FY20II
   EPA Budget in  Brief
United States Environmental Protection Agency
           www.epa.gov

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    United States Environmental Protection Agency
     Office of the Chief Financial Officer (271OA)
       Publication Number:  EPA-205-S-10-001
                   February 2010
                   www.epa.gov
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                           Budget in Brief

                           Table of Contents

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Overview  	1

Summary  Resource Charts

   EPA's FY 2011 Budget by Goal	5
   EPA's FY2011 by Appropriation	6
   EPA's Resource History	7
   EPA's Resources by Major Category	8

Highlights of Major Budget Changes	9

Goals

   Goal 1:  Clean Air and Global Climate Change	17
   Goal 2:  Clean and Safe Water	25
   Goal 3:  Land Preservation and Restoration	31
   Goal 4:  Healthy Communities and Ecosystems	39
   Goal 5:  Compliance and Environmental Stewardship	51

Appendices

   Summary Resource Tables
     EPA's Resources by Appropriation	61
     EPA's Resources by Program Area	63

   Highlighted Programs
     Categorical Grants	69
     STAG (State and Tribal Assistance Grants)	71
     Estimated SRF Obligations by State (FY 2009 - FY 2011 including ARRA).... 79
     Infrastructure Financing	83
     Trust  Funds (Superfund, Leaking Underground Storage Tanks)	89

   List of Acronyms	93

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                                                                         Overview
                                    Mission

              The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
              is to protect human health and the environment.
Budget in Brief Overview

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Budget request supports the Administration's commitment to
ensure that all Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and the
environment where they live, learn, and work. This mission is being achieved through
collaboration  with states and  tribes to implement  air,  water, waste,  and chemical
programs.

This budget request builds on the Agency's work to impact climate  change through
actions  under the Clean Air Act.    It  supports  a greater focus on  community-level
engagement,  to augment and reinforce the critical work of our state and tribal partners.
It  moves  forward with  the  Agency's ambitious  vision  for  protecting  and restoring
America's waters. It will help assure the safety of chemicals, and it reflects an increase
to ensure federal laws are enforced fairly and effectively. EPA will carry out its mission
based on the core values of science, transparency, and the rule of law to address the
complex,  inter-related,  and  multi-disciplinary challenges to environmental protection
today.

The EPA  FY 2011 budget requests  $10.020 billion  in discretionary budget authority.
This request  will support EPA's  efforts to focus  on  developing common-sense steps
toward  clean air, addressing the climate challenge, protecting  our  nation's waters,
cleaning up communities and ecosystems, and  strengthening EPA's  scientific  and
enforcement capabilities.  This budget also includes actions to improve EPA's internal
operations to  deliver environmental results for the American people.  Below are funding
highlights:

Supports Healthy Communities

The Environmental Protection Agency is  committed  to protect, sustain or restore the
health of communities and ecosystems by bringing together a variety of programs, tools,
approaches and resources.  Results stem from effective regulatory frameworks, but also
from partnerships with stakeholders.  Partnerships with international, Federal, state,
tribal,  local  governments and  non-governmental organizations  have  long been  a
common thread across EPA's programs.

The  FY 2011  budget  includes  a $27 million multidisciplinary initiative for Healthy
Communities.   It supports  states  and communities  in  promoting  healthier school
environments by increasing technical support, outreach,  and co-leading interagency
efforts to  coordinate and integrate existing school programs throughout the Federal
government.  It  also  provides resources to address air toxics within at-risk communities,

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and to enhance  the important joint DOT/HUD/EPA outreach  and related efforts with
communities on sustainable development.

Improving a community's ability to make decisions that affect its environment is at the
heart  of EPA's  community-centered  work.   This  budget supports EPA  efforts to
accelerate  brownfields cleanups  through effective  outreach  and job  creation in
disadvantaged communities. The budget includes an increase of $42 million to invest in
revitalizing  once productive  community  properties  by removing  blight, satisfying  a
growing demand for land,  limiting  urban sprawl, fostering habitat enhancements,  and
spurring economic development.

In addition, EPA  will integrate and leverage its assessment and cleanup authorities to
address a greater number of  contaminated sites,  accelerate cleanups,  and  put those
sites back into productive use while protecting human health and the environment. An
element of this strategy will be to identify and define and  implement new program
measures to better portray progress and improve transparency.  By deploying  all
cleanup tools available, including  strengthened enforcement  and compliance efforts,
this request supports EPA's commitment to helping  communities address cleaning up
our communities.

Builds Strong State and Tribal Partnerships

This budget includes $1.3  billion for State and Tribal categorical grants.  Our partners
are working diligently to implement new and expanded requirements under the Clean
Air Act (CAA) and Clean Water Act (CWA), and need additional support during a time of
constrained state budgets.  Increases for air grants include $25 million for development
and deployment of technical capacity  needed to  address  greenhouse  gas (GHG)
emissions in  permitting under the CAA  and $60  million to support increased  state
workload for implementation of updated National Ambient  Air Quality Standards.  An
additional $45 million is requested for  states to enhance their clean water enforcement
and permitting programs.   In order to help tribes  move beyond capacity building to
implementation of environmental  programs, $30 million is  budgeted for a new Tribal
Multi-media  Implementation grant program.  To further enhance Tribal capacity this
budget also includes  an additional $9 million for  Tribal  General Assistance Program
grants.

Supports Action on Climate Change and Improves Air Quality

EPA will take meaningful, common sense steps to  improving air quality and addressing
climate change.  Making the right choices  now will allow the Agency to improve public
health, drive technology innovation for  a better economy, and protect the environment -
all without placing an undue burden on the nation's economy.

EPA's FY 2011 budget requests $43.5 million in new  funding for additional regulatory
efforts  aimed to reduce GHG emissions  and address the  Climate and Clean Energy
Challenge.   This includes $25  million  for state  grants focused on developing the
technical capacity  for addressing  GHG  in their  CAA  permitting  activities and  an

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additional $5 million for related EPA efforts  It also includes $13.5 million in additional
funding for the  development and implementation of new emission standards that will
reduce GHG emissions from  transportation sources for passenger  cars, light-duty
trucks, and  medium duty  passenger  vehicles.  Funds  also  will  support  EPA's
assessment and  potential development,  in response  to  legal obligations, for other
mobile sources and  for  assessment  and potential development of  New  Source
Performance Standards for  several categories  of major  stationary sources through
means that are flexible and manageable for business.

The  budget requests  an  additional $4  million for implementing  the Mandatory GHG
Reporting Rule, to ensure  the collection of high quality data.  This budget includes an
increase of $2.3  million to support community  pilot programs as they develop and
implement air toxics approaches tailored to their local needs.  An additional $1.1  million
will be invested to improve children's health through the delivery of effective asthma
management strategies in schools and communities.

Invests in Clean Water

Protecting America's waters  is a top priority and  EPA has an ambitious vision  for the
nation's waters  in the years ahead.  Water quality has tremendous impacts on quality of
life, on economic potential,  and on human and environmental health.

In FY 2011, EPA continues its commitment to upgrading drinking water  and wastewater
infrastructure with a  substantial combined investment of $3.3 billion for the Clean Water
and  drinking Water State Revolving  Fund  programs.   America's waterbodies  are
imperiled as never  before from nutrient  loadings and stormwater runoff to invasive
species  and drinking water contaminants.   EPA will confront  the challenges from
multiple angles  - local and national, traditional and innovative.  A new Mississippi River
Basin program is  funded at $17 million  to focus on nonpoint source program
enhancements  to result in water-quality improvement.    In addition,  $300 million is
requested  for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and support for the Chesapeake
Bay Program is increased by $13 million to $63 million.  Investments in  these and other
Clean Water and  Drinking Water projects reflect  a commitment to use leverage from
Federal agency partnerships to strengthen disadvantaged communities  by reconnecting
them with their waters and  achieving community-based goals.

Strengthens Enforcement

Through strengthened oversight, we will focus on environmental justice  and partnership
efforts to   ensure  innovative  and creative  environmental  programs are delivered
consistently nationwide, reaching historically under represented and at-risk populations.
The  FY 2011  President's Budget includes approximately $618 million for  EPA's
enforcement and Compliance Assurance Program.

This includes $2 million to support updated and  enhanced state water program  data
transfers to our  Integrated  Compliance Information System  (ICIS).  ICIS is a critical tool
for reviewing  water  quality  information and  strengthens  the Agency's  ability  to

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modernize our compliance network,  improve transparency, and provide important data
to allow EPA, states and the public to track environmental  progress and prioritize future
actions.

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              Environmental Protection Agency's
                     FY 2011 Budget by Goal

                      Total Agency: $10,020 Million
                      GoalS
                      8.2%
Goall
 11.9%
    Goal 4
    16.7%
     Goal 3
     17.5%
     Goal 2
     45.7%
             E Goal 1: Clean Air and Global Climate Change
             ffl Goal 2: Clean and Safe Water
             O Goal 3: Land Preservation and Restoration
             D Goal 4: Healthy Communities and Ecosystems
             H Goal 5: Compliance and Environmental Stewardship
Note: Dollar totals in chart exclude a $10 million rescission to prior year funds. Totals
may not add due to rounding.

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               Environmental Protection Agency's
                FY2011 Budget by Appropriation
                      Total Agency: $10,020 Million
         STAG
         47.7%
   LUST
   $113 M
    1.1%     SF
            12.9%
                                   0.4%
                         EPM
                        28.8%
     El Science & Technology
     E Inspector General
     10/7
     D Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
D Environmental Programs & Management
D Buildings & Facilities
ID Superfund
D State & Tribal Assistance Grants
Note: Dollar totals in chart exclude a $10 million rescission to prior year funds. Totals
may not add due to rounding

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         EPA's Enacted Budget FY1999 to 2011
                               (Dollars in Billions)
   $12.0
    $0.0
        1999   2000   2001   2002  2003   2004   2005   2006   2007  2008   2009   2010   2011
                                     Fiscal Year
                  EPA's F7E* Ceiling History
     19,000
            1999  2000  2001   2002   2003   2004  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009  2010  2011
                                       Fiscal Year
* FTE (Full Time Equivalent) = one employee working full time for a full year (52 weeks X 40 hours = 2,080 hours), or the
equivalent number of hours worked by several part-time or temporary employees.

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                   Environmental Protection Agency's
                       Resources by Major Category
                                  (Dollars in Billions)
                            S Categorical Grants
                            M Operating Budget
                            • Trust Funds
                            D Infrastructure Financing
 $12.0
 $10.0
  $8.0
  $6.0
  $4.0
  $2.0
  $0.0
                                                                  $10.3
J.1    $8.1
                        J.4
                              $8.0    $7.6   $7.7   $7.5    $7.6
                                                                   $1.1
                                                                          $10.0
        2002   2003   2004  2005   2006   2007  2008   2009   2010   2011
         EN     EN     EN    EN     EN     EN    EN     EN     EN     PB
Notes:
Totals may not add due to rounding
FY 2002 includes $175.6 M provided for Homeland Security in the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act
FY 2005 Enacted reflects 0.8% Rescission
FY 2006 Enacted reflects 0.476% rescission plus 1% additional rescission - excludes Hurricane Supplemental funding
FY 2008 Enacted includes a 1.56% rescission and $5 M rescission to prior year funds

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                                                             Highlights of Major Budget Changes
                  Highlights of Major Budget Changes
Taking Action  on Climate Change
GHG Rule Rollout
(FY2011 PB:$20.8M, FY 2010 Enacted: $16.7M, FY 2011 Change:+$4.1 M)
 •     Requests  a $4.1 million increase for a total of $20.8 million to  support the Greenhouse Gas
  Reporting Rule.
 •     The funding will enable EPA to  receive quality-assure, and verify data submitted electronically
  from 10,000-15,000 covered facilities.  In addition it will fund guidance and support of the first year of
  reporting, including  technical support meetings and documents, trainings, and workshops.

Energy Efficiency Coordination/ENERGY STAR
(FY2011 PB: $55.5M, FY2010 Enacted: $53.6M, FY2011 Change: +$1.9M)
 •     Requests  a $1.9 million increase for  a total of $55.5 million  to expand the  ENERGY STAR
  program across the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors.
 •     Key investments in EPA's energy efficiency programs will expand their reach and make an
  important contribution to advancing the Administration's climate change objectives.

CAA Greenhouse Gas (GHG)  Permitting
(FY2011 PB: $30.0M, FY2010 Enacted: $OM, FY2011 Change: +$30.0M)
 •     In FY 2011, states will be developing  and deploying  the technical capacity needed to address
  greenhouse gas emissions in permitting large sources as part of their Clean Air Act programs.  The FY
  2011 request of $30.0 million, including $25 million for state grants, supports increased state and EPA
  efforts.

GHG Standards for Transportation Sources
(FY 2011 PB: $6.0M,  FY 2010 Enacted: $O.OM, FY 2011 Change: +$6.0M)
 •     Requests  a $2.0 million increase to support the promulgation of GHG standards for passenger
  cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty passenger vehicles.
 •     Requests  a $4.0 million increase to support analysis and  potential development of standards for
  other mobile-source categories in order to respond to rulemaking petitions.

Carbon Capture and Sequestration
(FY 2011 PB: $7.1 M,  FY 2010 Enacted: $4.0M, FY 2011 Change: +$3.1 M)
 •     Requests  a $3.1 million increase for a total of $7.1 million to analyze  the applicability of Clean Air
  Act Authority, and  conduct further analyses  related to carbon capture and sequestration  (CCS)
  technology.
 •     Issues include developing guidance materials and building state capacity for future regulation of
  underground  injection of CO2 and  determining applicability of  the  Clean Air Act,  and other
  environmental statutes, to the capture, transport,  and storage components  of a CCS project and
  evaluating  technical  and  economic implications  of applying  carbon dioxide capture to currently
  regulated industry sectors.

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Highlights of Major Budget Changes
GHG New Source Performance Standards
(FY 2011 PB: $7.5M, FY 2010 Enacted: $O.OM, FY 2011 Change: +$7.5M)
 •     In response to legal obligations regarding NSPS, this funding will support the assessment, and
  potential development, of greenhouse gas limits for several categories of major stationary sources of
  greenhouse gases through means that are flexible and manageable for businesses.

Green Travel / Conferencing
(FY 2011 PB: $5.0M, FY 2010 Enacted: $0.8M, FY 2011 Change: +$4.2M)
 •     Requests an increase of $4.2 million to  support the Agency's effort in promoting green travel
  practices and increasing the use web-based video conferencing to facilitate EPA meetings. Agency-
  wide travel budget reduction reflects this commitment.
 •     Additional funding will support the creation of multi-use conference rooms in selected locations.

Renewable Fuel Storage
(FY 2011 PB: $2.0M, FY 2010 Enacted: $O.OM, FY 2011 Change: +$2.0M)
 •     Increased resources will be used to assess the Underground Storage Tank compatibility with
  alternative fuels.
Cleaning Up Our Communities
Brownfields
(FY2011 PB: $215.1 M, FY2010 Enacted: $173.6M, FY2011 Increase: +$41.5M)
 •     Requests an increase of $41.5 million to focus  area-wide planning and cleanups and enable
  redevelopment of Brownfields properties, especially in  under-served and economically disadvantaged
  communities.
 •     Will provide additional funding for assessment and cleanup of abandoned  underground storage
  tanks (USTs) and other petroleum contamination found on Brownfields  properties in approximately 65
  communities.
 •     Total budget request of $215.1  million to provide  an  estimated 118 assessment grants,  110
  cleanup grants, 7 Revolving Loan Fund grants, and 13 job-training grants.

Clean, Green and Healthy Schools Initiative
(FY 2011 PB: $6.3M, FY 2010 Enacted: $0.1 M, FY 2011 Change: +$6.2M)
 •     Requests a $6.2 million increase to create healthier school environments for all children.
 •     EPA will co-lead an interagency effort in integrating existing school programs including asthma,
  indoor air quality,  chemical  clean out,  green practices and  enhanced  use of integrated  pest
  management.
 •     Promotes  safe  handling and management of  PCB-containing caulk in schools and build
  necessary regional technical support and  outreach to effectively implement site-specific cleanup  and
  disposal plans. Assesses the impacts  of non-compliance with existing environmental laws on health
  risks in schools.
 •     Increases technical assistance on voluntary Energy Independence Security Act  (EISA) school
  siting and environmental  health guidelines.
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Sustainable Communities
(FY2011 PB: $10.9M, FY2010 Enacted: $5.7M, FY2011 Change: +$5.2M)
 •     Increase of $5.2 million to: allow EPA to more fully implement the Partnership for Sustainable
  Communities with U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban and
  Development, and EPA, and
 •     Increases technical  assistance  provided to Tribal, state, Regional, and  local governments in
  integrating smart growth. Promotes reducing, reusing, and recycling waste based on lifecycle materials
  management approaches.

Air Toxics
(FY2011 PB: $6.0M, FY2010 Enacted: $OM, FY2011  Change: +$6.0M)
 •     Requests a  $5.8 million increase  to conduct  integrated pilots in  several communities to
  systematically evaluate and reduce  risks from air toxics through regulatory, enforcement, and voluntary
  efforts in communities  with an emphasis  on, expanding outreach to schools based on air toxics
  monitoring.

Community Water Priorities
(FY 2011 PB: $9.5M, FY 2010 Enacted: $O.OM, FY 2011 Change: +$9.5M)
 •     Requests $9.5 million for targeted technical assistance to  assist underserved communities in
  restoring urban waterways for the Community Water Priorities program.
 •     Requests funds for the  community grants  to address  water quality  challenges in  urban
  watersheds  and to  build the capacity  of disadvantaged communities  through projects that revitalize
  these watersheds.
Superfund Budget
Superfund Program
(FY2011 PB: $1,293.1 M, FY2010 Enacted: $1,306.5M, FY2011 Decrease: -$13.4M)
 •     Request of $1,293.1 million includes $855.5 million for the Superfund Cleanup programs which
  maintains steady  funding overall to support cleanup at hazardous  waste sites that address
  emergencies (Superfund Emergency Response and  Removal) at the  Nation's highest priority sites
  (Superfund Remedial).
Protecting America's Waters
Clean Water State Revolving Fund and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
(FY2011 PB: $3,287.0M, FY2010 Enacted: $3,487.0M, FY2011 Change: -$200.0M)
 •     The FY 2011 Budget contains robust funding for the State  Revolving Loan Funds following an
  unprecedented increase provided in FY 2010.  EPA is working to ensure that Federal dollars provided
  through the State Revolving Funds act as a catalyst for efficient system-wide planning, improvements
  in  technical,  financial,  and  managerial capacity,  and  the design,  construction  and  on-going
  management of sustainable water infrastructure.

Chesapeake Bay
(FY2011 PB: $63.0M, FY2010 Enacted: $50.0M, FY2011 Change: +$13.0M)
 •     In response to the President's Executive Order, the Chesapeake Bay program is engaged in
  some of the most important activities of its 26 year existence, developing a new action  plan for Bay
  restoration and accountability.
 •     EPA's FY 2011 Budget requests a total of $63.0 million for the Bay.  This increase of $13  million
  will support Executive Order implementation, development of regulations to reduce nutrient pollution in
  the Bay watershed, support state nonpoint source program enhancements and enforcement of new
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  and  existing environmental regulations, and  fully deploy ChesapeakeStat, a web-based decision
  making and accountability tool for Bay partners and the public.

Mississippi River Basin Initiative
(FY2011 PB:$16.8M, FY 2010 Enacted: $O.OM, FY 2011 Change: +$16.8M)
 •     Requests $16.8 million and  15.0 FTE for new work in the upper Mississippi River Basin to
  reinvigorate coordinated efforts with USDA to address nutrient pollution in the watershed.  The request
  also supports implementation of nonpoint source control recommendations of the Nutrients Innovations
  Task Group and Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Action Plan in the Upper Mississippi River Basin.

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI)
(FY 2011 PB: $300.0M, FY 2010 Enacted: $475.0M, FY 2011 Change: -$175.0M)
 •     In 2009,  the President announced  a new  Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, committing the
  Federal government to significantly advance Great Lakes protection and restoration.
 •     In FY 2011, EPA is increasing the relative funding for the  Invasive Species focus area in
  recognition of anticipated new demands such as fighting incursion of Asian Carp.
 •     FY 2011  funding has been reduced to reflect ramp up period, allowing time for the program to
  absorb the initial influx of FY 2010 resources.

Building Strong State and Tribal Partnerships	


State and Local  Air Quality Management Grants (Sect. 105)
(FY2011 PB:$241.1M, FY 2010 Enacted: $171.1 M, FY 2011 Change:+$70M)
 •     Request of $241.1 million includes an increase of $45.0 million to support expanded  core state
  workload for implementing additional NAAQS and reducing public exposure to air toxics.
 •     This  will  support state workload when  implementing updated  NAAQS resulting  from EPA's
  commitment to  review each NAAQS according to the CAA deadlines.
 •     Request includes the $25.OM state grant increase supporting state efforts to develop and deploy
  the technical capacity needed to address greenhouse gas emissions in permitting large sources under
  the Clean Air Act (CAA).

Air Monitors
(FY2011 PB: $15.0M, FY2010 Enacted: $OM, FY2011 Change: +$15.0M)
 •     An increase of $15.0 million is requested specifically for additional state air monitors required by
  new or revised  NAAQS.
 •     States previously could use grant funding to procure monitors, but this is the first time funding will
  be specifically for monitors.
 •     This  increase is in addition to $45.OM (listed above) for expanded core state  NAAQS work and
  $25.OM for development of state technical capacity to address GHG emissions in permitting of large
  sources.

Water Pollution  Control Grants
(FY2011 PB: $274.3M, FY2010 Enacted: $229.3M, FY2011 Change: +$45.0M)
 •     Requests a $45.0 million increase to strengthen the base state, interstate and Tribal programs.
 •     Increase  reflects recognition of the growing workload  for State Water programs to address post-
  construction runoff and other new or anticipated regulatory  requirements and address emerging water
  quality issues such as nutrient pollution.
 •     In addition,  the FY 2011  increase  will  strengthen  and  expand state  enforcement  efforts for
  existing and new Clean Water Act programs.
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Multimedia Tribal Implementation Grants
(FY 2011 PB: $30.0M, FY 2010 Enacted: $O.OM, FY 2011 Change: +$30.0M)
 •     Requests $30.0 million for a new grant program that will allow the Agency to provide targeted
  multi-media grants to tribes for implementation of Federal environmental programs.
 •     Tribes will be able to develop and implement programs consistent with EPA statutory authorities
  such as CAA 105, CWA 106, RCRA and other tribal priorities. This may include tribal activities such as
  monitoring, permitting, and other implementation responsibilities.

Tribal Capacity  Building
(FY 2011 PB: $15.0, FY 2010 Enacted: $12.1M, FY 2011 Change: +$2.9M)
 •     Requests a $2.9  million increase and 15.0 FTE for an increase for implementation of the new
  multi-media grant program.
 •     These funds support new positions to oversee, provide guidance, and ensure accountability to
  the new grant program and ongoing Tribal GAP work.  On-the-ground FTE will provide direct technical
  assistance to tribes.

Tribal GAP
(FY2011 PB: $71.4M, FY2010 Enacted: $62.9M, FY2011 Change: +$8.5M)
 •     Requests an $8.5 million increase for the Agency to increase the base funding available for GAP
  grants, providing tribes with a stronger foundation to build Tribal capacity to implement environmental
  programs, continuing EPA's partnership and collaboration with the tribes.
 •     By increasing GAP grant funding, the Agency is encouraging a stronger environmental program
  base, and therefore  allowing more  tribes to take advantage of the new multi-media implementation
  program starting in FY 2011.

Additional Flexibility
 •     In FY 2011, the President's budget is requesting additional State Revolving Fund grant transfer
  authority  between the Clean Water Indian  Set-Aside Grant and Drinking Water  Infrastructure Grants
  Tribal Set-Aside programs.
 •     Allows tribes the flexibility to direct drinking water and wastewater funds  to their highest priority
  projects, providing the same authority to tribes that is currently available to states.


Research and Development (R&D) Initiatives	


Computational Toxicology
(FY2011 PB:$21.9M, FY 2010 Enacted: $20.0M, FY 2011 Change:+$1.9M)
 •     Requests a  $1.9 million increase for a total of $21.9 million for next-generation tools to speed and
  facilitate  implementation  of  the  Agency's  Endocrine  Disrupter  Screening Program (EDSP). The
  application of these  tools will introduce a  more efficient  approach to identifying potential  endocrine
  disrupters and apply this information across the life cycle of a chemical. This research is critical to help
  the Agency meet its priority of strengthening chemicals management and risk assessment.

Science to Achieve Results (STAR)
(FY2011 PB: $87.2M, FY2010 Enacted: $61.4M, FY2011 Change: +$25.8M)
 •     Requests a  $25.8 million increase for a total of $87.2 million to support research in  key areas in
  support of the Administrator's priorities.
 •     STAR contains EPA's  primary competitive grants program  for funding extramural research in
  environmental science  and engineering for universities and nonprofit organizations.  Through STAR
  fellowships, EPA supports the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) government
  wide initiative.
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Highlights of the STAR program include:
 •   Hydraulic Fracturing Research
     (FY2011 PB: $4.3M, FY 2010 Enacted: $1.8M, FY2011 Change: +$2.5M)
 •   Endocrine Disrupters Research
     (FY2011 PB: $17.4M, FY 2010 Enacted: $11.4M, FY2011 Change: +$6.0M)
 •   Green Infrastructure Research
     (FY 2011 PB: $10.4M, FY 2010 Enacted: $4.4M,  FY 2011  Change: +$6.0M)
 •   Air Quality Research
     (FY2011 PB: $85.3M, FY 2010 Enacted: $81.9M, FY2011 Change: +$3.4M)
 •   Research Fellowships
     (FY2011 PB:$17.3M,FY 2010 Enacted: $11.1M, FY2011 Change:+$6.2M)


Other Significant FY2011 Changes	


The Agency also proposed a number of changes to increase program effectiveness as well as to reflect
programmatic and administrative efficiencies.  The reductions and savings demonstrate our commitment
to being thoughtful stewards of public funds.

Integrated Compliance Information System
(FY2011 PB: $13.2M, FY2010  Enacted: $11.2M, FY2011 Change: +$2.0M)
 •     Increase of $.8 million  will be used  for design and development of necessary functionality in
  Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS)-National Pollutant  Discharge  Elimination System
  (NPDES) to enable the electronic transfer of NPDES data from states' system to ICIS-NPDES via the
  Environmental Exchange Network.
 •     Additional $1.2 million will increase  assistance to  states to  help them modify their  own state
  systems to electronically flow data to ICIS-NPDES via the Environmental Exchange Network.

Enforcement Training Efficiency
(FY 2011 PB: $2.0M, FY 2010 Enacted: $4.2M, FY 2011 Change: -$2.2M)
 •     EPA is streamlining and consolidating the Enforcement Training program into the Compliance
  Monitoring program to increase program efficiency.
 •     The Agency will maximize the use of National Enforcement Training Institute's web-based training
  and reduce classroom training.

RCRA Waste Management
(FY2011 PB: $64.5M, FY2010  Enacted: $68.8M, FY2011 Change: -$4.3M)
 •     Decreases $4.3 million in resources supporting existing efforts aimed at promoting the reduction,
  reuse, and recycling of municipal solid waste and industrial materials to reflect the progress in these
  partnership programs.

Rent Avoidance through Space Consolidation
(FY2011 PB: $243.9M, FY2010 Enacted: $236.4M, FY2011 Change: +$7.5M)
 •     Net  rent increase for the Agency reflects a  reduction to current lease projections including
  estimated savings from rent avoidance from EPA's on-going space consolidation effort.
 •     EPA had in the past conducted comprehensive review of space utilization at facilities nationwide.
 •     EPA is again engaging in a cross-Agency exercise to identify potential more efficient use of space
  and reduce  rent costs.  This effort has provided  rent avoidance  and helped defray projected rent
  increases.
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Acquisition Management
(FY 2011 PB: $3.0M, FY 2010 Enacted: $O.OM, FY 2011 Change: +$3.0M)
 •     Additional funding will allow the Agency to supplement existing acquisition workforce activities for
  training, recruitment, retention, and hiring additional acquisition staff in an effort to enhance acquisition
  workforce effectiveness.

Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance
(EO 13514)
(FY 2011 PB: $4.8M, FY 2010 Enacted: $3.8M, FY 2011 Change: +$1 .OM)

 •     EO 13514 calls for the Agency to plan for Greenhouse Gas emission reduction by FY2020.
 •     Additional funding  will allow EPA to meet that requirement by retrofitting EPA buildings and
  infrastructure and increasing usage of green power.

Water Security Initiative (WSI)
(FY2011 PB:$11.6M, FY 2010 Enacted: $18.6M, FY 2011 Change:-$7.0M)
 •     Requests a $7.0 million decrease for a total of $11.6 million to  reflect completion of funding for
  the establishment of five full-scale contamination warning system demonstration pilots in  public water
  systems under the WSI.
 •     The FY 2011 requested funding will be used for WSI outreach, support, and evaluation activities.

Homeland Security Enforcement Efforts
(FY 2011 PB: $O.OM, FY 2010 Enacted: $4.4M, FY 2011 Change: -$4.4M)
 •     Requests a $4.4 million decrease for a total elimination of the Enforcement program's homeland
  security activities.
 •     Beginning in FY 2011, EPA will not need to maintain separate capacity to support environmental
  criminal investigations and  training for terrorism related investigations. This reduction reflects the
  increased  capacity of other agencies to handle the environmental  forensics work associated  with
  potential homeland security related incidents.

Homeland Security Emergency Preparedness  & Response
(FY2011 PB: $41.4M, FY 2010 Enacted: $52.6M, FY 2011 Change:-$11.2M)
 •     Requests a $11.2 million decrease for a total of $41.4 million to  reflect completion of ramp up of
  Agency investments in homeland security emergency preparedness and response.
 •     The FY 2011 requested funding will still allow current  preparedness activities to be maintained
  and  continued, but the  reduction will cause  a few additional planned technology upgrades to be
  delayed or deferred.

Research & Threat Assessment
(FY2011 PB: $28.6M, FY2010 Enacted: $32.9M, FY2011 Change: -$4.3M)
 •     Requests a $4.3 million decrease for a total of $28.6 million to reflect a reduction in  the areas of
  research of water security, threat and consequence assessment, and safe buildings research.
 •     This  reduction reflects a decreasing  need for Water Security Initiative modeling support and a
  shift in focus to higher priority Agency needs.

Air Threat Monitoring
(FY 2011 PB: $O.OM, FY 2010 Enacted: $1.1M, FY 2011 Change: -$1.1M)
 •     Requests a $1.1 million decrease for eliminating support for the development of multi-pollutant
  monitoring models to  demonstrate the effects of  air threats to air quality in the United States, as
  effective modeling methodologies have been established for use in emergency  response situations.
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Highlights of Major Budget Changes
Superfund Tax Reinstatement
 •     The Administration supports reinstating the Superfund taxes to ensure that parties who benefit
  from the manufacture or sale of substances commonly found in hazardous waste sites contribute to the
  cost of cleanup.
 •     As  of the beginning of FY 2010, the Superfund Trust Fund had an  available  balance of
  approximately $26 million.
 •     Reinstating the Superfund taxes  would provide a  stable, dedicated source of  revenue to  be
  placed in  the  Superfund  Trust Fund where the revenues would be available  for appropriation  by
  Congress to support the cleanup of the Nation's most contaminated sites.
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           Goal 1:  Clean Air and Global Climate Change

 Strategic Goal: Protect and improve the air so it is healthy to breathe and risks to
 human health and the environment are reduced.   Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)
 emissions by enhancing partnerships with businesses and other sectors.
                                            Resource Summary
                                                  ($ in 000)

1
2
3
4
5
6

11.9% of Budget
- Healthier Outdoor Air
- Healthier Indoor Air
- Protect the Ozone Layer
- Radiation
- Reduce Greenhouse Gas
Emissions
- Enhance Science and Research
Goal 1 Total
FY2010
Enacted
Budget
$720,156
$45,456
$18,631
$42,631
$167,264
$101,173
$1,095,311
FY 201 1
President's
Budget
$811,320
$47,111
$18,609
$42,635
$168,558
$104,716
$1,192,950
Difference
FY 2010 EN to
FY2011 PresBud
$91,164
$1,655
($21)
$4
$1,294
$3,543
$97,638
Workyears
2,679
2,795
116
 Numbers may not add due to rounding.

 EPA will take meaningful, common sense steps to improving air quality and addressing
 climate change.  Making the right choices now will allow the Agency to improve public
 health, drive technology innovation for a better economy, and protect the environment -
 all without placing an undue burden on the nation's economy.

 The  Clean Air  program  is founded  on  several  principles:   using  health  and
 environmental risks  to set priorities, streamlining programs through regulatory reforms,
 continuing  to partner with state, local and tribal governments as well  as industry and
 non-governmental organizations, promoting energy efficiency and clean energy supply,
 and encouraging market-based approaches.   EPA implements the Clean Air and
 Global Climate Change goal through national, state, local, tribal and regional programs
 designed to  provide healthier  outdoor  and indoor air  for  all  Americans,  reduce
 greenhouse gases  (GHG),  protect  the stratospheric ozone layer, minimize radiation
 releases and enhance science and research.
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In FY 2011,  EPA is providing additional resources to the states and local governments
to implement the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) by monitoring air
quality and developing and implementing State Implementation Plans.  In addition, EPA
will develop guidance on  GHG permitting for the  states and local governments for
anticipated GHG permitting work. To complement that work and to respond to pending
legal obligations, EPA will assess and potentially develop New Source Performance
Standards for GHGs and regulations for large transportation sources.   EPA will also be
implementing GHG regulations completed in FY 2009 and expected to be completed in
2010 such as the Mandatory Reporting  Rule and the Light Duty Vehicle Rule.

EPA's  key  clean air programs, including those addressing six  common "criteria"
pollutants:  particulate matter, ozone, lead,  sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and carbon
monoxide, and our work on acid rain, air toxics, indoor air, radiation and stratospheric
ozone depletion, focus on some of the  highest health and environmental risks faced by
the country.   Recent updates for the NAAQS for lead, and proposed updates for ozone
could yield significant health and environmental benefits.  Every year, state, local, tribal
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 and schools days.

High Priority Performance Goal

EPA will  improve the country's ability to measure and control greenhouse gas  (GHG)
emissions.  Building a foundation for action is essential.

      • By June 15, 2011,  EPA will make publically available 100% of facility-level GHG
      emissions data submitted to EPA in compliance with the GHG Reporting Rule.

      •  EPA, working with US  DOT, will begin  implementation in 2011 of regulations
      designed to reduce the GHG emissions from light  duty vehicles sold  in the US
      starting with model year 2012.

Clean Air

Cleaner cars, industries,  and consumer products  have contributed to cleaner air for
Americans in much  of the U.S.  Since 1990,  nationwide air quality has improved
significantly  for  the six criteria  air pollutants for which there are national ambient air
quality standards.   Despite this  progress, millions of Americans still live in  areas that
exceed one or more of the  national  standards.   Ground-level ozone and particle
pollution  still present challenges in  many  areas of the  country.   In  FY 2008,  EPA
promulgated a more protective standard for lead; we recently proposed a new standard
for ozone. In FY 2011, we will continue to work with state, local, and tribal agencies to
ensure active progress toward meeting  these new standards.
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As  EPA  issues more protective  NAAQS at a  faster pace,  states are faced with  an
increasing workload as they revise their State Implementation Plans (SIPs) to meet the
new NAAQS. States must develop more stringent measures for areas that did not meet
the previous  NAAQS, and measures for new areas not previously in  nonattainment.
The measures often are based on multi-state strategies that require additional and more
complicated  modeling,  refined  emissions  inventories,  and  increased stakeholder
involvement.  In some cases NAAQS  revisions have also contained requirements  for
States to expand  monitoring  networks to  help  determine  compliance with revised
NAAQS.   In  addition, states will likely  be tasked with new  responsibilities under the
Clean Air Act in order to help reduce  GHG emissions.  State  programs for issuing
operating permits and for prevention of significant deterioration will require additional
resources when they begin to  address greenhouse gas emissions in permitting large
sources.

EPA's  NOx SIP Call,  and  the  Acid  Rain  Program have  contributed to  significant
improvements in air quality and environmental health.  The required reductions in sulfur
dioxide and oxides of nitrogen have reduced ozone and particle pollution,  improved
visibility in our treasured national parks,  and led to significant decreases in atmospheric
deposition. The decreases in deposition have contributed to improved water quality in
lakes  and streams.  Between the 1989-1991  and 2005-2007 time periods, wet sulfate
deposition decreased by more than 30 percent and wet inorganic nitrogen decreased by
approximately 15 percent in the  eastern U.S.  Scientists have observed measurable
improvements and signs of recovery in a number of acidic water bodies.

Promoting Healthy Communities

From  1990 to 2005,  emissions of air toxics  declined by 42 percent - the results of a
number of regulations for industrial  and transportation sources.   EPA has issued  96
industrial  air toxics standards,  affecting 174  categories  of industry. When fully
implemented, these standards will reduce 1.7 million tons of air toxics every year.

Historically, although EPA's  air toxics  program has conducted significant outreach to
communities and tribes, it has focused  largely, at a macro level, on developing national
emission standards for air toxics and conducting national-scale risk assessments. As a
general matter,  EPA's enforcement program has taken a similar sector-based approach
to addressing air toxic emissions.

The FY 2011 budget request builds on work that the Agency has done  in communities
in 2008  and 2009.   Our efforts with  the  City  of  Houston and  other communities
disproportionately impacted by air toxic emissions (e.g.  Port Arthur, Texas), make it
evident that the public health  and environmental impacts associated  with air  toxics
emissions occur largely at the local level. Further, existing information suggests that
such  risks may disproportionately  affect some  vulnerable  subpopulations,  such  as
schoolchildren.
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Consistent with the Administrator's commitment to Congress, "...to protect the American
public where they  live, work, and play [as well  as] schoolchildren where  they learn,"
from the impacts associated with air toxic pollutants, the request  includes funding to
collaborate with states, and communities to identify if and where air toxics pollution is
occurring at unsafe levels, and aggressively reduce air toxics pollution within any at-risk
communities, and around schools and  other places where children may be exposed.
This budget includes an  increase  of  $2.3  million  to  support  a limited number of
community pilot programs as they develop and implement air toxics approaches tailored
to their local needs.

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 actions
they can take to  reduce their risks from indoor air.  EPA educates and  encourages
individuals, schools, industry, the health-care community,  and others to take action to
reduce  health  risks  in indoor  environments.   Outreach  includes  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.

In FY 2011, as a part  of the Agency's  Promoting Healthy Communities - Healthy
Schools initiative, the Indoor Air Program will invest an additional $1.1 million in efforts
to improve  children's health  through  the  delivery  of  effective  asthma management
strategies  in schools  and  communities.  Regional offices  will provide  support to
communities across  the country and  will allow targeting of efforts  in  underserved
communities.

The Radon Program promotes action to reduce the public's risk to indoor radon (second
only to smoking as a cause of lung cancer).  This non-regulatory program  encourages
and facilitates voluntary national,  regional, state, and Tribal programs and activities that
support  initiatives targeted to radon testing and mitigation,  as  well as to radon resistant
new construction.

Clean Energy & Climate Change

The FY  2011 budget request includes additional funding for steps the Agency can take
in the near term to help  pave the way to a clean energy future.  Most of this  funding is
focused on assessing and potentially developing  new GHG regulations in  response to
legal obligations, or implementing GHG regulations completed in FY 2009 and 2010.
For example, the Agency will implement the GHG Mandatory Reporting Rule while also
including the added  benefit of  identifying and communicating with industry possible
cost-effective efficiency investments with the resultant GHG reductions.
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The Agency will analyze critical air and climate-related issues relating to carbon capture
and  sequestration  (CCS) technology,  and eventually develop  a framework for the
permitting of the carbon dioxide capture component of the CCS project.  This budget
request includes an increase of $2.0 million for this work.

The  FY  2011  budget request  provides  an increase  of $6  million  for  analysis,
development  and implementation of new emission standards that will  reduce GHG
emissions from transportation sources.   This  includes the  implementation of new
standards for light-duty vehicles (passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and medium duty
passenger vehicles), covering model years 2012 through 2016.  The Agency plans to
finalize these first  ever GHG emission standards in  FY 2010.   EPA also plans to
propose  and  promulgate  heavy-duty vehicle and  engine  standards  to complete  its
obligation to regulate GHG emissions from motor vehicles in response to the Supreme
Court's Massachusetts v.  EPA decision.   In addition, EPA will conduct analyses and
technical  assessments  and  potentially  develop  GHG emission  standards  for other
transportation source categories in response to petitions to regulate GHG emissions of
these sources.

New Source  Performance  Standards  (NSPS)  regulations  could  be an  effective
mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from major  industrial sources.  The
NSPS program  provides the opportunity to begin achieving emission reductions at new
facilities  through such  actions  as  improvements  in energy  and  industrial  process
efficiency.  The  request includes $7.5 million to assess and potentially develop NSPS
regulations for  major  industrial sectors  and  seek, where  possible,  market-oriented
mechanisms and flexibilities to provide lowest cost compliance options.

This request includes an additional $25 million to support state permit programs as they
prepare to issue permits for large sources of GHGs.

Voluntary GHG Reducing Programs

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  GHG emissions.  Voluntary programs, such as Energy Star and SmartWay
Transport, have increased the use of energy-efficient products and practices, spurred
investment in clean energy development, and reduced emissions of carbon dioxide,
methane, and other GHGs with very  high global warming potentials.

EPA will  continue to implement the ENERGY STAR program across the residential,
commercial, and  industrial  sectors consistent  with the  updated Memorandum  of
Understanding  with DOE, with an  increase of  $2 million.   EPA will  do  this by:
Enhancing the use of the  ENERGY  STAR label on products including adding products
to the program;  accelerating the rate that product specifications are updated in terms of
stringency;  and  developing  a comprehensive  product  certification and  verification
initiative  for ENERGY STAR qualifying products.   Another focus will be expanding
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ENERGY STAR programs that improve the installation of products such as heating and
cooling equipment whose efficiency is greatly affected  by installation practices.

Stratospheric Ozone - Domestic and Montreal Protocol

In FY 2011,  EPA's Stratospheric Ozone Protection Program will continue to implement
the provisions of the Clean Air Act and the  Montreal  Protocol on Substances that
Deplete the Ozone  Layer (Montreal  Protocol), and  contribute  to  the  reduction and
control of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) in the U.S.

Following the  2010  lowering of the ODS  cap, EPA is  responding to an  increased
number of ODS substitute applications, many of which represent lower GHG options.
Under the Significant  New Alternatives Policy (SNAP)  program,  EPA will  review
alternatives  to  ODS to assist the market's transition to  alternatives  that are  safer,
especially for the climate system.

Radiation

In FY 2011,  EPA will  continue  to work  with  other  Federal agencies,  states,  tribes,
stakeholders, and international  radiation protection organizations to develop and use
voluntary  and  regulatory programs, public  information, and  training to reduce  public
exposure  to  radiation.   The  Agency also will continue  to conduct  radiation risk
assessments including updating its  scientific  methodology, modeling,  and technical
tools  for generating  radionuclide-specific cancer risk coefficients to more specifically
address sensitive population groups such as  infants, women, and the elderly.   Risk
managers at all  levels  of government use this information to assess health  risks from
radiation exposure and to determine appropriate  levels for clean-up of radioactively
contaminated sites.  EPA will continue to provide technical assistance to tribes to  locate
and cleanup radioactive wastes produced from uranium mining that contaminate tribal
lands and water resources with radionuclides and heavy metals.

Research

EPA,  in  accordance with the  Administration's  policy of scientific  integrity, conducts
research to provide a scientific foundation for the Agency's actions to protect the air all
Americans breathe.  The Agency's air research program supports implementation of the
Clean Air Act,  especially  the NAAQS, which  sets limits on how much stratospheric
ozone, particulate matter,  carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and lead,
are allowed in  the  atmosphere.   EPA  also conducts  research  on  hazardous  air
pollutants, also known as air toxics.

In FY 2011, the  budget  request for the  Agency's  air research program  includes  an
additional $3.0 million to support a next generation monitoring network for ambient  air
pollutants that will help build the scientific backbone necessary to plug  gaps  in  our
regulatory system. The Agency's air research program will also continue research to
understand the sources and composition of air pollution; develop methods for controlling
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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 range of research programs
and initiatives will both continue the work of better understanding the scientific basis of
our environmental  and human health problems  as well as advance the design  of
sustainable  solutions  through approaches  such  as  green chemistry  and  green
engineering.   In FY 2011, the program will continue to focus  on the effects of air
pollution near  roads on human health, as well as  the development and evaluation of
effective mitigation strategies.  The Agency will also fund research grants to universities
and nonprofits to study topics  such as the relationship between long-term exposure to
fine particles and  air  pollution mixtures in  the atmosphere and  the  frequency  and
progression  of pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases.  In  FY 2011, EPA requests
$85.3 million for the  Clean Air Research  program  to  continue studying Americans'
exposure  to  air pollution,  and the links between  sources of  pollution  and  health
outcomes.

Global Change Research is discussed in the Goal 4 overview section.
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                     Goal 2:  Clean and Safe Water

 Strategic Goal:  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.
                                             Resource Summary
                                                    ($ in 000)
^C 	 ^
45.7% of Budget
1 - Protect Human Health
2 - Protect Water Quality
3 - Enhance Science and Research
Goal 2 Total
FY2010
Enacted
Budget
$1,770,225
$2,981,365
$144,915
$4,896,505
FY 201 1
President's
Budget
$1,603,813
$2,831,001
$152,372
$4,587,186
Difference
FY 2010 EN to
FY2011 PresBud
($166,412)
($150,363)
$7,457
($309,319)
Workyears
2,925
2,928
 Numbers may not add due to rounding.

 Protecting America's waters is a top priority and EPA has an ambitious vision  for the
 nation's waters in the years ahead.  Water quality has tremendous impacts on quality of
 life, on  economic  potential,   and on  human and  environmental  health.    America's
 waterbodies are imperiled as never before from nutrient loadings and stormwater runoff to
 invasive species and  drinking water contaminants.   These  challenges demand  both
 traditional and innovative strategies, both national and local action.

 In  FY 2011, the Agency is launching new  initiatives to confront the challenges  from
 multiple angles - local and national, traditional and innovative. The Mississippi River Basin
 initiative will focus on nonpoint source  program enhancements to result in water-quality
 improvement throughout the watershed and in the Gulf of Mexico.  As part of the Healthy
 Communities  Initiative,  EPA  will launch the  Community  Water Priorities program to
 address issues related to urban waters. The Agency will also continue collaboration with
 the Department of  Interior  and the Army Corps  of Engineers (Corps) to implement an
 Interagency Action  Plan  (IAP)  to significantly reduce the harmful effects of Appalachian
 surface coal mining operations.

 To make progress, the Agency also  needs unprecedented partnerships with  the states
 and tribes.  In FY 2011, significant new resources are targeted to states, to help with the
 growing  universe of facilities  and the  growing needs for  Total Maximum  Daily Limits
 (TMDLs), monitoring and innovative strategies for addressing infrastructure requirements.
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EPA will collaborate with states and tribes in  each of these areas to achieve clean and
safe water objectives.

In FY 2011, EPA continues its commitment to upgrading drinking water and wastewater
infrastructure with a substantial combined investment of $3.3 billion for the Clean Water
and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs.  This investment will both facilitate
continued progress toward drinking water and clean water goals, and result in  increased
job opportunities at the local level. EPA is working to ensure that Federal dollars provided
through the State Revolving Funds act as a catalyst for efficient system-wide planning,
improvements  in  technical,  financial,  and  managerial  capacity,  and  the  design,
construction and on-going management of sustainable water infrastructure.

The   National  Water  Program  will   continue  to  place  emphasis  on  sustainable
infrastructure, watershed stewardship, watershed-based approaches, water efficiencies,
and best  practices through Environmental Management Systems.  EPA will specifically
focus on green infrastructure, banking for wetlands conservation, and trading among point
sources and  non-point sources for water quality upgrades. In FY 2011,  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.  Related efforts to improve monitoring and surveillance will help
advance water security nationwide.

Drinking Water

High Priority Performance Goal

As part of the Administration's emphasis on High Priority Performance  Goals,  EPA will
take actions over the next two years to improve drinking water and surface water quality.
Work under this goal supports one of EPA's High Priority Performance  Goals  related  to
public  health. Over the next two years, EPA  will initiate review/revision of at  least four
drinking water standards to strengthen public health protection.

During FY 2011, EPA,  the states, and  community  water systems will build on  past
successes while working toward the FY  2011 goal of assuring that 91 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,  EPA requests $1.3 billion continuing EPA's
commitment for the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.  EPA will continue to work with
states to encourage targeting this affordable, flexible financial  assistance to support utility
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compliance with safe drinking water standards. EPA will also continue to work with utilities
to promote technical, financial, and  managerial  capacity  as  a  critical  means to  meet
infrastructure needs, and further enhance program performance and efficiency, and to
ensure compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Climate and Clean Energy Challenge

In order to support a  potentially important climate mitigation technology, EPA will build on
its regulatory framework for Carbon  Capture and Sequestration (CCS). As part of the
Agency's efforts to meet the  Climate and Clean Energy Challenge, EPA is requesting an
additional $1.1 million to support the Agency's work on geologic  sequestration  to ensure
the integrity of underground  drinking water aquifers.  This includes completing guidance
to implement the  rule (e.g.,  monitoring, modeling, and Area of Review  determinations),
building state and regional capacity  to issue permits, training permit writers  to review
complex data, and communicating that there is a protective  program in place for Geologic
Sequestration wells.   In FY 2011, states and EPA will  process Underground Injection
Control permit applications for experimental carbon sequestration and  gather information
from  these  pilots  to  facilitate  the  permitting  of  large-scale commercial  carbon
sequestration in the future.

Clean Water

In FY 2011, EPA  will continue to collaborate with states  and tribes  to make progress
toward EPA's clean  water goals.  EPA's  FY 2011  request  includes a total of $485.1
million in categorical grants for clean water programs.   EPA will implement core clean
water programs and apply promising innovations, on a  watershed basis, to accelerate
water quality improvements. Building on  30 years of clean  water successes, EPA, in
conjunction with  states and  tribes, will  implement the Clean Water Act by focusing on
TMDLs and National  Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits built  upon
scientifically sound water quality standards, effective water monitoring, strong  programs
for controlling nonpoint  sources of pollution, stringent discharge permit programs,  and
revolving fund capitalization grants to our partners to build,  revive, and "green"  our aging
infrastructure.

The  Agency's FY 2011 request  continues the monitoring initiative  begun in 2005 to
strengthen  the nationwide monitoring network and complete the baseline water quality
assessment of  the  nation's waters.   The  results  of these efforts are  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  focus 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) to
enable EPA partners to improve  wastewater treatment,  non-point sources of pollution,
and estuary revitalization. Realizing the long-term benefits derived from the CWSRF, EPA
is continuing our CWSRF commitment by requesting $2.0 billion in FY 2011.
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Goal 2: Clean and Safe Water
In FY 2011, EPA requests an additional $45 million in the Section 106 grants.  The new
funding will strengthen the base state, interstate and tribal programs, address emerging
water quality issues such as nutrients and new regulatory requirements,  and support
expanded water monitoring and enforcement efforts.

Imperiled Urban Waters

Many urban waters are impaired  by pathogens, excess nutrients, and  contaminated
sediments that result from sanitary sewer and  combined sewer overflows, polluted runoff
from urban landscapes, and legacy contamination.  As part of the Healthy Communities
Initiative, EPA will launch the Community Water Priorities program to address issues
related to urban waters. Through Federal technical support and grants to the states, the
program  will advance water quality improvements in urban watersheds through targeted
implementation of core water programs.  It also will leverage more effective partnerships
and  strategically target  resources.   With a particular  emphasis on  disadvantaged
communities, the program will focus water quality protection and restoration efforts  on
urban waters.

Appalachian Coal Mining Interagency Action Plan

EPA, the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), and the Department of Interior will implement
the Interagency Action Plan to ensure that Appalachian surface mining projects do not
violate water quality standards or result in significant environmental degradation in the
watershed. Coordinating with the Corps, states, resource  agencies,  and the public, EPA
will review  CWA  404  and 402  permits  of concern  and  negotiate  a  resolution  to
outstanding environmental issues with the Corps and mine  operators.

Homeland Security

EPA  has  a  major  role in supporting the  protection  of the nation's  critical  water
infrastructure from terrorist threats. EPA will move to the next phase of the Water Security
Initiative  (WSI) pilot program, focusing on support and  evaluation activities, and will
continue  to support water  sector-specific  agency responsibilities,  including the Water
Alliance for Threat Reduction (WATR), to protect the nation's critical water infrastructure.
The Agency also will continue progress to integrate the Regional laboratory networks and
the WSI  pilot  laboratories into a national, consistent program.  The FY  2011  request
includes  $10.4 million for WSI support and  evaluation activities  and  $1.2 million  for
WATR.

Research

EPA,  in  accordance with  the Administration's  policy  of scientific integrity, conducts
research to provide a scientific foundation for the Agency's actions  to protect America's
waters, under the  authorities of the Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts.  The
complementary Drinking Water and Clean Water Research programs are both organized
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around specific long-term goals to provide needed scientific information and tools to the
Agency and other decision makers.

In FY 2011, the range of research programs and initiatives will continue both the work of
better understanding the scientific basis of our environmental and human health problems
as well as advancing the  design of sustainable solutions through approaches such as
green chemistry and green engineering.  The Drinking Water and Water Quality research
programs will work to align themselves to  provide a more unified approach to particular
high-priority problems of source water quality and sustainability.

In FY 2011, drinking water research will be expanded to address potential water supply
consequences associated with hydraulic fracturing.  Congress has urged EPA to conduct
this research, which supports the Agency's efforts to ensure the protection of our aquifers.
Green infrastructure research will be expanded in FY 2011 to assess, develop, and
compile scientifically rigorous tools and models that  will be used by EPA's  Office of
Water, states, and municipalities.  Green chemistry and green engineering approaches
will advance  the  design of sustainable solutions to clean water challenges.   EPA will
leverage  the success of the Science  to  Achieve  Results  (STAR) grants program by
significantly increasing funding for research grants to top scientists in academia.
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            Goal 3:  Land Preservation and Restoration
 Strategic Goal:   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.
                                             Resource Summary
                                                   ($ in 000)
^-^_-^
17.5% of Budget
1 - Preserve Land
2 - Restore Land
3 - Enhance Science and Research
Goal 3 Total
FY2010
Enacted
Budget
$246,689
$1,462,951
$54,744
$1,764,384
FY 201 1
President's
Budget
$252,853
$1,445,922
$53,427
$1,752,201
Difference
FY 2010 EN to
FY2011 PresBud
$6,164
($17,029)
($1,317)
($12,182)
Workyears
4,556
4,551
(4)
 Numbers may not add due to rounding.

 Land is one of America's most valuable resources and cleaning up our communities to
 create a safe  environment for all Americans is a priority for EPA.  Hazardous and non-
 hazardous 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.  Communities  are
 directly affected by EPA's actions whether they are site-specific actions or broad national
 policies. In recognition of the role of communities and stakeholders in its work, EPA has
 begun  a  new  era   of   outreach   and  protection  for   communities  historically
 underrepresented in EPA decision-making.

 In FY 2011, EPA is helping to meet the Climate and Clean Energy Challenge, investing in
 Healthy Communities  initiatives  (Clean Green  and  Healthy Schools,  Brownfields and
 Sustainable Communities) and continuing to build strong state and Tribal  partnerships.
 EPA will  work  with states  and tribes  to  assess Underground Storage  Tank (LIST)
 compatibility   with  alternative  fuels  and  evaluate  the  transport and   degradation
 characteristics of ethanol and diesel blends; promote safe handling and management of
 poly-chlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-containing caulk in  schools  while building necessary
 regional technical support and outreach to effectively  implement site-specific cleanup and
 disposal plans; build healthy and sustainable communities particularly in urban areas with
 EPA's efforts  working with Feed  People - Not Landfills; and strengthen our partnership
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with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on cleaning up contaminated sediments in urban
rivers adjacent to Superfund sites.

To  protect the  land, human  health and  the  environment,  EPA focuses on prevention,
protection, and  response activities to address  risks  posed  by releases of  harmful
substances  on  land; emergency  preparedness,  response, and homeland security  to
address  immediate  risks  to  human health  and  the  environment; enforcement  and
compliance assistance to ensure effective and adequate oversight of our responsibilities
by determining what needs to be done  and who should pay; and  sound science and
research to address risk factors and new,  innovative solutions.

EPA 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 accordingly1.

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 2011, the Agency requests $1.75  billion to continue to apply
the most effective approach to preserve and restore land 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.

Controlling the  many  risks posed by accidental and  intentional  releases of  harmful
substances presents a significant challenge.  In FY 2011, 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.

EPA's land program  activities for FY 2011  align along four broad themes:  1) Integrated
Cleanup  Program Initiative; 2) Land Revitalization;  3) Recycling, Waste Minimization and
Energy Recovery; and 4) implementation of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct).

Integrated Cleanup Program Initiative:
In an  effort to  improve  the  accountability, transparency,  and  effectiveness  of EPA's
cleanup programs, EPA  initiated a multiyear effort in  2010 to explore better uses  of
assessment and cleanup authorities to address  a greater number  of sites,  accelerate
cleanups, and put those sites back into productive use while protecting human health and
1 Additional information on these programs can be found at: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/,
 http://www.epa.gov/oem/content/er_cleanup.htm, http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/ca/,
 http://www.epa.gov/swerust1/, http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/and http://www.epa.gov/swerrims/landrevitalization/.
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the environment.  By bringing to bear the relevant tools available in each of the cleanup
programs  (Superfund  Remedial,  Superfund  Emergency  Response  and  Removal,
Superfund  Federal  Facilities Response, and  Brownfields  Projects),  EPA will  better
leverage the resources available to address needs at individual sites. For example, EPA
is  defining and  implementing new performance measures that  further describe the
achievements  of EPA's  cleanup  programs.  As an  early  step toward  an improved
Superfund Remedial program measurement,  in  FY 2011,  EPA will implement a new
performance  measure to augment  the site-wide  construction  completion measure.
Further, this effort will examine all aspects of EPA's cleanup programs, in a more granular
fashion, identifying key process  improvements, enhanced efficiencies,  and associated
performance measures to clearly gauge and demonstrate progress from site assessment
through site-wide construction completion. This effort may expand the transparency for
EPA's cleanup programs,  encourage community involvement, and enhance accountability
to the public.

Land Revitalization:
All  of  EPA's  cleanup programs  (Superfund  Remedial,  Superfund  Federal  Facilities
Response, Superfund  Emergency Response and Removal, RCRA Corrective Action, and
Underground Storage Tanks) and their partners are taking  proactive steps to facilitate the
cleanup and revitalization of contaminated properties. In FY 2011,  the Agency requests
$950.7  million  to help communities  revitalize these  once  productive properties  by
removing  blight, satisfying  the growing demand for land,  helping limit urban sprawl,
fostering  ecologic  habitat  enhancements,  enabling economic  development,  and
maintaining or improving quality of life.  EPA continues to support  the  RE-Powering
America's Land initiative  in partnership with the Department of Energy.  Finding suitable
environmentally impaired  lands to site renewable energy facilities is one significant way
EPA and the states can help the Administration meet its goals of 25 percent renewable
energy by 2025.

Recycling, Waste Minimization, and Energy Recovery:
EPA requests  $11.1  million  in FY 2011 to support  EPA's strategy for reducing  waste
generation and increasing recycling.   EPA's strategy 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 2011, EPA will continue the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC)
as a major national effort to find flexible ways to conserve  our valuable natural resources
through waste  reduction, energy recovery, and recycling3.  Through  RCC, the Agency will
continue to build partnerships with government agencies4, businesses, and nonprofits to
encourage recycling and  waste prevention, and leverage resources to  improve energy
conservation.
2 Additional information on this initiative can be found on http://www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/.
3 For more information, refer to http://www.epa.gov/rcc.
 Federal, state, local and Tribal agencies.
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Implementing the EPAct:
The EPAct5 contains  numerous provisions  that significantly affect  Federal  and state
underground storage tank (LIST) programs and requires that EPA and states strengthen
tank release and prevention  programs.  In FY 2011, EPA requests $34.4 million to
provide assistance to states to help them meet their EPAct responsibilities, which include:
(1)  mandatory inspections  every  three years for  all underground storage tanks  and
enforcement of  violations discovered  during the inspections; (2) operator training; (3)
prohibition of  delivery  for non-complying facilities6; and (4) secondary containment or
financial responsibility for tank manufacturers and installers.

In addition to EPA's land program  activities, EPA's  Homeland Security and Enforcement
work are  important components of the Agency's prevention, protection, and response
activities.

Homeland Security

EPA will  continue  to  maintain its Homeland Security emergency  preparedness  and
response  capability.   In FY 2011, the Agency  requests $40.2  million to  continue to:
maintain  its capability to  respond  effectively to  incidents that may involve  harmful
chemical,  biological, and radiological  substances; operate the Environmental  Response
Laboratory Network (ERLN); maximize the effectiveness of its involvement in  national
security  events  through  pre-deployments  of assets  such  as  emergency response
personnel and field detection equipment; maintain the Emergency Management  Portal
(EMP); and manage, collect, and validate new information for new and existing Weapons
of Mass Destruction (WMD) agents as decontamination techniques are developed or as
other information emerges from the scientific community.

Enforcement

EPA's  Superfund enforcement program ensures  prompt  site  cleanup and  uses an
"enforcement first" approach that maximizes the participation of liable and viable parties in
performing and  paying for cleanups  in  both  remedial and removal  programs.    The
Superfund enforcement program  includes  nationally  significant or precedential  civil,
judicial, and administrative site remediation cases,  and provides legal and technical
enforcement support  on Superfund enforcement actions  and emerging issues.    The
Superfund enforcement program also develops waste cleanup enforcement policies,  and
provides guidance  and tools  that clarify potential  environmental cleanup liability, with
specific attention to the reuse  and  revitalization of contaminated properties,  including
Brownfields properties.
5 For more information, refer to http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-
 bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ058.109.pdf (scroll to Title XV- Ethanol And Motor
 Fuels, Subtitle B - Underground Storage Tank Compliance, on pages 500-513 of the pdf file).
6 Refer to Grant Guidelines to States for Implementing the Delivery Prohibition Provision of the Energy Policy Act of
 2005, August 2006, EPA-510-R-06-003, http://www.epa.gov/oust/fedlaws/epact_05.htm#Final.
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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.  In FY 2011,
the Agency requests $187.4 million to support enforcement activities at Federal and non-
Federal Superfund  sites.   EPA's "enforcement first"  approach ensures that sites with
financially 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,  promote  economic  development,  and  make sites  available  for
appropriate reuse7.  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.  In FY  2009,  the Superfund Enforcement  program
secured private party  commitments that exceeded $2.3 billion. Of this amount,  PRPs
have committed to  future  response work with an estimated  value of approximately $2
billion;  PRPs  have agreed  to  reimburse the Agency for more than $371 million in past
costs; and PRPs have  been billed by the EPA for approximately $79 million in oversight
costs.  These results can  be  directly linked to Goal 3.   EPA also works to ensure that
required legally enforceable institutional controls and financial assurance instruments are
in place and adhered to at Superfund sites and at facilities subject to RCRA Corrective
Action to ensure the long-term protectiveness of cleanup actions.

In FY 2011,  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 remediate sites (or both). When appropriated dollars are used
to clean up sites, the program  will recover the associated cleanup costs from the PRPs.  If
future work remains at a site, recovered funds could be placed in  a site-specific special
account.  Special accounts are sub-accounts within the Trust Fund which segregate funds
obtained from responsible parties who enter into settlement agreements with EPA. These
funds act as an incentive for other PRPs to perform cleanup work and can be used by the
Agency to fund  cleanup at that site. The Agency also will continue its efforts to establish
and use  special accounts  to  facilitate cleanup, improve  tracking,  and  plan the use of
special account funds.  Through the end of FY 2009, more than 948 site-specific special
accounts have been established and over $2.96 billion have been deposited into special
accounts (including  earned interest).  Approximately $1.43 billion from special accounts
has been used by EPA for site response actions and another $184.3 million has  been
obligated but not yet disbursed.   EPA is carefully managing the $1.34 billion that was
available as of October 1, 2009 and has developed multi-year plans to use these funds as
expeditiously as possible.  These funds will be used to conduct many different CERCLA
response actions, including, but not limited  to, investigations to determine the extent of
contamination and appropriate remedy required, construction of the remedy, enforcement
activities, and post-construction monitoring.
7 For more information regarding EPA's enforcement program and its various components, please refer to
 http://www.epa.gov/compliance/cleanup/superfund/.
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EPA has ongoing cleanup and property transfer responsibilities at some of the 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 environment8.  In addition, EPA ensures that Federal
entities are held accountable for the commitments made in Federal Facility Agreements.
EPA also is evaluating the enforcement approach for formerly-utilized  Defense sites and
mine sites with Federal ownership.

Enhancing Science and Research to Restore and Preserve Land

EPA's Land Research program, in accordance with the Administration's policy of scientific
integrity9, provides the scientific foundation for the Agency's actions to protect America's
land.  The FY 2011  Land Research program supports the Agency's objective of reducing
or 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  at complex  sites in  accordance with CERCLA.  The range  of
research programs and initiatives will continue both the work of better understanding the
scientific basis of our environmental and human health problems as well as advancing the
design of sustainable solutions through  approaches such as green chemistry and green
engineering.  In FY 2011,  EPA requests $53.4 million  in support of EPA's  efforts  to
enhance science and research for land preservation and restoration.

Restoration research activities in FY 2011 will focus on contaminated sediments, ground
water contamination, site characterization, and site-specific technical support.  Research
will advance  EPA's  ability to characterize  the effectiveness of contaminated  sediment
remediation and will be conducted in collaboration with the Great Lakes National Program
Office (GLNPO) to develop  alternative technologies to sediment dredging for remedy
selection options.    Research products will develop data  to  support  dosimetric  and
toxicologic  assessment of  amphibole  asbestos fiber-containing  material  from  Libby,
Montana.

Oil spill remediation research will  continue on physical,  chemical,  and biological risk
management methods for petroleum  and  non-petroleum  oil  spills  in  freshwater  and
marine environments as well as development of a protocol for testing solidifiers  and
treating oil. UST research will assess UST compatibility with alternative fuels

Research  will continue to focus on  areas  such as resource  conservation, corrective
action, multi-media modeling, leaching, containment systems, and landfill bioreactors.  In
 For more information on the Superfund Federal Facilities Response and Enforcement program, please refer to
 http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/.
9 For more information, see http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Memorandum-for-the-Heads-of-Executive-
 Departments-and-Agencies-3-9-09/.
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FY 2011, EPA will continue working  with states to optimize  operations and monitor
several landfill bioreactors to determine their potential to provide alternative energy in the
form  of  landfill  gas while  increasing  the  nation's  landfill  capacity.    Additionally,
methamphetamine lab clean up studies will continue to evaluate  clean up techniques and
exposure risks.  Research efforts also will  address science needs for coal combustion
residue regulatory actions.

In FY 2011,  research also will continue in the area of nanotechnology fate and transport
as part of the Nanotechnology Research program efforts to address emerging issues and
strategic EPA issues.  The goal of this research is to lead the Federal  government in
addressing key science questions on the persistence and movement of nanomaterials in
the environment.
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          Goal 4: Healthy Communities and Ecosystems

 Strategic  Goal:  Protect, sustain, or restore the health of people,  communities, and
 ecosystems using integrated and comprehensive approaches and partnerships.
                                            Resource Summary
                                                   ($ in 000)
^-> 	 ^
16.7% of Budget
1 - Chemical, Organism, and
Pesticide Risks
2 - Communities
3 - Ecosystems
4 - Enhance Science and Research
Goal 4 Total
FY2010
Enacted
Budget
$411,538
$251,749
$728,969
$407,486
$1,799,743
FY 201 1
President's
Budget
$425,034
$297,729
$530,132
$420,623
$1,673,517
Difference
FY 2010 EN to
FY2011 PresBud
$13,496
$45,980
($198,838)
$13,137
($126,225)
Workyears
3,891
3,967
76
 Numbers may not add due to rounding.

 In FY 2011,  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.  Results stem from effective regulatory frameworks but also
 from  partnerships  with stakeholders.  Partnerships  with  international,  Federal, state,
 tribal,  local  governments and  non-governmental organizations  have long been  a
 common thread across EPA's programs. Environmentalism has been  described as a
 conversation that we all must have because it is about protecting people in the  places
 they live, work and raise families.  In FY 2011, the Agency is focused on expanding the
 conversation to include new stakeholders and involve communities  in more direct ways.
 EPA is proactive about detection and prevention of environmental  risks to watersheds,
 communities, homes, schools and workplaces - but today's challenges require renewed
 and re-focused efforts to address old pollution and prevent new pollution.

 The Agency will carry out  its responsibilities based  on  the core  values of science,
 transparency and the rule of law, and will include environmental justice principles in the
 full range of decision-making. High-priority, cutting edge research will guide the Agency
 in finding efficient, innovative and sustainable ways to address complex, inter-related
 and cumulative sources and effects of pollution.
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In FY 2011, EPA will invest in building Healthy Communities from multiple vantages:
Brownfields to assist economically hard hit communities; Clean and Green Schools to
protect our children, Community Waters grants to engage communities in new ways in
making  improvements in their immediate environment,  and Sustainable Communities
activities to help protect the future through smart development.  Targeted geographic
approaches  receive new  funds  also,  to  support important work to restore the
Chesapeake  Bay under the Executive Order, and to reduce nutrient loading  in the
Mississippi River Basin with downstream benefits to the Gulf of Mexico.  In addition, the
Agency will move forward with the far-reaching Great Lakes initiative begun in 2010.

Ideally,  EPA implements a strategy of preventing pollution at the source. EPA works to
assure the safety of chemicals before they are in use, as well as  maximize the  use of
recent advances in  toxicology  and analytical chemistry for chemical  review.  The
Agency is shifting its focus to identify and address chemicals of concern more quickly
through  Existing  Chemicals Action Plans, as  well as filling  data  gaps  on  widely
produced chemicals in commerce, including endocrine disrupter screening.  Innovation
in green chemistry and research to develop faster more efficient ways to  uncover
potential adverse effects are vital components of this work. In FY 2011 new funding will
allow expansion and acceleration in endocrine disrupter research and  computational
toxicology.

In managing risk and in ensuring that environmental rules protect all Americans, EPA
directs its efforts toward identifying and mitigating exposures and other factors in our
communities,  schools,  homes, and  workplaces that might  negatively impact human
health and environmental quality. To do so, EPA conducts research to understand how
specific  groups of people  may  differ  in  their  inherent susceptibility or  may  be
disproportionately  exposed.  For  example,  sensitivity  in  children  can depend  on
developmental stage, which can determine how they metabolize (absorb and detoxify)
chemicals.  People living  in communities near certain  industrial  sources of  pollution
and/or roadways with high  traffic volume may be disproportionately impacted.   Native
Americans, or other Americans who rely on traditional sources of food, may consume
more fish or  other locally gathered foods and may be  disproportionately exposed to
contaminants  in those foods.  A renewed focus  is being placed on the  continuing
Environmental  Justice  (EJ) efforts to address the environmental and public  health
concerns  of  minority,  low  income,  Tribal,  and  other disproportionately burdened
communities  and focus on improving environmental  and  public  health protection in
these communities.

Changes in ecosystems have long-range impacts that are beginning  to be recognized
and  difficult to  reverse.   In FY 2011, the Agency will continue collaboration  with the
Department of Interior and the Army Corps  of Engineers  (Corps)  to  implement  an
Interagency Action Plan  (IAP) to significantly reduce the  harmful effects of Appalachian
surface coal mining operations.  Research on ecosystem services as well as the impact
of climate change will help identify opportunities in regulatory, voluntary and outreach
efforts.  Routine ecological risk assessments  determine  potential effects of pesticides,
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toxics or pollutants from  various sources on  plants,  animals, and ecosystems as a
whole, as well as those species that are listed as threatened or endangered.

The combined effect - community  level actions, geographically targeted investments,
attention to  chemicals, concern for ecosystems  -  implemented through the lens  of
science, transparency and law - will bring real improvements and real protections for
ourselves and for our children.

High Priority Performance Goal

As part of the Administration's emphasis on High Priority Performance Goals,

//.  EPA will take actions over the next two years to improve water quality. Clean water
is essential for our quality of life and the health of our communities.

   •  All Chesapeake Bay watershed States (including the District of Columbia) will
   develop and submit approvable Phase I watershed implementation plans by the end
   of CY 2010 and Phase II plans by the end of CY 2011 in support of EPA's final
   Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL).

   •  By the end of fiscal year 2011, increase the percent of federal CWA discharge
   permit enforcement actions that reduce pollutant discharges into impaired
   waterways from 20% (FY 2009 baseline) to 25%, and promote transparency and
   right-to-know by posting results and analysis on the web.

///. EPA  will ensure that environmental health and protection is delivered to our
   communities.

   •  By 2012, EPA will have initiated 20 Brownfields community-level projects as part of
   an  enhanced  effort to  benefit under-served and  economically disadvantaged
   communities.  This will  allow those communities to assess and address multiple
   Brownfields sites within their boundaries, thereby advancing area-wide planning and
   cleanups and enabling redevelopment of Brownfields properties on a broader scale
   than on  individual sites.   EPA will provide technical assistance,  coordinate  its
   enforcement, water and air quality programs, and work with other federal agencies,
   states,   tribes  and   local  governments   to   implement  associated  targeted
   environmental improvements identified in each community's area-wide plan.

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 $144  million in  Pesticides Licensing programs  in FY 2011.   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. Many of these actions
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involve reduced risk pesticides which, once registered, will result in increased societal
benefits.

As  part of the FY 2011 Healthy Communities initiative  the Pesticides  program will
expand  its work with schools to reduce risks children face from pesticide  use in the
school environment.

Reduced concentrations of pesticides in water sources indicate the efficacy of EPA's
risk  assessment,  management,  mitigation, and communication  activities.    Using
sampling data, collected under the U.S. Geological  Survey (USGS) National  Water
Quality Assessment program for urban watersheds, EPA will monitor the impact of our
regulatory decisions for four pesticides of concern—diazinon, chlorpyrifos,  malathion,
and cabaryl—and consider whether any additional action is necessary

Toxics Programs

These programs  span  the full range  of  EPA activities  associated  with  screening,
assessing and reducing risks of both new and existing chemicals. EPA is strengthening
its risk management activities to assure the safety of chemicals in products and in the
environment.  EPA will continue  reviewing and acting on 1,500 TSCA Section 5 notices,
including Pre-Manufacture Notices, received annually to ensure no unreasonable risk
from new chemicals before they are introduced into U.S. commerce.

EPA will also  continue to assess and act on the thousands of existing chemicals already
in commerce  before TSCA took effect and review data to support hazard assessment
and  risk  management actions for High Production Volume (HPV) chemicals.   In FY
2011  the program will evaluate  the hazards and risks posed by HPV chemicals, and
take appropriate risk management actions  to reduce human health and environmental
risks. One focus area is eliminating childhood  lead poisoning, including implementing
the Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) Rule to address lead hazards  created by
renovation, repair and painting activities in homes and child-occupied facilities with lead-
based paint.

Pesticides and Toxics Fees

In FY 2011, EPA will administer or propose  several user fees as follows:

   •  Pesticides  Maintenance Fee:  This  fee  provides funding for the Registration
      Review program  with a portion  supporting  the  processing  of applications
      involving "me-too" or inert ingredients.

   •  Enhanced  Registration  Services  Fee:   To  accelerate pesticide  registration
      decision service,  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.
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   •  Pre-Manufacturing Notification Fee: This fee supports the review and processing
      of new chemical  pre-manufacturing  notifications  submitted to  EPA  by  the
      chemical industry.

   •  Lead Accreditation and Certification Fee:  This fee is collected from operators of
      lead training  programs accredited under the 402/404 rule  and for lead-based
      paint contractors certified under this rule.

   •  Accelerated Chemical  Risk Reduction  Fee:   Under proposed TSCA  reform
      legislation,   the  Agency  envisions   collecting   fees   to  directly   support
      implementation of a restructured chemicals management program.

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 urban waters, 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
protect these  important ecosystems  increase.  Working with stakeholders, EPA has
established special programs to  protect and restore these unique resources.

In  FY 2011,  EPA  will continue to  lead the  implementation  of  the  Great Lakes
Restoration Initiative.  The Initiative identifies $300 million for programs and projects
strategically chosen to target the most significant environmental problems in the Great
Lakes ecosystem.  EPA will collaborate closely with its Federal partners  in the Great
Lakes Interagency Task Force  to implement the Great  Lakes Restoration  Initiative
Action Plan  to be completed  in February 2010.  Pursuant to the Action Plan,  the
Initiative will use outcome-oriented performance goals and  measures to  direct Great
Lakes protection and restoration funding to the following areas:

   •  Toxic Substances and Areas of Concern
   •  Invasive Species
   •  Nearshore Health and Nonpoint Source
   •  Habitat and Wildlife Protection and Restoration
   •  Accountability,   Education,   Monitoring,   Evaluation,   Communication,  and
      Partnerships

Funds  will   be  used   to  strategically  implement  both  Federal   projects  and
prioritized/competitive grants.    These  funds  will  not  be  directed  toward water
infrastructure programs that are addressed under the Clean Water or Drinking Water
State  Revolving Fund program.   Funding will be distributed directly by  EPA or  through
the transfer of funds to other Federal agencies  for subsequent use and distribution.
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In FY 2011,  EPA, the Army Corps  of Engineers,  and  Department of Interior will
implement the Interagency Action Plan to  significantly reduce the harmful effects of
Appalachian surface coal mining operations.   In  FY 2011,  EPA will review and/or
develop  policy,  analyze proposed CWA  404 and  402  permits related  to  mining
operations, and negotiate resolution to outstanding environmental issues with the Army
Corps of Engineers  (ACE)  and mine operators.     FY  2011, EPA  will continue
cooperation with Federal, state and  Tribal governments and other stakeholders toward
achieving the  national goal of no  net loss an overall increase  in  the  acreage and
condition of wetlands.  The FY 2011  budget request for NEPs and coastal watersheds is
$27.2 million.

The $63.0 million Chesapeake Bay program FY 2011  budget request will allow  EPA to
implement the President's Executive Order  (E.G.) on  Chesapeake Bay Protection and
Restoration, to implement the Chesapeake  Bay Total  Maximum Daily  Load (TMDL), to
assist program  partners in  their protection and  restoration  efforts,  to  increase the
accountability and transparency  of  the program, to continue  responding to oversight
reports, and to address other priority  initiatives as they arise.  The efforts  initiated in
response to the E.G. will help accelerate  implementation  of pollution reduction and
aquatic habitat restoration efforts and ensure that water quality objectives are achieved
as soon as possible.

The  Chesapeake  Bay  TMDL,  the nation's  largest  and  most  complex TMDL, will
necessitate significant scientific and  technical support  to states and local jurisdictions in
developing and  implementing  the  most  appropriate  programs  for  meeting  their
responsibilities under the TMDL allocations.  EPA has engaged multiple programs and
offices to provide the regulatory, legal,  enforcement, and technical support necessary to
meet  these challenges.

EPA  is  committed to  its ambitious  long-term goals of  100 percent attainment of
dissolved oxygen standards in waters of the Chesapeake Bay and  185,000 acres of
submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV).   Along with its  Federal and state partners,  EPA
has stated its intention to establish two-year milestones for all actions needed to restore
water quality,  habitats, and fish and shellfish.

The hypoxic zone that forms in the summer off the coasts of Louisiana  and Texas is
primarily caused by excess nutrients, many of which originate in middle American cities,
farms and industries.   To  address this pressing water quality challenge,  in FY 2011,
EPA will  target the Mississippi River Basin ($12.4 million for grants; $17 million total) to
demonstrate how  effective nutrient strategies  and enhanced partnerships can  yield
significant progress  in  addressing  non-point source driven nutrient  pollution.  This
initiative  supports the Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan  20081 as well as  the regional priorities
outlined  in the  Gulf of Mexico  Alliance's  Governor's Action Plan II, both of which
describe a strategy to reduce,  mitigate, and control  hypoxia in  the  Northern  Gulf of
Mexico and improve water quality in the Mississippi River Basin.
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U.S.-Mexico Border Water Infrastructure Program

The  U.S.-Mexico Border region hosts a growing population of more than 14.6 million
people, posing unique drinking water and wastewater infrastructure shortages.  In many
areas along the US-Mexico Border, no drinking water or wastewater services exist.  In
addition, the rapid increase in  population and  industrialization in the border cities has
overwhelmed those  areas that have limited wastewater treatment and drinking water
supply facilities.  Untreated sewage pollutes urban waters that flow north into the U.S.
from Tijuana,  Mexicali, and Nogales, into the Rio Grande or into the Pacific Ocean.  In
FY 2011, EPA sustains its long time commitment to the water and sanitation needs of
the Border  region by investing $10 million in water infrastructure projects.  The Agency
will continue  to monitor the  program to ensure it is well managed and the Federal
investment  yields access to  safe  drinking  water  and wastewater  collection and
treatment services for the communities in both countries.

 Healthy Communities: Clean, Green, and Healthy Schools

This initiative will create a multidisciplinary  Healthy Schools program to support states
and  communities in promoting healthier school  environments,  increasing  technical
support  and outreach, and co-leading an interagency  effort to  better  coordinate and
integrate existing school programs throughout the Federal  government.  Under the
Healthy  Communities and  Ecoystems goal, EPA would broaden the implementation of
EPA's existing  school  environmental  health  programs including asthma,  indoor air
quality, chemical clean out, green practices (i.e., cleaning products, energy use, lighting,
etc.),  and  enhanced use of  Integrated Pest Management.  The Agency would also
provide  technical assistance for state  school  environmental health programs and for
implementing voluntary guidelines for school siting and construction.

Community Action  lor a Renewed Environment (CARE)
CARE is a competitive grant and technical assistance program that offers an  innovative
way for  under-served and other communities  to take action to  reduce toxic pollution.
Through CARE, communities  create local collaborative partnerships  that implement
local solutions to minimize exposure to toxic pollutants and reduce their release.  In FY
2011, EPA is requesting  new grant authority to  continue this  program beyond  the
demonstration phase.

Brownfields

EPA  works collaboratively with state, Tribal,  and local  partners to  promote  the
assessment, cleanup, and  sustainable reuse of Brownfields.  In FY 2011, an additional
investment  of $38 million in  Brownfields work will offer new opportunities to serve
communities acutely impacted by the economic downturn.

Improving a community's ability to make decisions that affect its  environment is at the
heart of EPA's community-centered  work.   EPA shares  information and builds
community  capacity to consider the  many aspects  of  planned development  or
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redevelopment.   EPA encourages  community development  by providing  funds to
support  community   involvement  and   area-wide  planning  associated  with  the
assessment  and  cleanup  of  Brownfields  sites.    Through  area-wide   planning,
communities would identify how Brownfield properties can be redeveloped to meet their
needs for jobs, housing, recreation, and health facilities that would make a more viable
and  sustainable  community, as well as  identify opportunities  to leverage additional
public and private investment.

In addition, the Smart Growth program works with stakeholders to create an improved
economic and institutional climate for Brownfields redevelopment. Addressing these
challenges requires combining innovative and community-based approaches with
national guidelines and interagency coordination to achieve results.

Environmental Justice

EPA is committed to identifying and addressing the health and environmental burdens
faced by communities disproportionately impacted by pollution. The Agency is
committed to expanding the reach of environmentalism and giving those communities a
voice in critical decisions that impact their lives.  EPA works to make environmental
justice an integral part of every program, policy and activity by:

•  Engaging communities in EPA decision-making and enlisting our partners to meet
   community needs.  EPA works to "open its doors" to communities of color, Native
   Americans, the poor, and other historically underrepresented groups.  In addition,
   EPA actively engages community groups, other Federal agencies, states, local
   governments, and Tribal governments to recognize, support and advance
   environmental protection and public health for vulnerable communities.

•  Supporting community efforts to build healthy, sustainable and green
   neighborhoods. EPA works to empower vulnerable communities to protect
   themselves from environmental harms and to build healthy and sustainable
   neighborhoods that enable disadvantaged  groups to participate in the new green
   economy.  EPA's efforts to build community capacity include financial and technical
   assistance.

•  Applying EPA's regulatory tools to protect vulnerable communities.  EPA will work to
   incorporate environmental justice considerations in EPA's regulatory and policy
   decisions by building a strong scientific and legal foundation and engaging the public
   in EPA's decision-making processes.

International Activities

Emissions  from automobiles on the world's  highways contribute  to  the same urgent
environmental problem as the degradation of peat bogs in Indonesia and deforestation
in the Amazon - or booming industrial  centers in  China and India.   In this  global
challenge, every nation's actions create impacts that  extend well beyond our individual
borders.  By assisting developing countries to improve their environmental governance,
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manage their natural resources and protect the health of their citizens, EPA also helps
to protect human health and the environment in the U.S

To  sustain and enhance domestic and  international  environmental progress,  EPA
enlists the cooperation of other nations and international organizations to help predict,
understand,   and  address  environmental  problems  of  mutual  concern.  Sound
environmental laws,  regulations, policies,  and their enforcement  and implementation
form an essential foundation for effective global environmental management. However,
only sustainable economic solutions in developed and developing nations will bring real
reductions in worldwide levels of GHG's or other pollutants of concern.

EPA is committed to  reducing the concentration and emissions of long-lived climate-
warming gases while  at the same time finding ways to assist communities, especially
those most at risk, to adapt to climate-induced changes, nationally and internationally.
EPA recognizes that adaptation cannot be imposed on anyone but rather, must at its
core be a community-led consultative process that leads to actions  that improve the
lives and conditions of affected communities. On climate mitigation EPA is also actively
working to identify additional  ways to reduce the panoply  of short-lived but potent
climate pollutants such as black carbon soot,  tropospheric ozone and methane,  in the
interest of trying  to  mitigate climate  warming  most  immediately  on  the  scale  of
continents and regions, while continuing to grapple with reducing the long-lived climate-
warming gases.

EPA assists in the coordination of its international and domestic environmental policies
so that U.S. international obligations are informed by domestic policy and expertise, that
domestic programs fulfill  international obligations,  and that actions by other  countries
needed to reach domestic goals are catalyzed and promoted.  .

Consistent with the principles of sustainable development, protecting the environment
and public health in the U.S.-Mexico border region are also priorities for Mexico and the
United States under the Border 2012 Agreement.  The key to  sustaining and enhancing
progress, both domestically and  internationally,  is the collaborative efforts  of national,
Tribal,  state, and local governments, international organizations, the private sector, and
concerned citizens.

Research

EPA has a responsibility to ensure that efforts to reduce potential environmental risks
are based on the best available  scientific information.   Strong science allows for
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 accelerate  the pace of environmental  protection  for healthy people,
communities,   and ecosystems,  EPA  is engaging  in  high-priority,  cutting-edge,
multidisciplinary  research  efforts  in  areas related  to  human  health, ecosystems,
mercury, global  change, pesticides  and toxics,  endocrine  disrupters,  computational
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toxicology,  nanotechnology, human health risk assessment,  and  homeland security.
The  range  of research programs and initiatives will both  continue the work of better
understanding the scientific basis of our environmental and human  health problems as
well as advance the design of sustainable solutions through approaches such as green
chemistry and green engineering. This research is  critical for the Agency to meet its
priorities for assuring the safety of chemicals, and protecting our communities.

EPA also conducts research through  its Science to  Achieve Results (STAR) program.
The STAR  program  leverages innovative and cutting-edge research from top scientists
in academia through a competitive and peer-reviewed grant process that is integrated
with EPA's  overall research efforts. In FY 2011, EPA is increasing funding for the STAR
program by more than 40 percent.  A significant portion of STAR supports research
under Goal 4, including the STAR Fellowships Research program.  STAR Fellowships
contribute to one of the Administration's top priorities in FY 2011, strengthening science,
technology,  engineering,  and mathematics education.  The Agency  proposes $14.0
million for STAR Fellowships in FY 2011, an increase of more than $6 million, which will
allow EPA to award approximately 240 new fellowships.  These fellowships help ensure
the Nation has a diverse scientific workforce to meet the challenges of tomorrow. They
also  represent an investment in EPA's future and  our ability to ensure  that science
remains the backbone of the Agency for years to come.

As designed, most  of the long-standing EPA research programs  investigate statute-
specific environmental research questions, which have allowed the Agency to address
many important environmental questions.  However,  current environmental problems
are more  complex  and  require a  new  approach  to  maximize  the  EPA  research
programs'  responsiveness  to  the rapidly changing  needs of internal and external
partners. To facilitate this evolution,  the Agency is beginning to realign elements of its
research programs  to further advance  the Agency's  ability to  conduct integrated,
multidisciplinary  research  that translates scientific  and technological  advances and
findings to  information that directly informs environmental and public health decisions.
This  new, more integrated approach will enhance our ability to develop high capacity
decision support tools for managing contaminants across their life cycles.

In  FY2011, the Human Health  Research program  is working to maintain its success
with characterizing and reducing uncertainties in exposure and risk assessment as well
as developing improved tools for predicting the safety of chemicals and products. The
program is  orienting  this work toward understanding linkages along the potential source-
exposure-effects-disease continuum and demonstrating reductions in human risk. This
orientation  is designed to  include research that addresses limitations, gaps, and health-
related  challenges  articulated  in the  health  chapter  of the EPA  Report  on  the
Environment  (2007).  Research includes  exploration  of key events  in  pathways of
toxicity that can be used to predict adverse health outcomes, development of models to
predict exposures in complex  community settings and for susceptible populations, and
identification of viable bio-indicators of exposure, susceptibility, and  effect that could be
applied  to evaluate  public health impacts  at various geospatial and  temporal  scales.
Extramural  STAR research complements  intramural  programs with a  strong focus  on
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children's  health,  safe  schools,  and  epidemiologic  approaches  designed to  link
information from exposure and toxicology studies to human health outcomes.   The
Agency is requesting $80.1 million in FY 2011 for Human Health research.

In FY2011,  the Agency's Human Health  Risk Assessment  (HHRA)  program  will
continue to implement a process to identify, compile, characterize, and prioritize new
scientific studies into Integrated Science Assessments (ISAs) of criteria air pollutants to
assist EPA's air and radiation programs in determining the National Ambient Air Quality
Standards (NAAQS). The program will release external review draft ISAs for ozone and
lead for public comment and Clean Air Science Advisory Committee review.  In addition,
the HHRA research program will complete multiple human health assessments of high
priority chemicals for  interagency  review or external  peer review  and post several
completed human health assessments in the integrated risk information system.  In FY
2011, EPA requests $49.0 million  for the Human Health  Risk  Assessment  program,
which includes $14.4 million and 48 work years to allow the  Integrated Risk Information
System (IRIS) program to maintain recent increases  in the  annual output of new IRIS
assessments and updates of existing assessments.

In order to assess the benefits of ecosystem  services to human and ecological well-
being,  it is  important to define  ecosystem services and their implications,  to measure,
monitor and  map those services at multiple scales  over time, to develop predictive
models for quantifying the changes in ecosystem services, and to develop decision
platforms for decision  makers  to  protect and  restore ecosystem  services  through
informed decision making.  The Agency is requesting a total of $74.0  million in FY 2011
to support  Ecosystems  research.  The  Ecosystem  Services  research  program has
transitioned  to  focus  on  advancing  the science of ecosystems  services  and  its
application to decision making.

Over  the  last  decade,  the endocrine  disrupter research program conducted  the
underlying  research, developed  and  standardized  protocols,  prepared  background
materials for transfer to EPA's  Office  of Prevention, Pesticides,  and  Toxic Substances
and the Organization  for  Economic  Cooperation and Development,  briefed Agency
advisory committees,  participated  on international  committees on  harmonization  of
protocols, and participated in the validation of 19 different in vitro and/or in vivo assays
for the development  and implementation  of  the  Agency's  Endocrine Disrupters
Screening program (EDSP).   In FY 2011,  EPA is  requesting $17.4 million for  the
continued  development,  evaluation, and  application of innovative tools for endocrine
disrupting chemicals. This includes  a significant increase for the STAR grant program.

In FY 2011, the Computational Toxicology Research program will play a critical role in
coordinating  and implementing research across the  Agency.   In  addition, greater
emphasis  will be placed on  using systems biology  based approaches to  advance
health-based assessments.  In FY 2011, EPA is requesting $21.9 million, an increase of
$1.9 million,  to  support application of mathematical and  computer models to  help
assess chemical risk to human health and the environment. Funds for next-generation
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tools will speed and facilitate implementation of EPA's Endocrine Disrupter Screening
Program (EDSP).

In FY  2011,  continued pesticides and  toxics research will focus on  characterizing
toxicity and pharmacokinetic profiles of perfluoroalkyl chemicals, developing analytical
methods and  examining the potential for selected perfluorinated telomers to degrade to
perfluoroctanoic acid or its precursors.   The program  also  will conduct  research  to
develop spatially-explicit probabilistic models for ecological assessments.  In FY 2011,
EPA requests $27.6 million for continued pesticides and toxics research to support the
scientific foundation  for  addressing  the risks of exposure to pesticides and  toxic
chemicals in humans and wildlife.

EPA will continue to investigate nanotechnology's environmental, health, and safety
implications in FY 2011.  This  research will  examine which  processes govern the
environmental fate of nanomaterials and what data are available and needed to enable
nanomaterial  risk assessment.  EPA is requesting $20 million for the  Nanomaterials
Research program in FY2011 to expand the availability of information to ensure the
safe development, use, recycling  and  disposal  of  products that contain nanoscale
materials.

EPA will continue research  to better  understand how climate change  will affect the
environment,  including the environmental and human health implications  of greenhouse
gas adaptation and mitigation strategies, and the  implications of climate change for the
Agency's fulfillment of  its  statutory, regulatory and programmatic requirements.   The
Agency's climate  change research also  includes  the development of decision support
tools to help  resource  managers adapt  to changing climate  conditions.  In  FY 2011,
EPA requests $22.0 million for  the  Global Change Research program  to  enhance
understanding of the effects of global change on the environment.

In FY 2011, the Agency will continue to enhance  the nation's preparedness, response,
and  recovery  capabilities  for   homeland  security  incidents  through  research,
development,  and technical  support activities in  the areas of decontamination, water
infrastructure  protection,  and threat  and consequence assessment.    The  FY  2011
request level for this area is $30.7 million.
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      Goal 5:  Compliance and Environmental Stewardship

 Strategic  Goal:   Protect human  health and  the  environment  through ensuring
 compliance  with  environmental requirements by  enforcing  environmental statutes,
 preventing pollution, and promoting environmental stewardship.  Encourage innovation
 and provide incentives for governments, businesses,  and the public that promote
 environmental stewardship and long-term sustainable outcomes.
                                            Resource Summary
                                                  ($ in 000)
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8.2% of Budget
1 - Improve Compliance
2 - Improve Environmental
Performance through Pollution
Prevention and Innovation
3 - Build Tribal Capacity
4 - Enhance Science and Research
Goal 5 Total
FY2010
Enacted
Budget
$531,383
$111,467
$80,732
$58,340
$781,922
FY 201 1
President's
Budget
$545,315
$102,408
$124,477
$51,945
$824,146
Difference
FY 2010 EN to
FY2011 PresBud
$13,932
($9,059)
$43,745
($6,395)
$42,224
Workyears
3,367
3,329
(37)
 Numbers may not add due to rounding.

 Protecting  the public  and  the environment  from  risks  posed  by violations of
 environmental regulations is central to the Environmental Protection Agency's mission
 and a priority for this Administration. EPA ensures that government,  business, and the
 public comply with federal laws and regulations by monitoring compliance and taking
 enforcement  actions that result in  reduced pollution  and improved  environmental
 conditions.

 Laws and  regulations provide  the fundamental building blocks of our environmental
 protection system and establish a level playing field for companies and citizens alike.
 Many of America's historic environmental improvements are attributable to EPA's strong
 and aggressive enforcement program.  To help the Agency meet its mission, EPA will
 continue to employ a vigorous civil and criminal enforcement program to  protect the
 public from environmental hazards, with a particular emphasis on the protection of
 vulnerable communities.
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To  accelerate the nation's environmental protection efforts,  EPA works to prevent
pollution  at  the  source,  and promotes the  principles  of responsible environmental
stewardship,  sustainability,  and innovation.  EPA works to improve and encourage
pollution  prevention  as  the  first  choice  for  environmental  protection,  striving  for
sustainable  practices  and  helping   businesses  and   communities  move beyond
compliance and  become  partners  in protecting natural resources, managing materials
more wisely, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and improving the environment and
public  health.   EPA also works with other  nations  as they develop  their own
environmental protection  programs,  leading to lower levels of pollution in the United
States and worldwide.

In 1984,  EPA adopted  a formal  Indian Policy.  The Agency affirms that Policy  in
recognition  that  the United  States  has  a  unique  legal  relationship with  tribal
governments based on the Constitution, treaties, statutes, Executive Orders,  and court
decisions. This  relationship includes recognition of the  rights  of tribes -  as  sovereign
governments -  to act with  self-determination.  Ensuring compliance and promoting
environmental stewardship are important components of the Agency's efforts to protect
human health and the environment  in Indian Country.  Tribes,  the first stewards  of
America's environment, provide an invaluable perspective on environmental  protection
that benefits and strengthens the Agency's stewardship.  In FY 2011, EPA is requesting
an  increase in support  to  tribal  programs to address   critical  needs  in assessing
environmental conditions on their lands and building environmental programs tailored to
their needs as well as a new multi-media grant to allow them to implement their highest
priority programs.

EPA also will strengthen the scientific evidence and research supporting environmental
policies and  decisions  on  compliance,  pollution  prevention,  and environmental
stewardship.

High Priority Performance Goal

As part of the Administration's emphasis on High Priority Performance Goals, EPA will
take actions over the next two years to improve enforcement results.  Work under this
goal supports one  of the  Agency's  FY 2011  High  Priority  Performance Goals,
specifically:

      II.  Clean  water is essential  for our  quality of life and the health of our
      communities. EPA will take actions over the  next two  years to improve water
      quality.

      By the end of fiscal year 2011, increase the percent of federal CWA  discharge
      permit enforcement  actions  that reduce pollutant  discharges  into  impaired
      waterways from 20% (FY 2009 baseline) to 25% and promote transparency and
      right-to-know by posting results and analysis on the web.
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Improving Compliance with Environmental Laws

To  be effective,  EPA requires a strong enforcement and  compliance program, one
which: identifies  and reduces noncompliance problems, 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 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 efforts,  and  innovative problem-solving
approaches  address  significant  environmental  issues and achieve environmentally
beneficial outcomes. The total proposed FY 2011  budget to improve compliance with
environmental  laws is $545.5 million.

EPA's national enforcement and compliance  assurance program is  responsible for
maximizing compliance with 12  environmental statutes,  28 distinct programs under
those statutes, and dozens of regulatory requirements under those programs which
apply in  various combinations to a  universe of approximately  40 million regulated
Federal and private entities.   In addition,  as  a means  for  focusing its efforts,  the
enforcement program  identifies,  in three year cycles, specific environmental risks and
noncompliance patterns as national priorities.  The enforcement  program coordinates
the selection of these priorities with programs and regions within EPA, and with states,
local agencies, and tribes, in addition to soliciting public comment.

In FY 2011, the Agency proposes to merge the Compliance Assistance and Compliance
Incentives activities into the Civil Enforcement program, with a  small  component of
compliance assistance moving into the Compliance Monitoring program.  Under the
current structure,  individual enforcement tools are emphasized.  The  new model will
allow us  to  focus on  outcomes,  tailoring our approach to  address the unique
characteristics and requirements of individual cases.   This new model also will allow us
to better integrate our efforts with the states, refining our role as state capabilities evolve
to best support the national enforcement program. Merging the Compliance Assistance
and Incentives programs into the enforcement program allows the Agency to pursue the
most  effective  approach and communicates our commitment to vigorous enforcement,
making the threat of Federal enforcement more credible.

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  as well as  to  determine whether
conditions  presenting  imminent and substantial endangerment  exist.   FY  2011
Compliance Monitoring activities will  be both environmental media- and  sector-based.
EPA's 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 programs. In FY 2011
the Compliance Monitoring Program will increase to include work previously done under
the Compliance  Assistance program, primarily training activities.   In FY  2011,  the
Compliance Monitoring program's proposed budget is $111.7 million.
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The Civil Enforcement program's overarching goal is to protect human health and the
environment, targeting enforcement  actions according to the degree of health and
environmental risk in order to promote compliance with Federal environmental statutes
and regulations.  The program collaborates with the Department of Justice, states, local
agencies,  and tribal governments to ensure consistent  and fair enforcement  of all
environmental laws and regulations.  The  program seeks to  protect public health and
the environment and ensure a level playing field by strengthening our partnership with
our co-implementers in the states, encouraging regulated entities to rapidly correct their
own  violations,  ensuring  that  violators do  not  realize  an  economic  benefit from
noncompliance, and pursuing vigorous enforcement to deter future violations.

The Civil Enforcement program develops,  litigates, and settles administrative and civil
judicial cases against serious violators of environmental laws. In FY 2011  the  Civil
Enforcement program  will  expand  to  include  work  previously supported  by the
Compliance  Incentives  and Compliance Assistance programs.   In  FY 2009, EPA
achieved commitments to invest more than  $5  billion  in future pollution controls and
pollution reduction commitments totaling nearly 600 million pounds.  Over the last nine
years,   EPA's   long-term  environmental   results  achieved  through  enforcement
settlements in FY 2001-2009 total an estimated 9.8 billion pounds of pollution reduced.

In FY 2011, the Agency will continue to aggressively implement its Civil Enforcement
program, including the national compliance and enforcement priorities established for
FY 2011-2013.   Existing national priorities  address problems  that remain complex and
challenging, including Clean Water Act "Wet Weather" discharges, violations  of the
Clean Air Act New Source Review/Prevention of Significant Deterioration requirements
and Air Toxics  regulations,  and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
violations   at  mineral   processing   facilities.  Information  on  priorities,  regulatory
requirements, enforcement alerts,  and EPA results will  be made available to the public
and the regulated community through web-based sites.  The Civil Enforcement program
also will support the Environmental Justice program  and the  Administrator's  priority to
address pollution impacting vulnerable populations. The Civil  Enforcement program will
focus enforcement actions on facilities that have repeatedly violated environmental laws
in communities that may be disproportionately exposed to risks and harms from the
environment, including  minority and/or low-income areas.    In  addition,  the  Civil
Enforcement program will help  to implement the President's directive to develop and
implement  a  compliance and enforcement  strategy for the Chesapeake Bay;  activities
will include enhanced enforcement to ensure existing  regulations are  complied with
consistently and  in a timely manner.  In  FY 2011,  the Civil Enforcement program's
proposed budget is $187.1 million.

EPA's  Criminal Enforcement program investigates and helps prosecute environmental
violations which seriously threaten public health and the environment and which involve
intentional,  deliberate, or criminal behavior on the part of the violator.   The Criminal
Enforcement program  deters  violations of  environmental  laws and  regulations by
demonstrating that the  regulated  community will be  held  accountable, through jail
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sentences and  criminal  fines, for such violations.  Bringing criminal  cases sends a
strong  deterrence message  for potential  violators,  enhancing aggregate compliance
with laws and regulations and protecting our communities.

In FY 2011, the Criminal Enforcement program will continue to expand its identification
and investigation of cases with significant environmental, human health, and deterrence
impact while balancing its overall case load of cases across all  pollution statutes.  By
the end of FY 2010, the program will have completed its three-year hiring strategy,
raising the number of special agents to 200.  With  these resources, the program  will
expand its capacity in supporting efforts to address complex environmental cases in FY
2011. The Criminal Enforcement program's proposed budget is $59.5 million.

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.  EPA will  continue to work with
other Federal agencies to streamline and to improve their NEPA  processes.  Work will
focus on  a number of key areas such as review and  comment on  mining, on-shore and
off-shore liquid natural gas facilities, coal bed methane development and other energy-
related projects.  EPA will also  be conducting work as part of the Appalachian Coal
Mining Interagency Action Plan.  In FY 2011, the NEPA program's proposed budget is
$18.5 million.

Improving   Environmental   Performance   through   Pollution   Prevention,
Stewardship and Innovation

In FY 2011,  EPA  is  reorienting  it innovation  programs to accomplish  a  new
Administration  priority—environmental  stewardship  strategies that promote a green,
revitalized, sustainable economy.  This will build from work done in previous years, and
actively  engage  all  parts  of  society  (business,  communities,  government  and
individuals) in actions to  promote  actions that  improve environmental quality and
achieve  sustainable  results.   EPA  will  draw on  its innovation  and  cross media
experience to provide strategic focus analysis and coordination across the Agency, with
States  and with  other Federal agencies.

In FY 2011, with a request of $15.4 million, EPA's Pollution Prevention (P2) program will
provide technical assistance,  information and supporting assessments to encourage the
use of greener chemicals, technologies, processes, and  products through eight principal
programs: Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, Design for the Environment, Green
Suppliers Network,  Regional Grants,  Pollution   Prevention  Resource  Exchange,
Partnership for  Sustainable Healthcare, Green Chemistry and Green Engineering.  In
addition,  EPA's P2 program will  continue to support the new Economy, Energy and
Environment  (E3) partnership  among  federal  agencies,  local  governments  and
manufacturers  to  promote  energy  efficiency,  job  creation  and  environmental
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improvement Through these efforts, EPA will encourage government and business to
adopt source reduction practices that can help to prevent pollution and avoid resulting
health  and environmental impacts.   P2 grants  to states and tribes enable them to
provide technical assistance, education, and outreach to assist businesses.

In FY 2011, through the Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program (EPP), the
Agency will  be a  leader  in  implementing the  Federal  Electronics   Challenge,  a
partnership that encourages federal  agencies to purchase and properly utilize cleaner
and safer electronic products.  In addition, EPA's  Green Suppliers Network Program will
continue to work with large manufacturers  to engage their small  and medium-sized
suppliers in low-cost technical reviews that focus on process improvements and waste
reduction.   Through the Design  for the Environment (DfE) and  Green Chemistry
programs, EPA will remain active in promoting and recognizing the use of greener
chemicals, synthetic pathways, and formulations. The DfE Program helped companies
reduce the use of more than 460 million pounds of hazardous materials in 2008 alone.

In FY 2011, through the National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP), the
Agency will continue to  reduce priority  chemicals in wastes.  As of August 2009, the
NPEP  program has obtained industry commitments for over eight  million pounds of
additional chemical reductions through 2014. Reductions will be achieved by recycling
and/or source reduction made possible by safer chemical substitutes.

In FY  2011, EPA will  focus  its  regulatory innovation  work to accomplish a  new
Administration priority to promote greener,  revitalized, sustainable communities and
regional and national communities.   This approach will help the Agency meet its core
mission goals more efficiently by providing more tools and resources to communities
and by creating stronger, more resilient communities.  This area of work recognizes the
importance of coordinating  and integrating Agency strategies and address emerging
cross-cutting issues to support greener national and local economies.

Promoting a Greener Economy

During FY 2011, EPA will realign and build  upon its  prior innovation and cross-media
experience with a strategic focus on  efforts that  help  to advance the goal of a greener
economy.  EPA also is analyzing and promoting  new strategies for:  energy and natural
resource  use, materials  management, increased sustainability in goods  and  services,
and financial transparency on environmental  issues.  These new efforts are designed to
maximize  the  longer-term benefits of near-term investments in a  cleaner,  healthier
environment and economy.

Program Evaluation

EPA uses program evaluation and  performance analysis to  support evidence-based
decisions about which programs protect  human health and the environment in the  most
efficient and the most cost-effective ways. This is particularly important in an era of
fiscal responsibility  that calls for greater  Federal  accountability and public transparency
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of our programs.  EPA acknowledges that rigorous, independent empirical evidence
plays an important  role in  effective environmental policy and  EPA is committed  to
publicly disseminating  complete evaluation  findings.  In  FY  2011, EPA  will  build
evaluation capacity,  support a performance management training regimen (online and
classroom) which enables EPA staff and managers to use essential tools such as logic
modeling and performance measurement, and also  support  outcomes  and impact
measurement projects in  collaboration with states and other co-regulators. EPA will
make available to the public data that enable external evaluators to assess programs.

Improve Human Health and the Environment in Indian Country

The Administrator's priority on strong  partnerships recognizes that Tribes  bear important
responsibilities for the day-to-day mission of environmental protection.  To help address
this challenge, in FY 2011, EPA is increasing its support of General Assistance Program
(GAP) grants, as well as introducing  a new focused multi-media Tribal grant to support
implementation efforts.

Since adopting the  EPA  Indian Policy  in  1984,  EPA has worked with Federally-
recognized tribes on a government-to-government  basis, in recognition  of the Federal
government's  trust   responsibility  to  Federally-recognized  tribes.  Under Federal
environmental statutes,  the Agency is responsible for protecting  human  health and the
environment in  Indian country.  EPA's American Indian Environmental Office (AIEO)
leads an Agency wide effort to work  with tribes, Alaska Native Villages,  and inter-tribal
consortia to fulfill this responsibility. EPA's strategy for achieving this objective has three
major components:

      Establish an Environmental Presence in  Indian Country:   The Agency will
      continue to provide funding through the Indian General Assistance Program so
      each federally-recognized tribe can establish an environmental presence.

      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 2011, EPA will provide $71.4 million in GAP grants (an increase of  $8.5 million) to
help build Tribal environmental capacity to  assess environmental  conditions,  utilize
available 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.
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Additionally, the Agency is requesting a  new focused $30 million grant program to
support the multi-media Tribal  implementation program. These  grants are tailored to
address  an  individual  tribe's  most  serious  environmental  needs  through  the
implementation  of   Federal environmental  programs,  and  will  build  upon  the
environmental  capacity developed under  the  GAP.    This new  grant  will  advance
negotiated  environmental plans, measures and results  as agreed  upon by tribes and
EPA,  ensuring that tribal environmental priorities are addressed to the  fullest extent
possible.

Enhancing Capacity for Sustainability through Science and Research

The Agency proposes  $51.4 million in FY 2011  to enhance capacity for sustainability
through science and research.   With the Administrator's focus  on a strong  scientific
foundation, the research tools and technologies to monitor, prevent, control, and clean
up pollution are critical building blocks in  our decision-making.  EPA's  Science and
Technology for Sustainability (STS) research program, in accordance with the Agency's
policy of scientific integrity,1 provides the scientific foundation for the Agency's actions
for the integrated management  of air, water, and land resources,  as well as changes in
traditional methods of creating and distributing goods and services.   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.

The range  of  research programs and initiatives will both continue  the work  of  better
understanding the scientific basis of our environmental and human health problems as
well as advance the design of sustainable solutions through approaches such  as  green
chemistry and green engineering.

In FY 2011, EPA will initiate a new research effort in design methods and  management
strategies  for  electronic devices to  mitigate  human  exposure  and environmental
releases from the recycling and  disposal of electronic waste.  In  addition,  EPA  will
sustain the biofuels research initiative to help decision-makers  better  understand  the
risk tradeoffs associated with biofuels production and use.  The work will inform the life-
cycle  analysis  and mandatory  reporting  requirements contained  in   the  Energy
Independence and Security Act.  The STS research program also will continue efforts
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,
including the implementation and tracking of  sustainability metrics  across the biofuels
system.
1 For more information, see http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Memorandum-for-the-Heads-of-Executive-
Departments-and-Agencies-3-9-09/.
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                                                             Resources by Appropriation
          Summary of Agency Resources by Appropriation
                               (Dollars in Thousands)
           Appropriation Account
FY2010     FY2011       change
Enacted    President's   FY 10 EN to
 Budget     Budget      FY11 PB
Science & Technology (S&T)1

Environmental Programs and Management (EPM)

Office of Inspector General (IG)1
  $846,049
$846,697
$648
$2,993,779     $2,891,036   ($102,743)


   $44,791       $45,646        $855
Buildings & Facilities (B&F)
Oil Spill Response (OIL)
Superfund (SF)
- Superfund Programs
- Inspector General Transfer
- Science & Technology Transfer
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks (LUST)
State & Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG)
Rescission of Prior Year Funds
Agency Total:
$37,001
$18,379
$1,306,541
$1, 269, 732
$9,975
$26,834
$113,101
$4,978,223
($40,000)
$10,297,864
$40,001
$18,468
$1,293,060
$1,258,377
$10,156
$24,527
$113,219
$4,781,873
($10,000)
$10,020,000
$3,000
$89
($13,481)
($11,355)
$181
($2,307)
$118
($196,350)
$30,000
($277,864)
  Totals do not include $7.22 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
  FY 10 Resource totals include $8 million in Specified Infrastructure Grants for Hunter's Point, CA.
  1 Does not include Superfund transfers—see the Superfund line items below for annual amounts.
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                                                             Resources by Program Area
                      Resources by Program Area
                                (Dollars in Thousands)

Science & Technology
Air Toxics and Quality
Climate Protection Program
Enforcement
Homeland Security
(Water Sentinel)
(Decontamination)
(Laboratory Preparedness and Response)
(Safe Bui/ding)
Indoor Air
IT / Data Management / Security
Operations and Administration
(Rent)
(Utilities)
(Security)
Pesticides Licensing
Research: Clean Air
(Research: Global Change)
Research: Clean Water
Research / Congressional Priorities
Research: Human Health and Ecosystems
(Research: Computational Toxicology)
(Research: Endocrine Disruptor)
(Research: Fellowships)
Research: Land Protection
Research: Sustainability
Toxic Research and Prevention
Water: Human Health Protection
Total, Science & Technology
Environmental Program & Management
Air Toxics and Quality
Brown fields
Climate Protection Program
(Energy STAR)
FY 2009
Actuals

$105,383.2
$15,880.0
$14,450.6
$66,320.5
($16,798.2)
($24,064.7)
($648.8)
($2,181.0)
$1,077.5
$3,852.1
$73,519.6
($36,892.0)
($15,710.5)
($8,812.7)
$5,724.0
$107,535.1
($17,264.1)
$108,688.7
$5,282.0
$226,649.6
($13,710.1)
($9,948.7)
($5,760.7)
$11,696.8
$19,445.7
$28,200.0
$3,359.7
$797,065.1

$195,992.8
$23,793.1
$97,184.7
($39,085.5)
FY2010 FY2011 Change
Enacted President's FY10 Enacted to
Budget Budget FY11 PresBud

$121,857.0
$19,797.0
$15,351.0
$65,276.0
($18,576.0)
($24,857.0)
($499.0)
($1,996.0)
$1,215.0
$4,385.0
$72,918.0
($33,947.0)
($19,177.0)
($10,260.0)
$6,566.0
$102,743.0
($20,826.0)
$111,073.0
$5,700.0
$246,786.0
($20,048.0)
($11,355.0)
($11,083.0)
$14,111.0
$27,287.0
$27,347.0
$3,637.0
$846,049.0

$202,160.0
$24,152.0
$113,044.0
($52,606.0)

$124,827.0
$16,940.0
$15,909.0
$51,297.0
($11,643.0)
($21,703.0)
($0.0)
($0.0)
$1,229.0
$4,111.0
$70,495.0
($30,950.0)
($19,893.0)
($10,349.0)
$6,664.0
$107,307.0
($21,985.0)
$121,116.0
$0.0
$256,238.0
($21,855.0)
($17,378.0)
($17,286.0)
$13,800.0
$25,292.0
$27,645.0
$3,827.0
$846,697.0

$220,906.0
$27,397.0
$123,050.0
($55,475.0)

$2,970.0
-$2,857.0
$558.0
-$13,979.0
(-$6,933.0)
(-$3,154.0)
(-$499.0)
(-$1,996.0)
$14.0
-$274.0
-$2,423.0
(-$2,997.0)
($716.0)
($89.0)
$98.0
$4,564.0
($1,159.0)
$10,043.0
-$5,700.0
$9,452.0
($1,807.0)
($6,023.0)
($6,203.0)
-$311.0
-$1,995.0
$298.0
$190.0
$648.0

$18,746.0
$3,245.0
$10,006.0
($2,869.0)
NOTE: Items in parentheses are a subset of the program and will not add up to totals shown for the program.
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Resources by Program Area
                      Resources by Program Area
                                (Dollars in Thousands)

(Methane to markets)
(Greenhouse Gas Reporting Registry)
Compliance
Enforcement
(En vironmental Justice)
Environmental Protection / Congressional Priorities
Geographic Programs
Great Lakes Restoration
Geographic Program: Chesapeake Bay
Geographic Program: Great Lakes
Geographic Program: San Francisco Bay
Geographic Program: Puget Sound
Geographic Program: South Florida
Geographic Program: Mississippi River Basin
Geographic Program: Long Island Sound
Geographic Program: Gulf of Mexico
Geographic Program: Lake Champlain
Lake Pontchartrain
Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE)
Geographic Program: Other (other activities)
Regional Geographic Initiatives
Homeland Security
(Decontamination)
Indoor Air
Information Exchange / Outreach
(Children and Other Sensitive Populations: Agency
Coordination)
(En vironmental Education)
International Programs
(US Mexico Border)
IT / Data Management / Security
Legal / Science / Regulatory / Economic Review
Operations and Administration
(Rent)
(Utilities)
(Security)
Pesticides Licensing
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
FY 2009
Actuals
($3,847.3)
($5,163.1)
$132,163.1
$207,461.5
($5,460.3)
$4,983.5
$83,116.5
$0.0
$26,317.8
$22,026.9
$4,922.0
$11,256.6
$2,279.6
$0.0
$3,072.9
$4,837.5
$3,147.5
$970.0
$2,842.1
$1,411.1
$32.5
$23,523.1
($1,316.7)
$29,682.3
$127,458.3
($6,832.4)
($8,762.9)
$19,805.6
($5,621.8)
$95,374.8
$121,785.5
$493,948.7
($155,471.0)
($6,585.1)
($24,545.2)
$118,340.4
$119,330.3
FY2010
Enacted
Budget
($4,569.0)
($16,685.0)
$134,582.0
$224,899.0
($7,090.0)
$16,950.0
$608,441.0
$475,000.0
$50,000.0
$0.0
$7,000.0
$50,000.0
$2,168.0
$0.0
$7,000.0
$6,000.0
$4,000.0
$1,500.0
$2,448.0
$3,325.0
$0.0
$23,554.0
($3,522.0)
$26,625.0
$130,800.0
($7,100.0)
($9,038.0)
$19,824.0
($4,969.0)
$103,322.0
$123,597.0
$498,410.0
($157,040.0)
($13,514.0)
($27,997.0)
$120,132.0
$123,250.0
FY2011 Change
President's FY10 Enacted to
Budget FY11 PresBud
($4,5910)
($20,750.0)
$110,467.0
$264,908.0
($7,317.0)
$0.0
$416,141.0
$300,000.0
$62,957.0
$0.0
$5,000.0
$20,000.0
$2,148.0
$12,400.0
$3,000.0
$4,515.0
$1,434.0
$978.0
$2,448.0
$1,261.0
$0.0
$15,142.0
($2,012.0)
$27,771.0
$143,208.0
($10,159.0)
($6,448.0)
$19,940.0
($4,979.0)
$105,090.0
$130,478.0
$521,112.0
($169,915.0)
($13,409.0)
($30,901.0)
$123,703.0
$122,736.0
($22.0)
($4,065.0)
-$24,115.0
$40,009.0
($227.0)
-$16,950.0
-$192,300.0
-$175,000.0
$12,957.0
$0.0
-$2,000.0
-$30,000.0
-$20.0
$12,400.0
-$4,000.0
-$1 ,485.0
-$2,566.0
-$522.0
$0.0
-$2,064.0
$0.0
-$8,412.0
(-$1,510.0)
$1,146.0
$12,408.0
($3,059.0)
(-$2,590.0)
$116.0
($10.0)
$1,768.0
$6,881.0
$22,702.0
($12,875.0)
(-$105.0)
($2,904.0)
$3,571.0
-$514.0
NOTE: Items in parentheses are a subset of the program and will not add up to totals shown for the program.
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                      Resources by Program Area
                                (Dollars in Thousands)

Toxics Risk Review and Prevention
(Endocrine Disrupters)
Underground Storage Tanks (LUST / UST)
Water: Ecosystems
Great Lakes Legacy Act
National Estuary Program / Coastal Waterways
Wetlands
Water: Human Health Protection
Water Quality Protection
Total, Environmental Program & Management
Inspector General
Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations
Total, Inspector General
Building and Facilities
Homeland Security
Operations and Administration
Total, Building and Facilities
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Air Toxics and Quality
Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations
Compliance
Enforcement
(En vironmental Justice)
(Superfund: Enforcement)
(Superfund: Federal Facilities Enforcement)
Homeland Security
(Decontamination)
(Laboratory Preparedness and Response)
Information Exchange / Outreach
IT / Data Management / Security
Legal / Science / Regulatory / Economic Review
FY 2009
Actuals
$100,229.1
($10,937.0)
$13,581.6
$82,989.5
$32,782.7
$27,082.7
$23,124.1
$101,352.6
$213,699.7
$2,405,796.7

$40,605.1
$40,605.1

$8,559.9
$29,282.8
$37,842.7

$2,299.2
$10,314.2
$1,416.5
$195,000.2
($624.6)
($172,412.0)
($9,265.5)
$58,450.0
($8,954.3)
($8,933.2)
$929.7
$18,279.3
$2,086.1
FY2010
Enacted
Budget
$101,915.0
($8,625.0)
$12,424.0
$58,507.0
$0.0
$32,567.0
$25,940.0
$105,168.0
$222,023.0
$2,993,779.0

$44,791.0
$44,791.0

$8,070.0
$28,931.0
$37,001.0

$2,495.0
$9,975.0
$1,216.0
$195,448.0
($795.0)
($172,668.0)
($10,570.0)
$56,534.0
($10,996.0)
($9,626.0)
$1,433.0
$17,872.0
$1,639.0
FY2011 Change
President's FY10 Enacted to
Budget FY11 PresBud
$100,513.0
($8,601.0)
$14,647.0
$55,464.0
$0.0
$27,233.0
$28,231 .0
$108,302.0
$240,061.0
$2,891,036.0

$45,646.0
$45,646.0

$8,070.0
$31,931.0
$40,001.0

$2,593.0
$10,156.0
$1,220.0
$198,890.0
($806.0)
($176,532.0)
($10,909.0)
$43,468.0
($7,011.0)
($5,838.0)
$1,433.0
$17,448.0
$1,665.0
-$1,402.0
(-$24.0)
$2,223.0
-$3,043.0
$0.0
-$5,334.0
$2,291.0
$3,134.0
$18,038.0
-$102,743.0

$855.0
$855.0

$0.0
$3,000.0
$3,000.0

$98.0
$181.0
$4.0
$3,442.0
($11.0)
($3,864.0)
($339.0)
-$13,066.0
(-$3,985.0)
(-$3,788.0)
$0.0
-$424.0
$26.0
NOTE: Items in parentheses are a subset of the program and will not add up to totals shown for the program.
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Resources by Program Area
                      Resources by Program Area
                                (Dollars in Thousands)

Operations and Administration
(Rent)
(Utilities)
(Security)
Research: Human Health and Ecosystems
Research: Land Protection
Research: Sustainability
Superfund Cleanup
Superfund: Emergency Response and Removal
Superfund: EPA Emergency Preparedness
Superfund: Federal Facilities
Superfund: Remedial
Superfund: Support to Other Federal Agencies
Total, Hazardous Substance Superfund
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
Compliance
IT / Data Management / Security
Operations and Administration
(Rent)
Research: Land Protection
Underground Storage Tanks (LUST / UST)
(LUST/UST)
(LUST Cooperative Agreements)
(EPAct & Related Authorities Implementation)
Total, Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
Oil Spill Response
Compliance
Enforcement
IT / Data Management / Security
Oil
Operations and Administration
(Rent)
Research: Land Protection
Total, Oil Spill Response
FY 2009
Actuals
$130,294.3
($45,0718)
($1837.0)
($6,056.1)
$3,776.4
$19,010.1
$96.0
$943,460.2
$224,789.2
$9,934.8
$32,761 .5
$669,293.0
$6,575.0
$1,385,412.2

$802.4
$164.3
$2,147.9
($696.0)
$424.1
$109,725.3
($10,874.5)
($61,419.3)
($37,431.5)
$113,264.0

$293.5
$2,060.5
$36.3
$14,445.6
$576.1
($538.0)
$382.8
$17,794.8
FY2010
Enacted
Budget
$139,181.0
($44,300.0)
($3,397.0)
($8,299.0)
$3,404.0
$21,191.0
$73.0
$856,080.0
$202,330.0
$9,632.0
$32,105.0
$605,438.0
$6,575.0
$1,306,541.0

$797.0
$162.0
$2,184.0
($696.0)
$345.0
$109,613.0
($11,613.0)
($63,570.0)
($34,430.0)
$113,101.0

$269.0
$1,998.0
$24.0
$14,944.0
$505.0
($438.0)
$639.0
$18,379.0
FY2011
President's
Budget
$138,307.0
($41,888.0)
($3,749.0)
($8,412.0)
$3,350.0
$19,069.0
$0.0
$855,461.0
$202,784.0
$9,776.0
$31,543.0
$605,438.0
$5,920.0
$1,293,060.0

$0.0
$0.0
$2,131.0
($696.0)
$457.0
$109,784.0
($12,162.0)
($63,192.0)
($34,430.0)
$113,219.0

$139.0
$2,559.0
$0.0
$14,547.0
$534.0
($438.0)
$689.0
$18,468.0
Change
FY10 Enacted to
FY11 PresBud
-$874.0
(-$2,412.0)
($352.0)
($113.0)
-$54.0
-$2,122.0
-$73.0
-$619.0
$454.0
$144.0
-$562.0
$0.0
-$655.0
-$13,481.0

-$797.0
-$162.0
-$53.0
($0.0)
$112.0
$171.0
($549.0)
(-$378.0)
($0.0)
$118.0

-$130.0
$561.0
-$24.0
-$397.0
$29.0
($0.0)
$50.0
$89.0
NOTE: Items in parentheses are a subset of the program and will not add up to totals shown for the program.
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                                                                  Resources by Program Area
                        Resources by Program Area
                                  (Dollars in Thousands)

State and Tribal Assistance Grants
Infrastructure Assistance: Clean Water SRF
Infrastructure Assistance: Drinking Water SRF
Congressionally Mandated Projects
Infrastructure Assistance: Alaska Native Villages
Brownfields Projects
Clean School Bus Initiative
Diesel Emissions Reduction Grant Program
Targeted Airshed Grants
Infrastructure Assistance: Mexico Border
Infrastructure Assistance: Puerto Rico
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: Local Govt Climate Change
Categorical Grants: Multi-Media Tribal Implementation
Categorical Grant: Nonpoint Source (Sec. 319)
Categorical Grant: Pesticides Enforcement
Categorical Grant: Pesticides Program Implementation
Categorical Grant: Pollution Control (Sec. 106)
(Monitoring Grants)
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)
FY 2009
Actuals

$706,139.0
$865,448.7
$124,409.3
$18,438.4
$101,918.0
$45.3
$29,367.3
$15,000.0
$12,911.8
$3,849.0
$1,119,113.3
$9,905.2
$50,586.9
$12,628.5
$102,332.3
$5,916.9
$14,295.1
$0.0
$0.0
$214,498.2
$19,208.7
$12,772.0
$216,836.3
($12,975.8)
$4,932.3
$99,440.1
$8,370.4
$2,717.7
$223,541 .5
$8,946.4
$5,276.9
$13,962.5
$61,681.1
$11,332.4
FY2010
Enacted
Budget

$2,100,000.0
$1,387,000.0
$156,777.0
$13,000.0
$100,000.0
$0.0
$60,000.0
$20,000.0
$17,000.0
$0.0
$1,116,446.0
$9,900.0
$49,495.0
$10,000.0
$103,346.0
$0.0
$14,564.0
$10,000.0
$0.0
$200,857.0
$18,711.0
$13,520.0
$229,264.0
($18,500.0)
$4,940.0
$105,700.0
$8,074.0
$0.0
$226,580.0
$0.0
$5,099.0
$13,300.0
$62,875.0
$10,891.0
FY2011
President's
Budget

$2,000,000.0
$1,287,000.0
$0.0
$10,000.0
$138,254.0
$0.0
$60,000.0
$0.0
$10,000.0
$0.0
$1,276,619.0
$9,900.0
$49,495.0
$10,200.0
$105,412.0
$0.0
$14,855.0
$0.0
$30,000.0
$200,857.0
$19,085.0
$13,690.0
$274,264.0
($23,500.0)'
$5,039.0
$105,700.0
$8,074.0
$0.0
$309,080.0
$0.0
$5,201.0
$13,566.0
$71,375.0
$11,109.0
Change
FY10 Enacted to
FY11 PresBud

-$100,000.0
-$100,000.0
-$156,777.0
-$3,000.0
$38,254.0
$0.0
$0.0
-$20,000.0
-$7,000.0
$0.0
$160,173.0
$0.0
$0.0
$200.0
$2,066.0
$0.0
$291 .0
-$10,000.0
$30,000.0
$0.0
$374.0
$170.0
$45,000.0
($5,000.0)'
$99.0
$0.0
$0.0
$0.0
$82,500.0
$0.0
$102.0
$266.0
$8,500.0
$218.0
NOTE:  Items in parentheses are a subset of the program and will not add up to totals shown for the program.
     "Corrects President's Budget Funding Levels from printed version.
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Resources by Program Area
                          Resources by Program Area
                                      (Dollars in Thousands)

Categorical Grant: Underground Storage Tanks
Categorical Grant: Wastewater Operator Training
Categorical Grant: Water Quality Cooperative Agreements
Categorical Grant: Wetlands Program Development
Total, State and Tribal Assistance Grants
SUBTOTAL, EPA (Excludes Rescission to Prior Year Funds)
Rescission to Prior Year Funds 1
SUBTOTAL, EPA
Specified Infrastructure Grants:
Hunter's Point, California 2
SUBTOTAL, EPA + Specified Infrastructure Grants
Recovery Act Resources
TOTAL, EPA + Specified Infrastructure Grants
FY 2009
Actuals
$4,549.5
$23.3
$14.0
$15,345.1
$2,996,640.1
$7,794,420.7
$0.0
$7,794,420.7
$8,000.0
$7,802,420.7
$7,100,098.3
$14,902,519.0
FY2010
Enacted
Budget
$2,500.0
$0.0
$0.0
$16,830.0
$4,970,223.0
$10,329,864.0
-$40,000.0
$10,289,864.0
$8,000.0
$10,297,864.0
$0.0
$10,297,864.0
FY2011
President's
Budget
$2,550.0
$0.0
$0.0
$17,167.0
$4,781,873.0
$10,030,000.0
-$10,000.0
$10,020,000.0
$0.0
$10,020,000.0
$0.0
$10,020,000.0
Change
FY10 Enacted to
FY11 PresBud
$50.0
$0.0
$0.0
$337.0
-$188,350.0
-$299,864.0
$30,000.0
-$269,864.0
-$8,000.0
-$277,864.0
$0.0
-$277,864.0
Notes:  FY 2009 Actuals include obligations of carryover.
       FY 2010 and FY 2011 resource totals do not include estimated ARRA obligations.

1 $10M rescission implemented in FY 2009 against prior year funds.

2 Hunter's Point funds transferred to Department of the Navy 3rd Quarter FY 2009.
NOTE: Items in parentheses are a subset of the program and will not add up to totals shown for the program.
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                                                                             Categorical Grants
                 Categorical Program Grants (STAG)
                          by National Program and State Grant
                                     (Dollars in Thousands)


NPM / Grant
Air & Radiation
State and Local Assistance
Tribal Air Quality Management
Radon
Local Government Climate Change

Water
Pollution Control (Section 106)
Beaches Protection
Nonpoint Source (Section 319)
Wetlands Program Development
Targeted Watersheds
Wastewater Operator Training
Water Quality Cooperative Agreements

Drinking Water
Public Water System Supervision (PWSS)
Underground Injection Control (UIC)
Homeland Security

Hazardous Waste
H.W. Financial Assistance
Brownfields
Underground Storage Tanks

Pesticides & Toxics
Pesticides Program Implementation
Lead
Toxic Substances Compliance
Pesticides Enforcement

Multimedia
Environmental Information
Pollution Prevention
Sector Program (Enf & Comp Assurance)
Tribal General Assistance Program
Tribal Implementation

Total Categorical Grants

FY 2009
Actuals

$223,542
$13,963
$8,370
$0
$245,874

$216,836
$9,905
$214,498
$15,345
$8,946
$23
$14
$465,569

$99,440
$11,332
$5,917
$116,689

$102,332
$50,587
$4,550
$157,469

$12,772
$14,295
$5,277
$19,209
$51,553

$12,629
$4,932
$2,718
$61 ,681
$0
$81,960
$1,119,113

FY2010
Enacted

$226,580
$13,300
$8,074
$10,000
$257,954

$229,264
$9,900
$200,857
$16,830
$0
$0
$0
$456,851

$105,700
$10,891
$0
$116,591

$103,346
$49,495
$2,500
$155,341

$13,520
$14,564
$5,099
$18,711
$51,894

$10,000
$4,940
$0
$62,875
$0
$77,815
$1,116,446

FY2011
PresBud

$309,080
$13,566
$8,074
$0
$330,720

$274,264
$9,900
$200,857
$17,167
$0
$0
$0
$502,188

$105,700
$11,109
$0
$116,809

$105,412
$49,495
$2,550
$157,457

$13,690
$14,855
$5,201
$19,085
$52,831

$10,200
$5,039
$0
$71 ,375
$30,000
$116,614
$1,276,619
Delta
FY11 PB-
FY10EN

$82,500
$266
$0
($10,000)
$72,766

$45,000
$0
$0
$337
$0
$0
$0
$45,337

$0
$218
$0
$218

$2,066
$0
$50
$2,116

$170
$291
$102
$374
$937

$200
$99
$0
$8,500
$30,000
$38,799
$160,173


% Change

36.4%
2.0%
0.0%
-100.0%
28.2%

19.6%
0.0%
0.0%
2.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
9.9%

0.0%
2.0%
0.0%
0.2%

2.0%
0.0%
2.0%
1.4%

1.3%
2.0%
2.0%
2.0%
1.8%

2.0%
2.0%
0.0%
13.5%
0.0%
49.9%
14.3%|
Totals do not include $7.22 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
FY 2009 Actuals include obligations of carryover.
NOTE: Totals may not add due to rounding.
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                                                                  Categorical Grants
                 Categorical Grants Program (STAG)
                                (Dollars in millions)
           2000  2001  2002  2003  2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
           EN  EN  EN  EN   EN   EN   EN   EN   EN   EN   EN   PB

   *Does not account for the 2006 $80.0 million rescission. (EN - Enacted, PB - President's Budget)

Categorical Grants

In FY 2011, EPA requests a total of $1.276 billion for 20 "categorical" program grants for
state, interstate organizations, non-profit organizations, intertribal consortia, and Tribal
governments.  This includes a short-term  increase of $130.2  million that  will support
states during this period of constrained budgets and support growth  in workload as a
result of recent regulatory actions such as NAAQS revisions and new requirements for
construction site  runoff.  In addition, the agency is proposing a new multimedia grant for
tribes to support  environmental program implementations.  EPA will continue to pursue
its strategy of building and supporting  state,  local and Tribal capacity to implement,
operate, and  enforce the  nation's  environmental laws.   Most environmental  laws
envision establishment of a decentralized nationwide structure to protect public health
and  the environment.   In this way, environmental goals will ultimately be achieved
through the actions,  programs, and commitments of state, Tribal and local governments,
organizations and citizens.

In FY 2011,  EPA will continue to offer flexibility to state and  Tribal  governments to
manage their environmental  programs  as well as  provide technical  and financial
assistance  to achieve mutual environmental goals.  First, EPA and its state and Tribal
partners will  continue  implementing  the  National  Environmental  Performance
Partnership System (NEPPS).   NEPPS  is designed to  allow states more  flexibility to
operate their  programs, while  increasing emphasis  on  measuring and  reporting
environmental improvements. Second,  Performance  Partnership Grants  (PPGs) will
continue to allow states and tribes funding flexibility  to combine categorical program
grants to address environmental priorities.
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To facilitate environmental program implementation on Tribal lands, in FY 2011 EPA will
for the first time offer a multi-media  grant to Tribal governments.  This new grant will
support tribes as they address critical needs and allow them to implement their highest
priority environmental programs.

Also, to help improve EPA's grants management, the Agency is working with the states
to establish a standardized template for states to use  in developing and submitting their
workplans for continuing  environmental program grants.  Based on experience with
initial template strategies gained in FY 2007 and FY 2008, EPA will continue to partner
with states on implementation in FY 2011.
HIGHLIGHTS:

State & Local Air Quality Management, Radon, and Tribal Air Quality
Management Grants

The  FY 2011 request includes  $330.7 million for grants to support state,  local, and
Tribal air management and radon programs, an increase of $82.5 million.  Grant funds
for State and Local Air Quality  Management and Tribal Air Quality Management are
requested in the amounts of $309.0 million and $13.6 million, respectively. These funds
provide resources to multi-state,  state, local, and Tribal air pollution control agencies for
the development and implementation of programs for the prevention and control of air
pollution and for  the  implementation of National  Ambient  Air  Quality  Standards
(NAAQS)  set to protect  public  health and the environment.   In  FY 2011, EPA will
continue to  work with  state and  local air pollution control agencies to develop  or
implement state  implementation plans  (SIPs) for  NAAQS (including the 8-hour ozone
standard, the fine particle (PM-2.5) standard, the lead standard) and also for regional
haze.  In addition, EPA will continue support of state and local  operation of the 27-site
National Air Toxics Trends Stations network.

EPA will work with federally-recognized  Tribal  governments  nationwide to continue
development and implementation of Tribal air quality management programs.  Tribes
are active in protection of air quality for the 4 percent of the land mass of the  United
States over  which they have sovereignty, and work closely with EPA to monitor and
report air quality  information from over  300 monitors.  Lastly, this request includes $8.1
million for Radon grants to continue funding priority activities that  reduce health risks.
These activities  include reducing  radon  levels in existing  homes and promoting the
construction  of new homes with radon reducing features.
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Pesticide Enforcement and Toxics Substance Compliance Grants

The  FY  2011  request  includes $24.3  million to  build  environmental  enforcement
partnerships  with  states  and  tribes and to  strengthen  their  ability to  address
environmental and public health threats. The enforcement state grants request consists
of $19.1  million for  Pesticides  Enforcement and $5.2 million  for Toxic Substances
Enforcement Grants.  State and Tribal enforcement grants will be awarded to assist in
the implementation of compliance and enforcement provisions of the Toxic Substances
Control  Act (TSCA)  and  the  Federal Insecticide,  Fungicide,  and  Rodenticide  Act
(FIFRA).  These grants support state and Tribal compliance activities to protect the
environment from harmful chemicals and pesticides.

Under the Pesticides Enforcement  Grant  program,  EPA provides resources to states
and  Indian tribes to conduct  FIFRA compliance  inspections  and take appropriate
enforcement actions and implement programs for farm worker protection. The program
also  sponsors training for  state and tribal inspectors through the  Pesticide  Inspector
Residential  Program  (PIRT) and for state and  tribal managers through the  Pesticide
Regulatory  Education Program  (PREP).   Under the  Toxic Substances Compliance
Grant program, states  receive funding for compliance inspections of asbestos  and
polychlorinated  biphenyls (PCBs).   States also  received funding for implementation of
the  state  lead-base  paint certification  and  training,  and  abatement notification
compliance and enforcement program.   The  funds will  complement other Federal
program  grants for  building state  capacity  for  lead  abatement,  and enhancing
compliance with disclosure,  certification and training requirements.

Pesticides Program  Implementation Grants

The  FY 2011  request includes  $13.7 million for Pesticides Program  Implementation
grants.  These  resources will assist states, tribes, and partners with pesticide worker
safety activities, protection of endangered species and water sources, and promotion of
environmental stewardship  approaches to  pesticide use.  In  addition, the Agency
provides  grants to promote stronger Tribal pesticide programs.  EPA's mission as
related to pesticides is to protect human health and the environment from pesticide risk
and to realize the value of pesticide availability by considering the economic, social  and
environmental costs  and  benefits of the use of pesticides.   Pesticides  Program
Implementation Grants help state programs stay current with changing requirements.

Lead Grants

The  FY 2011  request includes $14.9 million for Lead grants.  This funding will support
the development of authorized programs,  including work under  the new Lead Rule, in
both  states and tribes to prevent lead poisoning through  the training  of workers who
remove lead-based  paint,  the accreditation of training programs,  the certification of
contractors, and renovation education programs.  Another activity that  this funding will
support is the collection of lead data to determine the nature and extent of the lead
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problem within an area so that states, tribes and the Agency can better target remaining
areas of high risk.

EPA recognizes that additional  attention and  assistance must  be  given to vulnerable
populations  including  those with  rates of lead poisoning in  excess of the national
average.  In FY 2011, EPA will continue to award Targeted Grants to Reduce Childhood
Lead  Poisoning.  These grants  are  available  to a wide range of applicants, including
state  and   local  governments,  Federally-recognized  Indian  tribes  and  intertribal
consortia, territories, institutions of  higher learning, and nonprofit organizations.   In
addition,  EPA will continue a grant program initiated in  FY 2007 which focuses on low-
income communities through grants  to national organizations engaged  in working with
these communities.  This grant program is designed to  help national and community
organizations reach  under-served populations that may have a disproportionate number
of children with elevated blood lead levels.

Pollution Prevention  Grants

The FY 2011 request includes $5.0 million for Pollution Prevention grants.  The program
provides  grant funds  to deliver technical assistance  to small  and  medium-sized
businesses.  The goal is to assist businesses and industries with identifying improved
environmental strategies and solutions for reducing waste at the source.  The program
demonstrates that source reduction can be a cost-effective way of meeting or exceeding
Federal and state regulatory requirements.  In  FY 2011, EPA is targeting a reduction of
1.8 billion pounds of hazardous materials, saving  $1.5 billion dollars, conserving 24.9
billion gallons of water,  and  reducing  11.6  million metric  tons  of carbon dioxide
equivalent.

Environmental Information Grants

In FY 2011, EPA requests $10.2 million to  continue the Environmental Information
Exchange Network (Exchange Network) grant  program. Started in 2002, the Exchange
Network  grant  program provides  states, territories,  and  tribes with  assistance
developing the information management and technology  (IM/IT) capabilities they need
to take full  advantage of the potential benefits provided by the Exchange Network.
Enhancing and expanding the Network improves  environmental decision making and
improves data quality, timeliness and accessibility while reducing the burden on those
who provide it.  Now that all 50  states, seven  tribes,  and  one territory have nodes,  the
emphasis since  FY  2009 has shifted from building-out IT infrastructure to upgrading
technology  and  expanding environmental information management  and  exchange.
Exchange Network  grants also  support the work of  the  Environmental Council  of the
States and  the National   Congress  of American  Indians,  both   of which   are
representatives of their respective environmental communities as well as conveners and
information disseminators.
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State and Tribal Underground Storage Tanks Program

The FY 2011  request includes $2.6 million for Underground Storage Tank (LIST) grants.
In FY 2011,  EPA will make grants to states under Section 2007 of the Solid Waste
Disposal Act,  available to support core program activities as well as the leak prevention
activities under Title XV,  Subtitle B of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct).

In FY 2011, EPA will continue to focus attention on the need to bring all LIST systems
into  compliance with release  detection  and release prevention requirements,  and
implement the provisions of EPAct.  States will continue to use the LIST categorical grant
funding to implement their  leak prevention and detection  programs.  Specifically with
these LIST categorical grants, states will fund such activities as: Seeking state program
approval to operate the LIST program in lieu of the Federal program, approving specific
technologies  to detect leaks from tanks, ensuring that tank owners and operators are
complying with notification  and other requirements,  ensuring equipment compatibility,
conducting inspections,   implementing operator training, prohibiting delivery for  non-
complying facilities, and requiring secondary containment or financial responsibility for
tank manufacturers and installers.

Hazardous Waste Financial Assistance Grants

In FY 2011, EPA requests $105.4. million for Hazardous  Waste  Financial Assistance
grants.  Hazardous Waste Financial Assistance grants are used for the implementation
of the  Resource Conservation  and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous waste program,
which  includes  permitting, authorization,  waste  minimization,  enforcement,  and
corrective  action  activities.  In FY 2011, EPA  expects  to increase the number  of
hazardous waste  facilities with  new or updated  controls to prevent releases by 100
facilities.

By the  end  of FY 2011,  EPA  and the authorized states also  will  control human
exposures to  contamination at  72 percent of the  2020 universe of 3,746 facilities that
may need cleanup under the RCRA Corrective Action Program.  EPA also will control
migration of contaminated groundwater at 64 percent of these facilities, and complete
the construction of final remedies at 38 percent of these facilities.

Brownfields  Grants

In FY 2011, EPA requests $49.5  million to continue the Brownfields grant program that
provides assistance to states and tribes to develop and enhance their state and Tribal
response  programs.  This  funding will  help  states and  tribes develop  legislation,
regulations, procedures, and guidance, to establish or enhance the administrative and
legal  structure of their  response programs.  In addition,  grant  funding will support
technical outreach to address environmental justice issues and Brownfields research.
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Water Pollution Control (Clean Water Act Section 106) Grants

The FY 2011 EPA request includes $274.3 million for Water Pollution Control grants.
The $45 million increase will strengthen the base state, interstate and Tribal programs,
address  emerging  water  quality  issues such  as  nutrients  and  new  regulatory
requirements, and support expanded water monitoring  and enforcement efforts. This
grant  program assists state and Tribal efforts to  restore and maintain the quality of the
nation's water quality standards, improving water  quality monitoring and assessment,
implementing Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and other watershed-related plans,
strengthening the  National Pollution  Discharge Elimination System  (NPDES)  permit
program, implementing practices to reduce pollution from all nonpoint sources, and
supporting sustainable water infrastructure. EPA will work with states to implement the
new   rules  governing  discharges  from  Concentrated  Animal  Feeding  Operations
(CAFOs).  States and authorized tribes will continue to review and update their water
quality standards as  required by the Clean Water Act.   EPA encourages states to
continually review and update the water quality criteria in their standards to reflect the
latest  scientific information from EPA and other sources.  EPA's goal for FY 2011 is that
64.3  percent  of states will have updated  their standards to reflect the latest  scientific
information in the past three years.  In FY 2011,  $23.5 million will  be designated  for
states and tribes that participate in collecting statistically valid water monitoring  data and
implement enhancements in their water monitoring programs.

Wetlands Grants

In FY 2011, the request includes $17.2 million for Wetlands Program grants.  Through
Wetlands Program Development Grants, states,  tribes, and local governments receive
technical and financial assistance.   These grants support development of state and
Tribal wetland programs that further the goals of the CWA and improve water quality in
watersheds throughout the country.

Public Water System Supervision Grants

In FY 2011, EPA requests $105.7 million for Public Water System Supervision (PWSS)
grants.  These  grants provide 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.  In FY 2011,  the Agency will emphasize that states
use their PWSS funds to ensure that drinking water systems of all sizes achieve or remain
in compliance and drinking water systems of all sizes  are meeting new and existing
regulatory requirements, e.g., Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment  Rule and
Ground Water Rule.

Tribal General Assistance Program Grants

In FY  2011, EPA will provide $71.4 million in GAP grants, an increase of $8.5 million, to
help  build Tribal  environmental capacity to  assess environmental  conditions, utilize
available information, and build an environmental program tailored to tribes' needs. The
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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.

Underground Injection Control (UIC) Grants

The FY 2011,  EPA requests $11.1 million for the Underground Injection Control grants
program.   Ensuring  safe  underground injection of waste materials  is a fundamental
component of a comprehensive source water protection program. Grants are provided to
states that have primary enforcement authority (primacy) to implement  and maintain UIC
programs.  EPA and the states will continue to address Classes I, II, and  III  existing
wells  determined to be in  significant  violation and Class V  wells determined to be in
violation in FY 2011.  EPA and the states also will close or permit  Motor Vehicle Waste
Disposal wells (Class V)  identified  during FY 2011.   In addition,  states and EPA  will
process UIC  permit applications for  experimental carbon sequestration projects  and
gather information from these pilots to facilitate the  permitting of large  scale commercial
carbon sequestration in the future.

BEACH Act Grants

The FY 2011 request includes $9.9 million for the 35 states and  territories with Great
Lakes  or  coastal  shorelines to protect public  health at the Nation's beaches.   The
Beaches Environmental Assessment  and  Coastal Health Act (BEACH Act) of October
2000 authorizes EPA to award grants to help eligible states and territories develop and
implement  beach bacteria monitoring and notification programs.   These  programs
inform the public about the risk of exposure  to  disease-causing microorganisms in
coastal waters (including the Great Lakes).

Non-Point Source Program Grants (NFS - Clean Water Act Section 319)

In FY 2011, EPA requests  $200.9 million for Nonpoint Source Program grants to states,
territories, and tribes.  These grants enable states to  use a range of tools to implement
their  programs including:  both  non-regulatory and regulatory  programs,  technical
assistance,  financial   assistance,   education,  training,  technology  transfer,  and
demonstration projects.  The request also  eliminates the statutory  one-third  of one-
percent cap on Clean Water Act Section 319 Nonpoint Source Pollution grants that may
be awarded to tribes.  EPA's goal  is to reduce annually the  amount of runoff of
phosphorus, nitrogen,  and  sediment through 319-funded projects by 4.5 million pounds,
8.5 million pounds, and 700,000 tons,  respectively.

Multi-Media Tribal Implementation Grants

In FY 2011, EPA requests $30.0 million for a new multi-media grant program, which will be
tailored  to address an individual tribe's most serious environmental needs through  the
implementation  of Federal environmental  programs.  These  grants will build  upon  the
environmental capacity developed under the Indian General Assistance Program  (GAP).
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This new grant will advance negotiated environmental plans,  measures and results as
agreed upon by tribes and EPA, ensuring tribal environmental priorities are addressed to
the fullest extent possible.
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                                                     SRF Obligations by State


  Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) Resources

Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) Resources
        State-by-State distribution of Actual and Estimated Obligations
               Fiscal Years 2009 to 2011 - Dollars in Thousands
   The following tables show state-by-state distribution of resources for EPA's two
   largest State and Tribal Grant Programs, the Clean Water State Revolving Fund
   and the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. These tables do not reflect total
   resources that EPA provides to individual states.
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SRF Obligations by State
                     Infrastructure Assistance:
             Clean Water State Revolving Fund (SRF)
                            (Dollars in Thousands)
STATE
Alabama
Alaska
American Samoa
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Guam
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Northern Mariana Islands
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virgin Islands, U.S.
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Tribal Resources
Undistributed National Resources
TOTAL:
FY 2009
ACT.
OBLIG.
$7,685.9
$4,113.8
$200.0
$6,157.9
$100.0
$50,490.0
$5,498.2
$8,420.5
$100.0
$109.5
$26,182.2
$11,621.6
$446.5
$114.7
$3,374.3
$30,775.8
$16,747.7
$18,505.2
$6,204.3
$8,748.1
$11,952.4
$5,320.8
$16,624.3
$23,339.6
$29,554.8
$12,633.5
$6,192.7
$19,354.8
$8,374.3
$3,521 .8
$100.0
$13,638.0
$28,088.2
$4,187.2
$82,054.8
$124.1
$6,648.6
$200.0
$76,616.7
$661 .7
$7,724.7
$272.3
$18,440.8
$100.0
$7,041 .6
$3,460.5
$9,985.0
$31 ,433.5
$3,621 .6
$3,374.3
$0.0
$14,135.3
$11,971.4
$10,715.0
$18,582.3
$3,374.3
$6,341 .4
$61.8
$705,420.3
FY 2009
ARRA ACT.
OBLIG.
$44,264.2
$23,691.9
$3,554.0
$26,737.0
$25,895.0
$283,080.5
$31 ,664.8
$48,495.3
$19,433.4
$14,573.0
$133,622.6
$66,930.6
$2,571 .5
$30,658.9
$19,433.4
$179,033.4
$95,401 .5
$53,575.8
$35,731.5
$50,381.9
$43,516.2
$30,643.2
$95,742.0
$134,401.2
$170,211.1
$83,291.6
$35,665.0
$109,739.2
$19,433.4
$20,247.5
$19,433.4
$39,559.5
$161,764.5
$19,433.3
$436,933.4
$71 ,443.5
$16,833.4
$1,651.7
$222,851 .9
$31 ,981 .8
$44,718.2
$156,805.6
$51 ,630.5
$26,580.4
$40,553.7
$19,433.4
$57,505.5
$180,932.6
$20,858.6
$19,433.4
$1,962.7
$81,013.4
$68,840.5
$61,709.2
$107,018.5
$19,433.4
$60,000.0
$0.0
$3,971,936.6
FY2010
EST.
OBLIG.
$23,013.0
$12,317.0
$11,129.0
$13,901.0
$13,463.0
$147,193.0
$16,463.0
$25,213.0
$10,103.0
$10,103.0
$69,471 .0
$34,797.0
$8,052.0
$15,940.0
$10,103.0
$93,080.0
$49,600.0
$27,854.0
$18,577.0
$26,194.0
$22,624.0
$15,932.0
$49,777.0
$69,876.0
$88,493.0
$37,827.0
$18,542.0
$57,054.0
$10,103.0
$10,527.0
$10,103.0
$20,567.0
$84,102.0
$10,103.0
$227,170.0
$37,144.0
$10,103.0
$5,172.0
$115,861.0
$16,627.0
$23,249.0
$81 ,524.0
$26,843.0
$13,819.0
$21 ,084.0
$10,103.0
$29,897.0
$94,067.0
$10,844.0
$10,103.0
$6,459.0
$42,119.0
$35,791.0
$32,083.0
$55,639.0
$10,103.0
$42,000.0
$0.0
$2,100,000.0
FY2011
EST.
OBLIG.
$21,917.0
$11,731.0
$10,619.0
$13,238.0
$12,822.0
$140,180.0
$15,678.0
$24,012.0
$9,622.0
$9,622.0
$66,161.0
$33,139.0
$7,683.0
$15,180.0
$9,622.0
$88,645.0
$47,236.0
$26,527.0
$17,692.0
$24,946.0
$21 ,546.0
$15,172.0
$47,405.0
$66,546.0
$84,277.0
$36,025.0
$17,659.0
$54,335.0
$9,622.0
$10,025.0
$9,622.0
$19,587.0
$80,095.0
$9,622.0
$216,345.0
$35,374.0
$9,622.0
$4,935.0
$110,341.0
$15,835.0
$22,141.0
$77,639.0
$25,564.0
$13,161.0
$20,079.0
$9,622.0
$28,473.0
$89,585.0
$10,328.0
$9,622.0
$6,163.0
$40,112.0
$34,085.0
$30,554.0
$52,988.0
$9,622.0
$40,000.0
$0.0
$2,000,000.0
Note: Estimated Obligations are based on the FY 2010 Enacted Budget and the FY 2011 President's Budget.
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                                                             SRF Obligations by State
                         Infrastructure Assistance:
               Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (SRF)
                               (Dollars in Thousands)
STATE
Alabama
Alaska
American Samoa
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Guam
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Northern Mariana Islands
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virgin Islands, U.S.
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Tribal Resources
Undistributed National Resources
TOTAL:
FY 2009
ACT.
OBLIG.
$8,146.0
$0.0
$1,434.5
$24,794.0
$10,229.0
$133,107.7
$14,350.0
$0.0
$10,385.7
$0.0
$36,792.0
$22,882.0
$885.4
$8,146.0
$8,146.0
$33,226.0
$11,487.0
$10,148.0
$8,146.0
$8,543.0
$11,540.0
$8,146.0
$14,266.5
$21,813.0
$28,178.0
$14,667.0
$8,146.0
$15,816.0
$1,473.8
$8,248.3
$0.0
$8,146.0
$18,027.0
$8,146.0
$36,265.0
$27,414.0
$8,146.0
$1,012.8
$24,421 .0
$13,151.0
$11,912.0
$31,905.3
$0.0
$8,146.0
$8,146.0
$8,146.0
$8,454.0
$67,166.8
$8,146.0
$8,146.0
$0.0
$17,352.9
$17,464.0
$8,280.2
$15,770.0
$8,146.0
$8,362.6
$2,033.2
$865,448.7
FY 2009
ARRA ACT.
OBLIG.
$19,500.0
$19,500.0
$483.0
$55,340.0
$24,485.0
$159,008.0
$34,352.0
$19,500.0
$19,500.0
$19,500.0
$88,074.0
$54,775.0
$2,124.0
$19,500.0
$19,500.0
$79,538.0
$27,212.0
$24,293.0
$19,500.0
$20,450.0
$27,626.0
$19,500.0
$26,832.0
$52,216.0
$67,454.0
$24,577.0
$19,500.0
$37,862.0
$19,500.0
$19,500.0
$19,500.0
$19,500.0
$43,154.0
$19,500.0
$86,811.0
$65,625.0
$19,500.0
$1,829.0
$58,460.0
$31,481.0
$28,515.0
$65,681 .0
$19,500.0
$19,500.0
$19,500.0
$19,500.0
$20,238.0
$160,656.0
$19,500.0
$19,500.0
$1 ,999.0
$20,761 .0
$41,806.0
$19,500.0
$37,750.0
$19,500.0
$30,000.0
$0.0
$1,969,467.0
FY2010
EST.
OBLIG.
$16,823.0
$13,573.0
$2,057.0
$27,259.0
$20,539.0
$126,958.0
$24,074.0
$13,573.0
$13,573.0
$13,573.0
$44,316.0
$32,071.0
$5,138.0
$13,573.0
$13,573.0
$51,230.0
$22,638.0
$23,169.0
$16,605.0
$19,592.0
$25,649.0
$13,573.0
$21,059.0
$25,303.0
$41,226.0
$22,776.0
$14,125.0
$26,234.0
$13,573.0
$13,573.0
$13,573.0
$13,573.0
$28,995.0
$13,573.0
$89,427.0
$35,593.0
$13,573.0
$6,148.0
$43,610.0
$16,863.0
$13,573.0
$39,766.0
$13,573.0
$13,573.0
$13,573.0
$13,573.0
$15,084.0
$86,254.0
$13,573.0
$13,573.0
$7,016.0
$23,008.0
$34,650.0
$13,573.0
$23,399.0
$13,573.0
$27,740.0
$2,000.0
$1,387,000.0
FY2011
EST.
OBLIG.
$15,608.0
$12,593.0
$0.0
$25,290.0
$19,056.0
$117,792.0
$22,335.0
$12,593.0
$12,593.0
$12,593.0
$41,116.0
$29,755.0
$0.0
$12,593.0
$12,593.0
$47,531.0
$21,003.0
$21,496.0
$15,406.0
$18,178.0
$23,797.0
$12,593.0
$19,538.0
$23,476.0
$38,250.0
$21,132.0
$13,105.0
$24,340.0
$12,593.0
$12,593.0
$12,593.0
$12,593.0
$26,901.0
$12,593.0
$82,970.0
$33,023.0
$12,593.0
$0.0
$40,461 .0
$15,646.0
$12,593.0
$36,894.0
$12,593.0
$12,593.0
$12,593.0
$12,593.0
$13,995.0
$80,026.0
$12,593.0
$12,593.0
$0.0
$21,347.0
$32,148.0
$12,593.0
$21,710.0
$12,593.0
$25,740.0
$20,889.0
$1,287,000.0
Note: Estimated Obligations are based on the FY 2010 Enacted Budget and the FY 2011 President's Budget.
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                                                               Infrastructure Financing
              Infrastructure / STAG Project Financing
                             (Dollars in Thousands)
Type / Grant
Clean Water State Revolving Fund
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
State Revolvinq Funds
Mexico Border
Alaska Native Villages
Special Needs Projects
Diesel Emissions Reduction Grant
Program*
Targeted Airshed Grants
Brownfields Projects
Specified Infrastructure Grants

Infrastructure Assistance Total
Hunter's Point, California
Total: Infrastructure Assistance +
Specified Infrastructure Grants for
Hunter's Point
FY2010
Enacted
$2,100,000
$1,387,000
$3,487,000
$17,000
$13,000
$30,000
$60,000
$20,000
$100,000
$156,777
$3,853,777
$8,000
$3,861,777
FY2011
PresBud
$2,000,000
$1,287,000
$3,287,000
$10,000
$10,000
$20,000
$60,000
$0
$138,254
$0
$3,505,254
$0
$3,505,254
Delta
FY11 PB-
FY10EN
-$100,000
-$100,000
-$200,000
-$7,000
-$3,000
-$10,000
$0
-$20,000
$38,254
-$156,777
-$348,523
-$8,000
-$356,523
      * Formerly the Clean School Bus
      Initiative.
Infrastructure and Special Projects Funds

The 2011 President's Budget includes a total  of $3.5 billion for EPA's Infrastructure
programs in the State and Tribal Assistance  Grant (STAG) account.   This  budget
continues robust funding for the SRFs at $3.3 billion,  following an unprecedented
increase provided in FY 2010.

Infrastructure and targeted projects funding  under the STAG appropriation provides
financial assistance to states, municipalities, interstates, and Tribal governments to fund
a variety of drinking water,  wastewater, air  and Brownfields environmental projects.
These funds help fulfill the Federal government's commitment to help our state, Tribal
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and local partners obtain adequate funding to construct the facilities required to comply
with  Federal environmental  requirements  and ensure  public  health  and revitalize
contaminated properties.

Providing STAG funds to capitalize State Revolving Fund (SRF)  programs,  EPA works
in partnership with the states to provide low-cost loans to municipalities for infrastructure
construction.  All drinking water and wastewater projects are funded based  on national
priority lists. Through SRF set-asides, grants are available to Indian tribes and  U.S.
territories for infrastructure projects.  Grants also  are available  to Alaskan  Rural and
Native Villages for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure needs. The Brownfields
Environmental Program provides states, tribes, and political subdivisions (including
cities, towns,  and  counties)  the  necessary  tools,  information,  and  strategies for
promoting a unified  approach to environmental assessment, cleanup,  characterization,
and  redevelopment  at  sites  contaminated with  hazardous  wastes  and  petroleum
contaminants.

The resources included in this budget will enable the Agency, in conjunction with EPA's
state, local, and Tribal partners, to achieve several important goals for 2011.  Some of
these goals include:

     - 91 percent of the population served by community water systems will receive
      drinking water meeting all health-based standards.

     - Award 235 assessment, cleanup, and revolving loan fund (RLF) grants under the
      Brownfields program, bringing the cumulative total awarded to  more than 2,400
      by the end  of FY  2011  and paving the  way for  productive reuse of these
      properties.     Brownfields grantees  will also  leverage  5,000  cleanup  and
      redevelopment jobs  and $900 million in cleanup and redevelopment funding.

Goal 1: Clean Air and Global Climate Change
(FY2011 PB:$60M)

Diesel Emissions Reduction Grant Program

In FY 2011, EPA will invest $60 million in the National Clean Diesel program, authorized
in  Sections  791-797 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.  This program focuses on
reducing  particulate  matter  (PM) by up to 95  percent from existing diesel engines,
including on-highway and non-road equipment  and reducing other,  smog-forming
emissions such as  nitrogen oxides  and  hydrocarbons.  Five sectors are targeted for
reduction:  freight,  construction,  school buses, agriculture, and  ports.  Grants will be
provided  to eligible  entities  in areas of the country that are not meeting ambient air
quality standards.  This program will help provide immediate reductions by retrofitting
the engines with emission control  technologies sooner than would  otherwise occur
through normal turnover of the fleet  because these engines often remain in service for
20 or more years.   EPA will issue and manage various categories of Diesel Emission
Reduction grants:
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   •  70 percent of the total funding available will  be used to establish competitive
      National Clean Diesel Campaign (NCDC) grants:
               •  to directly fund and/or finance retrofits, rebuilds,  and replacement
                  as well as fuel switching and fuel efficiency measures associated
                  with diesel trucks, ships, school buses and other diesel equipment;
               •  up to 10 percent of those funds will be used to establish grants to
                  advance emerging diesel emission reduction technologies, with a
                  focus  on new technologies  applicable to ocean-going  vessels,
                  harbor craft, and goods movement; and
               •  competitive  grants will  be  established to help qualifying entities
                  (states, local  governments, ports  etc) create innovative finance
                  programs that provide low  cost,  flexible loans  for the purchase of
                  new and cleaner  used equipment,  as  recommended by the
                  Agency's Environmental Finance  Advisory Board (EFAB).

   •  30 percent of the total funding available will be  used  in formula grants to states to
      implement state diesel emission reduction programs  defined under the DERA.

Goal 2: Clean and Safe Water
(FY2011 PB:$3.3B)

Capitalizing Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds

The  Clean  Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs demonstrate a
true  partnership between states,  localities and  the Federal government.   These
programs   provide  Federal  financial assistance to  states,  localities,  and  Tribal
governments  to protect  the nation's water resources  by  providing  funds for the
construction of drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities.  The state revolving
funds are two important elements of the nation's substantial  investment in sewage
treatment  and  drinking water systems,  which provides  Americans with  significant
benefits in the form of reduced water pollution and safe drinking water.

EPA will continue to provide financial  assistance  for wastewater  and other  water
projects through the  Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF).  CWSRF projects
include  nonpoint source,  estuary,  storm  water,  and sewer  overflow  projects.    The
dramatic progress  made in  improving the quality of wastewater treatment  since the
1970s is a national success.  In 1972, only 84 million  people were served by secondary
or advanced  wastewater  treatment facilities.   Today,  99.76  percent of community
wastewater treatment plants, serving 219.5 million people,  use secondary treatment or
better.  Water infrastructure  projects supported by  the program  contribute to  direct
ecosystem  improvements by lowering the  amount of nutrients  and toxic  pollutants in all
types of surface waters. While great progress has been made,  many rivers, lakes and
ocean/coastal areas still suffer an enormous influx of pollutants  after heavy rains.  The
contaminants result  in beach closures,  infect fish  and  degrade the ability of the
watersheds to sustain a healthy ecosystem.
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The  FY 2011 request includes $2.0 billion in funding for the CWSRF.  Approximately
$33 billion has been provided to date to capitalize the CWSRF.  Total CWSRF funding
available for loans since 1988 through June 2008,  reflecting  loan repayments, state
match dollars, and other funding sources, exceeds $77 billion.  EPA estimates that for
every Federal dollar contributed, more than two dollars are provided to municipalities.

Since its inception in 1997, the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) program
has made available $18.72 billion to finance 6,905 infrastructure improvement projects
nationwide, with a  return of $1.83 for every $1 of Federal funds invested.  As of June
30, 2009, $10.7  billion in capitalization  grants  have been  awarded, amounting to
loans/assistance of $16.2  billion. The DWSRF helps offset the costs of ensuring safe
drinking water supplies and assists small communities in meeting their responsibilities.

For FY 2011, EPA proposes a new approach to helping small drinking water systems,
as well  as reforms to improve the long-term financial, managerial,  and environmental
sustainability of the SRFs. As part of that strategy, we are working to ensure that federal
dollars  provided  through the State  Revolving Funds acts as a catalyst for  efficient
system-wide planning,  improvements in  technical, financial and managerial capacity,
and  the  design,  construction and on-going  management of  sustainable water
infrastructure.

Set-Asides for Tribes and Territories: To improve  public health and water quality on
Tribal lands, the Agency is requesting increases to the Tribal set asides in the CWSRF
and  DWSRF from 1.5 percent  to up  to  2  percent.  Through this  program,  EPA
contributes to this goal which will provide for the development of sanitation facilities for
tribes and Alaska Native Villages.  EPA also is requesting an increase to  the SRF set
aside for territories from 0.25 percent to up to 1.5 percent for the CWSRF and from 0.33
percent for the DWSRF to  up to 1.5 percent. The 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg
adopted the goal of reducing the number of people lacking access to basic  sanitation by
50 percent by 2015.

Alaska Native Villages

The  President's  Budget  provides  $10   million  for Alaska  native  villages  for  the
construction of wastewater and drinking water facilities to  address  serious sanitation
problems.   EPA will  continue to  work with the Department of Health  and Human
Services' Indian  Health Service, the State of Alaska, the Alaska Native Tribal Health
Council, and local communities to provide needed financial and technical assistance.

Goal 4: Healthy Communities and Ecosystems
(FY2011 PB:$148M)

Brownfields Environmental Projects
The  President's Budget includes  $138 million  for Brownfields  environmental projects.
The  $38 million increase will provide funding  for  disadvantaged  and  underserved
communities.  With the FY 2011  request, EPA plans to  perform targeted brownfields
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assessments for  35 communities and cleanup of Brownfields for approximately 25
communities.  EPA will supplementally fund an estimated 30 existing high performing
revolving loan fund recipients.  Additionally, this includes cleanup of approximately 17
sites contaminated by petroleum  or petroleum products and environmental job training
grants.  In  FY 2011,  the  funding  provided  will  result  in  the  assessment  of  1,000
Brownfields properties. Using EPA grant dollars, the Brownfields grantees will  leverage
5,000 cleanup and redevelopment jobs and $900 million  in cleanup and redevelopment
funding.

Brownfields projects will be featured as one of EPA's High Priority Performance Goals.
By 2012, EPA will have initiated 20 Brownfields community-level projects as part of an
enhanced effort to benefit  underserved and economically disadvantaged communities.
This will allow those  communities to  assess and address multiple Brownfields  sites
within  their boundaries, thereby advancing area-wide  planning  and cleanups  and
enabling redevelopment of Brownfields properties on a broader scale than on individual
sites.  EPA will provide technical  assistance,  coordinate  its  enforcement, water and air
quality programs,  and work  with  other  Federal  agencies,  states,  tribes and  local
governments to implement associated targeted environmental improvements identified
in each community's area-wide plan.

This priority goal  reflects emphasis on both  environmental health and protection  and
economic development and job  creation through the redevelopment of  Brownfields
properties,  particularly in underserved  and disadvantaged communities.

Mexico Border

The  President's Budget includes  a total of $10 million for water infrastructure projects
along the U.S.-Mexico Border. The goal of this program is to reduce environmental and
human health risks along the U.S.-Mexico Border.  EPA's U.S.-Mexico Border  program
provides funds to support  the planning, design and construction of high priority water
and wastewater treatment  projects along the border.  The Agency's goal is to provide
protection of people in the U.S.-Mexico border area from  health risks by connecting
homes to potable water supply and wastewater collection and treatment systems.
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                                 Trust Funds
                                (Dollars in Millions)
                                                                         Trust Funds


Superfund
Inspector General (Transfers)
Research & Development
(Transfers)
Superfund Total
Base Realignment and Closure2
LUST3
Trust Funds Total4:
FY2010
Enacted
Budget1
$
$1,270
$10
$27
$1,307
$0
$113
$1,420
FTE
3,018
66
110
3,193
65
75
3,269
FY 201 1
President's
Budget1
$
$1,258
$10
$25
$1,293
$0
$113
$1,406
FTE
3,007
66
108
3,180
48
74
3,255
1 Totals may not add due to rounding.
2 Funding for reimbursable FTE provided by the Department of Defense via an Interagency Agreement.
3 EPAct Grants for Prevention  activities are included in the FY 2010 Enacted and FY 2011 President's
Budget.
4 Trust Funds Total does not include reimbursable FTE, including Base Realignment and Closure as well
as other Superfund reimbursable FTE.

Superfund
In FY 2011, the President's Budget  requests  a total of $1,293 million in discretionary
budget authority and 3,180 total workyears for Superfund.  As of the end of FY 2009, 96
percent of the  1,607 sites on the Superfund  National Priorities List  (NPL) are either
undergoing cleanup construction, are completed, or are deleted.

Of the total funding requested for Superfund, $855 million and 1,416 total workyears are
for Superfund cleanups.   The Agency's Superfund cleanup  program addresses public
health and environmental  threats from uncontrolled releases of hazardous substances.
The  Agency  expects to demonstrate significant progress in reducing risks to human
health and the environment.   In FY  2011,  EPA and its partners anticipate completing
construction activities at 25 Superfund NPL sites to achieve the overall goal  of 1,127
total construction completions by the end of FY 2011.

The  Agency  works with  several  Federal agencies that  provide essential  services  in
areas where the Agency does not possess the specialized expertise.  In FY 2011, other
Federal agencies, including the United States Coast Guard, the National Oceanic and
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Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of the Interior, will provide support to
the Agency for Superfund cleanups.

Of the total funding requested, $187 million and 1,076 total workyears are for Superfund
enforcement related activities. One of the Superfund program's primary goals is to have
responsible  parties pay  for  and conduct  cleanups at abandoned  or uncontrolled
hazardous waste sites.  The Agency focuses on maximizing  all aspects of Potentially
Responsible Party (PRP)  participation; including reaching  a settlement with or taking an
enforcement action by the time of a Remedial Action start at 95 percent of non-Federal
Facility Superfund sites.

CERCLA authorizes the  Agency  to  retain  and use  funds received  pursuant  to  an
agreement with a PRP to carry out the agreement.  EPA retains such  funds in special
accounts, which are sub-accounts in  EPA's  Superfund Trust Fund.  EPA uses special
account funds to finance  site-specific CERCLA response actions at the site for which
the account was established. Through the  use of special  accounts, EPA pursues its
"enforcement first" policy -  ensuring responsible  parties pay for cleanup - so that
appropriated resources from the Superfund  Trust Fund are conserved for sites  where
no viable or liable PRPs have been identified.  Both special account resources and
appropriated resources are critical to the Superfund program.

The  FY 2011  President's Budget also includes  resources  supporting Agency-wide
resource management and control functions.  This  includes essential  infrastructure,
contract and grant administration, and financial accounting and other fiscal operations.

In addition,  the Agency provides funds for Superfund program research and for auditing.
The President's Budget requests $25 million and 108  total workyears to be transferred
to Research  and Development.  Research  will enable EPA's Superfund  program to
accelerate scientifically defensible and cost-effective decisions for cleanup at complex
contaminated Superfund sites. The Superfund research program is driven  by program
office needs to reduce the cost of cleaning up Superfund sites, improve the efficiency of
characterizing  and  remediating  sites,  and  reduce  the scientific uncertainties for
improved decision-making at  Superfund sites.  The President's Budget also requests
$10  million  and 66 total workyears  to be  transferred  to  the Inspector General for
program auditing.

The  Superfund taxes  on  petroleum, chemical feedstock  and  corporate environmental
income expired in 1995.  Since the expiration of Superfund taxes, Superfund program
funding  (the "Superfund appropriation")  has been  largely  financed from  General
Revenue transfers to the Superfund Trust  Fund, thus burdening the general  public with
the costs of cleaning up hazardous waste sites. Reinstating the Superfund taxes would
provide a stable, dedicated source of revenue for the Superfund Trust Fund and restore
the historic nexus that parties who benefit from the manufacture and sale of substances
found in hazardous waste  sites contribute to the cost  of cleanup.  The reinstated
Superfund  taxes  are estimated to  generate  a  revenue  level of over $1.3  billion
beginning in January 2011 to over $2.5 billion annually by 2020. The revenues will  be
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placed in  the Superfund  Trust Fund and would be  available for appropriation from
Congress to support the clean up of the Nation's highest risk sites within the Superfund
program.

Base Realignment and Closure Act
The  FY 2011  President's  Budget  requests 48 reimbursable workyears to conduct the
Base Realignment and Closure (BRAG) program (BRAG I-IV).  EPA's participation in
the first four rounds of BRAG has  been funded by an interagency agreement which
expires on September 30, 2011. Since 1993, EPA has worked with the Department of
Defense   (DOD)  and the  states'  environmental   programs   to  make  property
environmentally acceptable  for transfer, while protecting human  health  and  the
environment at realigning or closing military installations. Between 1988 and 2005, over
500  major military installations representing the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense
Logistics Agency have been slated  for realignment or closure.   Under the first four
rounds of BRAG (BRAG I-IV), 107 of those sites were identified as requiring  accelerated
cleanup.  EPA has participated in the acceleration process of the first four rounds of
BRAG. The accelerated cleanup process strives to make parcels available for reuse as
quickly as  possible, by transfer of uncontaminated or remediated parcels, lease of
contaminated  parcels where  cleanup is  underway,  or "early transfer" of  contaminated
property undergoing cleanup. Seventy-two Federal facilities currently listed  on the NPL
were identified under  the  fifth round of BRAG (BRAG V)  as closing,  realigning, or
gaining personnel.

The  FY 2011  request  does not include  support for BRAC-related services to  DOD at
BRAG V facilities.  If EPA services  are  required at levels above its base for BRAG V
installations, the Agency will require  reimbursement from DOD for the costs  the Agency
incurs to provide those additional services.

Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
The  FY 2011  President's Budget requests $113 million and 74 total workyears for the
Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) program.  The Agency, working with states
and  tribes,  addresses  public health and  environmental threats from releases through
prevention as well as  cleanup.  As required by law, not less than 80 percent of LUST
appropriated funds will be  used in cooperative agreements for states and tribes to carry
out specific purposes. EPA  will continue to  work with the states to achieve  more
cleanups, and reduce  the backlog of 100,000 cleanups not yet completed.  Since the
beginning  of the Underground Storage Tank  (UST)  program,  EPA  has  cleaned up
almost 80  percent (or 388,331) of all reported releases through the end of FY 2009. In
FY 2011, the LUST program will achieve 30 cleanups  in Indian Country that meet risk-
based standards for human exposure and groundwater migration.
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                                                                       Acronyms
                  Environmental Protection Agency
                            List of Acronyms
AA       Assistant Administrator
ACE/ITDS Automated Commercial Environment/International Trade Data System
ADR     Alternative Dispute Resolution
ARA     Assistant Regional Administrator
ARRA    American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
ATSDR   Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
B&F     Buildings and Facilities
CAA     Clean Air Act
CAFO    Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
CAIR     Clean Air Interstate Rule
CAP     Clean Air Partnership Fund
CARE    Community Action for a Renewed Environment
CBEP    Community-Based Environmental Protection
CBP     Customs and Border Protection
CCAP    Climate Change Action Plan
CCS     Carbon Capture and Storage
CCTI     Climate Change Technology Initiative
CEIS     Center for Environmental Information and Statistics
CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
CG       Categorical Grant
CSI      Common Sense Initiative
CSO     Combined Sewer Overflows
CWA     Clean Water Act
CWAP    Clean Water Action Plan
DBP     Disinfection Byproducts
DFAS    Defense Finance and Accounting System
DfE      Design for the Environment
EISA     Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
EJ       Environmental Justice
ELP     Environmental Leadership Project
EN       Enacted (Budget)
EPAct    Energy Policy Act  of 2005
EPCRA   Emergency Preparedness and Community Right-to-Know Act
EPM     Environmental Programs and Management
ERRS    Emergency Rapid  Response Services
ESC     Executive Steering Committee
ETI       Environmental Technology Initiative
ETV     Environmental Technology Verification
FAN     Fixed Account Numbers
FASAB   Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
FCO     Funds Certifying Officer
FIFRA    Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act
FMFIA    Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act
FQPA    Food Quality  Protection Act
FSMP    Financial System Modernization Project
FTE     Full-Time Equivalent
GAPG    General Assistance Program Grants
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GHG     Greenhouse Gas
GPRA    Government Performance and Results Act
HPPG    High Priority Performance Goals
HPV     High Production Volume
HS      Homeland Security
HSWA    Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984
HWIR    Hazardous Waste Identification Media and Process Rules
IAG      Interagency Agreements
ICR      Information  Collection Rule
IFMS     Integrated Financial Management System
IPCC     Intergovernmental Panel  on Climate Change
IRM      Information  Resource Management
ISTEA    Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
ITMRA   Information  Technology Management Reform Act of 1995-AKA Clinger/Cohen Act
LUST    Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
M&O     Management and Oversight
MACT    Maximum Achievable Control Technology
MTM     Mountaintop Mining
NAAQs   National Ambient Air Quality Standards
NAFTA   North American Free Trade Agreement
NAPA    National Academy of Public Administration
NAS     National Academy of Sciences
NATA    National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment
NCDC    National Clean Diesel Campaign
NDPD    National Data Processing Division
NEP     National Estuary Program
NEPPS   National Environmental Performance Partnership System
NESHAP National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
NIPP     National Infrastructure Protection  Plan
NOA     New Obligation Authority
NPDES   National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NPDWRs National Primary Drinking Water Regulations
NPL     National Priority List
NPM     National Program Manager
NPR     National Performance Review
NPS     Nonpoint Source
OA      Office of the Administrator
OAM     Office of Acquisition Management
OAR     Office of Air and Radiation
OARM    Office of Administration and Resources Management
OCFO    Office of the Chief Financial Officer
OCHP    Office of Children's Health Protection
OECA    Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
OEI      Office of Environmental Information
OERR    Office of Emergency and Remedial Response
OFA     Other Federal Agencies
OFPP    Office of Federal Procurement Policy
OGC     Office of the General Counsel
OIA      Office of International Affairs
OIG      Office of the Inspector General
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OMTR    Open Market Trading Rule
OPAA    Office of Planning, Analysis and Accountability
OPPTS   Office of Pesticides, Prevention and Toxic Substances
ORD     Office of Research and Development
OSWER  Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
OTAG    Ozone Transport Advisory Group
OW      Office of Water
PB       President's Budget
PBTs     Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxics
PC&B    Personnel, Compensation and Benefits
PM       Particulate Matter
PNGV    Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
POTWs   Publicly Owned Treatment Works
PPG     Performance Partnership Grants
PRC     Program Results Code
PRIA     Pesticide Registration Improvement Act
PRIRA   Pesticide Registration Improvement Renewal Act
PWSS    Public Water System Supervision
RC       Responsibility Center
RCRA    Resource Conservation and  Recovery Act of 1976
RGI      Regional Geographic Initiative
RMP     Risk Management Plan
RPIO     Responsible Planning Implementation Office
RR       Reprogramming Request
RRP     Renovation, Repair and Painting
RWTA    Rural Water Technical Assistance
S&T      Science and Technology
SALC    Sub-allocation (level)
SARA    Superfund Amendments and Reauthorizations Act of 1986
SBO     Senior Budget Officer
SBREFA Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act
SDWA    Safe Drinking Water Act
SDWIS   Safe Drinking Water Information System
SITE     Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation
SLC      Senior Leadership Council
SRF      State Revolving  Fund
SRO     Senior Resource Official
STAG    State and Tribal  Assistance Grants
STORS   Sludge-to-Oil-Reactor
SWP     Source Water Protection
SWTR    Surface Water Treatment Rule
TMDL    Total Maximum Daily Load
TRI       Toxic Release Inventory
TSCA    Toxic Substances Control Act
UIC      Underground Injection Control
UST      Underground Storage Tanks
WCF     Working Capital  Fund
WIF      Water Infrastructure Funds
WIPP    Waste Isolation Pilot Project
WSI      Water Security Initiative
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