Fiscal Year 2013
Federal Program Inventory
United States Environmental
Protection Agency
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Table of Contents
Introduction 4
Approach Summary 4
Program Inventory 4
EPA Resources 4
Strategic Architecture Details 4
Program List 6
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Introduction:
The GPRA Modernization Act (GPRAMA) of 2010 requires a central inventory of all Federal programs.
The Federal Program Inventory has the potential to facilitate coordination across programs by making it
easier to find programs that can contribute to a shared goal, as well as improve public understanding
about what Federal programs do and how programs link to budget, performance and other information.
This document describes each of the Environmental Protection Agency's programs as well as how each
program supports the EPA's broader Strategic Goals and Strategic Objectives. Please refer to
www.Performance.gov for program contributions to our Agency Priority Goals and Cross-Agency Priority
(CAP) Goals. While EPA contributes to multiple CAP goals via existing mechanisms, EPA directly
contributes quarterly data to the achievement of the Energy Efficiency CAP goal through work currently
conducted under the Agency's ENERGY STAR program and Office of Air and Radiation's Transportation
and Air Quality Program.
EPA Approach:
The EPA designed its approach to closely mirror its budget structure, which aligns to the way the agency
manages and reports environmental progress against annual and long-term performance goals, outlined
under EPA's Strategic Architecture. This list of programs should resonate with key external
stakeholders, including Congressional committees, who are familiar with how EPA presents its budget.
The programs are also operationally meaningful to the agency for accomplishing its goals and mission.
EPA Resources:
Total Budget Authority (in millions of dollars) Sum of All Appropriations
FY 2012 actual FY 2013 annualized CR FY 2014 PB
$9,859,717 $9,108,8271 $8,153,000
EPA Strategic Architecture:
Goal 1: Taking Action on Climate Change and Improving Air Quality
Objective 1.1: Address Climate Change
Objective 1.2: Improve Air Quality
Objective 1.3: Restore the Ozone Layer
Objective 1.4: Reduce Unnecessary Exposure to Radiation
1 Annualized CR total as of March 25, 2013 does not include Sandy Supplemental funding or sequestration. Final
enacted level for FY 2013 is $7,901.104 million.
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Goal 2: Protecting America's Waters
Objective 2.1: Protect Human Health
Objective 2.2: Protect and Restore Watersheds and Aquatic Ecosystems
Goal 3: Cleaning Up Communities and Advancing Sustainable Development
Objective 3.1: Promote Sustainable and Livable Communities
Objective 3.2: Preserve Land
Objective 3.3: Restore Land
Objective 3.4: Strengthen Human Health and Environmental Protection in Indian Country
Goal 4: Ensuring the Safety of Chemicals and Preventing Pollution
Objective 4.1: Ensure Chemical Safety
Objective 4.2: Promote Pollution Prevention
Goal 5: Enforcing Environmental Laws
Objective 5.1: Enforce Environmental Laws
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EPA's Federal Program Inventory FY 2013
Performance Linkage
Program Name (and Associated Appropriations)
Program Descriptions (from Program Project Description
Book)
Goal
Objective
Acquisition Management (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund, Leaking Underground Storage Tanks)
Resources in this program support activities related to the management of
contract/acquisition at Headquarters, Regions, Research Triangle Park,
Cincinnati, and Las Vegas. This program focuses on maintaining a level of
integrity in the management of EPA's procurement activities, and fostering
relationships with State and Local governments to support the
implementation of environmental programs.
Administrative Law (Environmental Programs & Management)
This program supports EPA's Administrative Law Judges (ALJ) and the
Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) or the Board. The ALJ preside in
hearings and issue initial decisions in cases initiated by EPA's
enforcement program concerning environmental violations.
Alternative Dispute Resolution (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund)
This program provides Alternative Dispute Resolution services to EPA
Headquarters and Regional Offices, and external stakeholders to assist in
developing effective ways to anticipate, prevent, and resolve disputes, and
make neutral third parties more readily available for those purposes.
Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations (Inspector General, Superfund)
This program uses sophisticated analytical tools, methodologies, and
specialized skills to determine the extent to which the desired results and
benefits envisioned by the Administration and Congress are being
achieved. Investigations focus on detection and prosecution of financial
fraud, laboratory fraud, and cybercrime.
Beach / Fish Programs (Environmental Programs & Management)
This program provides sound science, guidance, technical assistance and
nationwide information to state, Tribal, and federal agencies on the human
health risks associated with eating locally caught fish/shellfish or wildlife
with excessive levels of contaminants. It provides guidance, technical
assistance and nationwide information to support state, Tribal, and local
government beach monitoring and notification programs.
Brownfields (Environmental Programs & Management)
This program is designed to empower states, Tribes, local communities,
and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together to
prevent, assess, safely cleanup, and reuse Brownfields. This program
involves oversight from a Federal level. This program comprises the
administrative component of the Brownfields program, supporting human
resources, travel, training, technical assistance, and research activities.
The program also includes growth and sustainable design that address
Brownfield issues.Brownfields are defined as real properties, the
expansion, redevelopment, or reuse, which may be complicated by the
presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or
contaminant. The growth activities include: (1) removing barriers and
creating incentives for Brownfields redevelopment by changing standards
that affect the viability of Brownfields redevelopment; and (2) creating
cross-cutting solutions that improve the economic, regulatory, and
institutional climate for Brownfields redevelopment.
Brownfields Projects (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
This program is authorized by CERCLA section § 104 (k) through a
competitive process with a ranking system that includes factors relating to
community need, impact on human health and the environment,
stimulation or leveraging of other funds, eligibility for funding from other
sources, and effective use of existing infrastructure. Brownfields are
defined as real properties, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of
which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a
hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.
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Program Name (and Associated Appropriations)
Categorical Grant: Beaches Protection (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Brownfields (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Environmental Information (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Evaluation Grants
Categorical Grant: Hazardous Waste Financial Assistance (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Lead (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Nonpoint Source (Sec. 319) (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Pesticides Enforcement (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Pesticides Program Implementation (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Pollution Control (Sec. 106) (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Program Descriptions (from Program Project Description
Book)
This program, authorized under the Beach Act to support continued
development and implementation of coastal and Great Lakes recreational
water monitoring and public notification programs. This is a mature
program that has been proposed for elimination as the EPA has worked
with state, tribal, and territorial governments for over ten years to develop
their capacity to implement beach monitoring programs.
This program, authorized under CERCLA §129(a) provides funding
assistance to empower states and Tribes to work to prevent, assess, safely
cleanup, and reuse Brownfields. Brownfields are defined as real
properties, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be
complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous
substance, pollutant, or contaminant.
This program advances the Exchange Network by providing funding to
states, Tribes, and territories to develop and deploy technologies based on
Exchange Network specifications and standards to report and share
environmental data.
The Evidence-Based Enforcement and Compliance grants program will
assist states in developing and implementing innovative measures for
assessing the performance of enforcement and compliance programs. It
also will help the states design and implement innovative enforcement
tools or approaches and measure the impact of such approaches. These
grants will build capacity for collecting, using, and sharing enforcement
and compliance data, and for determining the most efficient and effective
practices for improving compliance. Evaluation of new approaches will help
to determine those most promising for potential expansion and replication.
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) authorizes and the
directs the EPA to assist state programs through the Hazardous Waste
Financial Assistance Grants program. These state grants provide
resources for authorized states to implement the hazardous waste
management program, and amount to well over half of the total resources
available in state program budgets.
This program provides grants to states and Tribes for lead-based paint
training and certification. Direct implementation by EPA in locations without
authorized programs.
This program provides grants to states and Indian Tribes in the
implementation of approved elements of Nonpoint Source management
programs.
The Pesticide Enforcement grants to states and Tribes ensure pesticide
product and user compliance with provisions of the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
This program provides grants to states and tribes to ensure the safer use
of pesticides, including worker protection, certification and training of
pesticide applicators, protection of endangered species, tribal pesticide
programs, integrated pest management and environmental stewardship
This program provides grants to states, tribes, and interstate agencies to
support key programs for the prevention, reduction and elimination of
surface and ground water pollution from point and non-point sources for
enhancing the ecological health of the Nation's waters.
Performance Linkage
Goal
2
3
All
5
3
4
2
5
4
2
Objective
1
1
All
1
2&3
1
2
1
1
2
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Program Name (and Associated Appropriations)
Categorical Grant: Pollution Prevention (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Public Water System Supervision (PWSS) (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Radon (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: State and Local Air Quality Management (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Toxics Substances Compliance (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Tribal Air Quality Management (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Tribal General Assistance Program (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Underground Injection Control (UIC) (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Underground Storage Tanks (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Categorical Grant: Wetlands Program Development (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Program Descriptions (from Program Project Description
Book)
This program provides grants to states and tribes to test innovative
pollution prevention (P2) approaches and to provide P2 technical
assistance to companies
This program provides grants 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.
The program includes funding for state radon programs to support radon
outreach, education, testing, mitigation and radon resistant new
construction, and other activities to reduce public health risks from radon-
induced lung cancer. This is a mature program that has been proposed for
elimination. Local and state governments can now carry out the goals of
this mature federal program.
This program includes funding for state and local air pollution control
agencies designated by Governors. Under CAA Section 105 Grants, state
and local air pollution control agencies may develop and implement
continuing programs for the prevention and control of air pollution or
implementation of national primary and secondary ambient air standards.
The EPA/State and Tribal Assistance Grants (State & Tribal Assistance
Grants) program builds environmental partnerships with states and tribes
to help build state capacity and strengthen their ability to address
environmental and public health threats from toxic substances such as
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), asbestos, and lead-based paint rules.
The State & Tribal Assistance Grants grants are used to assist in the
implementation of compliance and enforcement provisions of TSCA.
This program includes funding for Tribal air pollution control agencies
and/or Tribes. Through CAA Section 105 Grants, Tribes may develop and
implement programs for the prevention and control of air pollution or
implementation of continuing national primary and secondary ambient air
standards.
This program provides general assistance grants to eligible Tribal
governments and intertribal consortia for planning, developing, and
establishing environmental programs in Indian Country
This program provides financial assistance, in the form of grants, to states
that have primary enforcement authority (primacy) to implement and
maintain UIC programs.
This program provides grants to states to support leak prevention activities
and detection programs. This program approves technologies to detect
leaks from tanks, ensures that tank owners and operators are complying
with requirements, and ensures equipment compatibility.
The program provides grants to develop new or refined existing state and
Tribal wetland programs in one or more of the following areas: monitoring
and assessment, voluntary restoration and protection.
Performance Linkage
Goal
4
2
1
1
5
1
3
2
3
2
Objective
2
1
2
2
1
2
4
1
2
2
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Program Name (and Associated Appropriations)
Central Planning, Budgeting, and Finance (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund, Leaking Underground
Storage Tanks)
Children and Other Sensitive Populations: Agency Coordination (Environmental Programs & Management)
Civil Enforcement (Environmental Programs & Management, Leaking Underground Storage Tanks, Oil Spill Response)
Civil Rights / Title VI Compliance (Environmental Programs & Management)
Clean Air Allowance Trading Programs (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Management)
Climate Protection Program (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Management)
Compliance Monitoring (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund, Oil Spill Response)
Congressional, Intergovernmental, External Relations (Environmental Programs & Management)
Program Descriptions (from Program Project Description
Book)
This program manages integrated planning, budgeting, financial
management, and accountability processes and systems to ensure
effective stewardship of resources which meets the statutory requirements
of the Government Performance and Results Act, the Chief Financial
Officer Act, and related legislation.
This program coordinates and advances protection of children's
environmental health through regulatory development, science policy,
program implementation, communication and effective results
measurement as an explicit part of its mission to protect human health.
This program focuses on the protection of human health and the
environment by targeting enforcement actions according to the degree of
health and environmental impacts due to noncompliance with federal
environmental statutes and regulations. These activities include data
gathering and analysis of information to determine high priority
noncompliance or environmental problems on which to focus federal, state,
Tribal or local attention; inspections; enforcement or compliance
assistance.
This program includes the following activities: Intake and processing of
Title VI complaints of discrimination from the public about EPA's financial
assistance recipients, complaint adjudication, and civil rights compliance
reviews; intake and processing of Title VII complaints of discrimination
from Agency employees and applicants for employment, and complaint
adjudication; implementation of processes and programs in support of
reasonable accommodation; and affirmative employment and diversity
program planning and implementation.
This program includes development, implementation, and evaluation of
federally administered programs for the trading of emissions allowances.
This program includes voluntary domestic and international programs that
address greenhouse gases (GHG), and technology to address climate
change issues.
This program includes all activities to determine whether regulated entities
are in compliance with environmental laws and regulations, as well as
enforcement agreements activities can include, but are not limited to,
permit, file and report reviews; sampling and gathering data; analysis and
use of information to determine high priority noncompliance or
environmental problems on which to focus federal, state, tribal or local
attention; inspections and investigations.
The Congressional, Intergovernmental and External Relations program
provides vital executive and logistical support for the EPA's Administrator.
Performance Linkage
Goal
All
4
5
All
1
1
5
All
Objective
All
1
1
All
2
1
1
All
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Program Name (and Associated Appropriations)
Criminal Enforcement (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund)
Diesel Emissions Reduction Grant Program (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Drinking Water Programs (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Management)
Endocrine Disrupters (Environmental Programs & Management)
Environmental Education (Environmental Programs & Management)
Environmental Justice (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund)
Exchange Network (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund)
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Management, Buildings &
Facilities, Superfund, Leaking Underground Storage Tanks, Oil Spill Response)
Federal Stationary Source Regulations (Environmental Programs & Management)
Program Descriptions (from Program Project Description
Book)
The Criminal Enforcement program seeks to identify, apprehend, and
assist prosecutors in succesfully convicting those who are responsible for
the most significant and egregious intentional violations of environmental
laws.
The Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Grant Program provides
immediate, cost-effective emission reductions from existing diesel engines
through engine retrofits, rebuilds, and replacements; switching to cleaner
fuels; idling reduction strategies; and other clean diesel strategies.
This program comprises the multiple-barrier approach to protecting public
health from unsafe drinking water. Under this approach, the Agency
protects public health through: source water assessment and protection
programs; promulgation of new or revised, scientifically sound and risk-
based National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWRs)^
This program develops and validates scientific test methods from which a
battery of tests will be selected and used for the routine, ongoing
evaluation of pesticides and other chemicals to determine their potential
for adverse health or environmental effects by interfering with normal
endocrine system function.
This program has ensured that Environmental Education, using a science-
based approach and effective education practices, has been used as a
tool to promote the protection of human health and the environment, and
has encouraged student academic achievement. This is part of the mature
programs that are being proposed for elimination. The Agency will focus on
integrating environmental education activities into existing Agency
programs.
The EJ program conducts outreach to overburdened communities and
provides financial and technical assistance that empowers low income and
minority communities to take action to protect themselves from
environmental harm. The EJ program partners with other agency programs
to develop scientific, legal, and public engagement guidance documents
that enable the incorporation of environmental justice considerations into
the EPA's regulatory and policy decisions. Finally, the EJ program
supports agency efforts to strengthen internal mechanisms to integrate
environmental justice into the EPA's programs and activities including
communication, training, performance management, and accountability
measures.
The Exchange Network program supports the sharing and integration of
state, Tribal, and federal government environmental data and information.
This program directs management activities and support services in many
centralized administrative areas such as health and safety, environmental
compliance, occupational health, medical monitoring, fitness/wellness and
safety, and environmental management and protection service functions at
EPA.
This program includes activities related to the development of New Source
Performance Standards that address Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), and
associated national guidance and outreach information.
Performance Linkage
Goal
5
1
2
4
3
3
All
All
1
Objective
1
2
1
1
1
1
All
All
1&2
10
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Program Name (and Associated Appropriations)
Federal Support for Air Quality Management (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Management)
Federal Vehicle and Fuels Standards and Certification (Science & Technology)
Financial Assistance Grants / IAG Management (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund)
Forensics Support (Science & Technology, Superfund)
Geographic Program: Chesapeake Bay (Environmental Programs & Management)
Geographic Program: Gulf of Mexico (Environmental Programs & Management)
Geographic Program: Lake Champlain (Environmental Programs & Management)
Geographic Program: Long Island Sound (Environmental Programs & Management)
Geographic Program: Other (Environmental Programs & Management)
Geographic Program: Puget Sound (Environmental Programs & Management)
Program Descriptions (from Program Project Description
Book)
This program includes both EPA Headquarters and Regional Federal
support to state, tribal, and local air pollution control agencies for the
implementation and evaluation of programs related to permitting sources of
Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) under the Prevention of Significant
Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule.
The Federal Vehicle and Fuels Standards and Certification program
develops, implements, and ensures compliance with national standards to
reduce mobile source related air pollution from light-duty cars and trucks,
heavy-duty trucks and buses, nonroad engines and vehicles, and from the
fuels that power these engines. The program also evaluates emission
control technology and provides state, Tribal, and local air quality
managers and transportation planners with access to information on
transportation programs and incentive-based programs.
This program supports activities related to the management of Financial
Assistance Grants/lAG and suspension and debarment at Headquarters,
Regions, Research Triangle Park, Cincinnati, and Las Vegas.
The Forensics program provides specialized support for the nation's most
complex civil and criminal enforcement cases, and technical expertise for
non-routine Agency compliance efforts.
The Chesapeake Bay Program includes the States of Delaware, Maryland,
New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, the District of Columbia,
the Chesapeake Bay Commission, EPA and other federal partners working
together to protect and restore the Bay's ecosystem.
This program consists of a partnership of the five Gulf states, Gulf coastal
communities, citizens, nongovernmental organizations, and federal
agencies working together to initiate cooperative actions by public and
private organizations to achieve specific environmental results.
This program focuses on the creation of a comprehensive pollution
prevention, control, and restoration plan for protecting the future of the
Lake Champlain Basin and implement the plan.
This program implements the Comprehensive Conservation and
Management Plan for the Long Island Sound National Estuary Program,
through support for the Long Island Sound Office.
This program works to develop and implement community-based
approaches to mitigate diffuse sources of pollution and cumulative risk for
geographic areas. EPA targets efforts to protect and restore various
communities and ecosystems impacted by environmental problems. The
Agency also fosters community efforts to build consensus and mobilize
local resources to target highest risks.
The Puget Sound program works to protect and restore the Puget Sound
which has been designated as an estuary of national significance under
the Clean Water Act National Estuary Program (NEP). EPA's efforts are
focused on high priority environmental activities consistent with the State
of Washington's 2020 Puget Sound Action Agenda.
Performance Linkage
Goal
1
1
All
5
2
2
2
2
Objective
1&2
1&2
All
1
2
2
2
2
Goal 2 Obj 2 and Goal 3
ObjJ
2
2
11
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Program Name (and Associated Appropriations)
Geographic Program: San Francisco Bay (Environmental Programs & Management)
Geographic Program: South Florida (Environmental Programs & Management)
Great Lakes Restoration (Environmental Programs & Management)
Homeland Security: Communication and Information (Environmental Programs & Management)
Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure Protection (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Management
Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs &
Management, Superfund)
Homeland Security: Protection of EPA Personnel and Infrastructure (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs
& Management, Buildings & Facilities, Superfund)
Human Health Risk Assessment (Science & Technology, Superfund)
Human Resources Management (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund)
Program Descriptions (from Program Project Description
Book)
The San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary program is aimed at protecting and
restoring water quality and ecological health of the estuary through
partnerships, interagency coordination, and project grants.
The South Florida program leads special initiatives and planning activities
in the South Florida region, which includes the Everglades and Florida
Keys coral reef ecosystem.
The Great Lakes (GL) Program nworks to restore and maintain the
chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin
Ecosystem as required by the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and
the Clean Water Act. EPA leads 1 6 federal agencies in development and
implementation of a Great Lake Restoration Initiative to achieve that goal,
including overseeing international commitments in the Great Lake Water
Quality Agreement. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding is
provided through EPA's Great Lake National Program Office.
This program ensures implementation of EPA's Homeland Security
Strategy and use of an Agency-wide Homeland Security Collaborative
Network. This program also designs, develops, deploys and maintains a
secure and stable infrastructure to support the Agency's critical
communications and data-transfer demands in the event of a national or
local disaster, and supports a dispersed workforce in the event of a large-
scale catastrophic incident, a Continuity of Operations (COOP) Plan, or a
pandemic situation.
This program involves EPA activities that help protect the nation's critical
public infrastructure from terrorist threats. EPA is committed to assessing
and reducing vulnerabilities and strengthening detection and response
capabilities for critical infrastructures.
This program involves activities that help the public prepare, respond, and
recover from terrorist and CBRN incidents.
This program involves activities to ensure EPA's physical structures and
assets are secure and operational. This involves safeguarding EPA's
staff, ensuring the continuity of EPA's operations, and protecting the
operational capability of EPA's vital infrastructure assets.
The EPA's Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA) research program
generates health assessments and scientific products that are used
extensively by the EPA Program and Regional offices, and other parties to
estimate the potential risk to public health from exposure to environmental
contaminants.
This program performs functions in all aspects of human resources
programs, organizational development, and management activities
including support to Agency-wide and interagency councils and
committees and serving as EPA's liaison on interagency management
improvement initiatives.
Performance Linkage
Goal
2
2
2
All
2
Objective
2
2
2
All
1
Goal 2 Obj 4, Goal 3 Obj 3,
Goal 4 Obj 1
All
4
All
All
1
All
12
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Program Name (and Associated Appropriations)
Indoor Air: Radon Program (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Management)
Information Security (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund)
Infrastructure Assistance: Alaska Native Villages (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Infrastructure Assistance: Clean Water SRF (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Infrastructure Assistance: Drinking Water SRF (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Infrastructure Assistance: Mexico Border (State & Tribal Assistance Grants)
Integrated Environmental Strategies (Environmental Programs & Management)
International Sources of Pollution (Environmental Programs & Management)
IT / Data Management (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund, Leaking
Underground Storage Tanks)
Legal Advice: Environmental Program (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund)
Program Descriptions (from Program Project Description
Book)
This program includes voluntary national, regional, state, and Tribal
programs and activities that address radon primarily in homes as well as
indoor air laboratory related infrastructure expenses.
This program protects the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of the
Agency's information assets. It establishes a risk-based cyber security
program utilizing a defense-in-depth approach that includes partnering
with other Federal agencies and the states.
This program supports the wastewater and drinking water infrastructure
projects in Alaska Native and rural villages.
This program provides Federal funds to the states and Puerto Rico to
capitalize the revolving loan fund. The program also includes a provision
for Indian set-aside grant funds.
This program provides Federal funds to the states and Puerto Rico to
capitalize their revolving funds and is designed to help public water
systems finance the costs of infrastructure improvements needed to
achieve or maintain compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
requirements and to protect public health. Resources may also fund Inter-
agency Agreements (lAs) to other Federal agencies, such as the Indian
health service in HHS, that provide safe drinking water activities in support
of the Tribes.
This program includes Headquarters and Regional Federal support to
state, tribal, and local air pollution control agencies for the following:
modeling, inventories, monitoring, assessments, strategy and program
development; community based toxics programs; voluntary programs
including those that reduce inhalation risk and those that reduce
deposition to water bodies and ecosystems; international cooperation to
reduce trans-boundary and intercontinental air toxic pollution; National
Toxics Inventory (NTI) development and updates; Great Waters; and
Persistent Bio-accumulative Toxics (PBT) activities. Also includes training
for air pollution professionals. In addition, includes activities for
implementation of Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT)
standards and the National Air Toxics Assessment (NAT A).
This program supports the Agency's smart growth and sustainable design
work, as well as strategic environmental management activities that
address cross-cutting and emerging policy issues.
This program allows the Agency to work with international partners to
address international sources of pollution in order to achieve our domestic
environmental objectives. EPA also works with international partners to
address the impacts of pollution from the U.S. on other countries and the
global environment.
This program supports the development, collection, management, and
analysis of environmental data (to include both point source and ambient
data) to manage statutory programs and to support the Agency in strategic
planning at the national, program, and regional levels.
This program provides legal representational services, legal counseling,
and legal support for all Agency environmental activities by the Office of
General Counsel (OGC) and the Offices of Regional Counsel (ORCs).
Performance Linkage
Goal
1
All
2
2
2
2
3
4
All
1-4
Objective
2
All
2
2
1
2
1
1
All
All
13
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Program Name (and Associated Appropriations)
Legal Advice: Support Program (Environmental Programs & Management)
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks / UST (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund)
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks Cooperative Agreements (Leaking Underground Storage Tanks)
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks Prevention (Leaking Underground Storage Tanks)
Marine Pollution (Environmental Programs & Management)
National Estuary Program / Coastal Waterways (Environmental Programs & Management)
National Environmental Policy Act Implementation (Environmental Programs & Management)
Oil Spill Response Spill: Prevention, Preparedness and Response (Oil Spill Response)
Pesticides: Protect Human Health from Pesticide Risk (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Managemenl
Pesticides: Protect the Environment from Pesticide Risk (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Managers
Pesticides: Realize the Value of Pesticide Availability (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Management)
Program Descriptions (from Program Project Description
Book)
This program provides legal representational services, legal counseling,
and legal support for all Agency management and administrative activities
by the Office of General Counsel and the Offices of Regional Counsel
necessary for the operation of the Agency (i.e., contracts, grants,
personnel, information law, ethics, and financial/monetary issues).
This program provides technical information, forums for information
exchanges, and training opportunities to states, Tribes, intertribal consortia
and non-governmental organizations to encourage program development
and/or implementation of the UST program.
This program is responsible for the oversight, corrective action and related
enforcement activities associated with petroleum releases from
Underground Storage Tanks (USTs), and for the development and/or
implementation of the LUST program in states.
The Underground Storage Tank (UST) prevention program funds are used
to provide resources to States, Tribes, Territories, and intertribal consortia
for their UST programs. Major activities focus on inspections, enforcement,
development of leak prevention regulations and other program
infrastructure.
The Marine Pollution program funds the implementation of regulatory and
support activities relating to ocean discharges and related marine
ecosystem protection activities.
This program provides grants and technical assistance to the National
Estuary Program and to other coastal watersheds.
The NEPA Program provides environmental protection by meeting its
statutory obligation to review all environmental impact statements (EISs).
The EISs are required for major federal actions which have a significant
environmental impact. EPA focuses on adverse environmental impacts of
proposed actions and recommends measures to mitigate them.
This program includes spill prevention, preparedness, and response
activities. The Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures (SPCC)
serve to prevent Oil Spill Response spills that have potential to reach
navigable waters. Area Planning ensures that EPA and other response
organizations have identified resources that need to be protected, and
methods to effectively coordinate during response.
EPA is charged with protecting people from the health risks that pesticide
use can pose; this program reviews pesticide product registrations and
sets tolerances for pesticides in food and animal feed.
This program seeks to protect the Environment from pesticide risk by
conducting risk assessments of pesticide products, determining toxicity
and environmental fate of pesticides in the environment and determining
any necessary risk mitigation efforts.
This program carries out reviews of special actions under the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, such as addressing special
local needs, emergency and crisis exemptions, minor crops, and pest
control to ensure that the public health and the socio-economic benefits of
pesticide availability and use are achieved.
Performance Linkage
Goal
All
3
3
3
2
2
4
3
4
4
4
Objective
All
2&3
3
2
2
2
2
3
1
1
1
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Program Name (and Associated Appropriations)
Pollution Prevention Program (Environmental Programs & Management)
Radiation: Protection (Environmental Programs & Management, Science & Technology, Superfund)
Radiation: Response Preparedness (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Management)
RCRA: Corrective Action (Environmental Programs & Management, Oil Spill Response)
RCRA: Waste Management (Environmental Programs & Management, E-Manifest)
RCRA: Waste Minimization & Recycling (Environmental Programs & Management, E-Manifest)
Reduce Risks from Indoor Air (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Management)
Regional Science and Technology (Environmental Programs & Management)
Regulatory/Economic-Management and Analysis (Environmental Programs & Management)
Research: Air, Climate and Energy (Science & Technology)
Program Descriptions (from Program Project Description
Book)
The program seeks to prevent pollutants from being generated at the
source by promoting environmentally sound business practices and the
development of safer (green) chemicals, technologies, and processes.
This program includes activities for radiation clean up; Federal guidance;
Risk Modeling; Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP); Radiation air toxics;
naturally-occurring radioactive material; Radiation waste management; and
Radioactive and mixed waste operations and measurements. Also
includes radiation lab-related infrastructure expenses.
This program includes Federal preparedness activities including radiation
emergency response team and equipment, training and outreach, and
radiological emergency response guidance.
This program focuses on the reduction of risks to human health and the
environment at contaminated sites through cleanup, assessment,
stabilization, or other action and make land available for reuse. This
program provides cleanup at industrial facilities.
This program supports the proper management of solid and hazardous
wastes, from RCRA hazardous waste generators, transporters, and
treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facilities. EPA's goals include
reducing materials and energy use through encouraging product and
process redesign and increasing materials and energy recovery from
wastes otherwise requiring disposal.
This program will encourage the reduction of materials and energy use
through product and process redesign, and increase materials and energy
recovery from wastes otherwise requiring disposal. EPA will encourage
firms to reduce pollution through adoption of more efficient, sustainable
and protective policies, practices, materials and technologies.
In this non-regulatory (voluntary) program, the EPA works through
partnerships with non-governmental organizations and federal, state, and
local partners, as well as professional organizations, to educate and
encourage individuals, schools, industry, the health care community, and
others to take action to reduce health risks from poor indoor air quality in
homes, schools, and other buildings.
The Regional Science and Technology program (RScience & Technology)
activities support all of the Agency's national programs (including but not
limited to the Agency's water, air, Superfund, and enforcement programs)
and strategic goals, by supplying laboratory analysis, field monitoring and
sampling, and building Tribal capacity for environmental monitoring and
assessment.
The Regulatory, Economic, Management and Analysis program assesses
and considers the impacts of EPA's regulations on businesses,
government entities, and the economy as a whole. Outreach and
consultation are also priorities with a goal to make information on EPA's
regulatory activities available to the public to improve transparency and
encourage meaningful participation.
The Air, Climate and Energy (ACE) Research Program promotes
innovative, sustainable, and integrated solutions to air pollution and
climate change.
Performance Linkage
Goal
4
1
1
3
3
3
1
All
All
1
Objective
2
4
4
3
2
2
2
All
All
1&2
15
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Program Name (and Associated Appropriations)
Research: Chemical Safety and Sustainability (Science & Technology)
Research: Safe and Sustainable Water Resources (Science & Technology)
Research: Sustainable and Healthy Communities (Science & Technology, Superfund, Leaking Underground Storage
Tanks, Oil Spill Response)
Science Advisory Board (Environmental Programs & Management)
Science Policy and Biotechnology (Environmental Programs & Management)
Small Business Ombudsman (Environmental Programs & Management)
Small Minority Business Assistance (Environmental Programs & Management)
State and Local Prevention and Preparedness (Environmental Programs & Management)
Stratospheric Ozone: Domestic Programs (Environmental Programs & Management)
Program Descriptions (from Program Project Description
Book)
This program uses an integrated research approach to develop innovative
and cost-effective approaches and tools to better inform decisions to
reduce harmful effects of chemicals on human health and the environment.
This program takes a systems approach to protecting human and aquatic
ecosystem health and protecting and restoring watersheds for the
sustainability of the nation's water resources.
This program develops and conducts research leveraging the diverse
capabilities of in-house scientists and engineers, and bridge traditional
scientific disciplines, research plans will incorporate input from external
stakeholders such as federal, state and local government agencies, non-
governmental organizations, industry, and communities affected by
environmental problems.
This program along with two other statutorily mandated chartered Federal
Advisory Committees, the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and the
Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis, draw on a balanced
range of non-EPA scientists and technical specialists from academia,
communities, states, independent research institutions, and industry.
Congress established EPAs Science Advisory Board (SAB) in 1978 and
gave it a broad mandate to advise the Administrator on a wide range of
highly visible and important scientific matters to ensure that EPAs
technical products are of the highest quality.
This program provides scientific and policy expertise, coordinates the
EPA's intra-agency, interagency, and international efforts, and facilitates
information sharing related to core science policy issues concerning
pesticides, toxic chemicals, and products derived through biotechnology.
This program also provides for independent, external scientific peer review
through the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific
Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP), a federal advisory committee.
This program serves as the Agency's leading advocate for small business
regulatory issues and assists the EPA's program offices with analyzing and
considering the impacts of its regulatory actions on small businesses.
The Agency's Office of Small Business Programs' (OSBP) manages the
agency's Small and Minority Business Assistance programs, which include
the Direct Procurement, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE), and
Minority Academic Institutions (MAI) programs. This program provides
technical assistance to small businesses, headquarters, and regional office
employees to ensure that small disadvantaged, women-owned, Historically
Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), service-disabled veteran-owned
small businesses (SDVOSBs), and MAIs receive a fair share of EPA's
procurement dollars and grants, where applicable.
EPA's Risk Management program supports the State Emergency
Response Commission (SERC) and the Local Emergency Planning
Committee (LEPC) structure through tools, regulations and guidance. The
program provides technical assistance to these entities to assess chemical
risks, develop and revise emergency response plans, and make chemical
information available to the public and assists in the performance of RMP
facility inspections.
This program includes activities for regulatory programs to restore the
ozone layer and voluntary programs to reduce public health risk.
Performance Linkage
Goal
4
2
3
All
4
4
All
3
1
Objective
1
1&2
1
All
1
2
All
1
3
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Program Name (and Associated Appropriations)
Stratospheric Ozone: Multilateral Fund (Environmental Programs & Management)
Superfund: Emergency Response and Removal (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund, Oil Spill Respon
Superfund: Enforcement (Superfund)
Superfund: EPA Emergency Preparedness (Superfund)
Superfund: Federal Facilities (Environmental Programs & Management, Superfund, Oil Spill Response)
Superfund: Remedial (Superfund)
Superfund: Support to Other Federal Agencies (Superfund)
Superfund: Federal Facilities Enforcement (Superfund)
Surface Water Protection (Environmental Programs & Management)
Program Descriptions (from Program Project Description
Book)
This program includes the Multilateral Fund that promotes international
compliance with the Montreal Protocol by financing the incremental cost of
converting existing industries in developing countries to cost-effective
ozone friendly technology.
This program works to ensure all immediate threats from releases and/or
potential releases of hazardous substances are appropriately addressed at
NPL and non-NPL responses for the protection of human health and the
environment.
The Superfund Enforcement program emphasizes "Enforcement First" to
ensure that sites for which there are viable responsible parties are cleaned
up by those parties.
This program works to ensure the readiness of EPA's preparedness and
response personnel through planning, training, and exercises and
coordination with the National Response Team and Regional Response
Teams.
The Superfund Federal Facilities Enforcement program ensures,
consistent with law, that sites with federal entities performing
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA) responses and CERCLA sites with federal ownership are
monitored and appropriate enforcement responses are pursued. After
years of service and operation, some federal facilities contain
environmental contamination, such as hazardous wastes, unexploded
ordnance, radioactive wastes, or other toxic substances. To enable the
cleanup and reuse of such sites, the Federal Facilities Enforcement
program identifies and coordinates creative solutions that ensure the
integrity of cleanups and protect both human health and the environment.
This program works to protect the American public and the nation's
resources by assessing and cleaning up contaminated sites in the United
States. Cleanup activities include characterizing the degree and scope of
contamination from releases to the environment, developing cleanup
strategies, designing and constructing remedies, conducting long-term
operation and the monitoring of certain remedies.
This program provides resources to support other federal agencies that
contribute to the Superfund program by providing essential services in
areas where EPA does not possess the required specialized expertise.
This is part of the mature programs that are being eliminated. Funding for
other Federal Agencies may be pursued for Superfund-related support
services on an as-needed basis.
The Federal Facilities Enforcement Office as well as the Federal Facilities
Regional Programs ensures that Federal agencies who own sites currently
listed on the NPL have an Inter-Agency Agreement (IAG) in place to
ensure clean up and compliance with Federal environmental statutes and
regulations. lAGs are also referenced to as Federal Facilities Agreements
(FFAs)
This program works to protect and restore the quality of surface waters
(streams, rivers, lakes). It includes water quality standards and criteria,
effluent guidelines, cooling water intake regulations, water quality
assessment and monitoring, total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), and nonpoint sources.
Performance Linkage
Goal
1
3
5
3
3
3
3
5
2
Objective
3
3
1
3
3
3
3
1
2
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Program Name (and Associated Appropriations)
Toxic Substances: Chemical Risk Management (Environmental Programs & Management)
Toxic Substances: Chemical Risk Review and Reduction (Environmental Programs & Management)
Toxic Substances: Lead Risk Reduction Program (Environmental Programs & Management)
Trade and Governance (Environmental Programs & Management)
TRI / Right to Know (Environmental Programs & Management)
Tribal - Capacity Building (Environmental Programs & Management)
US Mexico Border (Environmental Programs & Management)
Water Quality Research and Support Grants (Science & Technology, Environmental Programs & Management)
Wetlands (Environmental Programs & Management)
Program Descriptions (from Program Project Description
Book)
This programs supports national efforts aimed at mitigating risks of
chemicals including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), asbestos, mercury
and dioxins, through reductions in use, safe removal, disposal or
containment.
This program works to ensure the safety of existing chemicals by obtaining
needed data, assessing those data and taking regulatory and non-
regulatory actions to eliminate or significantly reduce any unreasonable
risk they may pose. It ensures the safety of new chemicals by reviewing
and acting on new chemical notices submitted by industry, including Pre-
Manufacture Notices, to ensure that no unreasonable risk is posed when
those chemicals are introduced to U.S. commerce.
The program contributes to the goal of reducing children's exposure to
lead from lead-based paint through regulations, certification, and training
programs and public outreach efforts.
This program seeks to mitigate the potential domestic and global
environmental effects from trade, and to prevent any potential conflicts with
domestic environmental mandates. Growing U.S. global trade underscores
the importance of addressing potential adverse environmental
consequences.
The program supports public access to environmental data from certain
industrial facilities and tool development for the use of that data as well as
scientific and economic support for the analysis and use of TRI program.
Programs are designed to inform the public of toxic chemical releases and
other waste management issues in their own neighborhoods.
Under Federal environmental statutes, EPA has the responsibility for
protecting human health and the environment in Indian country. EPA
encourages building tribal capacity to administer their own environmental
programs.
This program carries out activities that address the environment and the
health of over 14 million people along the 3,100 kilometer stretch of the
U.S. -Mexico Border. The program is implemented in partnership with the
ten (10) Border States, U.S. Tribal government, and the Government of
Mexico with its corresponding states and tribes. It addresses the Agency's
major themes of clean air, clean water, and clean land.
This program, designed to support the Clean Water Act (CWA), provides
scientific information and tools to the Agency and others to help protect
and restore the designated uses of water bodies that sustain human health
and aquatic life.
The Wetlands Program includes development and dissemination of
guidance, information and scientific tools to improve management and
public understanding of wetland programs.
Total*
Performance Linkage
Goal
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
2
Objective
1
1
1
1
1
4
1
1&2
2
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