and the Buildings and
Structures Rules when these rules become
effective.
EPA has a MOU with HUD on coordination
of efforts on lead-based paint issues. As a
result of the MOU, EPA and HUD have co-
chaired the President's Task Force since
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1997. There are fourteen other Federal
agencies including CDC and DoD on the
Task Force. HUD and EPA also maintain
the National Lead Information Center and
share enforcement of the Disclosure Rule.
Mitigation of existing risk is a common
interest for other Federal agencies
addressing issues of asbestos and PCBs.
EPA will continue to coordinate interagency
strategies for assessing and managing
potential risks from asbestos and other
fibers. Coordination on safe PCB disposal is
an area of ongoing emphasis with the DoD,
and particularly with the U.S. Navy, which
has special concerns regarding PCBs
encountered during ship scrapping. PCBs
and mercury storage and safe disposal are
also important issues requiring coordination
with the Department of Energy and DoD as
they develop alternatives and explore better
technologies for storing and disposing high
risk chemicals.
To effectively participate in the international
agreements on POPs, heavy metals and PIC
substances, EPA must continue to
coordinate with other Federal agencies and
external stakeholders, such as Congressional
staff, industry, and environmental groups.
For example, EPA has an interest in
ensuring that the listing of chemicals,
including the application of criteria and
processes for evaluating future chemicals for
possible international controls, is based on
sound science. Similarly, the Agency
typically coordinates with FDA's National
Toxicology Program, the CDC/ATSDR,
NIEHS and/or the Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC) on matters relating to
OECD test guideline harmonization.
EPA's objective is to promote improved
health and environmental protection, both
domestically and worldwide. The success of
this objective is dependent on successful
coordination not only with other countries,
but also with various international
organizations such as the Intergovernmental
Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS), the
North American Commission on
Environmental Cooperation (CEC), OECD,
the United Nations Environment Program
(UNEP) and the CODEX Alimentarius
Commission. NAFTA and cooperation with
Canada and Mexico play an integral part in
the harmonization of data requirements.
EPA is a leader in global discussions on
mercury and was instrumental in the launch
of UNEP's Global Mercury Program, and
we will continue to work with developing
countries and with other developed countries
in the context of that program. In addition,
we have developed a strong network of
domestic partners interested in working on
this issue, including the DOE and the USGS.
EPA has developed cooperative efforts on
persistent organic pollutants (POPs) with
key international organizations and bodies,
such as the United Nations Food and
Agricultural Organization, the United
Nations Environment Program, the Arctic
Council, and the World Bank. EPA is
partnering with domestic and international
industry groups and foreign governments to
develop successful programs.
Objective: Communities
The Governments of Mexico and the United
States agreed, in November 1993, to assist
communities on both sides of the border in
coordinating and carrying out environmental
infrastructure projects. The agreement
between Mexico and the United States
furthers the goals of the North American
Free Trade Agreement and the North
American Agreement on Environmental
Cooperation. To this purpose, the
governments established two international
institutions, the Border Environmental
Cooperation Commission (BECC) and the
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North American Development Bank
(NADBank), which manages the Border
Environmental Infrastructure Fund (BEIF),
to support the financing and construction of
much needed environmental infrastructure.
The BECC, with headquarters in Ciudad
Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, assists local
communities and other sponsors in
developing and implementing environmental
infrastructure projects. The BECC also
certifies projects as eligible for NADBank
financing. The NADBank, with
headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, is
capitalized in equal shares by the United
States and Mexico. NADBank provides
new financing to supplement existing
sources of funds and foster the expanded
participation of private capital.
A significant number of residents along the
U.S.-Mexico border area are without basic
services such as potable water and
wastewater treatment and the problem has
become progressively worse in the last few
decades. Over the last several years, EPA
has continued to work with the U.S. and
Mexican Sections of the International
Boundary and Water Commission to further
efforts to improve water and wastewater
services to communities within 100 km on
the U.S and 300 km on the Mexico side of
the U.S.-Mexico border.
EPA's environmental mandate and expertise
make it uniquely qualified to represent the
nation's environmental interests abroad.
While the Department of State is responsible
for the conduct of overall U.S. foreign
policy, implementation of particular
programs, projects, and agreements is often
the responsibility of other agencies with
specific technical expertise and resources.
Relations between EPA and DOS cut across
several offices and/or bureaus in both
organizations.
EPA works extensively with the Office of
the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), as
well as the USTR-chaired interagency Trade
Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) system, to
ensure that U.S. trade and environmental
polices are mutually supportive. (The TPSC
system consists of various interagency
workgroups that develop trade policy for
political level review and decision.) For
example, through the Agency's participation
in the negotiation of both regional and
bilateral trade agreements and the World
Trade Organization Agreements, EPA works
with USTR to ensure that U.S. obligations
under international trade agreements do not
hamper the ability of Federal and state
governments to maintain high levels of
domestic environmental protection.
The two agencies also work together to
ensure that new obligations are consistent
with U.S. law and EPA's rules, regulations,
and programs. In addition to the work with
USTR, EPA also cooperates with many
other Federal agencies in the development
and execution of U.S. trade policy, and in
performing environmental reviews of trade
agreements, developing and implementing
environmental cooperation agreements
associated with each new FTA, and
developing and implementing the associated
environmental capacity building projects.
EPA works most closely with the
Department of State, USAID and USTR in
the capacity building area. Finally, the
Agency also serves as the co-lead (with
USTR) of the Trade and Environment Policy
Advisory Committee (TEPAC), a formally-
constituted advisory body made up of
respected experts from industry, NGOs and
academia.
Brownfields
Under the Brownfields Federal Partnership
Action Agenda, EPA and its partnering
agencies work together to prevent, assess,
safely clean up, and reuse brownfields.
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More than 20 federal agencies dedicated to
brownfields cleanup and redevelopment
have committed their resources to help
revitalize communities throughout the
nation. Building on these partnerships, EPA
is initiating a collaborative effort with other
agencies involved in brownfields
revitalization to develop a shared
performance standard that focuses on
property reuse. Through this effort, EPA
and its partners will analyze methods to
demonstrate and measure the transition of
brownfields into productive reuse.
Objective: Ecosystems
National Estuary Program
Effectively implementing successful
comprehensive management plans for the
estuaries in the NEP depends on the
cooperation, involvement, and commitment
of Federal and state agency partners that
have some role in protecting and/or
managing those estuaries. Common Federal
partners include NOAA, USFWS, COE, and
USDA. Other partners include state and
local government agencies, universities,
industry, non-governmental organizations
(NGO), and members of the public.
Wetlands
Federal agencies share the goal of increasing
wetlands functions and values, and
implementing a fair and flexible approach to
wetlands regulations. In addition, EPA has
committed to working with ACOE to ensure
that the Clean Water Act Section 404
program is more open, consistent,
predictable, and based on sound science.
Coastal America
In efforts to better leverage our collaborative
authorities to address coastal communities'
environmental issues (e.g., coastal habitat
losses, nonpoint source pollution,
endangered species, invasive species, etc.),
EPA, by memorandum of agreement in 2002
entered into an agreement with Multi-
agency signatories. November 2002.
Coastal America 2002 Memorandum of
Understanding. Available online at
http://www.coastalamerica.gov/text/mou02.
htm
Great Lakes
Pursuant to the mandate in Section 118 of
the Clean Water Act to "coordinate action of
the Agency with the actions of other Federal
agencies and state and local authorities..."
the Great Lakes National Program Office
(GLNPO) is engaged in extensive
coordination efforts with state, Tribal, and
other Federal agencies, as well as with our
counterparts in Canada pursuant to the Great
Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA).
EPA leads a Federal Interagency Task Force
charged with increasing and improving
collaboration and integration among Federal
programs involved in Great Lakes
environmental activities. Responding to
Executive Order 13340, the President
established two major Great Lakes efforts: a
"Great Lakes Interagency Task Force" and
a Great Lakes "Regional Collaboration of
National Significance" (GLRC). The Great
Lakes task force brings together ten Cabinet
department and Federal agency heads to
coordinate restoration of the Great Lakes,
focusing on outcomes, such as cleaner water
and sustainable fisheries, and targeting
measurable results. In December 2005, the
GLRC (including representatives from
Federal agencies, led by EPA; Great Lakes
Governors, Mayors, and Tribes; and the
Great Lakes States Congressional
Delegation) developed a Great Lakes
Regional Collaboration Strategy. This
Strategy is being used to guide the Great
Lakes environmental efforts. Coordination
by GLNPO supports both the GLWQA and
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GLRC: GLNPO monitoring involves
extensive coordination among state, federal,
and provincial partners, both in terms of
implementing the monitoring program, and
in utilizing results from the monitoring to
manage environmental programs: GLNPO's
sediments program works closely with the
states and the Corps regarding dredging
issues; implementation of the Binational
Toxics Strategy involves extensive
coordination with Great Lakes States;
GLNPO works closely with states, Tribes,
FWS, and NRCS in addressing habitat
issues; and EPA also coordinates with these
partners regarding development and
implementation of Lakewide Management
Plans for each of the Great Lakes and for
Remedial Action Plans for the 30 remaining
U.S./binational Areas of Concern.
Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay Program has a Federal
Agencies Committee, chaired by EPA,
which was formed in 1984 and has met
regularly ever since. There are currently
over 20 different Federal agencies actively
involved with the Bay Program through the
Federal Agencies Committee. The Federal
agencies have worked together over the past
decade to implement the commitments laid
out in the 1994 Agreement of Federal
Agencies on Ecosystem Management in the
Chesapeake Bay and the 1998 Federal
Agencies Chesapeake Ecosystem Unified
Plan (FACEUP}. The Federal Agencies
Committee has been focusing on how its
members can help to achieve the 104
commitments contained in the Chesapeake
2000 agreement adopted by the Chesapeake
Bay Program in June 2000. Through this
interagency partnership Federal agencies
have contributed to some major successes,
such as the U.S. Forest Service helping to
meet the year 2010 goal to restore 2,010
miles of riparian forest buffers eight years
early; the NFS the effort to establish over
500 miles of water trails three years early;
and the USFWS in reaching the Program's
fish passage goal of reopening 1,357 miles
of formerly blocked river habitat in 2004.
Also in 2004, through the Federal Agencies
Committee, the members sought better
coordination of agency budgets and other
programs to try to leverage maximum
benefit to the state, private, and Federal
efforts protect and restore the Bay.
Gulf of Mexico
Key to the continued progress of the Gulf of
Mexico Program is a broad multi-
organizational Gulf states-led partnership
comprised of regional; business and
industry; agriculture; state and local
government; citizens; environmental and
fishery interests; and, numerous Federal
departments and agencies. This Gulf
partnership is comprised of members of the
Gulf Program's Policy Review Board,
subcommittees, and workgroups.
Established in 1988, the Gulf of Mexico
Program is designed to assist the Gulf States
and stakeholders in developing a regional,
ecosystem-based framework for restoring
and protecting the Gulf of Mexico through
coordinated Gulf-wide as well as priority
area-specific efforts. The Gulf States
strategically identify the key environmental
issues and work at the regional, state, and
local level to define, recommend, and
voluntarily implement the supporting
solutions. To achieve the Program's
environmental objectives, the partnership
must target specific Federal, state, local, and
private programs, processes, and financial
authorities in order to leverage the resources
needed to support state and community
actions.
Objective: Enhance Science and Research
Several Federal agencies sponsor research
on variability and susceptibility in risks from
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exposure to environmental contaminants.
EPA collaborates with a number of the
Institutes within the NIH and CDC. For
example, NIEHS conducts multi-
disciplinary biomedical research programs,
prevention and intervention efforts, and
communication strategies. The NIEHS
program includes an effort to study the
effects of chemicals, including pesticides
and other toxics, on children. EPA
collaborates with NIEHS in supporting the
Centers for Children's Environmental
Health and Disease Prevention, which study
whether and how environmental factors play
a role in children's health. The Agency
collaborates with the National Academy of
Sciences (NAS) on very difficult and
complex human health risk assessments
through consultation or review.
Research in ecosystems protection is
coordinated government-wide through the
Committee on Environment and Natural
Resources (CENR). EPA is an active
participant in the CENR, and all work is
fully consistent and complementary with
other Committee member activities. EPA
researchers work within the CENR on the
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Program (EMAP) and other ecosystems
protection research.
The Mid-Atlantic Landscape Atlas
represents one of the EMAP's first regional-
scale ecological assessments, and was
developed in cooperation with NOAA,
USFWS, the University of Tennessee, and
DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Development of the Networking and
Information Technology Research &
Development (NITR) Modeling System is
coordinated with the COE, USDA and DOE.
Through interagency agreements with
USGS, EPA has worked to investigate and
develop tools for assessing the impact of
hydrogeology on riparian restoration efforts.
The collaborative work with the USGS
continues to play a vital role in investigating
the impact and fate of atmospheric loadings
of nitrogen and nitrogen applications as part
of restoration technologies on terrestrial and
aquatic ecosystems. All of these efforts have
significant implications for risk management
in watersheds, total maximum daily load
(TMDL) implementation, and management
of non-point source pollutants.
Homeland Security research is conducted in
collaboration with numerous agencies,
leveraging funding across multiple programs
and producing synergistic results. EPA's
National Homeland Security Research
Center (NHSRC) works closely with the
DHS to assure that EPA's efforts are directly
supportive of DHS priorities. EPA is also
working with DHS to provide support and
guidance to DHS in the startup of their
University Centers of Excellence program.
Recognizing that the DoD has significant
expertise and facilities related to biological
and chemical warfare agents, the NHSRC
works closely with the Edgewood Chemical
and Biological Center (ECBC), the
Technical Support Working Group, the
Army Corps of Engineers, and other
Department of Defense organizations to
address areas of mutual interest and concern.
In conducting biological agent research, the
NHSRC is also collaborating with CDC.
The NHSRC works with DOE to access and
support research conducted by DOE's
National Laboratories, as well as to obtain
data related to radioactive materials.
In addition to these major collaborations, the
NHSRC has relationships with numerous
other Federal agencies, including the U.S.
Air Force, U.S. Navy, FDA, USGS and
NIST. Also, the NHSRC is working with
state and local emergency response
personnel to understand better their needs
and build relationships, which will enable
the quick deployment of NHSRC products.
In the water infrastructure arena, the
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NHSRC is providing information to the
Water Information Sharing and Analysis
Center (WaterlSAC) operated by the
Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies
(AMWA). The NAS has also been engaged
to provide advice on the long-term direction
of the water research and technical support
program.
EPA coordinates its nanotechnology
research with other Federal agencies through
the National Nanotechnology Initiative
(NNI),15 which is managed under the
Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science,
Engineering and Technology (NSET) of the
NSTC Committee on Technology (CoT).
The Agency's Science to Achieve Results
(STAR) program, which awards research
grants to universities and non-profit
organizations, has issued its recent
nanotechnology grants16 jointly with
NIOSH,NIEHS, andNSF.
The Agency coordinates its global change
research with other Federal agencies through
the Climate Change Science Program
(CCSP),17 which is managed under the
Subcommittee on Global Change Research
of the NSTC Committee on Environment
and Natural Resources (CENR). EPA's
global change research also contributes to
Department of State-coordinated climate
change dialogues with other countries.
EPA collaborates with DOE, USGS, and the
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI),18
to conduct research on mercury. EPA also
works with other Federal agencies to
coordinate U.S. participation in the Arctic
Mercury Project, a partnership established in
15 For more information, see .
16 For an example, see
.
17 For more information, see
.
18 For more information, see .
2001 by the eight member states of the
Arctic Council—Canada, Denmark, Finland,
Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the
U.S.
The Agency's coordinates its research
fellowship programs with other Federal
agencies and the nonprofit sector through
the National Academies' Fellowships
Roundtable, which meets biannually.19
19 For more information, see
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Goal 5-Compliance and Environmental Stewardship
Objective: Improve Compliance
The Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance Program coordinates closely with
DOJ on all enforcement matters. In
addition, the program coordinates with other
agencies on specific environmental issues as
described herein.
The Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance (OECA) coordinates with the
Chemical Safety and Accident Investigation
Board, OSHA, and Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry in
preventing and responding to accidental
releases and endangerment situations, with
the BIA on Tribal issues relative to
compliance with environmental laws on
Tribal Lands, and with the SBA on the
implementation of the Small Business
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act
(SBREFA). OECA also shares information
with the IRS on cases which require
defendants to pay civil penalties, thereby
assisting the IRS in assuring compliance
with tax laws. In addition, it coordinates
with the SBA and a number of other Federal
agencies in implementing the Business
Compliance One-Stop Project, an "E-
Government" project that is part of the
President's Regulatory Management
Agenda. OECA also works with a variety of
Federal agencies including the DOL and the
IRS to organize a Federal Compliance
Assistance Roundtable to address cross
cutting compliance assistance issues.
Coordination also occurs with the COE on
wetlands.
Due to changes in the Food Security Act, the
USDA/NRCS has a major role in
determining whether areas on agricultural
lands meet the definition of wetlands and are
therefore regulated under the CWA. Civil
Enforcement coordinates with USDA/NRCS
on these issues also. The program
coordinates closely with the USDA on the
implementation of the Unified National
Strategy for Animal Feedlot Operations.
EPA's Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance Program also coordinates with
USDA on food safety issues arising from the
misuse of pesticides, and shares joint
jurisdiction with Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) on pesticide labeling and advertising.
Coordination also occurs with Customs on
pesticide imports. EPA and the FDA share
jurisdiction over general-purpose
disinfectants used on non-critical surfaces
and some dental and medical equipment
surfaces (e.g., wheelchairs). The Agency
has entered into a MOU with HUD
concerning lead poisoning.
The Criminal Enforcement program
coordinates with other Federal law
enforcement agencies (i.e., FBI, Customs,
DOL, U.S. Treasury, USCG and DOJ) and
with state and local law enforcement
organizations in the investigation and
prosecution of environmental crimes. EPA
also actively works with DOJ to establish
task forces that bring together Federal, state
and local law enforcement organizations to
address environmental crimes. In addition,
the program has an Interagency Agreement
with the DHS to provide specialized
criminal environmental training to Federal,
state, local, and Tribal law enforcement
personnel at the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, GA.
Under Executive Order 12088, EPA is
directed to provide technical assistance to
other Federal agencies to help ensure their
compliance with all environmental laws.
The Federal Facility Enforcement Program
coordinates with other Federal agencies,
states, local, and Tribal governments to
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ensure compliance by Federal agencies with
all environmental laws.
OECA collaborates with the states and
Tribes. States perform the vast majority of
inspections, direct compliance assistance,
and enforcement actions. Most EPA statutes
envision a partnership between EPA and the
states under which EPA develops national
standards and policies and the states
implement the program under authority
delegated by EPA. If a state does not seek
approval of a program, EPA must
implement that program in the state.
Historically, the level of state approvals has
increased as programs mature and state
capacity expands, with many of the key
environmental programs approaching
approval in nearly all states. EPA will
increase its effort to coordinate with states
on training, compliance assistance, capacity
building and enforcement. EPA will
continue to enhance the network of state and
Tribal compliance assistance providers.
The Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance chairs the Interagency
Environmental Leadership Workgroup
established by Executive Order 13148. The
Workgroup consists of over 100
representatives from most Federal
departments and agencies. Its mission is to
assist all Federal agencies with meeting the
mandates of the Executive Order, including
implementation of environmental
management systems and environmental
compliance auditing programs, reducing
both releases and uses of toxic chemicals,
and compliance with pollution prevention
and pollution reporting requirements. In FY
2008, the OECA will work directly with a
number of other Federal agencies to improve
CWA compliance at Federal facilities.
OECA and other agencies will jointly
investigate the underlying causes of
persistent CWA violations and design and
implement fixes to the problems to keep
facilities in compliance over the long term.
OECA anticipates that FY 2008 will see the
completion of a multiple-year partnership
with the Veterans Health Administration
(VHA), a part of the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA). OECA and the VHA formed
the partnership in 2002 to improve
compliance at VHA medical centers across
the nation. Since then, EPA and VHA have
jointly designed and begun implementing
environmental management systems at all
VHA medical centers, completed multi-day
onsite reviews at more than 20 medical
centers to assess the strengths and
weaknesses of their environmental programs
and to guide the VHA in making program
improvements at all its medical centers, and
delivered multiple environmental
compliance courses for VHA staff and
managers.
EPA works directly with Canada and
Mexico bilaterally and in the trilateral
Commission for Environmental Cooperation
(CEC). EPA's border activities require
close coordination with the Bureau of
Customs and Border Protection, the Fish and
Wildlife Service, the Department of Justice,
and the States of Arizona, California, New
Mexico, and Texas. EPA is the lead agency
and coordinates U.S. participation in the
CEC. EPA works with NOAA, the Fish and
Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological
Survey on CEC projects to promote
biodiversity cooperation, and with the Office
of the U.S. Trade Representative to reduce
potential trade and environmental impacts
such as invasive species.
Objective: Improve Environmental
Performance through Pollution Prevention
and Innovation
EPA is involved in a broad range of
pollution prevention (P2) activities which
can yield reductions in waste generation and
energy consumption in both the public and
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private sectors. For example, the EPP
initiative, which implements Executive
Orders 12873 and 13101, promotes the use
of cleaner products by Federal agencies.
This is aimed at stimulating demand for the
development of such products by industry.
This effort includes a number of
demonstration projects with other federal
Departments and agencies, such as the NPS
(to use Green Purchasing as a tool to achieve
the sustainability goals of the parks), DoD
(use of environmentally preferable
construction materials), and Defense
Logistics Agency (identification of
environmental attributes for products in its
purchasing system). The program is also
working within EPA to "green" its own
operations. The program also works with
NIST to develop a life-cycle based decision
support tool for purchasers.
Under the Suppliers' Partnership for the
Environment program and its umbrella
program, the GSN, EPA's P2 Program is
working closely with NIST and its
Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Program to provide technical assistance to
the process of "greening" industry supply
chains. The EPA is also working with the
DOE's Industrial Technologies Program to
provide energy audits and technical
assistance to these supply chains.
EPA is working with DOE and USD A to
develop a "Biofuels Posture Plan," the first
step in implementing a Biofuels Initiative to
support the goals of the President's
Advanced Energy Initiative. The Biofuels
Posture Plan will be designed to promote the
development of a biofuels industry in the
U.S. to help shift the country towards clean,
domestic energy production and away from
dependence on foreign sources of energy
(mostly petroleum). EPA is investigating
the use of municipal and industrial solid and
hazardous wastes as sources of biomass that
can be used to produce clean biofuels. EPA
is promoting specific waste-to-energy
technologies through policy development,
research, and, where feasible, regulatory
change.
The Agency is required to review
environmental impact statements and other
major actions impacting the environment
and public health proposed by all Federal
agencies, and make recommendations to the
proposing Federal agency on how to
remedy/mitigate those impacts. Although
EPA is required under § 309 of the Clean
Air Act (CAA) to review and comment on
proposed Federal actions, neither the
National Environmental Policy Act nor §
309 CAA require a Federal agency to
modify its proposal to accommodate EPA's
concerns. EPA does have authority under
these statutes to refer major disagreements
with other Federal agencies to the Council
on Environmental Quality. Accordingly,
many of the beneficial environmental
changes or mitigation that EPA recommends
must be negotiated with the other Federal
agency. The majority of the actions EPA
reviews are proposed by the Forest Service,
Department of Transportation (including
FHWA and FAA), COE, DOI (including
Bureau of Land Management, Minerals
Management Service and NPS), DOE
(including Federal Regulatory Commission),
and DoD.
EPA and DOI are coordinating an
Interagency Tribal Information Steering
Committee that includes the Bureau of
Reclamation, DOE, HUD, USGS, Federal
Geographic Data Committee, BIA, Indian
Health Service, Department of the Treasury,
and DOJ. This Interagency effort is aimed
to coordinate the exchange of selected sets
of environmental, resource, and
programmatic information pertaining to
Indian Country among Federal agencies in a
"dynamic" information management system
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that is continuously and automatically
updated and refreshed, to be shared equally
among partners and other constituents.
Under a two-party interagency agreement,
EPA works extensively with the Indian
Health Service to cooperatively address the
drinking water and wastewater infrastructure
needs of Indian Tribes. EPA is developing
protocols with the Indian Health Service
Sanitation Facilities Construction Program
for integration of databases of the two
agencies, within the framework of the Tribal
Enterprise Architecture.
EPA has organized a Tribal Data Working
Group under the Federal Geographic Data
Committee, and, along with BIA, is the co-
chair of this group. EPA will play a lead
role in establishing common geographic data
and metadata standards for Tribal data, and
in establishing protocols for exchange of
information among Federal, non-Federal and
Tribal cooperating partners.
EPA is developing protocols with the
Bureau of Reclamation, Native American
Program, for integration of databases of the
two agencies, within the framework of the
Tribal Enterprise Architecture. EPA is also
developing agreements to share information
with the Alaska District, COE.
To promote mutual goals as leadership
programs with industry, the Office of Policy,
Economics, and Innovation (OPEI) through
its National Environmental Performance
Track, works with the Voluntary Protection
Programs (VPP) in the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA). EPA
and OSHA collaborate in developing
incentives for members, identifying
potential members, providing joint
recognition, and sharing best practices from
their experience in managing leadership
programs.
Under a MOU, EPA and NFS established a
partnership to share resources for promoting
environmental management system
approaches that are good for both the
environment and business. The MOU
promotes the implementation of cost-
effective environmental management
practices for businesses in the tourism
industry, including the approximately 600
NFS concessionaires that provide various
visitor services in more than 130 national
parks.
Information on regulations and other issues
that may have an adverse impact on small
businesses is shared regularly with the Small
Business Administration's Office of
Advocacy. An ongoing activity includes the
coordination of interactions among the
Office of Air and Radiation, the State Small
Business Assistance Program's National
Steering Committee, and the Office of
Advocacy in the development of the
proposed 55 area source Maximum
Achievable Control Technology (MACT)
rules that will impact small businesses and
state programs.
The Sector Strategies program addresses
issues that directly affect the environmental
performance of selected industries and other
sectors of the economy. At times, actions
taken to enhance sector-wide performance
involve other Federal agencies. This work
tends to be informal and issue-specific, as
opposed to formal inter-agency partnerships.
For example, previous work on Agribusiness
sector issues involved the Natural Resource
Conservation Service of the USDA. Energy
conservation work with the Metal Foundry
sector involved the DOE's innovative
technologies program. In 2005, Port sector
stakeholders include the U.S. Maritime
Administration (DOT), COE and NOAA.
Data work with the Cement sector involves
USGS contacts. And future "green
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highway" work of the Construction Sector
may involve the FHWA.
Activities associated with the Environmental
Education Program are coordinated with
other Federal agencies in a variety of ways:
EPA currently funds approximately $1.5M
for eight interagency agreements with four
Federal agencies. Current projects are
focused on helping these agencies to better
coordinate their environmental education
efforts (see www.handsontheland.org) and
improving capacity to measure
environmental education program outcomes.
All of the activities are funded jointly by the
cooperating Federal agency and a third non-
profit partner. Detailed information about
the interagency agreements is available at
http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/iag.html.
EPA chairs the Task Force on
Environmental Education which meets
periodically to share information. The
current focus involves sharing information
on linking environmental education
programs to the strategic planning initiatives
of Federal agencies and developing program
impact measures.
EPA, in partnership with Department of
Education, the Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry, the Department of
Interior, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the
Consumer Product Safety Commission, and
the Centers for Disease Control, is
implementing a national Schools Chemical
Cleanout Campaign (SC3). SC3 is building
a national public/private network that will
facilitate the removal of dangerous and
inappropriate chemicals from K - 12
schools; encourage responsible chemical
management practices to prevent future
chemical accidents and accumulations; and
raise issue awareness.
As a participant on the following
interagency workgroups, EPA remains
informed of related efforts across the
government and provides coordination
assistance as necessary: The Interagency
Committee on Education (Chair:
Department of Education); Partners in
Resource Education (Chair: National
Environmental Education and Training
Foundation); the Federal Interagency
Committee on Interpretation (Chair:
National Park Service); Ocean Education
Task Force (workgroup of the U.S. Ocean
Commission); and the Afterschool.gov
(Chair: General Services Administration).
EPA coordinates U.S. participation in the
activities of the North American
Commission on Environmental Cooperation
(CEC) on green purchasing, supply chains,
and buildings.
EPA's web portal of all Federal
environmental education program web sites
is:
http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/FTFmemws.ht
ml.
Objective: Enhance Science and Research
EPA is coordinating with DoD's Strategic
Environmental Research and Development
Program (SERDP) in an ongoing
partnership, especially in the areas of
sustainability research and of incorporating
materials lifecycle analysis into the
manufacturing process for weapons and
military equipment. EPA's People,
Prosperity, and Planet (P3) student design
competition for sustainability will partner
with NASA, NSF, OFEE, USAID, USDA,
CEQ, and OSTP. EPA is continuing its
partnerships with NSF, NIEHS, AND
NIOSH on jointly issued grant solicitations
for nanotechnology, and its coordination
through the NSET with all agencies that are
part of the NNI.
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EPA will continue work under the MOA
with the USCG and the State of
Massachusetts on ballast water treatment
technologies and mercury continuous
emission monitors. The agency also
coordinates technology verifications with
NOAA (multiparameter water quality
probes); DOE (mercury continuous emission
monitors); DoD (explosives monitors, PCB
detectors, dust suppressants); USDA
(ambient ammonia monitors); Alaska and
Pennsylvania (arsenic removal); Georgia,
Kentucky, and Michigan (storm water
treatment); and Colorado and New York
(waste-to-energy technologies).
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COORDINATION WITH OTHER AGENCIES - ENABLING SUPPORT PROGRAMS
Agency is an active member of the
Interagency Forum on Aging-Related
Statistics (www.agingstats.gov). The Forum
was created to foster collaboration among
Federal agencies that produce or use
statistical data on the older population. The
biannual chartbook contains an indicator on
air quality and the counties where older
adults reside that have experienced poor air
quality.
Office of the Administrator (OA)
EPA collaborates with other Federal
agencies in the collection of economic data
used in the conduct of economic benefit-cost
analyses of environmental regulations and
policies. The Agency collaborates with the
Department of Commerce, Bureau of the
Census on the Pollution Abatement Costs
and Expenditure (PACE) survey in order to
obtain information on pollution abatement
expenditures by industry. In our effort to
measure the beneficial outcomes of Agency
programs, we co-sponsor with several other
agencies the U.S. Forest Service's National
Survey on Recreation and the Environment
(NSRE), which measures national recreation
participation and recreation trends. EPA
also collaborates with other natural resource
agencies (e.g., United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA), Department of
Interior, Forest Service, National Oceanic
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)) to
foster improved interdisciplinary research
and reporting of economic information by
collaboratively supporting workshops and
symposiums on environmental economics
topics (ecosystem valuation resource
evaluation); economics of invasive species;
and measuring health benefits.
The Agency also continues to work with
other Federal agencies in the development of
children's environmental health indicators
used to monitor the outcomes of children's
health efforts. The Agency collaborates
with the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and the National Center for
Health Statistics to obtain approval of the
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and
Family Statistics (www.childstats.gov) on
the reporting of appropriate children's health
indicators and data. Furthermore, the
EPA's Office of Homeland Security (OHS)
continues to focus on broad, Agency and
government-wide homeland security policy
issues that cannot be adequately addressed
by a single program office, as well as
ensuring implementation of EPA's
Homeland Security Strategy. A significant
amount of the responsibilities require close
coordination with Federal partners, through
Policy Coordinating Committees (PCCs),
briefings and discussions with individual
senior Federal officials. The Associate
Administrator for Homeland Security and
OHS represent the Administrator, Deputy
Administrator, and other senior Agency
officials at meetings with personnel from the
White House and Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), and other high-level
stakeholders. OHS coordinates the
development of responses to inquiries from
the White House, DHS, the Congress, and
others with oversight responsibilities for
homeland security efforts. EPA's ability to
effectively implement its broad range of
homeland security responsibilities is
significantly enhanced though these efforts.
OHS ensures consistent development and
implementation of the Agency's homeland
security policies and procedures, while
building an external network of partners so
that EPA's efforts can be integrated into,
and build upon, the efforts of other Federal
agencies.
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The Science Advisory Board (SAB)
primarily provides the Administrator with
independent peer reviews and advice on the
scientific and technical aspects of
environmental issues to inform the Agency's
environmental decision-making. Often, the
Agency program office seeking the SAB's
review and advice has identified the Federal
agencies interested in the scientific topic at
issue. The SAB coordinates with those
Federal agencies by providing notice of its
activities through the Federal Register, and
as appropriate, inviting Federal agency
experts to participate in the peer review or
advisory activity. The SAB, from time to
time, also convenes science workshops on
emerging issues, and invites Federal agency
participation through the greater Federal
scientific and research community.
EPA's Office of Small and Disadvantaged
Business Utilization (OSDBU) works with
the Small Business Administration (SBA)
and other Federal agencies to increase the
participation of small and disadvantaged
businesses in EPA's procurement of goods,
services, equipment, and construction.
OSDBU works with the SBA to develop
EPA's goals for contracting with small and
disadvantaged businesses; address bonding
issues that pose a roadblock for small
businesses in specific industries, such as
environmental clean-up and construction;
and address data-collection issues that are of
concern to OSDBUs throughout the Federal
government. EPA's OSDBU works closely
with the Center for Veterans Enterprise and
EPA's Regional and program offices to
increase the amount of EPA procurement
dollars awarded to Service-Disabled
Veteran-Owned Small Businesses
(SDVOSB). It also works with the
Department of Education and the White
House Historically Black College and
University (HBCU) Workgroup to increase
opportunities for HBCUs to partner with
small businesses and Federal agencies,
especially in the area of scientific research
and development. Work is also coordinated
with the Minority Business Development
Agency to fund opportunities for small
disadvantaged businesses, and to collaborate
to provide outreach to small disadvantage
businesses and Minority-Serving Institutions
throughout the United States and the trust
territories. EPA's OSDBU Director is an
active participant in the Federal OSDBU
Council (www.osdbu.gov), and served as the
Council's Chairperson in FYs 2004 and
2006. The OSDBU Directors collaborate to
the extent possible to support major outreach
efforts to small and disadvantaged
businesses, SDVOSB, and minority-serving
educational institutions via conferences,
business fairs, and speaking engagements.
Office of the Chief Financial Officer
(OCFO)
EPA makes active contributions to standing
interagency management committees,
including the Chief Financial Officers
Council and the Federal Financial Managers'
Council. These groups are focused on
improving resources management and
accountability throughout the Federal
government. EPA also coordinates
appropriately with Congress and other
Federal agencies, such as Department of
Treasury, Office of Management of Budget
(OMB), and the Government Accountability
Office (GAO).
Office of Administration and Resources
Management (OARM)
EPA is committed to working with Federal
partners that focus on improving
management and accountability throughout
the Federal government. The Agency
provides leadership and expertise to
Government-wide activities in various areas
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of human resources, grants administration,
contracts management and Homeland
Security. These activities include specific
collaboration efforts with Federal agencies
and departments through:
• Chief Human Capital Officers, a
group of senior leaders that
discuss human capital initiatives
across the Federal government;
and
• Legislative & Policy
Committee, a committee
comprised of other Federal
agency representatives who
assist Office of Personnel and
Management in developing
plans and policies for training
and development across the
government.
The Agency is participating in the
government's implementation of Public Law
106-107 to improve the effectiveness and
performance of Federal financial assistance
programs, simplify application and reporting
requirements, and improve the delivery of
services to the public. This includes
membership on the Grants Policy
Committee, the Grants Executive Board, and
the Grants.gov Users Group. EPA also
participates in the Federal Demonstration
Partnership to reduce the administrative
burdens associated with research grants.
The Chief Acquisition Officers Council, the
principal interagency forum for monitoring
and improving the Federal acquisition
system. The Council also is focused on
promoting the President's Management
Agenda in all aspects of the acquisition
system, as well as the President's specific
acquisition-related initiatives and policies.
EPA is working with the OMB, General
Services Administrations, and Department
of Commerce's National Institute of
Standards and Technology to implement
Homeland Security Presidential Directive
No. 12 - Policy for a Common Identification
Standard for Federal Employees and
Contractors.
Office of Environmental Information
(OEI)
To support EPA's overall mission, OEI
collaborates with a number of other Federal
agencies and state and Tribal governments
on a variety of initiatives, including
initiatives to make government more
efficient and transparent, protect human
health and the environment, and assist in
homeland security. OEI is more specifically
involved in the areas of information
technology (IT), information management
(EVI), or information security aspects of the
projects it collaborates on.
To help make government more efficient
and transparent, OEI leads the electronic
docket system (E-Dockets) and
electronically supported rulemaking (E-
Rulemaking) projects, and participates in the
electronic records systems (E-Records)
project. E-Docket is a modern and well-
supported electronic docket system. It
reduces the cost of maintaining EPA's
dockets while improving their accessibility
and security. EPA coordinates with other
Federal agencies by making E-Docket
available to host their docket needs. E-
Rulemaking is one of the President's E-
Government (E-Gov) initiatives and is being
led by EPA, in coordination with the OMB,
the Department of Transportation, and 10
other Federal agencies. The purpose of this
initiative is to apply modern information
technology to the rulemaking process to
make it more efficient and to allow broader
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and easier participation by the public.
Building on e-Docket, e-Rulemaking adds
features that make it easier for interested
parties, including the public, to review
proposed rules and to submit comments for
the record. EPA is also coordinating with
the National Archives and Records
Administration on a broader e-Records
initiative aimed at establishing uniform
procedures, requirements, and standards for
creating and managing Federal e-Gov
records.
As part of its effort to help protect human
health and the environment, EPA is
coordinating with the states and Tribes to
improve the collection, management, and
sharing of environmental information. A
key component of these efforts is EPA's
participation in the State/EPA Information
Management Workgroup and Network
Steering Board. As a member of the Board,
EPA participates in action teams comprised
of EPA, state, and Tribal members, designed
to identify information projects that can
resolve information issues and to arrive at
consensus solutions. Two of the areas that
this forum has worked on extensively are
developing environmental data standards
and implementing new technologies for
collecting and reporting information.
In addition to protecting human health and
the environment, EPA also supports
homeland security by coordinating
extensively with a number of other Federal
agencies to develop and expand the use of
geographically based information. These
efforts include coordination with the U. S.
Geological Survey (USGS), Federal
Geographic Data Committee, Chief
Information Officer (CIO) Council
(http://www.cio.gov), DHS, Council for
Environmental Quality, ECOS, other
national security agencies, and state
agencies. Much of this work is done by
multi-agency workgroups designed to ensure
consistent implementation of standards and
technologies across the Federal government
to support efficient sharing of data,
especially the sharing of geographically
based data and Geographic Information
Systems. A key aspect of this work is
developing and implementing the
infrastructure to support an assortment of
national spatial data - data that can be
attached to and portrayed on maps. This
work has several key applications, including
ensuring that human health and
environmental conditions are represented in
the appropriate contexts, supporting the
assessment of environmental conditions and
changes, and supporting first responders and
other homeland security situations.
Additionally, EPA coordinates with the CIO
Council and other Federal agencies on
projects related to information security,
capital planning, workforce development,
interoperability, and infrastructure related to
homeland security.
Another area where EPA actively
coordinates with other Governmental
entities is public access to information. In
addition to the E-Gov initiatives described
above, EPA also coordinates with the
USGS, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Fish and
Wildlife Service, and state and local
government partners to expand and improve
public access to information affecting their
lives. EPA also works with states, Tribes,
local agencies, and non-governmental
organizations to design and implement
specific community-based information
projects.
Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
The EPA Inspector General is a member of
the President's Council on Integrity and
Efficiency (PCIE), an organization
comprised of Federal Inspectors General
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(IG). The PCIE coordinates and improves
the way IGs conduct audits and
investigations, and completes projects of
government-wide interest. The EPA IG
chairs the PCIE's Environmental
Consortium and the Government
Performance and Results Act (GPRA)
Roundtable to promote greater coordination
and collaboration among the 54 Federal
agency IGs and GAO in addressing cross-
cutting management and environmental
issues. The OIG Special Operations Division
coordinates activities with other law
enforcement organizations that have
computer crimes units such as the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service,
and the Department of Justice. In addition,
the OIG participates with various inter-
governmental audit forums, professional
associations, training activities and other
cross-governmental forums to exchange
information, share best practices, and direct
collaborative efforts. The OIG also
promotes collaboration by EPA with its
Federal, state and local partners for greater
economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the
application of technology, information and
resources.
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MAJOR MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES
As required by the Reports Consolidation
Act of 2000, EPA's Office of Inspector
General (OIG) identifies, briefly assesses,
and reports annually the most serious
management and performance challenges
facing the Agency. In April 2006, OIG and
the Government Accountability Office
(GAO) identified areas they consider to be
EPA's most pressing management
challenges. While OIG identified the
majority of the areas, GAO raised a number
of the same concerns, such as human capital
and assistance agreements. Notably, neither
OIG nor GAO suggested elevating any of
the issues to the level of a material
weakness—a control deficiency that could
adversely impact the integrity of Agency
programs and activities. EPA has made
great progress in addressing the issues raised
by OIG and GAO, and will continue to work
diligently to ensure that these, as well as
other issues do not affect EPA's mission to
protect human health and the environment.
EPA senior managers are committed to
resolving current issues and identifying and
addressing vulnerabilities or emerging issues
before they become serious problems. EPA
continues to strengthen its management
practices by maintaining a system of internal
controls that helps identify and resolve
potential management vulnerabilities. In FY
2006, for the fifth consecutive year, EPA
reported no material weaknesses under the
Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act
(FMFIA). The Agency resolved two of its
internal Agency-level weaknesses, which
are reportable conditions less severe than
material weaknesses, but that merit the
attention of the Administrator. Currently,
EPA has elevated three management
challenges (human capital, assistance
agreement, and homeland security) to the
level of Agency-level weaknesses under
FMFIA. EPA leaders meet periodically to
review and discuss the progress the Agency
is making to address the issues, and each
year the Agency reports on the status of its
efforts in its Performance and
Accountability Report and Budget
Submissions.
OMB continues to recognize EPA's efforts
to maintain effective and efficient
management controls. Since June 2003, the
Agency has maintained its "green" status
score for Improved Financial Performance
under the President's Management Agenda
(PMA). Following are discussions of the
Agency's management challenges and the
progress made in addressing them.
1. Emission Factors for Sources of
Air Pollution
Scope of Challenge: The Agency faces
significant challenges in improving
emissions factors. A recent OIG
evaluation found conflicting guidance on
appropriately using emissions factors; a
rating system that did not quantify the
uncertainty associated with emissions
factors; inadequate funding of the
program; and the lack of a
comprehensive plan to improve data
collection and set priorities. EPA needs
to limit the decisions being made with
poor quality emissions factors and to
provide significant non-regulatory
incentives to industry and state or local
agencies to obtain the data it needs to
improve emissions factors. (OIG)
EPA and its stakeholders use emissions
factors to make about 80 percent of
emissions determinations for sources of air
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pollution and rely on them for other
environmental decisions as well. The
Agency is making it easier for industries to
transform their emissions data into
emissions factors and to transmit them to
state and federal reviewers quickly. EPA is
re-engineering its emissions factors
program, investing over $500,000 to
develop more and better emissions factors
and account for uncertainty. In FY 2006,
EPA developed and launched the Electronic
Reporting Tool (ERT), which provides an
electronic version of emission test plans and
reports. ERT allows source owners or
operators to transmit standardized emission
test data to state, local, or tribal reviewers,
and enables reviewers to evaluate and report
on the quality of the emissions testing and
assess the uncertainty of future, as well as
existing, emission factors. These reviewers
will then be able to assess the quality of the
testing online before submitting the results
to the newly developed WebFIRE, an
internet version of the emissions Factor
Information Retrieval System (FIRE) that
integrates AP-42 emissions factor data with
FIRE data in a user-friendly on-line search
program.
Highlights of progress include:
Launched WebFIRE, an
interactive web version of
the emissions Factor
Information Retrieval
(FIRE) system, that
combines AP-42 and FIRE
data so that users are no
longer required to conduct
independent checks while
searching for emission
factors (more information is
available at
http ://cfpub. epa. gov/oarweb
/index.cfm?action=fire.main
Plans for
include:
Conducted an extensive
statistical analysis on
determining the uncertainty
of highly-rated emissions
factors.
Completed and published
updates to emission factors
for floating roof tanks and
low pressure petroleum
storage tanks.
further improvements
Enhance WebFIRE to allow
users to independently
check and verify
background information for
emissions factors.
Provide the results of the
uncertainty analysis to
external partners for review
and comment.
Develop emissions factors
for coke ovens, landfills,
municipal waste
combustors, steel mini-
mills, landing losses for
external floating roofs, and
low pressure petroleum
storage tanks.
Initiate development of
emissions factors for natural
gas engines, rubber
manufacturers, and animal
feeding operations.
2. Voluntary Climate Change
Program
Scope of Challenge: Two voluntary
programs aimed at securing private
sector agreements to voluntarily reduce
greenhouse gas emissions or emissions
intensity need to be especially robust
and involve a substantial portion of the
economy if they are going to achieve
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desired results. The Climate Leaders
and Climate VISION voluntary
programs involve companies and
industries that represent less than one-
half of total U.S. emissions. While many
participants have made progress in
completing program steps in a timely
manner, some participants appear not to
be progressing at the rate expected.
GAO recommends that EPA develop
written policies establishing the
consequences for not completing
program steps on schedule. EPA and
DOE are working to estimate the
emission reductions attributable to their
programs. However, both agencies will
need to find ways to determine their
programs' contribution to emission
reduction. (GAO)
In its April 2006 report on Climate Change,
GAO recommended that EPA develop
written policy for increasing progress under
the EPA Climate Leaders program. EPA
believes GAO's recommendation was
addressed in the initial design of the
program. The Agency has detailed its
existing policy in an internal memorandum
which documents the steps that EPA will
take if it believes a participant is not
progressing in completing the program
requirements in a timely manner.
On average, it takes about a year from the
date a participant joins the program to
develop a high-quality inventory and
management plan and complete the base
year reporting requirements. However, EPA
recognizes that some participants may take
longer to complete these requirements due to
factors such as mergers and acquisitions,
complexity of calculating emissions from
some sources and sectors, data availability,
or other issues. Given the differences in the
size and complexity of participants'
corporate inventories, EPA believes that
written public policy establishing
consequences for not meeting program steps
on a specified schedule would be
detrimental to recruiting companies to
undertake the significant voluntary effort
needed to meet the program requirements.
When EPA believes a participant is not
making a good faith effort to complete
program requirements, the Agency will
telephone the participant to re-invigorate the
process; send an official letter urging the
participant to act more expeditiously; and, if
necessary, remove the participant from the
program for noncompliance. EPA will
continue to monitor participants' progress
through its program tracking system, which
includes a goal tracking spreadsheet and
inventory of calls conducted to discuss
progress.
Highlights of progress include:
Provided official letters to
two program participants
EPA believes were not
making good faith efforts to
complete program
requirements in a timely
manner.
Plans for further improvements
include:
. Continue to monitor
progress of the two partners
who received letters.
. Continue to monitor other
participants' progress
through the program
tracking system to identify
issues that may delay
completing program
requirements.
3. Efficiently Managing Water and
Wastewater Resources and
Infrastructure
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Scope of Challenge: The Agency faces
challenges in finding innovative ways to
reach and influence the management
behavior, skills, and abilities of
thousands of small utilities. EPA needs
to define its role as part of a long-term
national strategy on sustainable water
infrastructure that addresses financial
and management issues so that the
Nation's water quality is protected now
and in the future. (OIG)
EPA believes it has taken, and will continue
to take, effective steps to define its role in
closing the gap in funding for water
infrastructure and assisting states and
communities in overcoming infrastructure
issues. The Agency is incorporating the four
pillars of its Sustainable Water
Infrastructure Initiative—better
management, full cost pricing, water
efficiency, and the watershed approach—
into existing programs and redirecting funds
toward this initiative.
Highlights of progress include:
Launched WaterSense, a
market enhancement
program that is increasing
national awareness of
water-efficient choices and
the value of clean and safe
water.
Co-sponsored the Water
Quality Trading Conference
with USDA that brought
together utility companies
and the agricultural
community to build further
momentum for trading
programs that maximize
impact from infrastructure
investments.
. Continued to produce
assistance documents and
tools targeting the needs
and special circumstances
of small utilities (e.g.,
Simple Tools for Effective
Performance [STEP] and
Total Electronic Asset
Management Software
[TEAMS]).
Plans for further improvements
include:
Develop an internal strategy
that focuses on better
management of wastewater
for small communities and
disadvantaged and
underserved populations.
. Prepare a Drinking Water
Capacity Development
Strategic Plan to ensure that
the Agency's outreach
efforts to small utilities are
well coordinated and
effective.
4. Chemical Regulation
Scope of Challenge: In a June 2005
review, GAO found that EPA does not
routinely assess the risks of all existing
chemicals and faces challenges in
obtaining the information necessary to
do so. Although EPA initiated the High
Production Volume (HPV) Challenge
Program, it is not yet clear whether the
program will produce sufficient
information for EPA to determine
chemicals' risks to human health and the
environment. GAO recommends EPA
develop and implement a methodology
for using information collected through
the HPV Challenge Program to
prioritize chemicals for further review
and identify information needed to
assess their risks; promulgate a rule
requiring chemical companies to submit
to EPA copies of health and safety
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studies they submit to foreign
governments; develop a strategy for
validating risk assessment models; and
revise regulations to require companies
to reassert claims of confidentiality
within a certain time period. (GAO)
The High Production Volume Challenge
Program has already resulted in a substantial
amount of basic screening level data. The
approximately 2,800 HPV chemicals
included in both the U. S. Challenge
Program and the International Council of
Chemical Associations (ICCA) Program
represent over 93 percent of the production
volume of chemicals tracked on the Toxic
Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventory.
Through the U.S. HPV Challenge Program,
the public now has access to test plans and
robust summaries for more than 15,000
health and safety studies on over 1,400
chemicals. Many of the test plans and
robust summaries are included in the
recently launched searchable database
known as the High Production Volume
Information System (HPVIS). Additionally,
the Agency has a complementary
international effort underway with the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development to address HPV chemicals,
some of which are not included in the HPV
Challenge Program.
While the HPV data continues to be
submitted, the Agency is currently
implementing an approach for prioritizing
and screening HPV chemicals for further
review. The approach involves
implementing a tiering process to identify
chemicals for more in-depth review of data
submitted for quality and completeness,
development of screening-level hazard
characterizations for the chemicals, and
preparation of data needs documentation in
order to proceed with risk assessment and
potential risk management for chemicals of
concern.
EPA believes focusing first on HPV
chemicals is the best strategy for
understanding chemical risks to human
health and the environment. GAO's
recommendation to require chemical
companies to submit to EPA copies of
health and safety studies they submit to
foreign governments suggests a potentially
broad-ranging information collection rule.
While such a reporting rule may bring useful
information, other more targeted
approaches, such as the efforts directed
towards HPV chemicals, which are directed
at EPA's domestic priorities rather than
foreign government mandates, may be a
more prudent and efficient use of
government and affected party resources.
Further, it is expected that much information
submitted to foreign governments will made
available to the public and accessible to
EPA. EPA has been a leader in international
information sharing and is actively engaged
in a variety of activities (e.g., developing a
Global Data Portal, working with the
Canadian government to implement the
Canadian Environmental Protection Act, and
participating in development of guidance on
grouping chemicals for assessment within
the OECD chemicals program).
Highlights of progress include:
Launched the HPV
Information System
(HPVIS) to make
information submitted
under the HPV Challenge
Program accessible to the
public in a searchable
format.
Submitted 404 test plans
and robust summaries
covering 1404 total
chemicals.
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Plans for
include:
Established and
implemented the scheme for
establishing priority reviews
of chemical data submitted
under the auspices of the
HPV Challenge Program.
Promulgated the first HPV
Test Rule under Section 4
of TSCA for 17 chemicals.
Initiated analysis of
Confidential Business
Information (CBI) trends.
further improvements
Continue work on a second
HPV rule to backstop the
voluntary HPV program
and ensure that test data is
available on all HPV
chemicals.
Complete hazard screening
level characterizations and
identification of further data
needs for Tier 1 HPV
chemicals.
Develop a Global Data
Portal, which will allow
searching, viewing and
exchanging of test data
between the United States,
European Union, and other
governments (2008).
Conclude CBI analysis and
implement changes, if
appropriate.
5. Enforcement and Compliance
Activities
Scope of Challenge: With budget
constraints and limited resources and
the Nation's high expectation for
environmental protections, it is
important that EPA develop more
flexible and cost-effective management
approaches to its environmental
enforcement and compliance programs.
The Agency needs to intensify its efforts
to move from a performance
management system toward a system
focused on achieving measurable
improvements; ensure that funds are
used to achieve consistent and equitable
enforcement; and develop an effective
workforce strategy and assessment
system to ensure resources are
appropriately allocated. Additionally,
recurring findings show inconsistencies
in program delivery among EPA's
regional offices have often exceeded the
expected level. EPA also needs to make
a long-term commitment to filling
critical enforcement data gaps.
EPA believes that a high degree of
management attention and considerable
financial and staff resources are being
dedicated to the issues raised by GAO. The
Agency has increased its focus on
measurable environmental results by
expanding its use of outcome measures in
the last several years. Under EPA's current
Strategic Plan, the compliance objective and
sub-objectives set quantitative targets for
contributing to various environmental
protection outcomes.
The Agency employs a host of national
policies and guidance that ensure
consistency across regions. Statute-specific
policies include those addressing
compliance monitoring, enforcement
response to violations, penalties and
responsibility for cleanup of hazardous
waste sites - all of which were created to
provide consistency across headquarters and
regions. With respect to specific
enforcement cases, consistency is achieved
through routine collaboration between the
regions and headquarters on policy
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applicability and interpretation issues. This
collaboration is required on issues of
national significance. Although the regions
have the authority to conduct most cases
independent of headquarters, approval by
headquarters is required when the terms of
the settlement deviate from policy or when
the case includes issues that meet the criteria
for national significance.
In an effort to ensure that resources are
appropriately allocated, EPA has dedicated a
significant percentage of its activities and
resources to specific national priorities -
risks and noncompliance patterns that
deserve federal attention. These priorities
are selected through a collaborative process
that: (1) identifies risks and patterns that
may be potential national priorities; (2)
evaluates each on three criteria (benefit
gained from reducing or solving the
problem, scope of the noncompliance
pattern, and appropriateness of federal
intervention); and (3) develops national
strategies with goals and measures for each
of the priorities ultimately selected.
Highlights of progress include:
. Developed, in collaboration
with the Environmental
Council of the States, a
mechanism for enhancing state
program performance and
rewarding achievement of
environmental results.
. Continued to allocate funds to
help address resource gaps for
implementing the Compliance
Assurance Program's national
priorities.
. Worked with states to improve
the quality of data they provide
to us and the sharing of
compliance rate data with
external stakeholders
Plans for further improvements
include:
Develop more statistically-
valid outcome measures and
incorporate risk
characterization into our
outcome reporting.
. Continue reviewing all state
enforcement and compliance
programs to determine their
adequacy on twelve
performance elements.
6. Managing for Results
Scope of Challenge: EPA has made
considerable progress in linking
resource investments to results and
improving its PART scores. However,
the Agency needs to focus on the logic of
program design, measures of success,
measures of efficiency, and ensuring
programs and process are set up so that
EPA can evaluate the results and make
changes. EPA must also continue
improvements to track the cost of
achieving environmental results, and
EPA managers should consider cost
when making operational and strategic
decisions. (OIG)
While EPA acknowledges the importance of
the opportunities OIG identified for
improvement, the Agency believes that it is
making and will continue to make
significant progress in these areas. Over the
past years, EPA has worked with
stakeholders to strengthen results-based
management at EPA. In FY 2006, the
Agency completed its 2006-2011 Strategic
Plan, which reflects a sharpened focus on
achieving measurable results and will help
advance protection of human health and the
environment. The Agency continues to
improve the quality of its performance
measures and ability to track costs, and it is
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making cost and performance information
available to managers for operational and
strategic decision making.
OMB has acknowledged EPA's significant
accomplishments in these areas by awarding
the Agency progress scores of "green" for
Budget and Performance Integration under
the President's Management Agenda for all
but one consecutive quarter since June 2002.
EPA continues to receive "green" status
scores for Improved Financial Performance,
in recognition of the Agency's use of
financial and performance information in
day-to-day program management and
decision making.
Highlights of progress include:
Improved the outcome
orientation of the objectives,
sub-objectives, and strategic
targets presented in EPA's
2006-2011 Strategic Plan.
• Worked with the
Environmental Council of the
States to implement OMB's
directive that requires EPA to
develop standard templates for
states to use to submit state
grant agreements.
Improved the Agency's annual
planning and budgeting
process by analyzing
performance trends and cost
information to establish
priorities for EPA's 2008
budget. Conducted
performance and budget
hearings with program offices,
regions, states, and tribes to
review performance and
identify potential efficiencies.
. Enhanced the Annual
Commitment System (ACS) to
track three new classes of
measures (Senior Executive
Service
assessment,
template,
priorities).
organizational
state grant
and regional
The system also
flags measures which
contribute to OMB's Program
Assessment and Rating Tool
(PART) evaluations.
. Launched a new intranet
website
(http ://intranet. epa. gov/ocfo/ac
s) to provide information on
ACS developments and the
annual performance
commitment process.
. Developed a new detailed
performance report and
financial management reports
through the Office of the Chief
Financial Officer's Reporting
and Business Intelligence Tool
(ORBIT). Replicating key
financial reports will enable
EPA to realize significant cost
savings by retiring the
Management and Accounting
Reporting Systems (MARS).
Plans for further improvements
include:
Continue to enhance the
reporting capabilities of the
Agency's ACS.
Strengthen performance
measurement to better manage
programs for improved
accountability.
7. Human Capital Management
Scope of Challenge: EPA faces
challenges in maintaining a highly
skilled, diverse, results-oriented
workforce. The Agency must complete
four activities listed in its Strategic
Workforce Plan: identifying
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competencies, taking inventory of
current workforce, identifying gaps, and
developing strategies and solutions to
close gaps. While EPA continues to
make progress in developing
performance appraisals and workforce
planning, the Agency must now evaluate
the results of its human capital
initiatives and adjust its strategy to
ensure it meets its human capital goals.
GAO finds that despite EPA 's progress
in improving the management of its
human capital, effectively implementing
a human capital strategic plan remains a
major challenge. The Agency needs to
comprehensively assess its workforce—
number of employees needed, technical
skills required, best allocation among
goals and geographic locations—and
continue monitoring its progress to
ensure it has a well-trained and
motivated workforce with the right mix
of skills and experience. (OIG and GAO)
OIG and GAO continue to cite managing
human capital as a management challenge as
well as an Agency-level weakness. EPA is
working closely with OMB and the Office
of Personnel Management (OPM) to align
the Agency's Human Capital Strategy to
meet the objectives outlined in the PMA as
it relates to the Strategic Management of
Human Capital. Developing and
implementing a comprehensive strategic
workforce planning model and development
strategy will address concerns identified by
OIG and GAO. EPA currently
acknowledges human capital as an Agency-
level weakness (immaterial) under FMFIA
and has made great strides in meeting its
human capital challenges.
Highlights of progress include:
Aligned its FY 2007 Human
Capital Action Plan with the
Strategy for Human Capital
and Strategic Workforce Plan.
Addressed human capital in
the Agency's 2006-2011
Strategic Plan and identified
the priority mission critical
occupations and core
competencies needed to
support the Plan
Issued an Agency-wide
Strategic Workforce Plan.
. Continued to implement a
competency-based approach to
workforce planning.
Implemented a SES Mobility
Program to enhance skills and
ensure the continuity of
leadership.
Completed the first full rating
cycle under the new 5-tier
performance appraisal system.
Plans for further improvements
include:
. Implement competency
assessments for Agency-
specific priority mission
critical occupations.
. Refine targets for workforce
planning and procedures for
closing gaps.
. Improve the Agency's
employee performance
evaluation system.
Continue to implement the
Agency's rigorous
accountability and human
capital assessment program.
8. Improved
Management
of
Assistance Agreements/Grants
Management
Scope of Challenge: EPA has taken
actions to improve its grant management
and address the issues identified. The
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Agency needs to continue defining
environmental measures for its activities
so that measures can be incorporated
into grant documentation. Also, EPA
needs to continue to emphasize
supervisor and project officer
accountability for managing grants in
accordance with policies and
procedures. GAO reports that EPA has
faced persistent grants management
challenges for many years. While EPA
has issued a 5-year grants management
plan and made progress in addressing
the issue, weaknesses in implementation
and accountability continue to hamper
effective grants management. In
particular, problems remain in
documenting ongoing monitoring and in
closing out grants. (OIG and GA O)
EPA believes it has made significant
progress in addressing the issues raised by
OIG and GAO. The Agency has adjusted its
corrective action and internal controls as
necessary to further the principles of
accountability, transparency, and results. In
FY 2003, EPA issued its first long-term
Grants Management Plan, with associated
performance measures, to map the Agency's
approach for improving grants management.
The Agency is continuing to implement this
plan. EPA currently acknowledges
assistance agreements as an Agency-level
weakness (immaterial) under FMFIA.
Highlights of progress include:
. Subjected 92 percent of new
grants to the revised
competition policy, exceeding
the performance goal set in the
Grants Management Plan.
Developed and implemented
an on-line Basic Project
Officer training class that
contains advanced stand-alone
modules on managing
performance partnership grants
and environmental grants.
. Implemented the Agency's
"Green Plan" to integrate
grants with financial data and
eliminate duplicate data entry.
. Revised the Agency's new
Post Award Monitoring Order.
The new Order will require
that all baseline monitoring be
documented in the Grantee
Compliance Database.
. Deployed the Integrated Grants
Management System to
headquarters users (January
2007).
Met 90 percent of the 99
percent closeout goal in the
Grants Management Plan.
Plans for further improvements
include:
. Implement GAO's
recommendation to develop
new environmental results
performance measures under
the Grants Management Plan.
. Distribute guidance for
assessing project officer and
supervisor performance in
grants management.
9. Data
Gaps/Environmental
Information
Scope of Challenge: EPA reports
demonstrate the usefulness of
environmental indicators in tracking
environmental progress. However, while
some important data exist, EPA and its
partners are not yet engaged in efforts to
fill high priority data gaps and ensure
that data deemed important will be
collected in the future. To address data
gaps, EPA and its partners will need to
collaborate during budget preparation
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and strategic prioritization.
Additionally, GAO believes that EPA
data problems limit national indicators
of environmental conditions and trends
from being fully developed. EPA needs
clear lines of responsibility and
accountability among its various
organizational components and specific
requirements for developing and using
environmental indicators. (OIG and
GAO)
As part of its strategic planning, EPA
continues to implement and refine processes
to identify and prioritize data gaps,
including coordinating the draft Report of
the Environment (ROE) with the Agency's
strategic planning and budgeting process.
As part of developing EPA's 2006-2011
Strategic Plan, national program managers
(NPMs) considered the suite of ROE
questions and indicators as a means of
helping the Agency develop better
environmental performance goals and
measures and to identify and set priorities
for filling gaps in the information needed to
manage programs. NPMs were also
required to develop a preliminary strategy
for improving performance measures to
make them more environmental outcome
oriented. Each strategy identified priorities
for filling key data gaps to meet the most
critical needs and provided a brief
recommendation on how to address critical
gaps in program data.
Highlights of progress include:
Completed gaps analysis
and documentation.
. Developed a process for
identifying and ranking key
data gaps.
. Prepared an options paper
addressing ROE indicators
and data gaps for the
Plans for
include:
Indicators Steering
Committee (ICS).
Developed a pilot (endorsed
by ICS) that assesses how
the ROE and strategic
planning efforts can best
inform and support one
another.
further improvements
Analyze and discuss ROE
indicator gaps and
limitations
Further refine the process to
identify and prioritize data
gaps identified in the ROE
as part of the Agency's
strategic and budget
planning process.
Continue to use existing
interagency forums, such as
the Global Earth System of
Systems and the
Collaboration on Indicators
in the Nation's
Environment, to identify
how and where existing
efforts can be leveraged
among partners.
10. Information Technology Systems
Development and Implementation
Scope of Challenge: EPA has taken
steps to strengthen its Capital Planning
and Investment Control (CPIC) and
system development process by updating
its CPIC policy and publishing an
Interim Agency System Life Cycle
Management Policy. The Agency needs
to further enhance its IT investment
control structure and hold system
managers accountable. (OIG)
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In its September 2005 report, "EPA Needs
to Improve Oversight of Its Information
Technology Projects," OIG noted that EPA
has experienced system development and
implementation problems and did not
sufficiently oversee information technology
(IT) projects to ensure they met planned
budgets and schedules.
In January 2006, EPA responded to OIG's
audit findings and recommendations. While
EPA's Chief Information Officer (CIO) has
the lead for ensuring effective IT project
management, primary authority and
responsibility lies with the senior manager in
the office that owns the IT project, with
appropriate oversight by the CIO. EPA's
response to OIG, therefore, included an
action plan calling for formal delegation of
independent oversight responsibility and an
additional question in the CPIC process
focusing on System Life Cycle
documentation and approvals. The plan also
calls for increased emphasis on reviewing
solutions architecture documents and an
outreach and education program for senior
management and Senior Information
Officials. OIG has agreed to the action plan
and believes it will address the report
findings and recommendations. Based on
the action plan in place and progress made
to date, the audit was closed in January
2006.
Highlights of progress include:
. Issued a revised System
Life Cycle Management
Policy.
Developed Enterprise
Architecture Governance
Procedures that require
review, approval, and
certification that solutions
architectures are aligned
with both federal and EPA
enterprise architectures.
. Briefed Agency Senior
Information Officials.
Plans for further improvements
include:
Continue to conduct
outreach briefings with
senior management.
. Review information
submitted in response to the
CPIC question on System
Life Cycle documentation
and approval.
11. Data Standards and Data Quality
Scope of Challenge: EPA has a
substantive effort in place to develop
data standards and guide their
implementation. However, the Agency
needs to continue to focus on ensuring
that data are of sufficient quality for
decision-making (e.g., assess drinking
water laboratory integrity and
incorporate techniques to identify
improper practices and fraud into the
laboratory oversight process). EPA
should also take further steps to ensure
consistent approval of electronic
reporting systems under the Cross-
Media Electronic Reporting Rule
(CROMERR) and continue to address
the "Record Keeping" portion of the
rule. (OIG)
EPA currently acknowledges
implementation of data standards as an
Agency-level weakness (immaterial) under
FMFIA. In FY 2006, the Agency completed
five of the eight major milestones to address
this weakness. The remaining corrective
actions are on track for completion in FY
2010. Also, EPA has an effort in place to
ensure that Agency laboratories are
operating under approved Quality
Management Plans (including government-
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owned, contractor-operated labs). In FY
2004, EPA worked with the Forum on
Environmental Measurements to develop a
policy directive to document the
competency of Agency laboratories.
Agency laboratories must demonstrate on-
going performance through independent
external assessments and participation in
inter-laboratory comparison studies, which
will be reported and reviewed on an annual
basis via Quality Assurance Annual Reports
and Work Plans.
With regard to commercial laboratories, the
Agency will continue to manage its
Drinking Water Laboratory Certification
program (comprising training, guidance
materials, proficiency testing, laboratory
audits, and program reviews) by working
with states and EPA regional partners to
implement the program. The Agency will
look for opportunities to strengthen the
program based upon recommendations
identified by the OIG in FY 2006. OIG
recommendations include integrating fraud
awareness/detection into the program to a
greater degree to complement the traditional
focus on laboratory capability and improper
practices.
In response to electronic record keeping
issues, CROMERR sets standards for
electronic reporting systems used by EPA
and its authorized partners (state, tribal, and
local governments) to receive electronic
reports submitted by regulated entities in
lieu of paper. The rule requires that states,
tribes, and local governments seek EPA
approval for these systems as complying
with the CROMERR standards. The
Agency currently has an organizational
structure for the review and approval of
electronic reporting systems operated by
EPA and authorized state, tribal, and local
government programs. The CROMERR
approval process has been in place for about
3 months, and there is no evidence that
approvals might be inconsistent in the
future. EPA does not believe there is a
demonstrable need to regulate electronic
record keeping. Currently, records
addressed by CROMERR are maintained
electronically by the regulated companies.
While this practice has been widespread for
at least a decade, EPA has seen no evidence
that this practice has resulted in any harm to
environmental programs or their
enforceability. Also, a requirement of this
magnitude would impose unacceptable cost
on regulated companies and would likely be
more effective if proposed as a government-
wide initiative.
Highlights of progress include:
Develop draft standard
operating procedures for the
Technical Review
Committee.
Developed CROMERR
guidance, which includes a
system checklist and a set
of examples on approaches
to CROMERR-compliant e-
reporting
. Developed a tracking
system for CROMERR
approvals.
Plans for further improvements
include:
Provide a fact sheet for
existing EPA systems that
are working on CROMERR
compliance.
Develop a step by step
guide for program system
managers to determine if
they are compliant with the
electronic reporting rule.
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12. Voluntary Alternative, and
Innovative
Practices
and
Programs
Scope of Challenge: EPA supports and
advocates a range of voluntary
programs and innovative or alternative
practices. However, their growth has
not been matched by efforts or processes
to define the programs, determine which
programs work and how efficiently, or
determine the respective goals and
expectations of voluntary programs or
alternative approaches compared to
regulatory programs and approaches.
EPA must improve its ability to
articulate or measure the results of
voluntary programs or innovative and
alternative approaches. (OIG)
The terms "voluntary, alternative, and
innovative" encompass a tremendously
diverse array of activities. These programs
range from high-profile programs such as
Energy Star and Performance Track to the
more than 100 "voluntary" partnership
programs that exist Agency-wide. Many
different program offices and regions are
responsible for ensuring that these programs
are well-designed and well-managed.
EPA's Innovation Action Council (IAC),
composed of the Agency's senior managers,
directs and oversees the Agency's
innovation agenda. IAC has a number of
efforts underway to clarify the goals and
measures and evaluate the results of
innovative and "voluntary" partnership
programs and has established workgroups
on Performance Measurement, Voluntary
Partnership Programs, and Environmental
Stewardship.
A priority of the IAC over the past year has
been to identify organizational strategies to
help strengthen the performance-orientation
of EPA's innovative programs. This
includes articulating goals clearly,
measuring outputs and outcomes, and
evaluating of the relationship between the
two.
Highlights of progress include:
Conducted a needs
assessment to identify what
additional information,
tools, or services would be
helpful in improving the
design, measurement, and
evaluation of innovative
and other programs.
Developed guidance that
promotes a strategic
approach to program
evaluation and encourages
innovative programs to
participate in EPA's annual
Program Evaluation
Competition.
Developed a notification
system for new or
expanding partnership
programs to assure sound
design and to eliminate
program overlap or
conflicts.
Established a partnership
program coordination
function within the
Administrator's office to
encourage sound program
design and management,
with particular emphasis on
performance measurement.
Developed guidelines on
designing, marketing, and
measuring the performance
of partnership programs to
assure they are designed to
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Plans for
include:
demonstrate environmental
results.
Conducted a national
practitioners' workshop for
training on good program
design and performance
measurement.
Provided training on
performance measurement
to approximately 2300 EPA
employees.
further improvements
Continue implementing the
three areas of the needs
assessment
measurement,
evaluation).
Implement
information
(design,
and
a new
collection
request that will enable a
number of voluntary
programs to collect data
critical to evaluating their
impacts and effectiveness.
Publish an Agency-wide
partnership program
accomplishments report to
summarize and aggregate
the overall environmental
results achieved by these
programs.
Conduct strategic
assessment of all
partnership programs to
evaluate program
performance and identify
opportunities for greater
coordination or
consolidation.
Work with partnership
programs to implement
measurement guidelines.
Maintain an internal EPA
network of performance
management training and
technical assistance
providers in the Agency's
program and regional
offices who can assist
"voluntary, alternative, and
innovative" programs in
measurement and
evaluation.
13. Agency Efforts in Support of
Homeland Security
Scope of Challenge: Challenges remain
as EPA finalizes its Emergency
Response Business Plan for selecting
incidents of national significance
scenarios; dealing with conflicts in
preparing for incidents; specifying its
role in the National Approach to
Response work plans; and monitoring
progress. Because EPA made limited
progress in accomplishing the initiatives
in its 2004 Critical Infrastructure and
Key Resources Protection Plan (CIPP),
EPA 's ability to protect public health
and the environment from future
terrorist attacks or other nationally
significant incidents is not at the level
the Agency determined necessary.
(OIG)
EPA's Emergency Response Plan provides a
framework for the Agency to address
simultaneous incidents of national
significance while maintaining an effective
day-to-day emergency response and removal
operations. In preparing the plan,
headquarters and regions use five
simultaneous incidents in a "worst case"
planning scenario around which to develop
detailed assessments, gap analyses, and
program activities. The Plan incorporates
chemical, biological and radiological
scenarios. It also briefly describes the
necessary changes in the management of
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personnel, financial, and other resources
required to address incidents of national
significance readiness. These changes are
identified as EPA's National Approach to
Response (NAR) priorities and work is
underway.
EPA submitted its Critical Infrastructure and
Key Resources Protection Plan Project
(CIPP) Matrix to OMB for review and
approval. While OMB continues its review,
EPA has begun implementing CIPP
initiatives. To date, six of the ten initiatives
have been completed, and two of the
remaining initiatives will be completed by
July 2008. One initiative, upgrade of the
Environmental Radiation Ambient
Monitoring System Process, calls for the
staggered acquisition of 180 monitors. The
current schedule for this ambitious upgrade
is completion by 2012. The final initiative
to be completed is acquisition of a Trace
Atmospheric Gas Analyzer bus. EPA
currently acknowledges homeland security
as an Agency-level weakness (immaterial)
under FMFIA.
Highlights of progress include:
. Developed and
implemented an information
technology strategy to move
seamlessly from field tools
to enterprise architecture.
The strategy will link
prevention and
preparedness data to
response.
. Developed a draft Incident
Management Handbook that
provides guidance on
organizational structure and
outlines the
communications flow
during an incident of
national significance.
Formed an Administrative
and Finance Workgroup to
address procurement,
property tracking, and pay
issues.
Deployed the National
Decontamination Team
during the Hurricane
Katrina response.
Established a steering
committee to provide
oversight and leadership to
the numerous workgroups
that support the Agency's
National Approach to
Response.
Developed a training course
for senior managers on
emergency response and the
use of the Incident
Command System (ICS) to
assure that roles and
responsibilities are well
understood.
Plans for
include:
further improvements
Finalize the Agency's
National Approach to
Response (NAR)
Communication Plan,
which will address roles and
responsibilities for incidents
of national significance and
a "How to Manual" with
pre-approved messaging
templates.
Complete the Emergency
Response Equipment Data
Tracking System
Continue to coordinate the
implementation of the 2004
CIPP (OSWER).
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14. Restoration Strategies for the
Great Lake Basin
Scope of Challenge: EPA has made
progress in guiding the development of
an overall strategy for restoration of the
environmental conditions in the Great
Lakes Basin. However, it is unclear
whether the strategy will be the guiding
document for Great Lakes restoration.
The Agency needs a clearly defined
organizational structure with
measurable basin-wide goals and a
monitoring system as called for in the
Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
and the Clean Water Act. The Agency
also needs to follow through to ensure
that progress is made on achieving the
goals of the strategy. (GAO)
In May 2004, President Bush signed
Executive Order 13340, creating a cabinet-
level interagency task force to bring an
unprecedented level of collaboration and
coordination to restore and protect the Great
Lakes. EPA's Great Lakes National
Program Office (GLNPO) was cited in the
Order and given the responsibility for
providing assistance in carrying out the
goals of the Order. In addition, the Order
directed that a "Regional Collaboration of
National Significance" be convened to bring
the many governmental and non-
governmental partners together to protect
and restore the Great Lakes. In December
2005, the Great Lakes Regional
Collaboration developed a strategy to guide
federal, state, tribal and other partners'
action to restore the Great Lakes. Federal
commitments from the strategy have been
identified in the Federal Near-Term Action
Plan and are being implemented. GLNPO is
tracking progress towards commitments in
the Federal Near-Term Action Plan.
Highlights of progress include:
Supported the Great Lakes
Interagency Task Force in
meeting its requirement to
submit a report that
summarizes task force
activities and
recommendations that
advance the policy of
Executive Order 13340.
Developed an
Implementation Framework
document which outlines
how implementation and
reporting of the Great Lakes
Regional Collaboration
Strategy will be
accomplished.
Plans for
include:
further improvements
. Continue to work with
partners to develop basin-
wide goals and indicators
for the Great Lakes.
Continue to work with Environment Canada
to develop indicators for measuring the
health of the Great Lakes.
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EPA USER FEE PROGRAM
In FY 2008, EPA will have several user fee
programs in operation. These user fee
programs and proposals are as follows:
Current Fees: Pesticides
The FY 2008 President's Budget reflects the
continued collection of Maintenance fees for
review of existing pesticide registrations,
and Enhanced Registration Service Fees for
the accelerated review of new pesticide
registration applications.
Pesticides
Extension
Maintenance Fee
The Maintenance fee provides
funding for the Reregi strati on
program and a certain percentage
supports the processing of
applications involving "me-too" or
inert ingredients. The Agency is
scheduled to complete issuance of
Reregi strati on Eligibility Decisions
for the Reregi strati on program in
2008. In FY 2008, the Agency
expects to collect $15 million in
Maintenance fees.
• Enhanced Registration Services
Entities seeking to register pesticides
for use in the United States pay a fee
at the time the registration action
request is submitted to EPA
specifically for accelerated pesticide
registration decision service. This
process has introduced new
pesticides to the market more
quickly. In FY 2008, the Agency
expects to collect $10 million in
Enhanced Registration Service fees
under current law.
Current Fees: Other
• Pre-Manufacturing
Fee
Notification
Since 1989, the Pre-Manufacturing
Notifications (PMN) fee has been
collected for the review and
processing of new chemical pre-
manufacturing notifications
submitted to EPA by the chemical
industry. These fees are paid at the
time of submission of the PMN for
review by EPA's Toxic Substances
program. PMN fees are authorized
by the Toxic Substances Control Act
and contain a cap on the amount the
Agency may charge for a PMN
review. EPA is authorized to collect
up to $1.8 million in PMN fees in
FY 2008 under current law.
Lead Accreditation
Certification Fee
and
The Toxic Substances Control Act,
Title IV, Section 402(a)(3), mandates
the development of a schedule of
fees for persons operating lead
training programs accredited under
the 402/404 rule and for lead-based
paint contractors certified under this
rule. The training programs ensure
that lead paint abatement is done
safely. Fees collected for this
activity are deposited in the U.S.
Treasury. EPA estimates that $1
million will be deposited in FY
2008.
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• Motor Vehicle and Engine
Compliance Program Fee
This fee is authorized by the Clean
Air Act of 1990 and is managed by
the Air and Radiation program. Fee
collections began in August 1992.
This fee is imposed on
manufacturers of light-duty vehicles,
light and heavy trucks and
motorcycles. The fees cover EPA's
cost of certifying new engines and
vehicles and monitoring compliance
of in-use engines and vehicles. In
2004, EPA promulgated a rule that
updated existing fees and established
fees for newly-regulated vehicles and
engines. The fees established for
new compliance programs are also
imposed on heavy-duty, in-use, and
nonroad industries, including large
diesel and gas equipment
(earthmovers, tractors, forklifts,
compressors, etc), handheld and non-
handheld utility engines (chainsaws,
weed-whackers, leaf-blowers,
lawnmowers, tillers, etc.), marine
(boat motors, tugs, watercraft, jet-
skis), locomotive, aircraft and
recreational vehicles (off-road
motorcycles, snowmobiles). In FY
2008, EPA expects to collect $19
million from this fee.
Fee Proposals: Pesticides
• Registration Review Fees
As the Reregi strati on program
approaches completion, EPA has
initiated a Registration Review
program. EPA will review existing
pesticide registrations on a 15-year
cycle to ensure that registered
pesticides in the marketplace
continue to be safe for use in
accordance with the latest scientific
information. Legislative language
will be submitted proposing to
collect $32 million in FY 2008 to
partially offset the costs of operating
this program and evaluating potential
effects of pesticides on endangered
species.
• Pesticides Tolerance Fee
A tolerance is the maximum legal
limit of a pesticide residue in and on
food commodities and animal feed.
In 1954, the Federal Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) authorized
the collection of fees for the
establishment of tolerances on raw
agricultural commodities and in food
commodities. The collection of this
fee has been blocked by the
Pesticides Registration Improvement
Act (PRIA) through 2008.
Legislative language will be
submitted to allow for the collection
of Pesticide Tolerance fees in FY
2008 and the Administration will
submit legislative language
proposing to collect $13 million in
Pesticide Tolerance fees in FY 2008.
• Enhanced Registration Services
Legislative language will be
submitted proposing to publish a
new fee schedule to collect an
additional $12 million in FY 2008 to
better align fee collections with
program costs. Currently those who
directly benefit from EPA's
registration services cover only a
fraction of the costs to operate the
program, leaving the general
taxpayer to shoulder the remaining
burden.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
Pesticides
Extension
Maintenance Fee
Under current law, the Agency
expects to collect $15 million in
Maintenance fees in FY 2008.
Legislative language will be
submitted to allow the collection of
an additional $9 million in order to
more closely align fee collections
with program costs. The President's
Budget proposes to relieve the
burden on the general taxpayer and
finance the costs of operating the
Reregi strati on program from those
who directly benefit from EPA's
reregi strati on activities.
Fee Proposals: Other
• Pre-Manufacturing
Fee
Notification
Under the current fee structure, the
Agency would collect $1.8 million in
FY 2008. Legislative language will
be submitted to remove the statutory
cap in the Toxic Substances Control
Act on Pre-Manufacturing
Notification Fees. In FY 2008, EPA
expects to collect an additional $4
million by removing the statutory
cap.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
WORKING CAPITAL FUND
In FY 2008, the Agency begins its twelfth
year of operation of the Working Capital
Fund (WCF). It is a revolving fund
authorized by law to finance a cycle of
operations, where the costs of goods and
services provided are charged to users on a
fee-for-service basis. The funds received
are available without fiscal year limitation,
to continue operations and to replace capital
equipment. EPA's WCF was implemented
under the authority of Section 403 of the
Government Management Reform Act of
1994 and EPA's FY 1997 Appropriations
Act. Permanent WCF authority was
contained in the Agency's FY 1998
Appropriations Act.
The Chief Financial Officer initiated the
WCF in FY 1997 as part of an effort to: (1)
be accountable to Agency offices, the Office
of Management and Budget, and the
Congress; (2) increase the efficiency of the
administrative services provided to program
offices; and (3) increase customer service
and responsiveness. The Agency has a
WCF Board which provides policy and
planning oversight and advises the CFO
regarding the WCF financial position. The
Board, chaired by the Associate Chief
Financial Officer, is composed of eighteen
permanent members from the program and
regional offices.
Three Agency Activities provided in FY
2007 will continue into FY 2008. These are
the Agency's information technology and
telecommunications operations, managed by
the Office of Environmental Information,
Agency postage costs, managed by the
Office of Administration, and the Agency's
core accounting system, managed by the
Office of the Chief Financial Officer.
The Agency's FY 2008 budget request
includes resources for these three Activities
in each National Program Manager's
submission, totaling approximately $170.0
million. These estimated resources may be
increased to incorporate program office's
additional service needs during the operating
year. To the extent that these increases are
subject to Congressional reprogramming
notifications, the Agency will comply with
all applicable requirements. In FY 2008, the
Agency will continue to market its
information technology services to other
Federal agencies in an effort to deliver high
quality services external to EPA, which will
result in lower costs to EPA customers.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency FY 2008 Annual Plan
ACRONYMS FOR STATUTORY AUTHORITIES
AEA: Atomic Energy Act, as amended, and Reorganization Plan #3
ADA: Americans with Disabilities Act
ADEA: Age Discrimination in Employment Act
AHERA: Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act
AHPA: Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act
ASHAA: Asbestos in Schools Hazard Abatement Act
APA: Administrative Procedures Act
ASTCA: Antarctic Science, Tourism, and Conservation Act
BEACH Act of 2000: Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act
BRERA: Brownfields Revitalization and Environmental Restoration Act
CAA: Clean Air Act
CAAA: Clean Air Act Amendments
CCA: Clinger Cohen Act
CCAA: Canadian Clean Air Act
CEPA: Canadian Environmental Protection Act
CERCLA: Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (1980)
CFOA: Chief Financial Officers Act
CFR: Code of Federal Regulations
CICA: Competition in Contracting Act
CRA: Civil Rights Act
CSA: Computer Security Act
CWPPR: Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act of 1990
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency FY 2008 Annual Plan
CWA: Clean Water Act
CZARA: Coastal Zone Management Act Reauthorization Amendments
CZMA: Coastal Zone Management Act
DPA: Deepwater Ports Act
DREAA: Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
ECRA: Economic Cleanup Responsibility Act
EFOIA: Electronic Freedom of Information Act
EPAA: Environmental Programs Assistance Act
EPAAR: EPA Acquisition Regulations
EPCA: Energy Policy and Conservation Act
EPACT: Energy Policy Act
EPCRA: Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act
ERD&DAA: Environmental Research, Development and Demonstration Authorization Act
ESA: Endangered Species Act
ESECA: Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act
FACA: Federal Advisory Committee Act
FAIR: Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act
FCMA: Fishery Conservation and Management Act
FEPCA: Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act; enacted as amendments to FIFRA.
FFDCA: Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
FGCAA: Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act
FIFRA: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
Appendix-57
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency FY 2008 Annual Plan
FLPMA: Federal Land Policy and Management Act
FMFIA: Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act
FOIA: Freedom of Information Act
FPAS: Federal Property and Administration Services Ac
FPA: Federal Pesticide Act
FPPA: Federal Pollution Prevention Act
FPR: Federal Procurement Regulation
FQPA: Food Quality Protection Act
FRA: Federal Register Act
FSA: Food Security Act
FUA: Fuel Use Act
FWCA: Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
FWPCA: Federal Water Pollution and Control Act (aka CWA)
GISRA: Government Information Security Reform Act
GMRA: Government Management Reform Act
GPRA: Government Performance and Results Act
HMTA: Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
HSWA: Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments
IGA: Inspector General Act
IP A: Intergovernmental Personnel Act
IPIA: Improper Payments Information Act
ISTEA: Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency FY 2008 Annual Plan
LPA-US/MX-BR: 1983 La Paz Agreement on US/Mexico Border Region
MPPRCA: Marine Plastic Pollution, Research and Control Act of 1987
MPRSA: Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act
NAAEC: North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
NAAQS: National Ambient Air Quality Standard
NAWCA: North American Wetlands Conservation Act,
NEPA: National Environmental Policy Act
NHPA: National Historic Preservation Act
NIPDWR: National Interim Primary Drinking Water Regulations
NISA: National Invasive Species Act of 1996
ODA: Ocean Dumping Act
OPA: The Oil Pollution Act
OWBPA: Older Workers Benefit Protection Act
PBA: Public Building Act
PFCRA: Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act
PHSA: Public Health Service Act
PLIRRA: Pollution Liability Insurance and Risk Retention Act
PR: Privacy Act
PRA: Paperwork Reduction Act
QCA: Quiet Communities Act
RCRA: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RLBPHRA: Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act
RFA: Regulatory Flexibility Act
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency FY 2008 Annual Plan
RICO: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
SARA: Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986
SBREFA: Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996
SBLRBRERA: Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization and
Environmental Restoration Act
SDWA: Safe Drinking Water Act
SICEA: Steel Industry Compliance Extension Act
SMCRA: Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
SPA: Shore Protection Act of 1988
SWDA: Solid Waste Disposal Act
TCA: Tribal Cooperative Agreement
TSCA: Toxic Substances Control Act
UMRA: Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
UMTRLWA: Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Land Withdrawal Act
USC: United States Code
USTCA: Underground Storage Tank Compliance Act
WQA: Water Quality Act of 1987
WRDA: Water Resources Development Act
WSRA: Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
WWWQA: Wet Weather Water Quality Act of 2000
Appendix-60
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
FY 2008 STAG CATEGORICAL PROGRAM GRANTS
Statutory Authority and Eligible Uses
(Dollars in Thousands)
Grant Title
State and Local
Air Quality
Management
State and Local
Air Quality
Management
Statutory
Authorities
Clean Air Act,
§103
Clean Air Act,
§103
Eligible
Recipients*
Air pollution
control agencies
as defined in
section 302(b) of
theCAA
Multi-
jurisdictional
organizations
(non-profit
organizations
whose boards of
directors or
membership is
made up of CAA
section 302(b)
agency officers
and Tribal
representatives
and whose
mission is to
support the
continuing
environmental
programs of the
states)
Eligible Uses
S/L monitoring
and data
collection
activities in
support of the
establishment of
aPM2.5
monitoring
network and
associated
program costs
Coordinating or
facilitating a
multi-
jurisdictional
approach to
addressing
regional haze
FY2006
Enacted
Dollars(X1000)
$42,500.0
$5,000.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 1,
Obj. 1
Goal 1,
Obj. 1
FY2007
Request
Dollars(X1000)
$0.0
$2,500.0
Appendix-61
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
Grant Title
State and Local
Air Quality
Management
Statutory
Authorities
Clean Air Act,
Sections 103,
105, 106
Eligible
Recipients*
Air pollution
control agencies
as defined in
section 302(b) of
the CAA; Multi-
jurisdictional
organizations
(non-profit
organizations
whose boards of
directors or
membership is
made up of CAA
section 302(b)
agency officers
and whose
mission is to
support the
continuing
environmental
programs of the
states); Interstate
air quality
control region
designated
pursuant to
section 107 of
the CAA or of
implementing
section 176A, or
section 184
NOTE: only the
Ozone Transport
Commission is
eligible as of
2/1/99
Eligible Uses
Carrying out the
traditional
prevention and
control programs
required by the
CAA and
associated
program support
costs;
Coordinating or
facilitating a
multi-
jurisdictional
approach to
carrying out the
traditional
prevention and
control programs
required by the
CAA;
Supporting
training for CAA
section 302(b)
air pollution
control agency
staff; and
Coordinating or
facilitating a
multi-
jurisdictional
approach to
control interstate
air pollution
FY2006
Enacted
Dollars(X1000)
$172,761.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 1,
f~\Ki 1
UuJ. 1
FY2007
Request
Dollars(X1000)
$182,679.5
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
Grant Title
Tribal Air
Quality
Management
Radon
Water Pollution
Control (Section
106)
Nonpoint Source
(NPS - Section
319)
Statutory
Authorities
Clean Air Act,
Sections 103 and
105; Tribal
Cooperative
Agreements
(TCA) in annual
Appropriations
Acts
Toxic
Substances
Control Act,
Sections 10 and
306; TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts
FWPCA, as
amended, §106;
TCA in annual
Appropriations
Acts
FWPCA, as
amended,
§319(h);TCA
in annual
Appropriations
Acts
Eligible
Recipients*
Tribes;
Intertribal
Consortia;
State/ Tribal
college or
university
State Agencies,
Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
States, Tribes
and Intertribal
Consortia, and
Interstate
Agencies
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Conducting air
quality
assessment
activities to
determine a
Tribe's need to
develop a CAA
program;
Carrying out the
traditional
prevention and
control programs
required by the
CAA and
associated
program costs;
Supporting
training for CAA
for federally
recognized
Tribes
Assist in the
development and
implementation
of programs for
the assessment
and mitigation of
radon
Develop and
carry out surface
and ground
water pollution
control
programs,
including
NPDES permits,
TMDL's,WQ
standards,
monitoring, and
NPS control
activities.
Implement EPA-
approved state
and tribal
nonpoint source
management
programs and
fund priority
projects as
selected by the
State.
FY2006
Enacted
Dollars(X1000)
$10,887.0
$7,439.0
$216,172.0
$204,278.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 1,
Obj. 1
Goal 1,
/~\Vvi 1
UuJ. z
Goal 2,
f~\Ki O
UuJ. z
Goal 2,
/~\Vvi 1
UuJ. z
FY2007
Request
Dollars(X1000)
$10,939.5
$8,073.5
$221,661.0
$194,040.0
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
Grant Title
Wetlands
Program
Development
Targeted
Watershed
Grants
Public Water
System
Supervision
(PWSS)
Homeland
Security Grants
Underground
Injection Control
[UIC]
Statutory
Authorities
FWPCA, as
amended,
§104(b)(3);
TCA in annual
Appropriations
Acts
Department of
Interior,
Environment
and Related
Agencies
Appropriation
Act, 2006 Public
Law 109-54
Safe Drinking
Water Act,
§1443(a);TCA
in annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Safe Drinking
Water Act,
1442; TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Safe Drinking
Water Act, §
1443(b); TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Eligible
Recipients*
States, Local
Governments,
Tribes,
Interstate
Organizations,
Intertribal
Consortia, and
Non-Profit
Organizations
States, Local
Governments,
Tribes, Interstate
Organizations,
Intertribal
Consortia, and
Non-Profit
Organizations
States, Tribes,
and Intertribal
Consortia
States, Tribes,
and Intertribal
Consortia
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
To develop new
wetland
programs or
enhance existing
programs for the
protection,
management and
restoration of
wetland
resources.
Assistance for
watersheds to
expand and
improve existing
watershed
protection
efforts.
Assistance to
implement and
enforce National
Primary
Drinking Water
Regulations to
ensure the safety
of the Nation's
drinking water
resources and to
protect public
health.
To assist States
and Tribes in
coordinating
their water
security
activities with
other homeland
security efforts.
Implement and
enforce
regulations that
protect
underground
sources of
drinking water
by controlling
Class I-V
underground
injection wells.
FY2006
Enacted
Dollars(X1000)
$15,765.0
$16,608.0
$98,279.0
$4,926.0
$10,838.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 4,
Obj. 3
Goal 4,
(~\\-* ' "$
Obj. 3
Goal 2,
f~\Ki 1
UuJ. 1
Goal 2,
Obj. 1
Goal 2,
Obi 1
J
FY2007
Request
Dollars(X1000)
$16,830.0
$6,930.0
$99,099.0
$4,950.0
$10,890.0
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
Grant Title
Beaches
Protection
Hazardous
Waste Financial
Assistance
Brownfields
Statutory
Authorities
Beaches
Environmental
Assessment and
Coastal Health
Act of 2000;
TCA in annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Resource
Conservation
Recovery Act,
§3011;
FY1999
Appropriations
Act (PL 105-
276); TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Comprehensive
Environmental
Response,
Compensation
and Liability Act
of 1980, as
amended,
Section 128
Eligible
Recipients*
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia, Local
Governments
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Develop and
implement
programs for
monitoring and
notification of
conditions for
coastal
recreation waters
adjacent to
beaches or
similar points of
access that are
used by the
public.
Development &
Implementation
of Hazardous
Waste Programs
Build and
support
Brownfields
programs which
will assess
contaminated
properties,
oversee private
party cleanups,
provide cleanup
support through
low interest
loans, and
provide certainty
for liability
related issues.
FY2006
Enacted
Dollars(X1000)
$9,853.0
$101,944.0
$49,264.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 2,
Obj. 1
Goal 3,
Obj. 1
Obj. 2
Goal 4,
Obj. 2
FY2007
Request
Dollars(X1000)
$9,900.0
$103,345.5
$49,494.9
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
Grant Title
Underground
Storage Tanks
[UST]
Statutory
Authorities
Solid Waste
Disposal Act of
1976, Section
2007(f)(2), as
amended, 42
U.S.C.
6916(f)(2)and
implemented by
regulations at 40
CFR35.330;
Resource
Conservation
and Recovery
Act; Section 204
of the
Demonstration
Cities and
Metropolitan
Development
Act, as amended
at 42 U.S.C.
3334;
Departments of
Veterans Affairs,
Housing and
Urban
Development,
and Independent
Agencies
Appropriations
Act of 1999,
Public Law 1 05-
276, (112Stat.
246 1,2499; 42
U.S.C. 6908a);
Underground
Storage Tank
Compliance Act
of 2005; Section
2007 (f)
Eligible
Recipients*
States, federally-
recognized
Tribes and
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Develop and/or
implement state
or Indian UST
program;
provide funding
for SEE
enrollees to
work on the
state's
underground
storage tanks
and to support
direct UST
implementation
programs.
FY2006
Enacted
Dollars(X1000)
$11,774.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal3
Obj. 1
FY2007
Request
Dollars(X1000)
$37,566.7
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
Grant Title
Pesticides
Program
Implementation
Lead
Statutory
Authorities
The Federal
Insecticide,
Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act
§ 20 & 23; the
FY1999
Appropriations
Act (PL 105-
276); FY 2000
Appropriations
Act(P.L. 106-
74); TCA in
cirirriicii
Appropriations
Acts.
Toxic
Substances
Control Act,
§ 404 (g);
TSCA 10;
FY2000
Appropriations
Act(P.L. 106-
74); TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Eligible
Recipients*
States, Tribes
and Intertribal
Consortia
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Assist States and
Tribes to
develop and
implement
pesticide
programs,
including
programs that
protect workers,
ground-water,
and endangered
species from
pesticide risks ,
and other
pesticide
management
programs
designated by
the
Administrator;
develop and
implement
programs for
certification and
training of
pesticide
applicators;
develop
Integrated
Pesticides
Management
(IPM) programs;
support
pesticides
education,
outreach, and
sampling efforts
for Tribes.
To support and
assist States and
Tribes to
develop and
carry out
authorized state
lead abatement
certification,
training and
accreditation
programs; and to
assist tribes in
development of
lead programs.
FY2006
Enacted
Dollars(X1000)
$12,907.0
$13,499.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 4,
Obj. 1
Goal 4,
/~yui i
UuJ. 1
FY2007
Request
Dollars(X1000)
$12,968.9
$13,563.1
Appendix-67
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
Grant Title
Toxic
Substances
Compliance
Pesticide
Enforcement
Statutory
Authorities
Toxic
Substances
Control Act,
§28(a) and 404
(g); TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
FIFRA
§ 23(a)(l); FY
2000
Appropriations
Act(P.L. 106-
74); TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Eligible
Recipients*
States,
Territories,
Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
States,
Territories,
Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Assist in
developing and
implementing
toxic substances
enforcement
programs for
PCBs, asbestos,
and lead-based
paint
Assist in
implementing
cooperative
pesticide
enforcement
programs
FY2006
Enacted
Dollars(X1000)
$5,074.0
$18,622.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 5,
Obj. 1
Goal 5,
/~\Vvi 1
UuJ. 1
FY2007
Request
Dollars(X1000)
$5,098.5
$18,711.0
Appendix-68
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
Grant Title
National
Environmental
Information
Exchange
Network
(NEIEN, aka
"the Exchange
Network")
Pollution
Prevention
Statutory
Authorities
As appropriate,
Clean Air Act,
Sec. 103; Clean
Water Act, Sec.
104; Solid Waste
Disposal Act,
Sec. 8001;
FIFRA, Sec 20;
TSCA, Sec. 10
and 28; Marine
Protection,
Research and
Sanctuaries Act,
Sec. 203; Safe
Drinking Water
Act, Sec. 1442;
Indian
Environmental
General
Assistance
Program Act of
1992, as
amended; FY
2000
Appropriations
Act(P.L. 106-
74); Pollution
Prevention Act,
Sec. 6605; FY
2002
Appropriations
Act and FY
2003
Appropriations
Acts.
Pollution
Prevention Act
of 1990, §6605;
TSCA 10;
FY2000
Appropriations
Act(P.L. 106-
74); TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Eligible
Recipients*
States, tribes,
interstate
agencies, tribal
consortium, and
other agencies
with related
environmental
information
activities.
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Assists states
and others to
better integrate
environmental
information
systems, better
enable data-
sharing across
programs, and
improve access
to information.
To assist state
and tribal
programs to
promote the use
of source
reduction
techniques by
businesses and
to promote other
Pollution
Prevention
activities at the
state and tribal
levels.
FY2006
Enacted
Dollars(X1000)
$19,706.0
$4,926.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 4
Obj.2
Goal 4,
Obj. 1
FY2007
Request
Dollars(X1000)
$14,850.0
$5,940.0
Appendix-69
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
Grant Title
Sector Program
(previously
Enforcement &
Compliance
Assurance)
Tribal General
Assistance
Program
Statutory
Authorities
As appropriate,
Clean Air Act,
Sec. 103; Clean
Water Act, Sec.
104; Solid Waste
Disposal Act,
Sec. 8001;
FIFRA, Sec 20;
TSCA, Sec. 10
and 28; Marine
Protection,
Research and
Sanctuaries Act,
Sec. 203; Safe
Drinking Water
Act, Sec. 1442;
Indian
Environmental
General
Assistance
Program Act of
1992, as
amended; FY
2000
Appropriations
Act(P.L. 106-
74); TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Indian
Environmental
General
Assistance
Program Act of
1992, as
amended; TCA
in annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Eligible
Recipients*
State,
Territories,
Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia,
Multi-
jurisdictional
Organizations
Tribal
Governments
and Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Assist in
developing
innovative
sector-based,
multi-media, or
single-media
approaches to
enforcement and
compliance
assurance
Plan and develop
Tribal
environmental
protection
programs.
FY2006
Enacted
Dollars(X1000)
$2,217.0
$56,654.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 5,
Obj. 1
Goal 5,
Obj. 3
FY2007
Request
Dollars(X1000)
$2,227.5
$56,925.0
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FY 2008 Annual Plan
PROGRAM PROJECTS BY APPROPRIATION
(Dollars
Science & Technology
Air Toxics and Quality
Clean Air Allowance Trading Programs
Federal Support for Air Quality Management
Federal Support for Air Toxics Program
Federal Vehicle and Fuels Standards and Certification
Energy Policy Act & Related Authorities
Implementation
Federal Vehicle and Fuels Standards and
Certification (other activities)
Subtotal, Federal Vehicle and Fuels Standards and
Certification
Radiation: Protection
Radiation: Response Preparedness
Subtotal, Air Toxics and Quality
Climate Protection Program
Climate Protection Program
Enforcement
Forensics Support
Homeland Security
Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Water sentinel and related training
Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure
Protection (other activities)
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure
Protection
Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Decontamination
Laboratory Security: Preparedness, Response, and
Recovery
Safe Building
Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, and
in Thousands)
FY 2005 ,•----••
Obligations
$8,476.1
$10,747.8
$3,040.8
$0.0
$60,614.9
$60,614.9
$2,552.0
$2,460.0
$87,891.6
$20,448.0
$13,377.9
$0.0
$17,952.2
$17,952.2
$0.0
$0.0
$0.0
$33,417.3
•••••••- FY 2006
Enacted
$8,527.0
$10,012.0
$2,225.0
$0.0
$58,613.0
$58,613.0
$2,086.0
$3,468.0
$84,931.0
$18,648.0
$13,129.0
$8,131.0
$4,262.0
$12,393.0
$16,868.0
$591.0
$3,722.0
$14,571.0
•-•••-•- --FY 2007. •••••••
PiSesBud
$9,259.4
$10,272.9
$2,264.7
$11,400.0
$56,924.5
$68,324.5
$2,054.3
$3,585.9
$95,761.7
$12,549.6
$13,185.2
$41,735.2
$3,515.8
$45,251.0
$24,666.7
$600.0
$4,000.0
$15,231.4
PresBfd,
vs. Enacted
$732.4
$260.9
$39.7
$11,400.0
($1,688.5)
$9,711.5
($31.7)
$117.9
$10,830.7
($6,098.4)
$56.2
$33,604.2
($746.2)
$32,858.0
$7,798.7
$9.0
$278.0
$660.4
Recovery (other activities)
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, $33,417.3 $35,752.0 $44,498.1 $8,746.1
and Recovery
Homeland Security: Protection of EPA Personnel and $2,517.6 $2,050.0 $2,079.0 $29.0
Infrastructure
Subtotal, Homeland Security $53,887.1 $50,195.0 $91,828.1 $41,633.1
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FY 2008 Annual Plan
Indoor Air
Indoor Air: Radon Program
Reduce Risks from Indoor Air
Subtotal, Indoor Air
IT / Data Management / Security
IT / Data Management
Operations and Administration
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
Pesticides Licensing
Pesticides: Registration of New Pesticides
Pesticides: Review / Reregistration of Existing Pesticides
Subtotal, Pesticides Licensing
Research / Congressional Priorities
Research: Clean Air
Research: Air Toxics
Research: Global Change
Research: NAAQS
Subtotal, Research: Clean Air
Research: Clean Water
Research: Drinking Water
Research: Water Quality
Subtotal, Research: Clean Water
Research: Human Health and Ecosystems
Human Health Risk Assessment
Research: Computational Toxicology
Research: Endocrine Disrupter
Research: Fellowships
Research: Human Health and Ecosystems
Subtotal, Research: Human Health and Ecosystems
* iUlro ...
Obligatiojis
$696.7
$909.5
$1,606.2
$4,141.3
$8,892.1
$2,473.1
$2,471.1
$4,944.2
$74,485.5
$14,472.5
$19,395.9
$63,156.4
$97,024.8
$46,824.0
$46,243.2
$93,067.2
$33,247.5
$12,002.9
$12,559.5
$14,476.8
$169,805.8
$242,092.5
•*,-. *?"""_ . ....
Enacted ;••;
$429.0
$810.0
$1,239.0
$4,173.0
$8,511.0
$2,463.0
$2,480.0
$4,943.0
$32,919.0
$16,226.0
$18,619.0
$66,777.0
$101,622.0
$45,170.0
$51,269.0
$96,439.0
$35,637.0
$12,327.0
$10,494.0
$11,691.0
$167,703.0
$237,852.0
, .. .. .. . .. .. .. "jf\r yfifi*? • •
,.: ,.: ,,: ,.: ,.: ,.: , % 1 &W4- -
P«.sfiii4
$442.2
$828.7
$1,270.9
$4,268.0
$70,239.5
$2,766.1
$2,820.4
$5,586.5
$0.0
$12,274.2
$17,456.4
$65,455.6
$95,186.2
$49,242.5
$56,988.2
$106,230.7
$34,488.5
$14,983.1
$9,081.2
$8,383.0
$161,312.7
$228,248.5
J^res Diitl
'••:•• ->s-,Ei?«to
$13.2
$18.7
$31.9
$95.0
$61,728.5
$303.1
$340.4
$643.5
($32,919.0)
($3,951.8)
($1,162.6)
($1,321.4)
($6,435.8)
$4,072.5
$5,719.2
$9,791.7
($1,148.5)
$2,656.1
($1,412.8)
($3,308.0)
($6,390.3)
($9,603.5)
Research: Land Protection
Research: Land Protection and Restoration
$10,257.6
$11,606.0
$10,552.8
($1,053.2)
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FY 2008 Annual Plan
Research: Sustainability
Research: Economics and Decision Science(EDS)
Research: Environmental Technology Verification (ETV)
Research: Sustainability
Subtotal, Research: Sustainability
* iUlro . .
Obligations
$2,465.6
$3,364.9
$36,354.6
$42,185.1
•*,-. *?"""_ . ..
Enacted ;•'.
$2,361.0
$2,990.0
$25,803.0
$31,154.0
.. ,-.- ,-.- ,-, ,-.- ,-.- ,-.- ,- * * *?""»• •
P«sBnd
$2,494.6
$0.0
$21,404.9
$23,899.5
res BU
$133.6
($2,990.0)
($4,398.1)
($7,254.5)
Toxic Research and Prevention
Research: Pesticides and Toxics
Water: Human Health Protection
Drinking Water Programs
Rescission of Prior Year Expired Contracts, Grants, and
Interagency Agreements
Total, Science & Technology
$28,276.0
$30,357.0
$26,223.7
($4,133.3)
$3,326.0
$0.0
$785,903.1
$3,092.0
($1,000.0)
$729,810.0
$3,243.1
$0.0
$788,274.0
$151.1
$1,000.0
$58,464.0
Environmental Program & Management
Air Toxics and Quality
Clean Air Allowance Trading Programs
Federal Stationary Source Regulations
Federal Support for Air Quality Management
Energy Policy Act Implementation
Clean Diesel Initiative
Federal Support for Air Quality Management (other
activities)
Subtotal, Federal Support for Air Quality Management
Federal Support for Air Toxics Program
Radiation: Protection
Radiation: Response Preparedness
Stratospheric Ozone: Domestic Programs
Stratospheric Ozone: Multilateral Fund
Subtotal, Air Toxics and Quality
Brownfields
Brownfields
Climate Protection Program
Climate Protection Program
Energy Star
Methane to Markets
$17,513.5
$20,555.3
$0.0
$0.0
$89,350.1
$89,350.1
$23,518.7
$11,694.4
$2,284.4
$4,478.1
$9,920.0
$179,314.5
$27,248.4
$0.0
$0.0
$17,708.0
$23,215.0
$0.0
$5,867.0
$90,082.0
$95,949.0
$25,405.0
$11,178.0
$2,632.0
$4,938.0
$8,600.0
$189,625.0
$24,534.0
$49,536.0
$1,971.0
$19,126.4
$25,678.3
$2,800.0
$0.0
$85,265.6
$88,065.6
$25,513.7
$10,648.6
$2,688.7
$5,221.4
$13,365.0
$190,307.7
$24,637.3
$45,722.8
$4,420.5
$1,418.4
$2,463.3
$2,800.0
($5,867.0)
($4,816.4)
($7,883.4)
$108.7
($529.4)
$56.7
$283.4
$4,765.0
$682.7
$103.3
($3,813.2)
$2,449.5
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
Climate Protection Program (other activities)
Subtotal, Climate Protection Program
Subtotal, Climate Protection Program
Compliance
Compliance Assistance and Centers
Energy Policy Act Implementation
Compliance Assistance and Centers (other
activities)
Subtotal, Compliance Assistance and Centers
Compliance Incentives
Compliance Monitoring
Energy Policy Act Implementation
Compliance Monitoring (other activities)
Subtotal, Compliance Monitoring
Subtotal, Compliance
Enforcement
Civil Enforcement
Energy Policy Act Implementation
Civil Enforcement (other activities)
Subtotal, Civil Enforcement
Criminal Enforcement
Enforcement Training
Environmental Justice
NEPA Implementation
Subtotal, Enforcement
Environmental Protection / Congressional Priorities
Geographic Programs
Geographic Program: Chesapeake Bay
Geographic Program: Great Lakes
Geographic Program: Gulf of Mexico
Geographic Program: Lake Champlain
Geographic Program: Long Island Sound
Geographic Program: Other
Geographic Program: Puget Sound
Community Action for a Renewed Environment
(CARE)
* iUlro ...
Obligatiojis
$92,457.2
$92,457.2
$92,457.2
$0.0
$27,207.0
$27,207.0
$10,135.7
$0.0
$85,297.9
$85,297.9
$122,640.6
$0.0
$113,719.7
$113,719.7
$35,109.3
$3,766.2
$4,853.2
$13,016.8
$170,465.2
$89,868.8
$22,886.6
$21,098.8
$3,739.8
$686.3
$2,132.7
$0.0
$0.0
•*,-. *?"""_ . ....
Enacted ;••;
$39,327.0
$90,834.0
$90,834.0
$0.0
$27,935.0
$27,935.0
$9,412.0
$0.0
$85,463.0
$85,463.0
$122,810.0
$0.0
$117,807.0
$117,807.0
$37,565.0
$2,945.0
$5,569.0
$12,640.0
$176,526.0
$49,799.0
$22,118.0
$21,164.0
$4,809.0
$1,926.0
$470.0
$1,971.0
$2,862.0
,-.. ,-.. ,-, ,-.. ,-.. ,-.. ,• * * <&""4 •' .
$41,700.0
$91,843.3
$91,843.3
$111.2
$28,779.5
$28,890.7
$9,702.2
$986.9
$92,031.9
$93,018.8
$131,611.7
$753.2
$120,024.5
$120,777.7
$37,793.5
$2,503.7
$3,859.0
$13,787.5
$178,721.4
$0.0
$26,397.7
$20,577.1
$4,310.7
$933.8
$466.9
$0.0
$4,448.4
J^res Diitl
$2,373.0
$1,009.3
$1,009.3
$111.2
$844.5
$955.7
$290.2
$986.9
$6,568.9
$7,555.8
$8,801.7
$753.2
$2,217.5
$2,970.7
$228.5
($441.3)
($1,710.0)
$1,147.5
$2,195.4
($49,799.0)
$4,279.7
($586.9)
($498.3)
($992.2)
($3.1)
($1,971.0)
$1,586.4
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
Geographic Program: Other (other activities)
Subtotal, Geographic Program: Other
Regional Geographic Initiatives
Subtotal, Geographic Programs
Homeland Security
Homeland Security: Communication and Information
Laboratory Preparedness and Response
Homeland Security: Communication and
Information (other activities)
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Communication and
Information
Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Decontamination
Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure
Protection (other activities)
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure
Protection
Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Decontamination
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response,
and Recovery
Homeland Security: Protection of EPA Personnel and
Infrastructure
Subtotal, Homeland Security
Indoor Air
Indoor Air: Radon Program
Reduce Risks from Indoor Air
Subtotal, Indoor Air
Information Exchange / Outreach
Children and Other Sensitive Populations: Agency
Coordination
Congressional, Intergovernmental, External Relations
Environmental Education
Exchange Network
Small Business Ombudsman
Small Minority Business Assistance
State and Local Prevention and Preparedness
TRI / Right to Know
Tribal - Capacity Building
* iUlro . . .
Obligatiojis
$6,786.1
$6,786.1
$8,057.0
$65,387.3
$0.0
$5,432.4
$5,432.4
$0.0
$6,700.6
$6,700.6
$2,620.2
$2,620.2
$9,102.2
$23,855.4
$5,986.6
$21,464.4
$27,451.0
$7,135.8
$48,407.3
$8,648.1
$16,723.0
$3,691.3
$2,245.7
$11,327.5
$15,380.7
$10,937.7
•*,-. *?"""_ . ..
Enacted ;•'.
$5,124.0
$9,957.0
$8,060.0
$68,504.0
$1,212.0
$5,263.0
$6,475.0
$98.0
$6,689.0
$6,787.0
$3,252.0
$3,252.0
$6,199.0
$22,713.0
$5,159.0
$23,137.0
$28,296.0
$5,633.0
$50,291.0
$8,889.0
$17,700.0
$3,343.0
$2,503.0
$11,377.0
$14,289.0
$11,049.0
, , , , . , , , 17V 'J'tWY? •
; ..; ..; ..; ..; ..; ..; .. v 1 iuu^. <
$4,601.6
$9,050.0
$9,137.3
$70,873.5
$1,200.0
$5,599.7
$6,799.7
$99.0
$7,143.7
$7,242.7
$3,328.7
$3,328.7
$6,268.9
$23,640.0
$5,519.2
$23,464.3
$28,983.5
$6,063.8
$52,142.7
$0.0
$16,048.5
$3,501.7
$2,646.6
$12,508.4
$15,243.4
$11,435.7
Pro« :Hii
res BU
($522.4)
($907.0)
$1,077.3
$2,369.5
($12.0)
$336.7
$324.7
$1.0
$454.7
$455.7
$76.7
$76.7
$69.9
$927.0
$360.2
$327.3
$687.5
$430.8
$1,851.7
($8,889.0)
($1,651.5)
$158.7
$143.6
$1,131.4
$954.4
$386.7
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2008 Annual Plan
Subtotal, Information Exchange / Outreach
International Programs
Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Environment and Trade
International Capacity Building
POPs Implementation
US Mexico Border
Subtotal, International Programs
IT / Data Management / Security
Information Security
IT / Data Management
Subtotal, IT / Data Management / Security
Legal / Science / Regulatory / Economic Review
Administrative Law
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Civil Rights / Title VI Compliance
Legal Advice: Environmental Program
Legal Advice: Support Program
Regional Science and Technology
Regulatory Innovation
Regulatory/Economic-Management and Analysis
Science Advisory Board
Subtotal, Legal / Science / Regulatory / Economic Review
Operations and Administration
Acquisition Management
Central Planning, Budgeting, and Finance
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
Financial Assistance Grants / IAG Management
Human Resources Management
Subtotal, Operations and Administration
Pesticides Licensing
Pesticides: Field Programs
Pesticides: Registration of New Pesticides
Pesticides: Review / Reregistration of Existing Pesticides
Science Policy and Biotechnology
* iUlro ...
Obligatiojis
$124,497.1
$3,370.5
$2,211.7
$10,548.5
$3,196.5
$5,951.5
$25,278.7
$4,745.6
$84,371.1
$89,116.7
$4,784.2
$1,531.0
$10,905.7
$32,764.8
$13,864.0
$3,424.8
$21,215.1
$13,875.1
$4,660.8
$107,025.5
$21,830.4
$68,045.9
$317,744.7
$22,223.9
$46,795.7
$476,640.6
$25,649.5
$39,321.6
$49,074.7
$1,961.5
•*,-. *?"""_ . ....
Enacted ;••;
$125,074.0
$4,116.0
$1,766.0
$6,138.0
$1,697.0
$5,749.0
$19,466.0
$3,751.0
$94,567.0
$98,318.0
$4,607.0
$1,048.0
$10,575.0
$35,931.0
$13,206.0
$3,522.0
$21,511.0
$16,551.0
$4,402.0
$111,353.0
$23,265.0
$73,680.0
$343,908.0
$23,168.0
$41,275.0
$505,296.0
$24,516.0
$41,604.0
$57,458.0
$1,694.0
• •• •• •• • •• •• •• 1?V 'J'tWY? • •
..; ..; ..; ..; ..; ..; .. v 1 iuu^. <
PresBiid
$119,590.8
$4,137.0
$1,861.2
$6,390.3
$1,808.7
$6,061.0
$20,258.2
$5,562.1
$96,807.2
$102,369.3
$4,860.9
$1,229.8
$11,053.7
$37,525.5
$13,465.9
$3,520.7
$25,853.6
$17,554.8
$4,615.7
$119,680.6
$25,418.3
$83,548.1
$294,760.1
$21,847.0
$40,202.5
$465,776.0
$24,926.3
$39,767.6
$51,814.6
$1,754.0
J^res Diitl
''••:••. ••..•J&^Eijsttte
($5,483.2)
$21.0
$95.2
$252.3
$111.7
$312.0
$792.2
$1,811.1
$2,240.2
$4,051.3
$253.9
$181.8
$478.7
$1,594.5
$259.9
($1.3)
$4,342.6
$1,003.8
$213.7
$8,327.6
$2,153.3
$9,868.1
($49,147.9)
($1,321.0)
($1,072.5)
($39,520.0)
$410.3
($1,836.4)
($5,643.4)
$60.0
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FY 2008 Annual Plan
Subtotal, Pesticides Licensing
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
RCRA: Corrective Action
RCRA: Waste Management
RCRA: Waste Minimization & Recycling
Subtotal, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
Toxics Risk Review and Prevention
Toxic Substances: Chemical Risk Management
Toxic Substances: Chemical Risk Review and Reduction
Endocrine Disrupters
Toxic Substances: Lead Risk Reduction Program
Pollution Prevention Program
Subtotal, Toxics Risk Review and Prevention
Underground Storage Tanks (LUST / UST)
LUST/UST
Water: Ecosystems
Great Lakes Legacy Act
National Estuary Program / Coastal Waterways
Wetlands
Subtotal, Water: Ecosystems
Water: Human Health Protection
Beach / Fish Programs
Drinking Water Programs
Subtotal, Water: Human Health Protection
Water Quality Protection
Marine Pollution
Surface Water Protection
Water Quality Monitoring
Surface Water Protection (other activities)
Subtotal, Surface Water Protection
Subtotal, Water Quality Protection
* iUlro ...
Obligatiojis
$116,007.3
$36,575.0
$67,842.9
$10,878.7
$115,296.6
$8,462.3
$45,781.1
$8,696.4
$13,280.9
$15,889.3
$92,110.0
$6,459.2
$13,946.6
$25,902.3
$20,126.7
$59,975.6
$3,723.7
$94,559.1
$98,282.8
$13,114.0
$0.0
$186,745.5
$186,745.5
$199,859.5
•*,-. *?"""_ . ....
Enacted ;••;
$125,272.0
$39,396.0
$65,793.0
$11,825.0
$117,014.0
$9,008.0
$46,542.0
$8,767.0
$10,162.0
$16,621.0
$91,100.0
$7,763.0
$28,989.0
$23,773.0
$19,416.0
$72,178.0
$3,156.0
$95,656.0
$98,812.0
$12,212.0
$7,193.0
$182,019.0
$189,212.0
$201,424.0
,-.. ,-.. ,-, ,-.. ,-.. ,-.. ,• * * <&""4 •' .
$118,262.5
$40,372.3
$67,887.3
$12,235.1
$120,494.7
$7,736.5
$44,637.0
$7,985.4
$11,367.6
$21,292.4
$93,018.9
$11,713.7
$49,600.0
$18,417.2
$20,992.2
$89,009.4
$2,653.9
$99,121.0
$101,774.9
$12,462.4
$7,120.7
$184,466.5
$191,587.2
$204,049.6
Pro« :Hii
res BU
($7,009.5)
$976.3
$2,094.3
$410.1
$3,480.7
($1,271.5)
($1,905.0)
($781.6)
$1,205.6
$4,671.4
$1,918.9
$3,950.7
$20,611.0
($5,355.8)
$1,576.2
$16,831.4
($502.1)
$3,465.0
$2,962.9
$250.4
($72.3)
$2,447.5
$2,375.2
$2,625.6
Rescission of Prior Year Expired Contracts, Grants, and
Interagency Agreements
$0.0
($2,000.0)
$0.0
$2,000.0
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Total, Environmental Program & Management
Inspector General
Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations
Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations
Inspector General Congressionally Mandated Projects
Total, Inspector General
Building and Facilities
Homeland Security
Homeland Security: Protection of EPA Personnel and
Infrastructure
Operations and Administration
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
Total, Building and Facilities
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Air Toxics and Quality
Radiation: Protection
Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations
Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations
Compliance
Compliance Assistance and Centers
Compliance Incentives
Compliance Monitoring
Subtotal, Compliance
Enforcement
Civil Enforcement
Criminal Enforcement
Enforcement Training
Environmental Justice
Forensics Support
Superfund: Enforcement
Superfund: Federal Facilities Enforcement
Subtotal, Enforcement
* iUiro .r .1 iuuo ..,...,...,...,...,...,...,... v * £Uv4 ••
Obligations .;. Enacted ', PresBu4
$2,309,238.0 $2,344,711.0 $2,306,617.0
$44,580.7 $36,904.0 $35,100.0
$426.4 $0.0 $0.0
$45,007.1 $36,904.0 $35,100.0
$12,936.5 $11,331.0 $11,385.1
$32,244.5 $28,295.0 $28,430.9
$45,181.0 $39,626.0 $39,816.0
$1,969.4 $2,120.0 $2,323.3
$15,182.0 $13,337.0 $13,316.0
$0.0 $11.0 $22.2
$148.9 $186.0 $142.7
$1,452.4 $955.0 $1,144.1
$1,601.3 $1,152.0 $1,309.0
$625.2 $796.0 $883.0
$8,070.1 $8,275.0 $8,502.2
$897.8 $581.0 $621.9
$921.5 $827.0 $756.7
$3,599.5 $3,643.0 $4,184.2
$165,634.0 $156,653.0 $163,650.5
$8,900.3 $9,410.0 $10,196.9
$188,648.4 $180,185.0 $188,795.4
.prtrS oil.
($38,094.0
($1,804.0)
$0.0
($1,804.0)
$54.1
$135.9
$190.0
$203.3
($21.0)
$11.2
($43.3)
$189.1
$157.0
$87.0
$227.2
$40.9
($70.3)
$541.2
$6,997.5
$786.9
$8,610.4
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Homeland Security
Homeland Security: Communication and Information
Laboratory Preparedness and Response
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Communication and
Information
Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Decontamination
Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure
Protection (other activities)
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure
Protection
Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Decontamination
Laboratory Preparedness and Response
Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, and
Recovery (other activities)
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response,
and Recovery
Homeland Security: Protection of EPA Personnel and
Infrastructure
Subtotal, Homeland Security
Information Exchange / Outreach
Congressional, Intergovernmental, External Relations
Exchange Network
Subtotal, Information Exchange / Outreach
IT / Data Management / Security
Information Security
IT / Data Management
Subtotal, IT / Data Management / Security
Legal / Science / Regulatory / Economic Review
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Legal Advice: Environmental Program
Subtotal, Legal / Science / Regulatory / Economic Review
Operations and Administration
Financial Assistance Grants / IAG Management
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
Acquisition Management
* iUlro . . .
Obligatiojis
$0.0
$0.0
$0.0
$1,348.2
$1,348.2
$0.0
$0.0
$38,131.8
$38,131.8
$694.2
$40,174.2
$111.7
$2,330.3
$2,442.0
$234.6
$17,734.0
$17,968.6
$980.4
$722.8
$1,703.2
$3,109.3
$65,156.8
$17,464.2
•*,-. *?"""_ . ..
Enacted ;•'.
$296.0
$296.0
$197.0
$1,245.0
$1,442.0
$10,395.0
$0.0
$27,184.0
$37,579.0
$588.0
$39,905.0
$48.0
$1,650.0
$1,698.0
$341.0
$17,053.0
$17,394.0
$975.0
$755.0
$1,730.0
$3,060.0
$69,667.0
$19,727.0
, , , , . , , , 17V 'J'tWY? •
; ..; ..; ..; ..; ..; ..; .. v 1 iuu^. <
$300.0
$300.0
$198.0
$1,373.6
$1,571.6
$12,271.3
$9,500.0
$28,003.6
$49,774.9
$594.2
$52,240.7
$130.4
$1,432.4
$1,562.8
$788.6
$17,120.4
$17,909.0
$887.2
$690.8
$1,578.0
$2,920.8
$73,944.7
$23,514.3
P.™»« if*™
Ira Dij
$4.0
$4.0
$1.0
$128.6
$129.6
$1,876.3
$9,500.0
$819.6
$12,195.9
$6.2
$12,335.7
$82.4
($217.6)
($135.2)
$447.6
$67.4
$515.0
($87.8)
($64.2)
($152.0)
($139.2)
$4,277.7
$3,787.3
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Human Resources Management
Central Planning, Budgeting, and Finance
Subtotal, Operations and Administration
Research: Human Health and Ecosystems
Human Health Risk Assessment
Research: Land Protection
Research: Land Protection and Restoration
Research: SITE Program
Subtotal, Research: Land Protection
Research: Sustainability
Research: Sustainability
Superfund Cleanup
Superfund: Emergency Response and Removal
Superfund: EPA Emergency Preparedness
Superfund: Federal Facilities
Superfund: Remedial
Superfund: Support to Other Federal Agencies
Brownfields Projects
Subtotal, Superfund Cleanup
Rescission of Prior Year Expired Contracts, Grants, and
Interagency Agreements
Total, Hazardous Substance Superfund
(Transfer to Office of Inspector General)
(Transfer to Science and Technology)
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
Compliance
Compliance Assistance and Centers
IT / Data Management / Security
IT / Data Management
Operations and Administration
Acquisition Management
Central Planning, Budgeting, and Finance
* iUlro ....
Obligatiojis
$5,250.8
$20,620.3
$111,601.4
$3,848.8
$23,322.6
$6,730.9
$30,053.5
$501.0
$197,032.3
$11,387.4
$31,063.4
$711,969.6
$5,444.0
$2,299.0
$959,195.7
$0.0
$1,374,889.5
($15,182.0)
($38,821.1)
$531.6
$108.0
$337.0
$730.4
•*,-. *?"""_ . .... ...
Enacted J
$5,665.0
$24,349.0
$122,468.0
$3,755.0
$22,927.0
$1,206.0
$24,133.0
$292.0
$193,584.0
$10,540.0
$31,336.0
$588,905.0
$9,540.0
$0.0
$833,905.0
($11,000.0)
$1,231,074.0
($13,337.0)
($30,156.0)
$711.0
$182.0
$358.0
$1,010.0
, , , . , , , 17V 'J'tWY? • •
; ..; ..; ..; ..; ..; .. v 1 iuu^. < .
$5,270.2
$25,540.8
$131,190.8
$3,847.2
$21,963.9
$0.0
$21,963.9
$0.0
$192,398.9
$8,863.1
$31,486.6
$581,594.9
$8,575.4
$0.0
$822,918.9
$0.0
$1,258,955.0
($13,316.0)
($27,811.1)
$839.1
$175.9
$360.8
$1,014.8
J^res olid
($394.8)
$1,191.8
$8,722.8
$92.2
($963.1)
($1,206.0)
($2,169.1)
($292.0)
($1,185.1)
($1,676.9)
$150.6
($7,310.1)
($964.6)
$0.0
($10,986.1)
$11,000.0
$27,881.0
$21.0
$2,344.9
$128.1
($6.1)
$2.8
$4.8
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Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
Human Resources Management
Subtotal, Operations and Administration
.'•..'•JFY 2005 .-.-•.
Obligatiojis
$982.9
$5.0
$2,055.3
FY2006
Enacted
$894.0
$3.0
$2,265.0
•;,';,';,'; FY 200?'.
yyyPresBnd
$916.8
$3.0
$2,295.4
•'r.yv.ys;,En;a:cted •
$22.8
$0.0
$30.4
Research: Land Protection
Research: Land Protection and Restoration
Underground Storage Tanks (LUST / UST)
LUST/UST
LUST Cooperative Agreements
Subtotal, Underground Storage Tanks (LUST / UST)
Total, Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
$699.3
$70,589.5
$634.0
$79,953.0
$651.3
$72,759.0
$17.3
$10,146.4
$57,048.9
$67,195.3
$10,514.0
$65,647.0
$76,161.0
$10,590.1
$58,207.2
$68,797.3
$76.1
($7,439.8)
($7,363.7)
($7,194.0)
Oil Spill Response
Compliance
Compliance Assistance and Centers
Enforcement
Civil Enforcement
IT / Data Management / Security
IT / Data Management
Oil
Oil Spill: Prevention, Preparedness and Response
Operations and Administration
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
Research: Land Protection
Research: Land Protection and Restoration
Total, Oil Spill Response
$270.1
$1,900.7
$39.5
$13,991.5
$552.1
$841.0
$17,594.9
$284.0
$1,910.0
$31.0
$12,066.0
$500.0
$838.0
$15,629.0
$280.2
$1,826.3
$32.5
$12,964.6
$499.3
$903.1
$16,506.0
($83.7)
$1.5
$898.6
($0.7)
$65.1
$877.0
State and Tribal Assistance Grants
Air Toxics and Quality
Clean School Bus Initiative
Brownfields
Brownfields Projects
Infrastructure Assistance
Infrastructure Assistance: Alaska Native Villages
$0.0
$6,897.0
$88,065.1 $88,676.0
$50,866.5 $34,485.0
$0.0
9,119.4
$14,850.0
($6,897.0)
$443.4
($19,635.0)
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Infrastructure Assistance: Clean Water SRF
Diesel Emissions Reduction Grant Program
Infrastructure Assistance: Drinking Water SRF
Infrastructure Assistance: Mexico Border
Infrastructure Assistance: Puerto Rico
Subtotal, Infrastructure Assistance
STAG Infrastructure Grants / Congressional Priorities
Subtotal, State and Tribal Assistance Grants (excluding
categorical grants)
Categorical Grants
Categorical Grant: Beaches Protection
Categorical Grant: Brownfields
Categorical Grant: Environmental Information
Categorical Grant: Hazardous Waste Financial Assistance
Categorical Grant: Homeland Security
Categorical Grant: Lead
Categorical Grant: Nonpoint Source (Sec. 319)
Categorical Grant: Pesticides Enforcement
Categorical Grant: Pesticides Program Implementation
Categorical Grant: Pollution Control (Sec. 106)
Water Quality Monitoring Grants
Categorical Grant: Pollution Control (Sec. 106)
(other activities)
Subtotal, Categorical Grant: Pollution Control (Sec. 106)
Categorical Grant: Pollution Prevention
Categorical Grant: Public Water System Supervision
(PWSS)
Categorical Grant: Radon
Categorical Grant: Sector Program
Categorical Grant: State and Local Air Quality Management
Categorical Grant: Targeted Watersheds
Categorical Grant: Toxics Substances Compliance
Categorical Grant: Tribal Air Quality Management
Categorical Grant: Tribal General Assistance Program
Categorical Grant: Underground Injection Control (UIC)
Categorical Grant: Underground Storage Tanks
Categorical Grant: Wastewater Operator Training
Categorical Grant: Water Quality Cooperative Agreements
Categorical Grant: Wetlands Program Development
* iUlro
Obligatiojis
$1,110,473.7
$0.0
$847,519.2
$66,176.9
$0.0
$2,075,036.3
$255,255.6
$2,418,357.0
$13,262.7
$47,411.0
$19,837.0
$105,786.4
$4,988.8
$14,169.0
$225,194.2
$20,468.4
$13,347.2
$0.0
$211,124.6
$211,124.6
$5,161.7
$104,043.6
$8,739.4
$2,464.3
$233,758.6
$17,706.0
$5,516.4
$12,977.1
$72,212.5
$11,537.5
$12,073.1
$943.0
$12,372.9
$15,027.2
•*,-. *?"""_ . .... ...
Enacted '•',.
$886,759.0
$0.0
$837,495.0
$49,264.0
$0.0
$1,808,003.0
$197,058.0
$2,100,634.0
$9,853.0
$49,264.0
$19,706.0
$101,944.0
$4,926.0
$13,499.0
$204,278.0
$18,622.0
$12,907.0
$18,228.0
$197,944.0
$216,172.0
$4,926.0
$98,279.0
$7,439.0
$2,217.0
$220,261.0
$16,608.0
$5,074.0
$10,887.0
$56,654.0
$10,838.0
$11,774.0
$1,182.0
$0.0
$15,765.0
.. ,-.. ,-, ,-.. ,-.. ,-.. ,• * * <&""4 •' . .
$687,555.0
$49,500.0
$841,500.0
$24,750.0
$990.0
$1,619,145.0
$0.0
$1,708,264.4
$9,900.0
$49,494.9
$14,850.0
$103,345.5
$4,950.0
$13,563.1
$194,040.0
$18,711.0
$12,968.9
$18,500.0
$203,161.0
$221,661.0
$5,940.0
$99,099.0
$8,073.5
$2,227.5
$185,179.5
$6,930.0
$5,098.5
$10,939.5
$56,925.0
$10,890.0
$37,566.7
$0.0
$0.0
$16,830.0
J^res Diitl •''•.
($199,204.0)
$49,500.0
$4,005.0
($24,514.0)
$990.0
($188,858.0)
($197,058.0)
($392,369.6)
$47.0
$230.9
($4,856.0)
$1,401.5
$24.0
$64.1
($10,238.0)
$89.0
$61.9
$272.0
$5,217.0
$5,489.0
$1,014.0
$820.0
$634.5
$10.5
($35,081.5)
($9,678.0)
$24.5
$52.5
$271.0
$52.0
$25,792.7
($1,182.0)
$0.0
$1,065.0
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• ,•[[[ ObligatioSls '.;!"•' ••':::::-'Enacted ;•'.'•.':',"•••.:•.:•.:.• ?*^SBw4 •' ''••'•••'.-.'.
Subtotal, Categorical Grants $1,190,122.6 $1,113,075.0 $1,089,183.6 ($23,891.4)
Rescission of Prior Year Expired Contracts, Grants, and $0.0 ($66,000.0) $0.0 $66,000.0
Interagency Agreements
Total, State and Tribal Assistance Grants $3,608,479.6 $3,147,709.0 $2,797,448.0 ($350,261.0)
Rescission of Prior Year Funds
Not Specified $0.0 $0.0 ($5,000.0) ($5,000.0)
Subtotal, (no Program Area specified) $1,143,191.2 $1,089,183.6 $1,059,971.0 ($29,212.6)
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LONG TERM INITIATIVES
EPA will conduct a number of long term
initiatives designed to improve efficiency,
streamline operations, and enhance customer
service. Successful implementation of these
initiatives will require thoughtful
coordination and take into account the
Agency's overall mission and any
potentially impacted employees and
contractors. The following sections provide
a brief description of these initiatives:
Laboratory Infrastructure Requirements
Study
The Agency will conduct a comprehensive
review of laboratory infrastructure
requirements through 2011. This will be a
collaborative effort to identify enterprise-
wide efficiencies. Achieving these results
will require coordination and integration
into other ongoing studies.
Reviewing Voluntary Programs
The Agency will conduct a thorough
evaluation of all voluntary programs. This
Agency-wide study will identify priorities,
methods to maximize effectiveness, and
opportunities to streamline operations while
meeting Agency goals and objectives.
Senior leaders are now developing
workgroups to evaluate the Agency's
voluntary programs and identify
opportunities for organizational efficiencies
and optimize reasonable results.
Aligning International Activities
The Agency will review and improve
coordination on all international
environmental activities. This will be a
comprehensive review of the Agency-wide
international strategic objectives and their
relation to domestic and foreign policy
objectives. Information from this review will
be used to identify and streamline areas of
overlap and create efficiencies. The Agency
is laying out a process for engaging senior
leaders in identifying international activities
planned or currently underway.
Reducing Reporting Burden for States
States have expressed concerns about their
growing reporting burden. In order to better
understand the burden of regulatory report
requirements on state environmental
protection programs, EPA is currently
working with states to review EPA reporting
requirements affecting the states.
Reducing Reporting Burden for Tribes
The Agency has initiated a review of all
Tribal reporting requirements. In order to
successfully reduce reporting requirements,
project leads will inventory all current
requirements, analyze associated directives
and regulations, and identify opportunities
for consolidations or eliminations. Project
leads are developing a current inventory of
all reporting requirements which will be the
first step in this effort.
Energy Efficiencies Plan
EPA's Energy Conservation Plan is
addressing energy and energy cost
reductions for all reporting Agency facilities
(i.e. facilities that pay utilities directly rather
than indirectly as part of a lease or other
agreement) from FY 2006 through FY 2015.
The current energy conservation goal for FY
2008 is a 10% reduction from EPA's FY
2003 baseline. The Energy Conservation
Plan includes an implementation plan and
schedule of projects through FY 2010.
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In general, laboratory operations require
more energy use per square foot than many
other types of facilities. Since EPA can
directly control its utility costs at the 29
"reporting" laboratories, the Agency is
targeting these facilities for energy savings.
For the upcoming FY 2008 budget year, the
Agency will develop BTU (energy) usage
goals for the 29 reporting labs, based on past
energy use, projects under design/under
construction, re-commissioning underway
etc. Each reporting lab will be given a BTU
target and fuel cost predictions, and a total
utility cost budget. The Agency cannot
however directly impact utility costs at its
office locations. Under standard General
Services Administration office leases and
occupancy agreements, utility costs are an
integral part of the rent paid.
EPA Long Term Space Consolidation
Plan
The Agency occupies approximately ten
(10) million square feet of space in 191
facilities, staffed by about 25,000 personnel
in fifty states and four territories. The intent
of the Long Term Space Consolidation Plan
is to examine closely our space usage at
these locations; explore ways to use our
space more efficiently; and seek potential
short- and long-term savings while keeping
our inventory in line with generally accepted
space and utilization rates. The Agency will
form a space planning workgroup that
includes Regional and Headquarters
representation, to meet periodically to
discuss the development of the
comprehensive plan and implementation.
The workgroup will develop implementation
budget estimates on a facility by facility
case, depending on the location, number of
personnel, and the size of the facility being
reviewed, among other factors. The plan
will provide the workgroup with: 1) the
information required for discussions with
the affected Program and Regional offices;
and 2) the process for meeting inventory
space requirements, including
conducting/updating space inventories,
validating personnel counts and conducting
lease and occupancy agreement reviews.
Shared Services Centers Project
EPA will examine methods to develop more
efficient and cost-effective human resource,
grants and contracts management services
throughout the Agency. The Centers plan
will allow the Agency to increase efficiency,
reduce long-term costs, and maintain a high
quality of services, while ensuring that other
opportunities exist for potentially impacted
work force. These efforts are part of a
broader government trend, based on
business models, to provide more
standardized and efficient services.
Centralized IT Service Review
The Agency is working to develop and
implement an Agencywide consolidation
and centralization effort for our core
information technology services and
contracts. In recent years, new tools have
become available that allow for
consolidation of key aspects of IT services
and solutions.
The services targeted in this effort include
email services, access to data files,
telephone communications, and Enterprise
Content Management System (ECMS). The
end result will be changes to the Agency's
IT environment, including the ability to: 1)
manage key IT services as a Managed
Service, with strict service level agreements,
2) use the power of competition to control
costs in a highly competitive environment,
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and 3) hold vendors and contractors excellent services.
accountable for providing consistently
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EXPECTED BENEFITS OF THE PRESIDENT'S E-GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES
Business Gateway
The Business Gateway initiative benefits
EPA by supporting the Agency's
emphasis on the Small Business
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002. EPA has
many initiatives, activities, and services
directed at small business needs.
Business.gov provides a one-stop
compliance tool enabling these small and
emerging businesses access to
compliance rules, regulations and tools
across the Federal government. Business
Gateway augments EPA's small business
activities function by providing the
following benefits:
• Advocating consideration
of small business
regulatory issues and
regulatory relief on a
government-wide scale;
• Providing plain-English
compliance guidance, fact
sheets and links to
checklists for small
businesses; and
• Maintaining an extensive
website with numerous
links to other internal and
external assistance
sources.
EPA anticipates the same benefits from
Business Gateway in 2008 as stated for
2007.
Fiscal
Year
2007
2008
Account Code
020-00-0 1 - 1 6-04-0 1 00-24-3 05- 1 09
020-00-01-16-04-0100-24
Budget
(in thousands)
$328.8
$120.0
eRulemaking
EPA's mission is to protect human
health and the environment,
implemented according to the following
five goals: Clean Air and Global Climate
Change, Clean and Safe Water, Land
Preservation and Restoration, Healthy
Communities and Ecosystems, and
Compliance and Environmental
Stewardship. EPA promulgates and
takes enforcement actions on regulations
focusing on various environmental
protection standards (e.g., safe drinking
water, pesticides, global climate change,
air toxics, radionuclides, wastewater
treatment, solid and hazardous waste,
Superfund sites). EPA also conducts
research on the adverse effects of
pollution and on methods and equipment
to reduce and mitigate pollution; gathers
information on environmental quality
and compliance with regulations and
standards; and assists entities in
complying with standards and
regulations via grants, technical
assistance and other means.
The Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) has simplified the
public's participation in the rulemaking
process and made EPA's internal
rulemaking business processes more
transparent. FDMS provides EPA's
1,000 registered users with a secure,
centralized electronic repository for
managing the Agency's rulemaking
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development via distributed
management of data and robust role-
based user access. EPA posts all
regulatory and non-regulatory
documents (e.g., Federal Register
documents, supporting analyses, and
public comments) in Regulations.gov for
public viewing, downloading, and
commenting. From January 2006 to the
current date, Regulations.gov posted
1,817 Federal Register documents and
received 3,553 comments for EPA. In
addition, EPA has posted 16,881
documents supporting rulemaking and
non-rulemaking actions and posted an
additional 22,879 comments that the
public provided to EPA in paper, email,
or another format.
EPA expects continued benefits over the
next five years through participation and
reliance on FDMS and Regulations.gov.
Fiscal Year
2007
2008
Account Code
020-00-01-16-04-0060-24-306-1 13
020-00-0 1 0 1 6-04-0060-24
Budget
(in thousands)
$615.0
$535.0
Geospatial LoB
The Geospatial Line of Business
(GeoLoB) is expected to benefit EPA by
providing opportunities to improve
operations in several areas. The
investments made in FY 2007 and FY
2008 should provide the necessary
planning and coordination for continued
benefits to EPA in FY 2009 and beyond.
EPA's mission requires the use of a
broad range of data on places (e.g.
facilities, roads, wastesites, etc.) and
geographic features (wetlands, sols,
hydrography, etc.) to support Agency
decisions. A great deal of this data is
contained in 30 critical datasets, as
identified in OMB circular A-16. The
GeoLob Program Management Office
will help EPA provide the necessary
planning and coordination across the A-
16 data stewards to complete these
critical data sets.
EPA is moving to a Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) that is expected to
facilitate flexible access to data to
support a variety of business
applications. Implementing a SOA
requires the establishment of common
standards and policies. The GeoLoB will
advance the establishment of a Federal
Geospatial Segment Architecture as part
of the Federal Enterprise Architecture
that can expose geospatial data and
capabilities across vertical lines of
business. In the process of establishing
the geospatial segment architecture, the
GeoLoB will promote the
implementation of standards and policies
to support an SOA.
EPA's geospatial program has increased
the efficiency of affected activities by
consolidating procurements for data and
tools into multi-year enterprise licenses.
Participation in the GeoLoB is expected
to continue providing EPA opportunities
to share approaches on procurement
consolidation.
EPA benefits from Geospatial LoB in
FY 2008 are anticipated to be the same
as those described for FY 2007.
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Fiscal Year
2007
2008
Account Code
No UPI code prior to FY08
020-00-01-16-04-3100-24
Budget
(in thousands)
$42.0
$43.2
Grants.gov
The Grants.gov initiative benefits EPA
and its grant programs by providing a
single location to publish grant
opportunities and application packages.
Grants.gov serves as a single site for the
grants community to apply for grants
using common forms, processes, and
systems. The grants community benefits
from savings in postal costs, paper and
envelopes. Grants.gov has already
begun to reduce the large number of
disparate electronic and paper-based
grant applicant/recipient interactions.
The deployment of Grants.gov's "Find
and Apply" feature has enabled agencies
and the grants community to transform
an 80% paper-based process into process
into a potentially 100% electronic
process.
EPA built and maintains a system for
collecting electronic grant applications
received from Grants.gov and these
applications are easily processed through
the EPA grant award system. During FY
2006, EPA posted 197 grant
opportunities on Grants.gov and linked
100% of those competitive opportunities
to electronic application packages. EPA
received 2,271 applications via
Grants.gov in 2006, a 750% increase
over the number of applications received
in 2005.
EPA benefits from Grants.gov in FY08
are anticipated to be the same as those
described for FY07.
.Fiscal Year
2007
2008
Account Code
020-00-04-00-04- 1 3 1 6-24-402- 1 6
020-00-04-00-04-1316-24
Budget
(in thousands)
$520.5
$536.1
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E-Travel
The intent of the E-Travel project is to
provide EPA more efficient and
effective travel management services.
The agency is expected to benefit from
this effort by utilizing cross-government
purchasing agreements and improved
functionality benefits through
streamlined travel policies and
processes. Other benefits include
enhancing security and privacy controls
and Agency oversight and audit
capabilities. EPA employees would also
benefit from integrated travel planning.
EPA and GSA are currently discussing a
GovTrip implementation date.
EPA benefits from eTravel in FY08 are
anticipated to be the same as those
described for FY07.
Fiscal
Year
2007
2008
Account Code
020-00-0 1 -0 1 -03 -0220-24-40 1 - 1 22
020-00-01-01-03-0221-24
Estimated Fee Amount
(in thousands)
$1,455.0
$1,088.7
Integrated Acquisition Environment
The Integrated Acquisition Environment
(IAE) is comprised of nine government-
wide automated applications and/or
databases that have contributed to
streamlining the acquisition business
process across the government. EPA
leverages the usefulness of these systems
via electronic linkages between EPA's
acquisition systems and the IAE shared
systems. Other IAE systems are not
linked directly to EPA's acquisition
systems, but benefit the Agency's
contracting staff and vendor community
as stand-alone resources.
EPA's acquisition systems use data
provided by the Central Contractor
Registry (CCR) to replace internally
maintained vendor data. Contracting
officers can download vendor-provided
representation and certification
information electronically, via the
Online Representations and
Certifications (ORCA) database,
allowing vendors to submit this
information once rather than separately
for every contract proposal. Contracting
officers are able to access the Excluded
Parties List System (EPLS) via links in
the acquisition systems to identify
vendors that are debarred from receiving
contract awards.
Contracting officers can also link to the
Wage Determination Online (WDOL) to
obtain information required under the
Service Contract Act and the Davis-
Bacon Act. EPA's acquisition systems
link to the Federal Procurement Data
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System - Next Generation (FPDS-NG)
for submission of contract actions at the
time of award. FPDS-NG provides
public access to government-wide
contract information. The Electronic
Subcontracting Reporting System
(eSRS) supports vendor submission of
subcontracting data for contracts
identified as requiring this information.
EPA submits synopses of procurement
opportunities over $25,000 to the
Federal Business Opportunities (FBO)
website, where the information is
accessible to the public. Vendors use
this website to identify business
opportunities in federal contracting.
Fiscal Year
2007
2008
Account Code
020-00-0 1 - 1 6-04-023 0-24-405-1 46
020-00-01-16-04-0230-24
Budget
(in thousands)
$119.7
$127.2
E-Authentication
Public trust in the security of
information exchanged over the Internet
plays a vital role in the E-Government
(E-Gov) transformation. E-
Authentication is setting the standards
for the identity proofing of individuals
and businesses, based on risk of online
services used. The initiative focuses on
meeting the authentication business
needs of the E-Gov initiatives and
building the necessary infrastructure to
support common, unified processes and
systems for government-wide use. This
will build the trust that must be an
inherent part of every online exchange
between citizens and the government.
The web-based E-Authentication that EPA
is currently implementing is for Central Data
Exchange Web Portal (CDX-Web) at level
3. CDX-Web provides E-Authentication
and other services for back-end EPA
systems. The current plan is to offer
production level 3 E-Authentication for the
end-users of the system capable of
implementing PKI-based digital signatures.
The initiative benefits EPA by providing
E-Authentication expertise, guidance,
and documentation, including project
planning and reporting templates, to
enable EPA to achieve production
implementation of E-Authentication for
its Central Data Exchange Node (CDX-
Node) of the EPA-State Exchange
Network (EN) and its Central Data
Exchange Web Portal (CDX-Web) by
the end of FY 2007. EPA is taking
advantage of the availability of PKI-
certificates provided through the
Federation to offer production level 3 E-
Authenti cation.
EPA benefits from E-Authentication in
FY 2008 are anticipated to be the same
as those described for FY 2007.
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Fiscal Year
2007
2008
Account Code
—
020-00-01-16-04-0250-24
Budget
(in thousands)
$0.0
$65.2
Enterprise Human Resource Integration
Initiative
The Enterprise Human Resource
Integration's (EHRI) Electronic Official
Personnel Folder (eOPF) is designed to
provide a consolidated repository that
digitally documents the employment
actions and history of individuals
employed by the Federal Government.
EPA plans to migrate from a manual
Official Personnel File (OFF) process to
the Federal eOPF system by October
2007. This initiative is expected to
benefit the Agency by reducing contract
support cost for file room maintenance
and improving customer service for
employees and productivity for HR
specialists. The 24/7 access to view and
print official personnel documents
allows employees more independence
and frees HR specialists from manually
filing, retrieving or mailing personnel
actions to employees.
EPA benefits from EHRI in FY 2008 are
anticipated to be the same as those
described for FY 2007.
Fiscal Year
2007
2008
Account Code
No UPI code prior to FY08
020-00-01-16-01-1219-21
Estimated Fee Amount
(in thousands)
$3,000.0
$406.0
Recruitment One-Stop (ROS)
Recruitment One-Stop (ROS) simplifies
the process of locating and applying for
Federal jobs. USAJOBS is a standard
job announcement and resume builder.
It is the one-stop for Federal job seekers
to search for and apply to positions on-
line. This integrated process benefits
citizens by providing a more efficient
process to locate and apply for jobs, and
assists Federal agencies in hiring top
talent in a competitive marketplace. The
Recruitment One-Stop initiative has
increased job seeker satisfaction with the
Federal job application process and is
helping us to locate highly-qualified
candidates and improve response times
to applicants.
By integrating with ROS, the Agency
has eliminated the need for applicants to
maintain multiple user IDs to apply for
Federal jobs through various systems.
The vacancy announcement format has
been improved for easier readability.
The system can maintain up to five
resumes per applicant, which allows
them to create and store resumes tailored
to specific skills - this is an
improvement from our previous system
that only allowed one resume per
applicant. In addition, ROS has a
notification feature that keeps applicants
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updated on the current status of the
application, and provides a link to the
agency website for detailed information.
This self-help ROS feature allows
applicants to obtain up-to-date
information on the status
application upon request.
of their
EPA benefits from Recruitment One-
Stop in FY 2008 are anticipated to be the
same as those described for FY 2007.
Fiscal
Year
2007
2008
Account Code
No UPI code prior to FY08
020-00-01-16-04-0010-24
Estimated Fee Amount
(in thousands)
$87.5
$102.2
eTraining
The President's Management Agenda
encourages e-learning to improve
training, efficiency and financial
performance. EPA recently exercised its
option to renew the current Interagency
Agreement with OPM-GoLearn that
provides licenses to online training for
employees. EPA purchased 5,000
licenses to prevent any interruption in
service to current users. Through this
agreement, EPA gains efficiency
through economy of scale, while
developing its own learning management
and reporting system. EPA expects to
have its own learning management
system in place by the end of 2008,
developed through the E-Training
initiative.
EPA benefits from eTraining in FY 2008
are anticipated to be the same as those
described for FY 2007.
Fiscal
Year
2007
2008
Account Code
020-00-01-16-04-1200-24-403-250
020-00-01-16-1217-24
Estimated Fee Amount
(in thousands)
$80.0
$80.0
Human Resources LoB
The Human Resources Line of Business
(FIR LoB) provides Federal government
the infrastructure to support pay-for-
performance systems, modernized FIR
systems, and the core functionality
necessary for the strategic management
of human capital.
The HR LoB offers common solutions
that will enable Federal agencies to work
more effectively, and it provides
managers and executives across the
Federal government improved means to
meet strategic objectives. EPA is
expected to benefit by ensuring it
supports an effective program
management activity, which should
deliver more tangible results in 2009 and
beyond.
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Fiscal Year
2007
2008
Account Code
020-00-01-16-04-1200-24-403-250
020-00-01-16-04-1200-24
Budget
(in thousands)
$65.2
$65.2
Financial Management Line of Business
In FY 2007 EPA will complete the
planning and acquisition phase of its
Financial System Modernization Project
(FSMP) and will begin migration to a
shared service provider. This work will
benefit from the migration guidance
developed in FY 2006, including the use
of performance metrics developed for
service level agreements and the use of
standard business processes developed
for four core financial management sub-
functions: Payments, Receipts, Funds
and Reporting. The Agency expects to
benefit from the use of the shared
service provider for operations and
maintenance of the new system in the
future.
Fiscal Year
2007
2008
Account Code
020-00-01-01-04-1 100-24-402-124
020-00-01-01-04-1100-24
Budget (in thousands)
$83.3
$44.4
Grants LoB
The Grants Management Line of
Business (GM LoB) is creating a
common solution to grants management
that will promote citizen access,
customer service, and agency financial
and technical stewardship. The initiative
focuses on developing a standardized
and streamlined approach to grants
management across the Federal
government as required under Public
Law 106-107, Federal Financial
Assistance Management Improvement
Act of 1999. The initiative also seeks to
consolidate over 100 grants management
systems deployed at 26 grant-making
agencies.
Benefits from this initiative may include:
• shared costs of system
development and
maintenance as well as
modernization and
enhancement
• increased efficiencies through
automation
• reduced technical assistance
needs
• leveraged training resources
• development of government-
wide standards.
EPA benefits from Grants LoB in FY
2008 are anticipated to be the same as
those described for FY 2007.
Fiscal Year
2007
2008
Account Code
020-00-04-00-04- 1 3 00-24- 1 08-025
020-00-04-00-04-1300-24
Budget
(in thousands)
$60.1
$59.3
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Budget Formulation and Execution (BFE)
LoB
The BFE LoB task force is currently
working on a ten year implementation
plan and therefore benefits in FY 2007
and FY 2008 cannot be identified at this
time.
Fiscal Year
2007
9008
Account Code
Code not established
Budget (in thousands)
$75.0
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Research: Environmental Technology Verification (ETV)
Program Area: Research: Sustainability
Goal: Compliance and Environmental Stewardship
Objective(s): Enhance Societies Capacity for Sustainability through Science and Research
(Dollars in Thousands)
Science & Technology
Total Budget Authority / Obligations
Total Workyears
FY 2006
Actuals
.. . $2,761,9
$2,761.9
6.5
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$0.0
$0.0
0.0
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$0.0
$0.0
0.0
FY 2008 Pres Bud
V.
FY 2007 Pres Bud
$0.0
$0.0
0.0
Program Project Description:
The Environmental Technology Verification
(ETV) program20 verifies the performance
of environmental technologies that address
high-priority, high-risk environmental
issues. The ETV Program operates as a
public-private partnership through
agreements between EPA and private
nonprofit testing and evaluation
organizations. These organizations work
with EPA technology experts to create
efficient and quality-assured testing
procedures that verify the performance of
innovative technologies. These technologies
are submitted voluntarily by private
industry, which cite ETV's findings to
support claims about a product's
capabilities. ETV only verifies the
performance of commercial-ready
technologies, allowing the program to
respond to the immediate needs of the
environmental technology market. ETV
operates using centers and one pilot program
covering a broad range of environmental
technology categories, and has verified over
350 environmental technologies since 1995.
An active community of nearly 500
collaborating stakeholders assists the centers
in developing protocols for testing,
prioritizing the types of technologies to be
verified, and designing and implementing
outreach activities to the customer groups
they represent.
FY 2008 Activities and Performance
Plan:
In FY 2007, EPA funding for the
verification centers was discontinued.
Workforce and associated resources were
shifted to the Sustainability research
program where they continue to provide in-
kind programmatic and technical oversight,
and quality assurance/quality control of the
partner centers' verifications.
Performance Targets:
Work under this program supports EPA's
Enhance Science and Research objective.
Research milestones are identified in the
program's multi-year planning documents,
but currently there are no PART
performance measures for this specific
program project.
FY 2008 Change from FY 2007
President's Budget (Dollars in
Thousands):
• No change in program funding.
' For more information, see: http://www.epa.gov/etv.
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Statutory Authority:
CAA; CWA; FIFRA; PPA; RCRA; SOW A;
SARA; TSCA.
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Research: SITE Program
Program Area: Research: Land Protection
Goal: Land Preservation and Restoration
Objective(s): Enhance Science and Research
(Dollars in Thousands)
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Total Budget Authority / Obligations
Total Workyears
FY 2006
Actuals
$4,628.0
$4,628.0
5.5
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$0.0
$0.0
0.0
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$0.0
$0.0
0.0
FY 2008 Pres Bud
V.
FY 2007 Pres Bud
$0.0
$0.0
0.0
Program Project Description:
The Superfund Innovative Technology
Evaluation (SITE)21 program conducted
high-quality field demonstrations of
remediation technologies at sites that pose
high risks to human health and the
environment.
FY 2008 Activities and Performance
Plan:
In FY 2007, resources for the SITE program
were discontinued. As the Superfund
program matured, innovative approaches
evaluated through the SITE program and
other mechanisms became standard tools for
remediation (R&D Criteria: Quality,
Relevance, Performance).
Performance Targets:
Work under this program supports EPA's
Enhance Science and Research objective.
Currently, there are no PART performance
measures for this specific program project.
FY 2008 Change from FY 2007
President's Budget (Dollars in
Thousands):
• No change in program funding. The
SITE program concluded
demonstration of innovative
remediation, monitoring, and
measurement approaches in FY
2007.
• Workyears associated with the SITE
program were redirected to land
protection and restoration research in
FY2007.
Statutory Authority:
SWDA; HSWA; SARA; CERCLA; RCRA;
OP A; BRERA.
21 For more information about EPA's SITE program, see
http: //www.epa. go v/ORD/SITE/
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Categorical Grant: Wastewater Operator Training
Program Area: Categorical Grants
Goal: Clean and Safe Water
Objective(s): Protect Water Quality
(Dollars in Thousands)
State and Tribal Assistance Grants
Total Budget Authority / Obligations
Total Workyears
FY 2006
Actuals
$1,382.1
$1,382.1
0.0
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$0.0
$0.0
0.0
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$0.0
$0.0
0.0
FY 2008 Pres
Budv.
FY 2007 Pres
Bud
$0.0
$0.0
0.0
NOTE: Total Budget Authority/Obligations number represents obligations from previous appropriation. This
program did not receive appropriations in FY 2006.
Program Project Description:
Section 104(g)(l) of the Clean Water Act
authorizes funding for the Wastewater
Treatment Plant Operator On-site Assistance
Training program. This program targets
small publicly-owned wastewater treatment
plants, with a discharge of less than
5,000,000 gallons per day. Federal funding
for this program is administered through
grants to states, often in cooperation with
educational institutions or non-profit
agencies. In most cases, assistance is
administered through an environmental
training center.
The goal of the program is to provide direct
on-site assistance to operators at these small
wastewater treatment facilities. The
assistance focuses on issues such as
wastewater treatment plant capacity,
operation training, maintenance,
administrative management, financial
management, trouble-shooting, and
laboratory operations.
FY 2008 Activities and Performance
Highlights:
There is no request for this program in FY
2008.
FY 2008 Change from FY 2007
President's Budget (Dollars in
Thousands):
• No change in program funding.
Statutory Authority:
CWA.
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Categorical Grant: Water Quality Cooperative Agreements
Program Area: Categorical Grants
Goal: Clean and Safe Water
Objective(s): Protect Water Quality
(Dollars in Thousands)
State and Tribal Assistance Grants
Total Budget Authority / Obligations
Total Workyears
FY 2006
Actuals
$11,136,7
$11,136.7
0.0
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$0.0
$0.0
0.0
FY 2008
Pres Bud
$0.0
$0.0
0.0
FY 2008 Pres Bud
V.
FY 2007 Pres Bud
$0.0
$0.0
0.0
NOTE: Total Budget Authority/Obligations number represents obligations from previous appropriation. This
program did not receive appropriations in FY 2006.
Program Project Description:
Under authority of Section 104(b)(3) of the
Clean Water Act, EPA makes grants to a
wide variety of recipients, including states,
Tribes, state water pollution control
agencies, interstate agencies, and other
nonprofit institutions, organizations, and
individuals to promote the coordination of
environmentally beneficial activities. This
competitive funding vehicle is used by
EPA's partners to further the Agency's goals
of providing clean and safe water. The
program is designed to fund a broad range of
projects, including: innovative water
efficiency programs, research, training and
education, demonstration, best management
practices, stormwater management planning,
and innovative permitting programs and
studies related to the causes, effects, extent,
and prevention of pollution.
FY 2008 Activities and Performance
Highlights:
There is no request for this program in FY
2008.
FY 2008 Change from FY 2007
President's Budget (Dollars in
Thousands):
• No change in program funding.
Statutory Authority:
CWA.
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