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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
EPA's Mission I/O-l
Annual Performance Plan and Congressional Justification Overview I/O-l
Human Capital I/O-l
Workforce I/O-2
RESOURCE SUMMARY TABLES
Appropriation Summary RT-1
Budget Authority / Obligations RT-1
Full-Time Equivalents (FTE) RT-1
GOAL AND OBJECTIVE OVERVIEW
Goal, Appropriation Summary G/O-1
Budget Authority / Obligations G/O-1
Full-Time Equivalents (FTE) G/O-2
Clean Air and Global Climate Change G/O-4
Clean and Safe Water G/O-11
Land Preservation and Restoration G/O-22
Healthy Communities and Ecosystems G/O-34
Compliance and Environmental Stewardship G/O-48
PROGRAM PERFORMANCE AND ASSESSMENT
Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART) Follow-Up Actions Performance-1
Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART) Supplemental
Information Performance-18
Annual Performance Goals and Measures Performance-33
GOAL: Clean Air and Global Climate Change Performance-33
GOAL: Clean and Safe Water Pcrformance-48
GOAL: Land Preservation and Restoration Performance-61
GOAL: Healthy Communities and Ecosystems Performance-72
GOAL: Compliance and Environmental Stewardship Performance-100
Annual Performance Goals and Measures Performance-! 13
NPM: Office of Administration & Resources Management Performance-113
NPM: Office of Environmental Information Pertormance-114
NPM: Office of the Inspector General Performance-119
APPENDIX
Coordination with Other Federal Agencies - Environmental Programs Appendix-1
Coordination with Other Federal Agencies - Enabling Support Programs Appendix-31
Major Management Challenges Appendix-35
EPA User Fee Program Appendix-48
Working Capital Fund Appendix-51
Acronyms for Statutory Authorities Appendix-52
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STAG Categorical Program Grants - Statutory Authority and Eligible Uses. Appendix-57
Infrastructure / STAG Project Financing Appendix-67
Program Projects by Appropriation Appendix-71
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Introduction and Overview
EPA's Mission
The mission of the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) is to protect and
safeguard human health and the
environment. This budget supports the
Administration's commitment to achieving
environmental results as we work to develop
more efficient methods to conduct our
mission. It also emphasizes the
Administration's desire to diversify our
energy sources, promote emissions-
reductions technologies, revitalize the Great
Lakes, and improve the security of our
Nation's drinking water infrastructure.
Additionally, this budget incorporates new
responsibilities and requirements for some
of EPA's major programs, along with some
new provisions mandated by the Energy
Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct).
Annual Performance Plan and Congressional Justification
The EPA's FY 2007 Annual
Performance Plan and Congressional
Justification requests $7.3 billion in
discretionary budget authority and 17,560
Full Time Equivalents (FTE). This request
demonstrates the Agency's efforts to work
with its State, Tribal, and local government
partners in its efforts to protect clean air and
water, preserve and restore contaminated
lands, promote healthy communities and
ecosystems, assure compliance with
Human Capital
In FY 2007 EPA will continue to develop
and refine its Human Capital strategies, to
ensure that the Agency recruits, trains and
retains a qualified pool of employees to
protect human health and safeguard the air,
water and land. EPA will continue its
systematic approach to workforce planning
throughout the Agency including: setting
targets, and closing competency gaps, in
mission critical occupations (MCOs);
increasing emphasis on innovative and
flexible recruitment and hiring strategies to
address personnel shortages within MCOs;
and improving the overall effectiveness of
environmental regulations, and secure the
Nation's environmental assets through
homeland security programs such as Water
Sentinel. Specific narratives for each
program outline what the resources
accomplish and FY 2007 priorities. Human
Capital and EPA's workforce levels are two
overarching resource areas that impact all
programs and projects. A discussion of
planning and management initiatives
follows.
the hiring process for the Agency's
workforce.
EPA has met many important
milestones in implementing its revised
Human Capital Strategy, and the Human
Capital Accountability Plan. In FY 2005,
EPA National Program Managers (NPMs)
and Regional offices formally adopted the
Human Capital Strategy, and developed
office-specific Action Plans, using the
Agency's Human Capital strategy
framework. Results of the Agency's Action
Plans will then be used to inform the Human
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Capital strategic planning process, and to
make future strategic workforce decisions.
In FY 2006, as part of workforce
planning efforts, EPA will complete an
assessment of current competency gaps for
senior management, the first selected MCO
sample group. In FY 2007, the Agency will
further its Workforce Planning efforts by
Workforce
EPA values its world class
workforce and uses its expertise to meet
urgent responsibilities across a broad range
of national and local environmental issues.
In FY 2007 adjustments to EPA's workforce
management strategy will help better align
resources, skills, and Agency priorities. A
key step is aligning the total number of
authorized positions and actual FTE
utilization. In FY 2007 EPA's estimated
17,560 FTE will work toward advancing the
Agency's mission of protecting human
health and the environment.
closing competency gaps in senior
leadership positions and developing plans to
address the competency gaps in other
MCOs. The results will continue to be
evaluated through our Human Capital
accountability reporting, ensuring a highly
skilled, diverse, results-oriented workforce
with the right mix of technical expertise,
experience, and leadership capabilities.
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Resource Tables
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APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Budget Authority / Obligations
(Dollars in Thousands)
FY 2005
Obligations
Science & Technology $785,903.1
Environmental Program & Management $2,309,238.0
Inspector General $45,007.1
Building and Facilities $45,1 81 ,0
Oil Spill Response $1 7,594.9
Superfund Program $1,320,886.4
IG Transfer $15,182.0
S&T Transfer $38,821.1
Hazardous Substance Superfund $1,374,889.5
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks $70,589.5
State and Tribal Assistance Grants $3,608,479.6
SUB-TOTAL, EPA $8,256,882.7
Rescission of Prior Year Expired Contracts,
Grants, and Interagency Agreements
Environmental Programs and Management $Q
Science & Technology $0
State and Tribal Assistance Grants JQ
Hazardous Substance Superfund $Q
TOTAL, EPA $8,256,882.7
FY 2006
Enacted
$730,810.0
$2,346,711.0
$36,904.0
$39,626.0
$15,629.0
$1,198,581.0
$13,337.0
$30,156.0
$1,242,074.0
$79,953.0
$3,213,709.0
$7,705,416.0
$-2,000
$-1,000
$-66,000
$-11,000
$7,625,416.0
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$788,274.0
$2,306,617.0
$35,100.0
$39,816.0
$16,506.0
$1,217,827.9
$13,316.0
$27,811.1
$1,258,955.0
$72,759.0
$2,797,448.0
$7,315,475.0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$7,315,475.0
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Full-time Equivalents (FTE)
FY 2005
Obligations
FY 2006
Enacted
FY 2007
Pres Bud
Science & Technology
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FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
Science and Tech. - Reim
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
Environmental Program & Management
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
Envir. Program & Mgmt - Reim
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
Inspector General
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
Oil Spill Response
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
Oil Spill Response - Reim
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
Superfund Program
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated
Usage
IG Transfer
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated
Usage
S&T Transfer
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated
Usage
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
Superfund Reimbursables
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
FEMA - Reim
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
FY 2005
Obligations
2,416.1
3.0
10,904.2
48.5
270.8
91.9
7.5
3,020.9
87.0
125.0
3,232.9
87.2
72.1
2.7
FY 2006
Enacted
2,438.1
2,420.0
3.0
3.0
11,048.1
10,966.0
1.5
1.5
267.7
265.7
99.2
98.5
0.0
0.0
3,126.2
3,103.0
94.1
93.4
106.3
105.5
3,326.6
3,301.9
77.5
76.9
77.4
76.8
0.0
0.0
FY 2007
Pres Bud
2,431.6
3.0
11,007.5
1.5
267.7
98.7
0.0
3,097.1
94.1
106.2
3,297.4
77.5
76.9
0.0
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WCF-REIMB
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
Rereg. & Exped. Proc. Rev Fund
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
Pesticide Registration Fund
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
TOTAL, EPA
Authorized Ceiling
FY 2005 Final / FY 2006-2007 Estimated Usage
FY 2005
Obligations
99.7
185.3
72.7
17,494.6
FY 2006
Enacted
FY 2007
Pres Bud
104.7
103.9
187.2
185.8
0.0
0.0
17,631.0
17,500.0
110.7
187.2
0.0
17,559.7
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Goal and Objective Overview
GOAL, APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Budget Authority I Obligations
(Dollars in Thousands)
Clean Air and Global Climate Change
Environmental Program & Management
Science & Technology
Building and Facilities
State and Tribal Assistance Grants
Inspector General
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Clean and Safe Water
Environmental Program & Management
Science & Technology
Building and Facilities
State and Tribal Assistance Grants
Inspector General
Land Preservation and Restoration
Environmental Program & Management
Science & Technology
Building and Facilities
State and Tribal Assistance Grants
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
Oil Spill Response
Inspector General
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Healthy Communities and Ecosystems
Environmental Program & Management
Science & Technology
Building and Facilities
State and Tribal Assistance Grants
Inspector General
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Compliance and Environmental Stewardship
Environmental Program & Management
Science & Technology
Building and Facilities
State and Tribal Assistance Grants
Inspector General
Hazardous Substance Superfund
FY 2005
Obligations
$927,481.7
$443,492.8
$210,039.6
$9,881.5
$255,475.1
$5,701.0
$2,891.7
$3,517,729.0
$503,466.6
$134,592.4
$6,717.1
$2,848,262.8
$24,690.1
$1,780,624.2
$210,037.2
$17,261.4
$5,393.8
$121,827.5
$70,589.5
$17,594.9
$2,572.0
$1,335,347.8
$1,257,846.7
$616,729.7
$345,807.2
$16,249.6
$257,253.9
$7,906.2
$13,900,2
$773,201.2
$535,511.7
$78,202.5
$6,939.0
$125,660.3
$4,137.8
$22,749.8
FY 2006
Enacted
$923,596.4
$452,246.5
$209,077.3
$8,672.3
$245,484.0
$5,040.4
$3,075.9
,.3,133,211.9
$484,969.8
$121,337.1
$6,050.8
$2,501,325.0
$19,529.1
$1,656,471.0
$216,513.0
$14,713.7
$4,966.4
$113,718.0
$79,953.0
$15,629.0
$2,277.7
$1,208,700.2
$1,249,321.4
$640,732.5
$334,290.4
$13,929.8
$245,983.0
$6,642.4
$7,743.2
$742,815.3
$552,249.1
$51,391.4
$6,006.7
$107,199.0
$3,414.4
$22,554.7
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$932,024.5
$446,242.3
$214,789.2
$8,748.4
$253,692.5
$5,174.0
$3,378.1
$2,731,342.1
$451,812,7
$170,692.3
$6,039.4
$2,085,435.0
$17,362.7
$1,689,635.1
$217,902.2
$12,149.9
$4,871.3
$140,912.2
$72,759.0
$16,506.0
$2,494.6
$1,222,039.9
$1,228,933.7
$638,298.6
$348,424.1
$13,951.7
$213,656.3
$6,576.9
$8,026.1
$733,539.6
$552,361.1
$42,218.6 '
$6,205.1
$103,752.0
$3,491.8
$25,511.0
Sub-Total
$8,256,882.7 $7,705,416.0
$7,315,475.0
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Rescission of Prior Year Expired Contracts,
Grants, and Interagency Agreements
Environmental Programs and Management
Science & Technology
State and Tribal Assistance Grants
Hazardous Substance Superfund
FY 2005
Obligations
$0
$0
$0
$0
FY 2006
Enacted
$-2,000
$-1,000
$-66,000
$-11,000
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$0
$0
$0
$0
Total
$8,256,882.7 $7,625,416.0
$7,315,475.0
GOAL, APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Authorized Full-time Equivalents (FTE)
Clean Air and Global Climate Change
Environmental Program & Management
Science & Technology
Inspector General
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Envir, Program & Mgmt - Reim
Science and Tech. - Reim
FEMA - Reim
WCF-REIMB
Clean and Safe Water
Environmental Program & Management
Science & Technology
Inspector General
Envir. Program & Mgmt - Reim
WCF-REIMB
Land Preservation and Restoration
Environmental Program & Management
Science & Technology
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
Oil Spill Response
Inspector General
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Envir. Program & Mgmt - Reim
Oil Spill Response - Reim
FEMA - Reim
Superfund Reimbursables
WCF-REIMB
FY 2005
Obligations
2,646.4
1,889.8
674.8
34.6
17.1
3.0
3.0
2.3
21.8
2,906.9
2,249.7
476.5
150.0
15.5
15.4
4,602.5
1,195.2
48.3
72.1
91.9
15.6
3,061.7
11.0
7.5
0.4
87.2
11.5
FY 2006
Enacted
2,655.3
1,895.5
679.2
36.6
17.8
0.3
3.0
0.0
23.0
2,930.1
2,257.2
514.5
141.7
0.3
16.5
4,737.8
1,228.2
52.0
77.4
99.2
16.5
3,174.4
0.1
0.0
0.0
77.5
12.4
FY 2007
Pres Bud
2,652.0
1,879.0
688.3
39.5
17.5
0.3
3.0
0.0
24.3
2,906.8
2,245.1
51.1.6
132.4
0.3
17.4
4,686.2
1,229.3
51.2
76.9
98.7
19.0
3,120.6
0.1
0.0
0.0
77.5
12.9
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Healthy Communities and Ecosystems 3,874.8
Environmental Program & Management 2,470.1
Science & Technology 1,014.3
Inspector General 45.4
Rereg. & Exped. Proc. Rev Fund 185.3
Hazardous Substance Superfund 42.7
Envir. Program & Mgmt - Reim 8.9
Pesticide Registration Fund 72.7
WCF-REIMB 35.4
3,812,5
2,496.5
1,023.6
48.2
187.2
19.9
0.5
0.0
36.6
3,834.2
2,520.5
1,016.1
50.2
187.2
21.3
0.5
0.0
38.5
Compliance and Environmental Stewardship 3,464.0
Environmental Program & Management 3,099.5
Science & Technology 202.2
Inspector General 25.1
Hazardous Substance Superfund 111.3
Envir. Program & Mgmt - Reim 10.1
WCF-REIMB 15.7
3,495.3
3,170.7
168.9
24.8
114.5
0.3
16.2
3,480.5
3,133.6
164.5
26.6
137.9
0.3
17.5
Total
17,494.6
17,631.0
17,559.7
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CLEAN AIR AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Protect and improve the air so it is healthy to breath and risks to human health and the
environment are reduced. Reduce greenhouse gas intensity by enhancing partnerships with
businesses and other sectors.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:
Through 2010, working with partners,
protect human health and the
environment by attaining and
maintaining health-based air-quality
standards and reducing the risk from
toxic air pollutants.
By 2008, 22.6 million more Americans
than in 1994 will be experiencing
healthier indoor air in homes, schools,
and office buildings.
By 2010, through worldwide action,
ozone concentrations in the
stratosphere will have stopped
declining and slowly begun the process
of recovery, and the risk to human
health from overexposure to ultraviolet
(UV) radiation, particularly among
susceptible subpopulations, such as
children, will be reduced.
Through 2008, working with partners,
minimize unnecessary releases of
radiation and be prepared to minimize
impacts to human health and the
environment should unwanted releases
occur.
Through EPA's voluntary climate
protection programs, contribute 45
million metric tons of carbon
equivalent (MMTCE) annually to the
President's 18 percent greenhouse gas
intensity improvement goal by 2012.
(An additional 75 MMTCE to result
from the sustained growth in the
climate programs are reflected in the
Administration's business-as-usual
projection for greenhouse gas intensity
improvement. )
Through 2010, provide and apply
sound science to support EPA's goal of
clean air by conducting leading-edge
research and developing a better
understanding and characterization of
environmental outcomes under Goal 1.
GOAL, OBJECTIVE SUMMARY
Budget Authority / Obligations
Full-time Equivalents
(Dollars in Thousands)
Clean Air and Global Climate
Change
Healthier Outdoor Air
Healthier Indoor Air
Protect the Ozone Layer
Radiation
Reduce Greenhouse Gas Intensity
FY 2005
Obligations
$927,481.7
$588,382.2
$48,141.4
$16,872.9
$34,905.9
$111,978.8
FY 2006
Enacted
$923,596.4
$583,161.8
$46,956.8
$16,666.0
$36,213.8
$11.1,091.4
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$932,024.5
$596,460.1
$47,674.9
$21,625.0
$37,242.7
$110,298.0
FY 2007 Pres Bud v.
FY 2006 Enacted
$8,428.1
$13,298.3
$718.1
$4,959.0
$1,028.9
($793.4)
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Enhance Science and Research
Total Authorized Workyears
FY 2005
Obligations
$127,200.4
2,646.4
FY 2006
Enacted
$129,506.6
2,655.3
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$118,723.8
2,652.0
FY 2007 Pres Bud v.
FY 2006 Enacted
($10,782.8)
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EPA implements the Clean Air and Global
Climate Change goal through national and
regional programs designed to provide
healthier outdoor and indoor air for all
Americans, protect the stratospheric ozone
layer, minimize the risks from radiation
releases, reduce greenhouse gas intensity,
and enhance science and research. In
implementing the goal, EPA carries out its
responsibilities through programs that
include several common elements: setting
risk-based priorities; facilitating regulatory
reform and market-based approaches;
partnering with state, Tribal, and local
governments, non-governmental,
organizations, and industry; promoting
energy efficiency; and using sound science.
EPA's key clean air programs - including
those addressing particulate matter, ozone,
acid rain, air toxics, indoor air, radiation and
stratospheric ozone depletion - focus on
some of the highest health and
environmental risks faced by the Agency.
These programs have achieved results.
According to EPA's projections, every year,
state and federal air pollution programs
established under the Clean Air Act help
prevent tens of thousands of premature
mortalities, millions of incidences of chronic
and acute illness, tens of thousands of
hospitalizations and emergency room visits,
and millions of lost work days.
Comparison of Growth Areas and Emissions
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According to EPA analyses, the benefits of
implementing the Clean Air Act exceed
costs by a factor of six or seven to one.
Based on EPA's estimates. Clean Air Act
costs have been relatively small compared to
the dollar value of public health and
environmental benefits. For example, EPA
estimates that for every dollar the agency
spends on voluntary climate change
programs returns $75 in energy savings.
The FY 2007 budget request includes
funding for implementing provisions of the
Energy Policy Act of 2005, which includes
new responsibilities and requirements in the
fuels and diesel retrofit programs. In the
area of fuels, EPA is required to develop a
number of new regulations, revise several
existing regulations, revise models and
undertake a series of fuel-related studies and
analyses. This effort includes promulgating
regulations for: a major new renewable fuels
Clean Air Mercury Rule: EPA issued the
Clean Air Mercury Rule (originally
proposed as the Utility Mercury Reductions
Rule) on March 15, 2005.1 This rule will
build on the Clean Air Interstate Rule
(CAIR) to reduce mercury emissions from
coal-fired power plants, the largest
remaining domestic source of human-caused
mercury emissions. Issuance of the Clean
Air Mercury Rule marks the first time EPA
has regulated mercury emissions from
utilities, and makes the U.S. the first nation
in the world to control emissions from this
major source of mercury pollution. Mercury
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program; the current reformulated gasoline
(RFG) program; new regulations requiring
health and environmental testing of fuels;
and in conjunction with DOE, conducting a
study on Federal, state, and local fuel
requirements with recommendations on
harmonization. The request includes funding
for expanded diesel retrofit program for a
variety of sources.
The Clean Air Rules are a suite of actions
that will dramatically improve America's air
quality and will address the transport of
pollution across state borders. The rules
provide national tools to achieve significant
improvement in air quality and the
associated benefits of improved health,
longevity and quality of life for all
Americans. Taken together, they will make
significant air quality improvement in years
to come. The Clean Air Rules encompass
the following major rules:
is a persistent, toxic pollutant that
accumulates in the food chain. While
concentrations of mercury in the air are
usually low, mercury emissions can reach
lakes, rivers and estuaries and eventually
build up in fish tissue. Americans are
exposed to mercury primarily by eating
certain species of fish. However, close to 80
percent of the fish Americans buy comes
from overseas, from other countries and
from waters beyond our reach and control.
The United States contributes just a small
percentage of human-caused mercury
emissions worldwide - roughly three percent
with U.S. utilities responsible for about one
percent of that.
NonRoad Diesel Rule: The Clean Air
Nonroad Diesel Rule, a component of the
National Clean Diesel Campaign (NCDC),
will improve diesel engine function to
remove emissions and innovative diesel fuel
refining techniques to remove sulfur. The
black puff of smoke seen coming from
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construction and other nonroad diesel
equipment will be eliminated. Even with
more stringent heavy-duty highway engine
standards set to take effect over the next
decade, over the next twenty years millions
of diesel engines already in use will
continue to emit large amounts of nitrogen
oxides and paniculate matter, both of which
contribute to serious public health problems.
The Diesel Retrofit work will be covered
under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. These
problems are manifested by thousands of
instances of premature mortality, hundreds
of thousands of asthma attacks, millions of
lost work days, and numerous other health
impacts. The NCDC works to reduce the
pollution emitted from diesel engines across
the country through the implementation of
'varied control strategies and the aggressive
involvement of national, state, and local
partners.
Ozone Rule: The Clean Air Ozone Rules
(dealing with 8-hour ground-level ozone
designation and implementation) designate
those areas where air does not meet the
health-based standards for ground-level
ozone and classify the seriousness of the
problem in each area. The Rules also set
forth the schedule and minimum elements
required in plans states must submit to
reduce the levels of ozone in areas where the
ozone standards are not met. Ground-level
ozone is an air pollutant that causes human
health problems, and damages crops and
other vegetation. It is a key ingredient of
urban smog.
Fine Particle Rule: The Clean Air Fine
Particle Rules (dealing with PM 2.5
designations and implementation) designate
those areas where air does not meet the
health-based standards for fine-particulate
pollution and classify the seriousness of the
problem in each area. An upcoming rule
will also set forth the schedule and
minimum elements required for state plans
to reduce the levels of fine particulate matter
in areas where the standards are not met.
Particulate Matter is associated with
increased hospital admissions and
emergency room visits for people with heart
and lung disease as well as increased work
and school absences. It is also the major
source of haze that reduces visibility in
many parts of the United States, including
our National Parks.
The Clean Air Interstate Rule and the
Nonroad Diesel Rule, combined with other
existing state and Federal programs,
including the Tier 2 clean vehicles and
gasoline sulfur standards for cars and light
trucks, the heavy duty diesel engines and
low sulfur diesel rule, and the NOx SIP Call
Rule to reduce interstate ozone, will bring
well over half of counties now monitoring
non-attainment into attainment with the fine
particle and ozone standards.
The Indoor Air Program characterizes the
risks of indoor air pollutants to human
health, develops techniques for reducing
those risks, and educates the public about
what they can do to reduce their risks from
indoor air. Through voluntary partnerships
with non-governmental and professional
organizations, EPA educates and encourages
individuals, schools, industry, the health
care community, and others to take action to
reduce health risks in indoor environments
using a variety of approaches including
national public awareness, media
campaigns, as well as community-based
outreach and education, EPA also uses
technology-transfer to improve the design,
operation, and maintenance of buildings -
including schools, homes, and workplaces -
to promote healthier indoor air. EPA also
supports a national radon (second only to
smoking as a cause of lung cancer) program
that encourages voluntary national, regional,
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state, and tribal programs and activities that
support initiatives targeted to radon testing
and mitigation as well as radon resistant new
construction.
For more than a decade, businesses and
organization have partnered with EPA
through voluntary climate protection
programs to pursue common sense
approaches to reducing greenhouse gas
emissions and help in meeting the
President's greenhouse gas intensity goal.
Voluntary programs such as Energy Star and
SmartWay Transport have contributed to
increasing the use of energy-efficient
products and practices and reducing
emissions of carbon dioxide as well as
methane and other greenhouse gases with
very high global warming potentials. These
partnership programs help spur investment
in advanced energy technologies and the
purchase of energy-efficient products and
create emissions reduction benefits that
accrue over the lifetime of the investment or
product.
EPA's Domestic 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), contributing to the
reduction and control of ozone-depleting
substances (ODSs) in the U.S. and lowering
health risks to the American public
associated with exposure to UV radiation.
In FY 2007, EPA will continue upgrading
the national radiation monitoring system,
thus improving response time, data
dissemination, and population/geographic
coverage of the U.S should there be an
accidental or intentional release of radiation
either domestically or internationally. EPA
will also maintain readiness of deployable
monitors allowing for sampling density at
locations near and downwind from
radiological incidents. The Agency will
continue to enhance laboratory response
capacity and capability to ensure a minimal
level of surge capacity for radiological
incidents.
International Activities
EPA will continue to work with other
agencies on the Methane to Markets
program. This program is an international
initiative that focuses on advancing cost-
effective, near-term methane recovery and
use as a clean energy source. The goals of
the program are to reduce global methane
emissions to enhance economic growth,
promote energy security, improve the
environment, and reduce greenhouse gas
emissions. Other benefits include improving
mine safety, reducing waste, and improving
local air quality. EPA is the lead agency for
the Methane to Markets program.
EPA will also participate in the newly-
established Asia-Pacific Partnership on
Clean Development and Climate. The
Partnership aims to promote development
and transfer of cleaner, more efficient
technologies that can address greenhouse
gas mitigation and energy security - issues
that are crucial not only to the region but the
entire world. Through these programs,
EPA will work with international
governments to transfer American
technology and voluntary program
techniques. The Department of State is the
lead agency for implementing this initiative.
Research
EPA's air research provides the scientific
foundation for the Agency to fulfill its
responsibilities under the Clean Air Act,
which helps make the air safe to breathe and
protects human health and the environment.
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The Agency focuses its research on National
Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)
pollutants and also studies hazardous air
pollutants (HAPs).
In FY 2007, the Agency's air research will
continue to strengthen the scientific basis for
the periodic review and implementation of
air quality standards. This research is
concentrated on particulate matter (PM), but
includes other NAAQS pollutants. PM
research is aligned with the ten priority
research topics for PM identified by the
National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The
NAS has conducted four reviews of EPA's
PM research since 1998 to identify relevant,
high-priority research needs and monitor
research performance.
In FY 2007, the Agency's air toxics research
will complete selected ongoing research
efforts and begin transitioning toward the
Multiple Air Pollutant Program (MAPP)
focus recommended by external review. Air
toxics research provides health hazard and
exposure methods, data, and models that
enable the Agency to reduce uncertainty in
risk assessment. It also produces tools that
enable national, regional, state, and local
officials to identify and implement cost-
effective approaches to reduce risk from
sources of air toxics.
Recognizing that environmental policy and
regulatory decisions will only be as good as
the science upon which they are based, EPA
makes every effort to ensure that its science
is of the highest quality and relevance,
thereby providing the basis for sound
environmental results. EPA uses the
Research and Development (R&D)
Investment Criteria of quality, relevance,
and performance in its decision-making
processes through a) the use of research
strategies and plans, b) program review and
evaluation by the Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC) and the Science
Advisory Board (SAB), and c) peer review.
In 2005, the BOSC evaluated the NAAQS
research program to assess the quality and
relevance of its research.and the program's
historical performance.2 The subcommittee
concluded that the program has reduced
scientific uncertainty and that there was a
high degree of integration between the
program's in-house and external research,
which is usually conducted through
competitive, peer-reviewed grants under the
Agency's Science to Achieve Results
(STAR) program.
Research is guided by strategies and plans
that are developed with participation from
Agency research programs' major clients.
Strategies outline the research needs and
priorities. Multi-year research plans outline
steps for meeting strategic research needs
and annual performance goals and measures
for evaluating progress.
Taken together, these mechanisms serve to
ensure that EPA's research and science
remain relevant, of high quality, and
contribute to superior environmental
performance.
The Agency approaches its research
programs' workforce planning in a manner
consistent with its human capital strategy.
Key elements of this strategy include
working to develop and implement a holistic
approach to recruitment, preserving a
diverse workforce that reflects a wide
spectrum of viewpoints, and retaining
existing talent.
" EPA, Office of Research and Development, Board
of Scientific Counselors, Particulate Matter and
Ozone Research Program (Washington: EPA, 2005).
Available at:
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Workforce
Senior management supports Human Capital
efforts to develop leadership and technical
skills for all employees supporting the Clean
Air and Global Climate Change Goal.
Offices within the Goal are analyzing their
knowledge management needs and
capabilities as an important element of the
overall strategic succession plan. This
analysis includes evaluating the skills of the
current workforce and needs for the future to
ensure that EPA possesses the skills
necessary to meet the challenges that lie
ahead.
The Agency approaches its research
programs' workforce planning in a manner
FY 2005 PARTs
The following programs were assessed in
2005 though OMB's Program Assessment
Rating Tool (PART).
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
(NAAQS) Federal Program
consistent with its human capital strategy.
Key elements of this strategy include
working to develop and implement a holistic
approach to recruitment, preserving a
diverse workforce that reflects a wide
spectrum of viewpoints, and retaining
existing talent.
EPA offices work together to enhance
information and data access across the
offices, and better communicate EPA's
message about air quality.
* Air Quality Grants and Permitting
Programs
Indoor Environments
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
(NAAQS) Research (re-PART)
More detailed information is provided in
specific program project descriptions.
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Clean and Safe Water
Ensure drinking water is safe. Restore and maintain oceans, watersheds, and their aquatic
ecosystems to protect human health, support economic and recreational activities, and
provide healthy habitat for fish, plants, and wildlife.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:
Protect human health by reducing
exposure to contaminants in drinking
water (including protecting source
waters), in fish and shellfish, and in
recreational waters.
Protect the quality of rivers, lakes, and
streams on a watershed basis and
protect coastal and ocean waters.
Provide and apply a sound scientific
foundation to EPA's goal of clean and
safe water by conducting leading-edge
research and developing a better
understanding and characterization of
the environmental outcomes under
Goal 2.
GOAL, OBJECTIVE SUMMARY
Budget Authority / Obligations
Full-time Equivalents
(Dollars in Thousands)
Clean and Safe Water
Protect Human Health
Protect Water Quality
Enhance Science and Research
Total Authorized Workyears
FY 2005
Obligations
$3,517,729.0
$1,270,988.5
$2,121,752.9
$124,987.5
2,906.9
FY 2006
Enacted
$3,133,211.9
$1,220,989.2
$1,791,519.9
$120,702.8
2,930.1
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$2,731,342.1
$1,177,458.2
$1,412,740.6
$141,143.3
2,906.8
FY 2007 Pres Bud v.
FY 2006 Enacted
($401,869.8)
($43,531.0)
($378,779.3)
$20,440.5
-23.3
Over the 30 years since enactment of the
Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts
(CWA and SDWA), government, citizens,
and the private sector have worked together
to make dramatic progress in improving the
quality of surface waters and drinking water.
Thirty years ago, much of the Nation's tap
water had either very limited treatment
(usually disinfection) or no treatment at all.
About two-thirds of the surface waters
assessed by states were not attaining basic
water quality goals and were considered
polluted.3 Some of the Nation's waters were
" United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of
Water. 1998. Clean Water Action Plan: Restoring and
open sewers posing health risks and many
water bodies were so polluted that
traditional uses, such as swimming, fishing,
and recreation, were impossible.
Today, drinking water systems monitor and
treat water to assure compliance with
drinking water standards covering a wide
range of contaminants. In addition, EPA
now protects sources of drinking water
through activities such as regulating
underground injection of wastes. The
number of polluted waters has been reduced
Protecting America's Water. Washington, DC:
Government Printing Office.
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and many clean waters are even healthier. A
massive investment of Federal, state, and
local funds resulted in a new generation of
wastewater treatment facilities able to
provide "secondary" treatment or better.
EPA has issued national discharge
regulations for over 50 industrial
categories.4 In addition, sustained efforts to
implement "best management practices"
have helped reduce runoff of pollutants from
diffuse or "nonpoint" sources.
Cleaner, safer water has renewed
recreational, ecological, and economic
interests in communities across the nation.
The recreation, tourism, and travel industry
is one of the largest employers in the nation,
and a significant portion of recreational
spending comes from swimming, boating,
sport fishing, and hunting. Each year, more
than 180 million people visit the shore for
recreation.6 In 2001, sportspersons spent a
total of $70 billion- $35.6 billion on fishing,
$20.6 billion on hunting, and $13.8 million
on items used for both hunting and fishing.
Wildlife watchers spent an additional $38.4
billion on their activities around the home
and on trips away from home.7 The
commercial fishing industry, which also
requires clean water and healthy wetlands,
contributed $28.6 billion to the economy in
200l.b The Cuyahoga River, which once
caught fire, is now busy with boats and
harbor businesses that generate substantial
revenue for the City of Cleveland. The
Willamette River in Oregon has been
4 Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, PARTs 405 -471.
Revised as of July 1,2005
3 Travel Industry Association of America. Tourism for
America, ll": Edition, Washington, DC: Travel Industry of
America.
'' Pew Oceans Commission. 2002. America's Living Oceans
Charting a Course for Sea Change, Arlington, VA: Pew
Oceans Commission,
7 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2002. 2007 National
Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated
Recreation. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
* National Marine Fisheries Service, 2002. Fisheries of the
U.S. 2001, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
restored to provide swimming, fishing, and
water sports. Even Lake Erie, once
infamous for its dead fish, now supports a
$600 million per year fishing industry.9
Although there has been much progress on
important economic, human health and
environmental benefits, there is still work to
be done to realize the vision of clean rivers,
lakes, streams and coastal areas and safe
water to drink. In 2007, EPA will work with
states and tribes to continue accomplishing
measurable improvements in the safety of
the Nation's drinking water and in the
condition of rivers, lakes and coastal waters.
This Overview summarizes key
environmental and public health goals and
describes the general strategies EPA
proposes to implement to accomplish these
goals. With the help of states, tribes and
other partners, EPA expects to continue
progress toward protecting human health
and improving water quality by 2008,
including
Water Safe to Drink: increase the
percentage of population served by
community water systems that meet all
applicable health-based drinking water
standards from 89% to 95%;
Fish and Shellfish Safe to Eat: reduce
the percentage of the water miles/acres
identified by states or Tribes as having
fish consumption advisories in 2002
where increased consumption of safe
fish is allowed, (485,205 river miles,
11,277,276 lake acres) while increasing
the percentage of the shellfish growing
acres monitored by states that are
approved or conditionally approved for
use from 77% to 91%;
9 United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of
Water, 1998. Clean Water Action Plan: Restoring and
Protecting America's Water. Washington, DC:
Government Printing Office.
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Surface Water Meeting Standards:
address water quality problems on a
watershed basis so that water quality
standards are fully attained in
waterbodies identified by states as not
meeting standards
Healthy Coastal Waters: maintain or
improve the overall health of each of
the four major coastal ecosystems
around the country, as measured by the
National Coastal Condition Report.
The clean and safe water goals are closely
related to goals established in Goal 4 of the
Agency Strategic Plan regarding
improvements in wetlands, estuaries,
targeted geographic programs such as the
waters of the Mexico Border region, the
Great Lakes, the Chesapeake Bay, and the
Gulf of Mexico. The key strategies that
EPA plans to implement in FY 2007 to
make progress toward the public health and
environmental goals identified in the
Strategic Plan are briefly described below.
Water Safe to Drink
For almost 30 years, protecting the Nation's
public health through safe drinking water
has been the shared responsibility of EPA,
the states, and nearly 54,000 community
water systems (CWSs)10 nationwide that
supply drinking water to more than 260
million Americans (approximately 90% of
the U.S. population). Within this time span,
safe drinking water standards have been
established and are being implemented for
91 microbial, chemical, and radiological
contaminants. Forty-nine states have
10 Although the Safe Drinking Water Act applies to
159,796 public water systems nationwide (as of January
2004), which include schools, hospitals, factories,
campgrounds, motels, gas stations, etc. that have their own
water system, this implementation plan focuses only on
CWSs. A CWS is a public water system that provides
water to the same population year-round. As of January
2004, there were 52,838 CWSs,
adopted primary authority for enforcing
their drinking water programs. Additionally,
CWS operators are better informed and
trained to both treat contaminants and
prevent them from entering the source of
their drinking water supplies.
During 2007, EPA, the states, and CWSs
will build on these successes while working
toward the 2008 goal of assuring that 95
percent of the population served by CWSs
receives drinking water that meets all
applicable standards. Collectively, these
core areas and other interrelated elements of
the national safe drinking water program
form a balanced, integrated framework that
comprises the multiple barrier approach to
protecting public health from unsafe
drinking water. EPA has identified key
activities within five core program areas
described below that are critical to ensuring
safe drinking water.
Drinking Water Standards
During FY 2007, EPA will continue to
assess the need for new or revised drinking
water standards based on available data on
health effects, occurrence, risks of exposure,
analytical (detection) methods, as well as
information on technologies to prevent,
detect, or remove specific contaminants.
Specifically, EPA will:
Determine whether to regulate at least
five unregulated contaminants on the
second contaminant candidate list (CCL)
and, through the Six-Year Review of
existing regulations, whether a revision
to an existing standard is warranted;
Continue analysis to prepare the
Agency's third CCL;
Continue the comprehensive Lead and
Copper Rule Review that began in 2004;
* Begin to develop revisions to the Total
Coliform Rule (TCR); and
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Consider additional protections of
drinking water distribution systems.
Drinking Water Implementation
During FY 2007, EPA will support state
efforts to meet existing and new drinking
water standards including the
Cryptosporidium (Long Term 2 Enhanced
Surface Water Treatment), Disinfection
(Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection
Byproducts Rule), and Ground Water Rules.
In many states, EPA will be responsible for
directly implementing the early monitoring
requirements under the Cryptosporidium and
Disinfection rules. In addition, initial
monitoring requirements under the revised
arsenic rule and revised radionuclides rule
will be underway. EPA and the states will
use the following tools to encourage
compliance:
Public Water System Supervision
(PWSS) Program Grants: These
grants to states and tribes 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.
* Sanitary Surveys: Sanitary surveys
are on-site reviews of the water
sources, facilities, equipment,
operation, and maintenance of public
water systems. All states are to be in
compliance with requirements to
conduct sanitary surveys at CWSs
once every three years starling in 2004.
9 Data Access, Quality, and
Reliability; EPA will complete the
modernization of the Safe Drinking
Water Information System (SDWIS),
which serves as the primary source of
national information on compliance
with all health-based, regulatory
requirements of SDWA.
Promotion of Sustainable Management of
Drinking Water Infrastructure
The Drinking Water State Revolving Loan
Fund (DWSRF), established under the
SDWA, offers low interest loans to help
public water systems across the nation make
improvements and upgrades to their water
infrastructure, or support other activities that
build system capacity. In FY 2007, the
DWSRF program will provide an estimated
600 additional loans. EPA will also work
with states to increase the percentage of loan
agreements made each year that return a
system to compliance, estimated to be 30%
of loan agreements in 2002.
Protection of Sources of Drinking Water
In FY 2007, EPA will work with states and
water systems to improve protection of
sources of drinking water in two key areas.
* Voluntary Source Water Protection
Strategies: EPA will promote the
concept of a multiple barriers approach
to drinking water program
management and will work with states
to track, to the extent feasible, the
development and implementation of
source water protection strategies.
EPA has set a goal of increasing the
number of source water areas (both
surface and ground water) for
community water systems that have
minimized risk to public health from
an estimated baseline of 5% of all
areas in 2002 to 20% in FY 2007.
Underground Injection Control:
EPA works with states to regulate
injection of hazardous substances and
other waste to prevent contamination
of underground sources of drinking
water. In FY 2007, EPA will continue
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to focus on shallow wells (Class V) in
source water areas. EPA and the
states will work to assure that all
identified Class V motor vehicle waste
disposal wells are closed by 2008.
EPA and states will also work to
assure that 100 percent of Class I, II,
111 and V wells that are determined to
be in violation are addressed.
Assurance that Critical Water
Infrastructure is Secure
In FY 2007, EPA will continue to lead and
support state and water utility efforts to
secure their water infrastructure from
terrorist threats and other intentional harm.
In addition, due to its responsibilities under
Homeland Security Presidential Directives 7
and 9, EPA will support the water sector in
implementing protective measures and in
continuing to pilot a new and innovative
drinking water surveillance and monitoring
program. In FY 2007, EPA will establish, in
selected cities, additional pilot
contamination warning systems based upon
intensive water monitoring and other
surveillance. The pilots will integrate
information from contaminant-specific
sampling and laboratory analysis, on-line
water quality monitoring, public health
surveillance, customer complaints and
physical security to form a comprehensive
contamination warning system. The
WaterSentinel program will prove the
concept of an effective contamination
warning system, so that drinking water
utilities, ideally of all sizes and
characteristics, could adopt such a system.
The Agency will also provide critical tools,
training, and exercises that will help utilities
detect, prevent, and respond to threats.
Fish and Shellfish Safe to Eat
Across the U.S., states and tribes have
issued fish consumption advisories for a
range of persistent, bioaccumulative
contaminants covering more than 840,000
river miles and 14 million lake acres as of
2003.11 The EPA Strategic Plan calls for
improving the quality of water and
sediments to allow increased consumption
of fish and shellfish. EPA's national
approach to meeting safe fish and shellfish
goals is described below.
Safe Fish
Most of the current fish consumption
advisories issued by states are for mercury,
PCBs, and dioxin. EPA is emphasizing
strategic partnerships within the Agency to
address these pollutants. EPA's water
program is also addressing remaining
controllable sources of fish exposure to
these chemicals. The Agency is:
Developing mercury fish tissue criteria
implementation guidance to ensure
new criteria are incorporated into
WQS and implemented in National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) permits;
Working with states to improve their
advisory programs with particular
emphasis on periodic re-sampling of
previously tested waters that are under
advisory; and
* Working to identify emerging
contaminants to ensure that routes of
fish exposure to new, emerging
contaminants are addressed early.
Safe Shellfish
Success in achieving the shellfish goals
relies on implementation of CWA programs
that are focused on sources of pollution that
" United States Environmental Protection Agency Office
of Water. Fact Sheet: National Listing of Fish Advisories.
EPA-823-F-04-016. August 2004. Available on the
Internet at
http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/fish/advisories/factsheet.
pdf
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cause shellfish acres to be closed. Important
new technologies include pathogen source
tracking, new indicators of pathogen
contamination and predictive correlations
between environmental stressors and their
effects. Once critical areas and sources are
identified, core program authorities,
including expanded monitoring,
development of Total Maximum Daily
Loads (TMDLs), and revision of discharge
permit limits can be applied to improve
conditions.
Water Safe for Swimming
Recreational waters, especially beaches in
coastal areas and the Great Lakes, provide
recreational opportunities for millions of
Americans. Swimming in some recreational
waters, however, can pose a risk of illness as
a result of exposure to microbial pathogens.
In November 2004, RPA established more
protective health-based WQSs for bacteria
for those states and Territories bordering
Great Lakes or ocean waters that had not yet
adopted standards in accordance with the
Beaches Environmental Assessment and
Coastal Health Act of 2000, an important
step to further protect the quality of the
nation's coastal recreation waters.12 For FY
2007, EPA's national strategy for improving
the safety of recreational waters will include
these key elements:
Improve Beach Monitoring and Public
Notification
A key component of the strategy for
improving the safety of recreational waters
is improving monitoring of public beaches
and notifying the public of unsafe
conditions. EPA is working with states to
12 United States Environmental Protection Agency. Federal
Register; November 16, 2004; Volume 69, Number 220;
pages 67217 - 67243. Water Quality Standards for Coastal
and Great Lakes Recreation Waters. Available on the
Interenet at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgslr/EPA-
WATER/2004/November/Day-16/w25303.htm
implement the Beaches Environmental
Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH)
Act. In FY 2007, EPA expects that all Tier
1 public beaches will be monitored and
managed under the BEACH Act and that
states and localities will be taking actions
where possible and appropriate to address
sources of unsafe conditions that result in
the closure of beaches.
Identify Unsafe Recreational Waters and
Begin Restoration
Another important element of the strategy to
restore waters unsafe for swimming is to
identify the specific waters that are unsafe
and devel' > plans to accomplish the needed
restoration. An important part of this work
is to maintain strong progress toward
development of TMDLs based on the
schedules established by states in
conjunction with EPA. In a related effort,
the Agency will better focus compliance
assistance and, where necessary,
enforcement resources on unsafe
recreational waters. In addition, working
with communities that have frequent wet
weather discharges (which are a major
source of pathogens) to ensure progress to
reduce the frequency of these discharges is
one of the Agency's national enforcement
priorities for FY 2005 through 2007.
Reduce Pathogen Levels in Recreational
Waters Generally
In addition to focusing on waters that are
unsafe for swimming today, EPA, states and
tribes will work in FY 2007 to reduce the
overall level of pathogens discharged to
recreational waters using three key
approaches:
Reduce pollution from CSOs;
Address major sources discharging
pathogens under the permit program;
and
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* Improve management of septic
systems.
Restore and Improve Water Quality on a
Watershed Basis
A significant investment of the National
Water Program resources is under the CWA,
which directly support efforts to restore and
improve the quality of rivers, lakes, and
streams. In FY 2007, EPA will work with
states to make continued progress toward the
clean water goals identified in the Strategic
Plan by using a two-part strategy. EPA will
also implement core clean water programs,
including innovations that apply programs
on a watershed basis and accelerate efforts
to improve water quality on a watershed
basis.
Implement Core Clean Water Programs:
To protect and improve water quality on a
watershed basis in FY 2007, EPA, in
partnership with states and tribes, will
continue to focus the work on integrating the
six key program areas that form the
foundation of the water program. Core
water program work includes:
* Strengthen Water Quality
Standards: The top priority for the
criteria and standards program in FY
2007 is the continued implementation
of the Water Quality Standards (WQS)
and Criteria Strategy, developed in
cooperation with states, tribes, and the
public in 2003. The Standards and
Criteria Strategy prioritizes key
strategic actions EPA and the states
need to complete in order to strengthen
the WQS program to guide assessment
and restoration efforts. This Strategy
calls for EPA to continue work in
developing scientific "criteria
documents" for key chemical,
microbial, and water pollutants,
including implementation protocols
and methods. Key elements identified
in the Strategy include developing
nutrient criteria, adopting biological
criteria, approving state WQSs in a
timelier manner, and providing
technical and scientific support to the
states and tribes in conducting Use
Attainability Analyses and developing
site-specific criteria. Finally, EPA will
work with states and tribes to ensure
the effective operation and
administration of the standards
program.
Improve Water Quality Monitoring:
Scientifically defensible water quality
data and information are essential to
all aspects of the national program to
protect and restore water yet, as
documented in numerous independent
evaluations, Federal and state water
quality monitoring and assessment
programs need strengthening. Top
priorities for FY 2007 are state
participation in efforts to develop
statistically valid monitoring networks,
continued EPA support of states in
developing monitoring programs
consistent with national monitoring
guidance published in 2003, and state
support of the national water quality
database.
Develop Total Maximum Daily
Loads (TMDLs) and Related Plans:
Development of TMDLs for an
impaired waterbody is a critical tool
for meeting water restoration goals. In
FY 2007, EPA will continue to support
states as they develop TMDLs to meet
court-ordered schedules and ensure
that the national policy of TMDL
completion within 13 years of
waterbody listing is met. EPA will
continue to pursue innovative
approaches to help states and other
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partners develop and
waterbody restoration
efficiently as possible.
implement
plans
as
Control Nonpoint Source Pollution
on a Watershed Basis: Polluted
runoff from nonpoint sources is the
largest single remaining cause of water
pollution. In FY 2007, EPA will use
grants to states under Section 319 of
the CWA to support efforts to manage
nonpoint pollution through the
development and implementation of
watershed plans. Special emphasis will
be placed on restoring impaired waters
on a watershed basis.
Industrial Water Pollution Control:
EPA will develop regulations for
industries where the risk to
waterbodies can be reduced and water
quality can be improved through
wastewater treatment. In FY 2007,
EPA will be working on regulations
for the 4 industries identified in the
2004 effluent guideline plan and any
additional industries that may be
identified in the 2006 plan.
Strengthen NPDES Permit
Program: The NPDES program
requires point sources discharging to
water bodies to have permits. In FY
2007, EPA will work with states to use
the "Permitting for Environmental
Results Strategy" to address concerns
about the workload for issuing permits
and the health of state NPDES
programs.
Additionally, EPA will finalize a rule
that incorporates financial incentives
for states that implement adequate
NPDES fee systems.
Support Sustainable Wastewater
Infrastructure: The Clean Water
State Revolving Funds (CWSRFs)
provide low-interest loans to help
finance waslewater treatment facilities
and other water quality projects.
Recognizing the substantial remaining
need for wastewater infrastructure,
EPA will continue to provide
significant annual capitalization to
CWSRFs in FY 2007. Another
important approach to closing the gap
between the need for clean water
projects and available funding is to use
sustainable management systems to
prolong the lives of existing systems.
EPA will work to encourage rate
structures that lead to full cost pricing
and other conservation measures.
Accelerate Watershed Protection
Strong execution of core CWA programs
alone is not sufficient to maintain and
accelerate progress toward cleaner water and
accomplish the water quality improvements
called for in the Strategic Plan. About a
decade ago, EPA fostered the watershed
approach, focusing on multi-stakeholder and
multi-program efforts within hydrologically
defined boundaries, as a better way to
address water quality problems. In FY
2007, EPA will accelerate watershed
protection by working in three key areas:
Core Programs Organized by
Watershed: In addition to
development of watershed based plans,
discussed below, core programs can be
implemented on a watershed basis.
Some examples in practice as a result
of innovations developed by state,
EPA Regions, and others are
development of TMDLs and NPDES
permits on a watershed basis and
implementing water quality "trading"
programs within a watershed.
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Local Watershed Protection Efforts:
EPA is developing national tools,
training, and technical assistance that
will help community partnerships to be
more effective at improving watershed
health.
* Apply an Adaptive Management
Framework: The best way to achieve
progress in improving and protecting
waters and watersheds is by applying
an adaptive management approach to
better understand the problems, set
challenging but realistic goals, and
address opportunities associated with
developing programs and building
partnerships at the watershed level. In
FY 2007, EPA will continue to work
with states and tribes to apply an
adaptive management framework to
identify the specific mix of watershed
tools that best suit local needs and
conditions.
Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters
Coastal waters are among the most
productive ecosystems on Earth, but they are
also among the most threatened ecosystems,
largely as a result of rapidly increasing
growth and development. About half of the
U.S. population now lives in coastal areas
and coastal counties are growing three times
faster than counties elsewhere in the Nation.
The work described here will be closely
coordinated with the implementation of the
National Estuary Program (described in
Goal 4).
For FY 2007, EPA's national strategy for
improving the condition of coastal and
ocean waters will include the key elements
listed below. The health of ocean and
coastal waters and progress in meeting
EPA's strategic targets will be tracked
through the National Coastal Condition
Report. In addition, the OSV BOLD, EPA's
ocean survey vessel, will support monitoring
and assessment needs in coastal regions.
Reduce Vessel Discharges
EPA will focus on enhancing regulation of
discharges of pollution from vessels. Key
work for FY 2007 includes proposing
wastewater standards for cruise ships
operating in Alaskan waters and cooperating
with the Department of Defense to develop
discharge standards for all armed forces
vessels.
Manage MPRSA Ocean Dumping
Program (Including Dredged Material)
Several hundred million cubic yards of
sediment are dredged from waterways,
ports, and harbors every year to maintain the
Nation's navigation system. All of this
sediment must be disposed of safely. EPA
and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(COE) share responsibility for regulating
how and where the disposal of sediment
occurs. In FY 2007, EPA and COE will
continue to focus resources on improving
how disposal of dredged material is
managed, including evaluating, designating,
and monitoring disposal sites. EPA will also
review and concur on the disposal permits
issued by COE.
Manage Invasive Species
One of the greatest threats to U.S. waters
and ecosystems is the uncontrolled spread of
invasive species. Invasive species
commonly enter U.S. waters through the
discharge of ballast water from ships. In FY
2007, EPA will assist the U.S. Coast Guard
in its efforts to develop ballast water
discharge standards. In addition, EPA will
continue efforts to target invasive species in
coastal areas. Efforts addressing invasive
species on an international level are
discussed below.
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FY 2005 Performance Assessment Rating
Tool Evaluations (PARTs):
The following programs were assessed using
the Program Assessment Rating Tool
(PART) for the FY 2005 PART process
(final PART ratings will be included in the
President's Budget):
* Oceans and Coastal Programs
Surface Water Protection Program
Section 106 Categorical Grants
Drinking Water Research
More detailed information is provided in
specific program project descriptions.
International A ctivities
Internationally, our objective is to protect
the environmental quality of U.S. coastal
and ocean waters. U.S. waters are subject to
international sources of pollution and EPA's
international efforts in this area are focused
on the development and implementation of
international standards necessary to address
transboundary sources of pollution,
pollution affecting shared ecosystems, and
the introduction of non-indigenous species
through maritime shipping. To reach these
ends we are seeking to reduce the
introduction of invasive species to U.S.
waters by working with the U.S. Coast
Guard regarding the International Ballast
Water Standards Convention under
MARPOL. Another emphasis is negotiation
of effective international standards
addressing harmful anti-foulants and air
emissions from ships. Achievement of the
objective and strategic targets will enhance
U.S. water quality, human health, and help
stabilize aquatic ecosystems in North
America.
Research
EPA's drinking water and water quality
research programs conduct leading edge,
problem-driven research to provide a sound
scientific foundation for Federal regulatory
decision-making. These efforts will result in
strengthened public health and aquatic
ecosystem protection by providing data
methods, models, assessments, and
technologies for EPA program and regional
offices, as well as state and local authorities.
In FY2007, the drinking water research
program will continue to focus on filling key
data gaps and developing analytical
detection methods for measuring the
occurrence of chemical and microbial
contaminants on the Contaminant Candidate
List (CCL) and developing and evaluating
cost-effective treatment technologies for
removing pathogens from water supplies
while minimizing microbial/disinfection by-
product (M/DBP) formation. The water
quality research program will continue
providing approaches and methods the
Agency and its partners need to develop and
apply criteria to support designated uses,
tools to diagnose and assess impairment in
aquatic systems, and tools to restore and
protect aquatic systems.
A new investment in FY 2007 will support
research and development of innovative
approaches and technologies aimed at the
growing gap in the nation's water
infrastructure requirements. Aging and
deteriorated potable water and wastewater
infrastructure makes it difficult to meet
Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water
Act requirements, and increases the potential
for waterborne disease outbreaks. The
purpose of this initiative will be to generate
the science and engineering to evaluate
promising innovative technologies and
techniques to reduce the cost of operation,
maintenance, and replacement of aging and
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failing wastewater and potable water
conveyance systems and move towards
sustainable water infrastructure.
Other important areas of research in
FY 2007 will include: 1) developing a web-
enabled database of treatability information
for chemicals and pathogens, providing
information to the Agency for prioritization
of contaminants and for Homeland Security
efforts; 2) reporting on public health benefits
associated with improvements in drinking
water treatment to reduce microbial
exposures; 3) conducting wetlands research
to develop a hierarchical assessment
approach to address the objectives of the
President's initiative to preserve and restore
wetlands, and augment the current no-nct-
loss policy; and 4) performing a suite of
epidemiological studies to establish a strong,
defensible link between rapid water quality
indicators and swimming-associated health
effects.
Recognizing that environmental policy and
regulatory decisions will only be as good as
the science upon which they are based, EPA
makes every effort to ensure that its science
is of the highest quality and relevance,
thereby, providing the basis for sound
environmental results. EPA uses the
Research and Development (R&D)
Investment Criteria of quality, relevance,
and performance in its decision-making
processes through the use of research
strategies and plans, program review and
evaluation by the Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC) and the Science
Advisory Board (SAB), and peer review.
In 2005, the BOSC evaluated the Agency's
drinking water research program to assess
the quality and relevance of its research and
the program's historical performance. The
subcommittee concluded that the program
has produced significant research, which in
turn has been used by the Agency's Office
of Water (OW), states, and industry to
achieve outcomes. The subcommittee also
lauded the program's use of the Agency's
Science to Achieve Results (STAR)
program, which awards competitive research
grants through a rigorous peer review
process. The FY 2005 PART process
resulted in specific annual and long term
performance measures that will improve
quantification of outcomes. Notably, the
drinking water research program will
measure the long term utility of its products
for key decisions by the Office of Water.
Strategies are tailored to specific research
needs and priorities. The Agency maintains
multi-yea? esearch plans (MYP) that outline
steps for meeting those strategic research
needs and annual performance goals (APG)
and measures (APM) for evaluating
progress.
Taken together, these mechanisms serve to
ensure that EPA's research and science
remain relevant, of high quality, and
contribute to superior environmental
performance.
In order to sustain a viable and credible
workforce, the Agency approaches its
research programs' workforce planning in a
manner consistent with its human capital
strategy. Key elements of this strategy
include working to develop and implement a
holistic approach to recruitment, preserving
a diverse workforce that reflects a wide
spectrum of viewpoints, and retaining
existing talent.
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Land Preservation and Restoration
Preserve and restore the land by using innovative waste management practices and cleaning
up contaminated properties to reduce risks posed by releases of harmful substances.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:
By 2008, reduce adverse effects to
land by reducing waste generation,
increasing recycling, and ensuring
proper management of waste and
petroleum products at facilities in ways
that prevent releases.
By 2008, control the risks to human
health and the environment by
mitigating the impact of accidental or
intentional releases and by cleaning up
and restoring contaminated sites or
properties to appropriate levels.
Through 2008, provide and apply
sound science for protecting and
restoring land by conducting leading-
edge research and developing a better
understanding and characterization of
environmental outcomes under Goal 3.
GOAL, OBJECTIVE SUMMARY
Budget Authority / Obligations
Full-time Equivalents
(Dollars in Thousands)
Land Preservation and Restoration
Preserve Land
Restore Land
Enhance Science and Research
Total Authorized Workyears
FY 2005
Obligations
$1,780,624.2
$217,596.8
$1,501,041.1
$61,986.3
4,602.5
FY 2006
Enacted
$1,656,471.0
$217,305.7
$1,383,140.1
$56,025.2
4,737.8
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$1,689,635.1
$242,090.9
$1,395,285.3
$52,258.9
4,686.2
FY 2007 Pres Bud v.
FY 2006 Enacted
$33,164.1
$24,785.2
$12,145.2
($3,766.3)
-51.6
Uncontrolled, hazardous and nonhazardous
astes 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. Hazardous
substances can kill living organisms in lakes
and rivers, destroy vegetation in
contaminated areas, cause major
reproductive complications in wildlife, and
otherwise limit the ability of an ecosystem
to survive.
EPA leads the country's activities to prevent
and reduce the risks posed by releases of
harmful substances and by contaminated
land. The most effective approach to
controlling these risks incorporates
developing and implementing prevention
programs, improving response capabilities,
and maximizing the effectiveness of
response and cleanup actions. This
approach will help to ensure that human
health and the environment are protected
and that land is returned to or continues to
be used beneficially.
EPA will work to preserve and restore the
land with the most effective waste
management and cleanup methods available.
EPA uses a hierarchy of approaches to
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protect the land: reducing waste at its
source, recycling waste, managing waste
effectively by preventing spills and releases
of toxic materials, and cleaning up
contaminated properties. The Agency
especially is concerned about threats to our
most sensitive populations, such as children,
the elderly, and individuals with chronic
diseases, and prioritizes cleanups
accordingly. Additional information on
these programs can be found at:
www.epa.gov/superfund,
http://www.epa.guv/epaoswer/hazwaste/ca/,
and
http://www.epa.gOv/superfund/prQgrarns/er/i
ndex.htm.
The Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA, or Superfund) and the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
provide the legal authority for most of
EPA's work toward this goal. The Agency
and its partners use Superfund authority to
clean up uncontrolled or abandoned
hazardous waste sites and return the land to
productive use. Under RCRA, EPA works
in partnership with states and Tribes to
address risks associated with leaking
underground storage tanks and with the
generation and management of hazardous
and nonhazardous waste.
EPA also uses authorities provided under the
Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Oil
Pollution Act of 1990 to protect against
spills and releases of hazardous materials.
Controlling the many risks posed by
accidental and intentional releases of
harmful substances presents a significant
challenge. EPA's approach integrates
prevention, preparedness, and response
activities to minimize these risks. Spill
prevention activities keep harmful
substances from being released to the
environment. Improving its readiness to
respond to emergencies through training,
development of clear authorities, and
provision of proper equipment ensures that
EPA is adequately prepared to minimize
contamination and harm to the environment
when spills, do occur.
The following themes characterize EPA's
land program activities under Goal 3:
Revitalization; Recycling, Waste
Minimization and Energy Recovery;
Emergency, Preparedness and Response and
Homeland Security; and implementation of
the recently-authorized Energy Policy Act of
2005 (EPAct).
Revitalization: All of EPA's cleanup
programs (Superfund Remedial,
Superfund Federal Facilities Response,
RCRA Corrective Action,
Brownfields, and Underground
Storage Tanks) and their partners arc
taking proactive steps to accommodate
and facilitate the cleanup and
revitalization " of contaminated
properties. Revitalizing these once
productive properties can provide
numerous positive impacts for
communities such as 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. Efforts are
underway to develop cross-program
revitalization measures that will enable
EPA to capture a broader array of
accomplishments resulting from the
assessment and cleanup of properties.
Recycling, Waste Minimization and
Energy Recovery. EPA's strategy for
reducing waste generation and
increasing recycling is based on: (1)
establishing and expanding
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partnerships with businesses,
industries, Tribes, states, communities,
and consumers; (2) stimulating
infrastructure development,
environmentally responsible behavior
by product manufacturers, users, and
disposers ("product stewardship"), and
new technologies; and (3) helping
businesses, government, institutions,
and consumers through education,
outreach, training, and technical
assistance.
Emergency Preparedness, Response,
and Homeland Security: EPA has a
major role in reducing the risk to
human health and the environment
posed by accidental or intentional
releases of harmful substances and oil.
EPA will continue to improve its
capability to effectively prepare for
and respond to these incidents,
including natural disasters such as
Hurricane Katrina, working closely
with other Federal agencies within the
National Response Plan.
Implementing New Energy and
Transportation Legislation: EPA has a
critical role in implementing the
EPAct. The EPAct contains numerous
provisions that significantly affect
Federal and state underground storage
tank (UST) programs. In FY 2007,
EPA will provide assistance to states
to help them meet their new
responsibilities, which include
performing additional inspections,
developing operator training
requirements, prohibiting fuel
deliveries at non-compliant UST
facilities, and requiring secondary
containment for new and replaced
tanks and piping or financial
responsibility for tank installers and
manufacturers.
Controlling Risks to Human Health and the
Environment at Contaminated Sites
EPA and its partners work to identify
contaminated lands that pose significant risks
to human health and the environment. Once
identified, these contaminated lands are
cleaned up to levels sufficient to prevent and
control risks to human health and the
environment and, where necessary, to return
the land to productive use. EPA and its
partners follow four key steps to accomplish
cleanups and control risks to human health
and the environment from contaminated
lands: assessment of risk, identification and
stabilization of contaminants, selection of
appropriate remedies to address risk posed by
contaminants, and implementation of
remedies to reduce contamination to below
health-based risk levels. The Agency's
cleanup activities, some new and some well-
established, include removing contaminated
soil, capping or containing contamination in
place, pumping and treating groundwater, and
bioremediation. New tools, such as Triad, a
process for flexible and targeted sampling,
help provide a more focused strategy to
characterize contaminated lands. Also,
through an Environmental Management
Systems (EMS) approach, which involves a
continuous cycle of planning, implementing,
reviewing, and improving practices at each
site, EPA has improved performance and
reduced operating costs of remedies while
ensuring continued protectiveness.
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 program helps
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Federal and local governments, Tribes, states,
redevelopment authorities and the affected
communities ensure contamination at Federal
or former Federal properties is addressed in a
manner that protects human health and the
environment. For more information on the
Superfund Federal Facilities Response
program, please refer to
http://www.epa.gov/fedfac.
EPA uses a variety of tools to accomplish
cleanups, including permits, enforcement
actions, consent agreements, and Federal
facility agreements. Cleanup programs at all
levels of government work together to
ensure that appropriate cleanup tools are
used; that resources, activities, and results
are coordinated with partners and
stakeholders and communicated to the
public effectively; and that cleanups are
protective and contribute to community
revitalization. The Agency's two major
cleanup programs, Superfund and RCRA
Corrective Action, now rely on similar
human health and groundwater protection
environmental indicators. EPA is working
to coordinate across all of its cleanup
programs, while maintaining the flexibility
needed to accommodate differences in
program authorities and approaches.
EPA fulfills its cleanup and waste
management responsibilities on Tribal lands
by acknowledging Tribal sovereignty, which
means recognizing Tribal governments as
the most appropriate authorities for setting
standards, making policy decisions, and
managing programs consistent with Agency
standards and regulations. EPA works with
its Federal, state, Tribal, and local
government partners to identify facilities
and sites on or adjacent to Indian country
requiring attention and to monitor changes
in priorities.
Even though the Superfund program met its
FY 2005 targets for a majority of its existing
performance measures, challenges remain
for the coming years. The program has a
number of projects ready for construction,
while it also needs to fund several large,
complex remedial projects at an optimal
pace. In addition, as the program has
matured, it has become necessary for the
Agency to devote more resources toward
post construction activities, including long-
term remedial actions and five-year reviews.
Therefore, the Agency proposes to redirect
resources from earlier phase activities
toward construction in FY 2007.
To meet its objective to control the risks to
human health and the environment at
contaminated properties or sites through
cleanup, stabilization, or other action, and to
make land available for reuse, EPA intends
to achieve the following results in FY 2007:
* Make 350 final site-assessment decisions
under Superfund;
Increase the total number of Superfund
sites where all identified unacceptable
human exposures are controlled to at or
below health-based levels for current
land and/or groundwater use conditions
by 10;
* Increase the total number of Superfund
sites where the migration of
contaminated groundwater is under
control through engineered or natural
processes by 10;
9 Select final remedies at 25 Superfund
sites on the National Priorities List
(NPL);
Complete construction of remedies at 40
Superfund sites on the NPL;
* Increase the percentage of high priority
RCRA facilities with human exposure to
controlled toxins from an estimated 82%
in FY 2006 to 89%;
9 Increase the percentage of high priority
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RCRA facilities with toxic releases to
groundwater contamination to 75% from
an estimated 68% in FY 2006; and
» Complete 13,000 leaking underground
storage tanks cleanups.
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 the Trust Fund. The
Superfund program's "enforcement first"
policy ensures that sites that have viable
potentially responsible parties (PRPs) are
cleaned up by those parties, allowing EPA to
focus appropriated resources on sites where
viable PRPs either do not exist or lack funds
or capabilities needed to conduct the
cleanup. In tandem with this approach,
various reforms have been implemented to
increase fairness, reduce transaction costs,
and promote economic development. For
more information regarding EPA's
enforcement program and its various
components, please refer to
www.epa.gov/compliance/cleanup/superfun
d/.
The Agency also has been encouraging the
establishment and use of Special Accounts
within the Superfund Trust Fund. These
accounts segregate site-specific funds
obtained from responsible parties that
complete settlement agreements with EPA.
These funds may create an incentive for
other PRPs at that specific site to perform
work they otherwise might not be willing to
perform. Alternatively, these funds may be
used by the Agency to fund cleanup
activities if there are not known or viable
PRPs. As a result, the Agency can get more
sites cleaned up while preserving the
appropriated Trust Fund dollars for sites
without viable PRPs.
In FY 2007, the Agency will continue to
implement its "enforcement first" strategy.
It 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. When
appropriated dollars are used to clean up
sites, the program will recover this money
from the PRPs whenever possible. The
Agency will also continue its efforts to
establish and maximize the use of Special
Accounts to facilitate clean up.
By contr ling to pursue cost recovery
settlements, the program promotes the
principle that polluters should perform or
pay for cleanups, preserving appropriated
Superfund Trust Fund resources for site
remediation where there is no known or
viable PRP. The Agency's expenditures are
recouped through administrative actions,
CERCLA section 107 case referrals, and
through settlements reached with the use of
alternative dispute resolution.
EPA's financial management offices provide
a full array of support services to the
Superfund program including managing
oversight billing for Superfund site cleanups
and financial cost recovery. The
Department of Justice supports EPA's
Superfund Enforcement program through
negotiations and judicial actions to compel
PRP cleanup and litigation to recover Trust
Fund monies spent.
Encouraging Land Revitalization
Land is one of America's most valuable
resources. However, where contamination
presents a real or perceived threat to human
health and the environment, options and
even interest in future use of that property
may be limited. To address these common
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scenarios, EPA's cleanup programs have set
a national goal of returning formerly
contaminated sites to long-term, sustainable,
and productive use. This goal creates greater
impetus for selecting and implementing
remedies that, in addition to providing clear
environmental benefits, support reasonably
anticipated future land use options and
provide greater economic and social
benefits.
To help achieve its land revitalization goals,
EPA works with external partners to: (1)
promote land revitalization by ensuring that
current use or reuse options are considered
explicitly in the evaluation of cleanup
options; (2) commit the necessary resources
to address current use or reuse as a top
priority in cleanup decisions; (3) develop
new comprehensive policies and programs
to address unintended cross-jurisdiction and
cross-program barriers to the protective
reuse of contaminated properties; (4)
promote protective, long-term current use or
reuse of properties; (5) promote sustainable
reuse to prevent further contamination and
indirect environmental problems that may
result from some reuse (sustainable reuses
include open spaces, energy efficient
buildings, low impact design, smart growth
community developments, and wildlife
habitats); (6) develop and promote a land
revitalization research agenda that improves
our understanding of and our ability to use
protectively or reuse contaminated or
potentially contaminated properties; (7)
build partnerships to leverage knowledge,
expertise, and resources in the revitalization
of properties (including government-to-
government partnerships at the local, state,
Tribal, and Federal levels as well as
partnerships with non-government, private,
and community organizations); (8) expand
community capabilities through improved
public involvement tools and information
systems on contamination, cleanup, reuse,
and long-term stewardship; (9) expand and
promote educational and training programs
that encourage and provide needed tools to
achieve land revitalization; and (10)
promote various approaches to measure and
report the status and impacts of the
collective efforts to revitalize.
For more information concerning EPA's
land revitalization efforts, please refer to
http://www^ej3a.gov/swerrims/landreyitalizat
Reducing and Recycling Waste
Preventing pollution before it is generated
and poses harm is often less costly than
cleanup and remediation. Source reduction
and recycling programs can increase
resource and energy efficiencies and thereby
reduce pressures on the environment.
RCRA directs EPA to minimize the amount
of waste generated and to improve recovery
and conservation of materials through
recycling. To this end, EPA builds on
partnerships with other Federal agencies;
state, Tribal, and local governments;
business and industry; and non-
governmental organizations. These
voluntary partnerships provide information
sharing, recognition, and assistance to
improve practices in both public and private
sectors.
EPA launched the Resource Conservation
Challenge (RCC) as a major national effort
to find flexible, yet more protective ways to
conserve our valuable natural resources
through waste reduction, energy recovery,
and recycling. Through the RCC, EPA
challenges every American to prevent
pollution, promote recycling and reuse, and
conserve energy and materials. The RCC
programs foster source reduction and
recycling in business, industry, and
government; encourage local adoption of
economic incentives thai further source
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reduction and recycling; reduce hazardous
wastes containing priority chemicals;
promote waste-based industries that
concurrently create jobs; foster cost-
effective recycling programs in communities
and Tribes; enhance markets for recycled
materials by increasing procurement of
recycled-content products; encourage
innovative practices that result in more cost-
effective source reduction and recycling;
implement the President's Climate Change
Action Plan; and provide information to
assess and track progress in reaching
national goals.
Reducing waste generation has clear
benefits in combating the ever-growing
stream of municipal solid waste (MSW).
MSW includes waste generated from
residences, commercial establishments,
institutions, and industrial non-process
operations. Annual generation of MSW
grew steadily from 88 million to 236 million
tons between 1960 and 2003." In FY 2007,
EPA's municipal solid waste program will
implement a set of coordinated strategies,
including source reduction (also called
waste prevention), recycling (including
composting), combustion with energy
recovery, and landfilling. Preference will be
given to strategies that maximize the
diversion of waste from disposal, with
source reduction (including reuse) as the
highest priority.
To meet its objective for reducing materials
use through product and process redesign,
and increasing materials and energy
recovery from wastes otherwise requiring
disposal, EPA intends to achieve the
following results in FY 2007:
9 Maintain the national average MSW
generation rate at no more than 4.5
pounds per person per day; and
Divert 85.2 million tons of MSW from
landfills and combustion.
Recognizing that some hazardous wastes
cannot be completely eliminated or recycled,
the RCRA program works to reduce
exposure to hazardous wastes by
maintaining a cradle-to-grave approach to
waste management. The program's primary
focus is to prevent hazardous releases from
RCRA facilities and reduce emissions from
hazardous waste combustion through a
combination of regulations, permits and
voluntary standards. State program
authorization provides the states with
primary RCRA implementation and
enforcement authority; reduces overlapping
and dual implementation by the states and
EPA; provides the regulated community
with one set of regulations; reduces overall
Federal enforcement presence in the states;
and can provide the opportunity for some of
the newer, less-stringent RCRA regulations
to be implemented by the states. To date, 48
States, Guam, and the District of Columbia
are authorized to issue permits. Important
goals of the RCRA program include strong
state partnerships, the authorization of states
for all portions of the RCRA hazardous
waste program, including regulations
addressing waste management issues
contained in permits, and results-oriented
state oversight.
13 US Environmental Protection Agency. Municipal Solid
Waste in the United States: 2003 Facts and Figures,
Executive Summary, U.S. Government Printing Office,
Washington, DC, October 2003. Available online at
www.cpa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/munc.pl^msw99.hlrii. Last
updated Aprils, 2005.
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EPA works with states, Tribes and
Intertribal Consortia to prevent, detect, and
correct leaks into the environment from
Federally-regulated USTs containing
petroleum and hazardous substances.
Achieving significant improvements in
release prevention and detection requires a
sustained emphasis by both EPA and its
partners. Because states are the primary
enforcers of the UST program requirements,
EPA has adopted a decentralized approach
to UST program implementation by building
and supporting strong state and local
programs. Concerns about the use of fuel
oxygenates, like MTBE, in gasoline further
underscores EPA's and the states' emphasis
on promoting compliance with all UST
requirements. EPA provides technical
infprmation, forums for information
exchanges and training opportunities to
states, Tribes and Intertribal Consortia to
encourage program development and/or
implementation of the UST program. In FY
2007, EPA will make grants to states and
Tribes under Section 2007(f)(2) of the Solid
Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) for
underground storage tank detection,
prevention and correction programs and
grants or cooperative agreements for new
activities authorized by the Underground
Storage Tank Compliance Act of 2005
(USTCA), which was enacted as Title XV,
Subtitle B of the EPAct, that are not
otherwise provided for in Section 2007 of
the SWDA. Due to authority limits, EPA
will not use STAG funds for leaking
underground storage tank cleanup activities
that are authorized by Section 205 of the
Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization
Act of 1986, even if those activities are also
authorized by the USTCA.
To meet its objective for reducing releases
to the environment by managing hazardous
wastes and petroleum products properly,
EPA intends to achieve the following results
in FY 2007:
Prevent releases from RCRA
hazardous waste management facilities
by increasing the number of facilities
with permits or other approved
controls by 2.4 percent over the FY
2006 level. At the end of FY 2005, 90
percent of the facilities had permits or
other approved controls;14
* Increase the percentage of UST
facilities in significant operational
compliance with both release detection
and release prevention (spill, overfill,
and corrosion protection) requirements
to 67 percent of the estimated universe
of approximately 256,000 facilities;
and
Reduce the number of confirmed
releases at UST facilities to 10,000 or
fewer. (Between FY 1999 and FY
2005, confirmed releases averaged
10,844. The annual number of
confirmed releases in FY 2005 was
7,421).
Emergency Preparedness, Response, and
Homeland Security
EPA will continue to improve its emergency
preparedness and response capability,
including homeland security capabilities.
EPA plays a major role in reducing the risks
that accidental and intentional releases of
harmful substances and oil pose to human
health and the environment. Under the
multi-agency National Response Plan
(NRP), EPA evaluates and responds to
thousands of releases annually. EPA's
primary role in the NRP is to serve as the
Federal On-Scene Coordinator (OSC) for
spills and releases in the inland zone. As a
1 This goal currently tracks approximately 2,460 hazardous
waste management facilities subject to permitting
requirements. This baseline was updated for FY 2006.
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result of NRP efforts, many major oil spills
and releases of hazardous substances have
been contained, minimizing the adverse
impacts on human health and the
environment.
An important component of EPA's land
strategy is to prevent oil spills from reaching
our Nation's waters. Under the Clean Water
Act, as amended by the Oil Pollution Act,
the Agency requires certain facilities
(defined in 40 CFR 112.2) to develop and
implement spill prevention, control, and
countermeasure (SPCC) plans. Compliance
with these requirements reduces the number
of oil spills that reach navigable waters and
prevents detrimental effects on human
health and the environment should a spill
occur.
Each year, EPA personnel assess, respond
to, mitigate, and clean up thousands of
releases, whether accidental, deliberate, or
naturally occurring. These incidents range
from small spills at chemical or oil facilities
to national disasters, such as hurricanes and
earthquakes, to large-scale terrorist events.
EPA will work to improve its capability to
respond effectively to incidents that may
involve harmful chemical, oil, biological,
and radiological substances. The Agency
will explore improvements in field and
personal protection equipment, expand
training for response personnel and continue
to participate in multi-agency training and
exercises. EPA also will review response
data provided in the "after-action" reports
prepared by EPA emergency responders
following a release and examine "lessons
learned" reports to identify which activities
work and which need improvement.
Application of this information and other
data will advance the Agency's state-of-the-
art emergency response operations.
EPA's 25-year-old Emergency Response
and Removal program is supported by EPA
OSCs, the Environmental Response Team
(ERT) and the National Decontamination
Team (NDT), who respond to small and
large scale response actions, disasters and
terrorist incidents. Responding to these
incidents is one of EPA's traditional
responsibilities.
The FY 2007 President's Budget request
includes funding to enable EPA to improve
the capabilities of EPA's responders through
procurement of state-of-the-art equipment,
to organize a new Environmental Laboratory
Response Network (eLRN) program to
strengthen such lab capabilities, expand
participation for pre-deployments to national
security special events, and develop
decontamination protocols.
In FY 2007, EPA will continue to
implement its homeland security plans and
procedures and to meet its responsibilities in
order to respond to major hazardous
substance, oil, weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) or nationally significant terrorist
incidents. EPA will prepare for the
possibility of simultaneous attacks on
multiple targets and will implement the
National Approach to Response (NAR),
which is EPA's internal multi-faceted
mechanism to effectively manage and
conduct responses to nationally significant
events. The NDT will improve its
specialized decontamination capabilities to
address chemical and biological and/or
radiological agents in both environmental
and building contamination situations. The
ERT will provide training and specialized
scientific, technical, and health and safety
support to EPA's responders.
To meet its objective to reduce and control
the risks posed by accidental or intentional
releases of harmful substances by improving
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our Nation's capability to prepare for and
respond more effectively to these
emergencies, EPA intends to achieve the
following results in FY 2007:
* Improve the Agency's emergency
preparedness by achieving and
maintaining the capability to respond
to simultaneous large-scale
emergencies and by improving
response readiness by 10 percent from
the previous year using the core
emergency response criteria;
Complete 315 removal actions
(excluding actions at Federal facilities
and actions by PRPs with enforcement
instruments);
* Inspect or conduct exercises or drills at
approximately 200 oil storage facilities
required to have Facility Response
Plans; and
8 Respond to 300 oil spills.
Implementing New Legislation
EPA has a critical role to play in
implementing the EPAct. The EPAct
contains numerous provisions that
significantly affect Federal and state
underground storage tank (UST) programs.
The EPAct requires that EPA and states
strengthen tank release and prevention
programs, such as: mandatory inspections
every three years, operator training,
prohibition of delivery for non-complying
facilities, secondary containment or
financial responsibility for tank installers,
and various compliance reports. The EPAct
imposes very strict deadlines on EPA and
states; EPA is required to develop numerous
grant guidelines before the FY 2007 grant
cycle and states are required to develop their
first new requirements for tank owners by
February 2007.15 EPA must develop
regulations and guidance that states must
adopt, and must develop a strategy for USTs
in Indian Country to bring them into
compliance and to clean up leaks. EPA is
currently working with state, tribal, and
industry partners to develop and implement
the various requirements.
Enhancing Science and Research to
Restore and Preserve Land
The FY 2007 land research program
supports the Agency's objective of reducing
or controlling potential risks to human
health and the environment at contaminated
waste sitt by providing the science to
accelerate scientifically defensible and cost-
effective decisions for cleanup at complex
sites in accordance with the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation,
and Liability Act (CERCLA).
In FY 2007, research will focus on
contaminated sediments, ground water
contamination, site characterization, and
technical support to specific sites. Reducing
uncertainties in the assessment of
contaminated sediments and developing and
evaluating remedial options will be the focus
of this research theme. Ground water
research will continue to develop
applications for permeable reactive barriers
and address fate and transport and treatment
methods for contaminants. Site
characterization and sampling methods will
continue to support site specific statistical
and analytical applications. The technical
support centers will continue to provide site
specific assistance on technical issues. Oil
spill research will address fate and effects of
For more information, please visit
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bia'getdoc.cai?dbrmme=109_cong public laws&docid-j':p
ublOS8.i09.pdf and scroll to Title XV - Rthanol and Motor
Fuels, Subtitle B Underground Storage Tank Compliance,
on pages 500-513 of the pdf file.
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non-petroleum oil and dispersion
effectiveness. Underground storage tank
research will address fate and transport
issues for fuel components and remediation
methods.
Multimedia decision-making and materials
management constitute the two major areas
of research under the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA) in FY 2007, as
the Agency works toward identifying
releases to inform proper facility
management. Multimedia research
continues to advance multimedia modeling
and uncertainty/sensitivity analysis
methodologies that support core RCRA
program needs as well as emerging RCRA
resource conservation needs which include
beneficial reuse issues (e.g., electronic waste
recycling and waste-derived products).
Materials management research will provide
technical reports and technical support on
methods to improve industrial and municipal
waste management. Materials management
research will evaluate landfill caps,
containment technologies, as well as
leachate issues and hard to treat wastes.
Recognizing that environmental policy and
regulatory decisions will only be as good as
the science upon which they are based, EPA
makes every effort to ensure that its science
is of the highest quality and relevance,
thereby providing the basis for sound
environmental results. EPA uses the
Research and Development (R&D)
Investment Criteria of quality, relevance,
and performance in its decision-making
processes through a) the use of research
FY 2005 PARTs
The following programs were assessed by
OMB's Program Assessment Rating Tool
(PART) for the FY 2005 PART process
strategies and plans, b) peer review, and c)
program review and evaluation by the Board
of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) and the
Science Advisory Board (SAB).
In 2005, the BOSC evaluated the Land
Research Program to assess the quality and
relevance of its research and the program's
historical performance. The BOSC will
report its findings to the Agency in the 2"
quarter of 2006.
Research is guided by research strategies
and plans, which are developed with
participation from major clients. The
strategy outlines the research needs and
priorities. The Agency also maintains multi-
year research plans that outline steps for
meeting strategic research needs, and annual
performance goals and measures for
evaluating progress.
Taken together, these mechanisms serve to
ensure that EPA's research and science
remain relevant, of high quality, and
contribute to superior environmental
performance.
In order to sustain a viable and credible
workforce, the Agency approaches its
research programs' workforce planning in a
manner consistent with its human capital
strategy. Key elements of this strategy
include working to develop and implement a
holistic approach to recruitment, preserving
a diverse workforce that reflects a wide
spectrum of viewpoints, and retaining
existing talent.
(final PART ratings will be included in the
President's Budget):
Superfund Federal Facilities Response
Oil Spill
Superfund Emergency Response and
Removal (rePART)
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More detailed information is provided in
specific program project description.
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HEALTHY COMMUNITIES AND ECOSYSTEMS
Protect, sustain, or restore the health of people, communities, and ecosystems using
integrated and comprehensive approaches and partnerships.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:
Prevent and reduce pesticide,
chemical, and genetically engineered
biological organism risks to humans,
communities, and ecosystems.
Sustain, clean up, and restore
communities and the ecological
systems that support them.
Protect, sustain, and restore the health
of natural habitats and ecosystems.
Enhance the Nation's capability to
prevent, detect, protect, and recover
from acts of terror.
Through 2008, provide a sound
scientific foundation for EPA's goal of
protecting, sustaining, and restoring
the health of people, communities, and
ecosystems by conducting leading-
edge research and developing a better
understanding and characterization of
environmental outcomes under Goal 4.
GOAL, OBJECTIVE SUMMARY
Budget Authority / Obligations
Full-time Equivalents
(Dollars in Thousands)
Healthy Communities and
Ecosystems
Chemical, Organism, and Pesticide
Risks
Communities
Ecosystems
Enhance Science and Research
Total Authorized Workyears
FY2005 FY2006 FY2007 FY 2007 Pres Bud v.
Obligations Enacted Pres Bud FY 2006 Enacted
$1,257,846.7 $1,249,321.4 $1,228,933.7 ($20,387.7)
$390,156.3
$290,561.6
$178,713.5
$398,415.4
3,874.8
$399,053.9
$272,118.6
$193,885.7
$384,263.2
3,812.5
$376,874.5
$247,874.1
$199,421.1
$404,764.1
3,834.2
($22,179.4)
($24,244.5)
$5,535.4
$20,500.9
21.7
EPA must bring together a wide variety of
programs., tools, approaches and resources to
promote healthy communities and
ecosystems. Achieving the Agency's goal
of protecting, sustaining or restoring healthy
communities and ecosystems requires strong
partnerships with Federal, state, Tribal and
local governments. Programs under this
goal focus on reducing chemical and
pesticide risks, addressing high priority
ecosystem risks, and supporting local
community priorities.
A key component of this goal is protecting
human health and the environment by
identifying, assessing, and reducing the
potential risks presented by the thousands of
chemicals and pesticides on which our
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society and economy have come to depend.
EPA must also address the emerging
challenges posed by a growing array of
biological organismsnaturally occurring
and, increasingly, genetically engineered
that are being used in industrial and
agricultural processes.
Biological agents are potential weapons that
could be exploited by terrorists against the
United States. EPA's pesticides
antimicrobial program has been very
responsive to addressing this threat by
assessing efficacy of antimicrobial products
used against biological weapons of mass
destruction, and registering products as
necessary.
EPA programs under this goal have many
indirect benefits. For example, each year
the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
New Chemicals program reviews and
manages the potential risks from
approximately 1,700 new chemicals and 40
products of biotechnology that enter the
marketplace. Americans also come into
daily contact with any number of chemicals
that entered the market before the New
Chemicals Program was established in 1978,
yet relatively little is known about many of
their potential impacts. Obtaining basic
hazard testing information on large volume
chemicals is one focus of EPA's work in the
Existing Chemicals program. EPA also
plans a dual approach to address the possible
health risks associated with nanoscale
materials. EPA is currently reviewing pre-
manufacture notices for new nanoscale
materials under TSCA to ensure protection
of human health and the environment. For
new and existing chemical nanoscale
materials, EPA is developing a stewardship
program.
The Acute Exposure Guideline Levels
(AEGLs) Program was designed by EPA to
provide scientifically credible data to
directly support chemical emergency
planning, response, and prevention programs
mandated by Congress. Emergency workers
and first responders addressing accidental or
intentional chemical releases need to know
how dangerous a chemical contaminant may
be to breathe or touch, and how long it may
remain dangerous. The program develops
short-term exposure limits applicable to the
general population for a wide range of
extremely hazardous substances
(approximately 400).
As the population in coastal regions grows,
the challenges to preserve and protect these
important ecosystems increase. Through the
National Estuary Program, coastal areas
have proved valuable grounds for combining
innovative and community-based
approaches with national guidelines and
interagency coordination to achieve results.
Wetlands are among the most productive
ecosystems in the world, comparable to rain
forests and coral reefs. Yet the nation loses
an estimated 58,000 acres per year, and
existing wetlands may be degraded by
excessive sedimentation, nutrient
enrichment, and other factors.16
Large water bodies like the Gulf of Mexico,
the Great Lakes, and the Chesapeake Bay
are surrounded by industrial and other
development and have been exposed to
substantial pollution over many years at
levels higher than current environmental
standards permit. As a result, the volume of
pollutants in these water bodies has
exceeded their natural ability to restore
Dahl, T.E. 1990. Status and Trends of Wetlands in the
Conterminous United States, 1986 to 1997. Washington,
DC: U.S. Department of the interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. Available online at:
htip://wetlands.fws.gov/bha''SandT/SandTReport.htnii.:
Report to Congress on the Status and Trends of Wetlands in
the Conterminous United States, 1986 to 1997.
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balance. Working with stakeholders, EPA
has established special programs to protect
and restore these unique resources by
addressing the vulnerabilities for each.
EPA's Brownfields program promotes the
clean up, reuse, and redevelopment of
brownfields sites through its assessment,
revolving loan fund, and cleanup grants.
The program also supports research,
training, and technical assistance efforts;
clarifies liability issues; and promotes
Federal, state and local partnerships toward
the goal of putting contaminated land back
into productive use.
The Agency will continue to support the
National Environmental Justice Advisory
Council (NEJAC) which provides the
Agency significant input from interested
stakeholders such as community-based
organizations, business and industry,
academic institutions, state, Tribal and local
governments, non-governmental
organizations and environmental groups.
Pesticides and Chemicals Programs
EPA will continue using both voluntary and
regulatory approaches to address risks
associated with the use of pesticides in the
home, work environment and agricultural
settings. These approaches include
identifying and assessing potential risks
from pesticides, setting priorities for
addressing these risks, strategizing for
reducing these risks, and promoting
innovative and alternative measures of pest
control, such as environmental stewardship
and integrated pest management (1PM). In
addition, EPA will strengthen education and
training of workers and the public and
promote the registration and use of reduced
risk pesticides.
EPA will make progress towards its
objective ^f protecting human health,
communities and ecosystems from pesticide
use by focusing on meeting our Food
Quality Protection Act (FQPA) statutory
mandate of completing the assessment of all
existing tolerances (9,721). This process
includes the issuance of all food use
Reregistration Eligibility Decisions (REDs).
These regulatory actions will ensure that
pesticides on the market and the associated
tolerance residues remain safe for the public
and the environment. EPA will also
continue identifying candidates for
countering potential bioterrorist use of
pesticides and biopesticides.
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Category
Organophosphates
Carbaniates
Organochlorine
Carcinogen
High Hazard Inert
Other
TOTALS
*EPA
Tolerances
to be
Reassessed
1691
545
253
2008
5
5219
9721
Total
Reassessed as
of 12/19/05
1147
317
253
1530
5
4578
7830
Tolerances
Remaining
544
228
0
478
0
641
1891
's Tolerance Index. Tolerance Trackina Systems and Tolerance Reassessment
Percentage
Reassessed
67.83%
58.17%
100%
76.2%
100%
87.70%
80.50%
Database.
EPA plans to emphasize the continuation
and further development of programs for the
review of new and existing chemicals. The
Agency will also continue to carry out its
mandate to review potential risks from
newly manufactured or imported chemicals
before they are introduced to commerce.
EPA's "Sustainable Futures" program
encourages chemical manufacturers to apply
pollution prevention techniques in the
design of new chemicals, so that chemicals
entering the new chemical review process
will be less hazardous and less risky.
In addressing chemicals that have entered
the market before the inception of the new
chemical review program, EPA will
continue to implement its voluntary High
Production Volume (HPV) Chemicals
Program, which challenges industry to
develop chemical hazard data on existing
chemicals that it chooses to "sponsor." This
will enable EPA and the public to screen
many chemicals already in commerce for
risks they may be posing.
Complementing HPV is the Voluntary
Children's Chemical Evaluation Program
(VCCEP), a high-priority screening program
targeting existing chemicals believed to
have particular impact on children's health.
Inventory Update Reporting Data, due for
submission in 2006, will provide the Agency
with valuable manufacturing, processing and
use information on many chemicals in
commerce. We will make special efforts to
assess the potential risks of newly developed
substitutes for a chemical category of
emerging concern: brominated flame
retardants. EPA is working to engage
stakeholders in a cooperative process to
evaluate the efficacy and potential risks of
developing flame retardants. In addition, the
Agency will continue to evaluate and
implement pcrfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)
risk management actions as needed and will
continue developments of information
collection and chemical testing rules to
address the needs of the Agency and others.
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The lead program is developing a
comprehensive program for the management
of renovation, repair and painting activities
involving lead based paint hazards and will
continue to shift its focus from oversight and
rule development at the Headquarters level
to regional oversight of activities supported
through grant funding, such as state-
implemented lead-based paint training and
certification programs and efforts targeted to
high-risk areas, and on implementation of a
few of the highest priority regulatory and
outreach efforts. The Agency will continue
to work with the Maritime Administration
(MARAD) in order to dispose of its fleet of
obsolete ships containing equipment that
uses PCBs and will continue to work with
the U.S. Navy to develop a national
approval for the reefing of ships.
The Agency will continue Homeland
Security activities focused on identifying
and reviewing proposed pesticides for use
against pathogens of greatest concern for
crops, animals, and humans in advance of
their potential introduction, including testing
of antimicrobial products to determine
which are effective against human
pathogens. If the safety concerns are met,
and the product is effective (in the case of
antimicrobials), EPA can approve use of the
product. Close cooperation with other
Federal agencies and industry will continue
in order to carry out these activities which
directly respond to requirements in
Homeland Security Presidential Directives.
Additionally, EPA's Acute Exposure
Guideline Levels (AEGLs) program will
continue to develop proposed AEGL values.
The Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) program
provides the public with information on the
releases and other waste management of
toxic chemicals. Two laws, Section 313 of
the Emergency Planning and Community
Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA) and Section
6607 of the Pollution Prevention Act (PPA),
mandate that EPA annually collect
information on listed toxic chemicals from
certain industries and make the information
available to the public through various
means, including a publicly accessible
national database. EPCRA also allows EPA
to change reporting frequency by issuing a
regulation with a one-year prior notification
to Congress.
Water Programs
Protecting the Great Lakes
As the largest freshwater system on the face
of the earth (containing 20 percent of the
earth's surface water and 84 percent17 of the
surface water in the United States), the Great
Lakes ecosystem holds the key to the quality
of life and economic prosperity for tens of
millions of people. While significant
progress has been made to restore the
environmental health of the Great Lakes,
work remains.
In FY 2007, EPA will continue efforts to
protect and restore the Great lakes, and will
work with state, local, and Tribal partners
using the Great Lakes Regional
Collaboration's strategy as a guide. The
President's May 2004 Executive Order
established the Great Lakes Task Force to
coordinate the Federal effort to improve
water quality in the Great Lakes. EPA is
working with partners to restore the
chemical, physical, and biological integrity
of the Great Lakes ecosystem, by
implementing Clean Water Act core
17
Great Lakes National Program Office. Basic
Information. hUpV_/www.cDa.gov/glnpo/biisiuinfu.html
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programs and other actions including the
clean up and de-listing of Areas of Concern
(AOC), and a reduction in PCB
concentrations in lake trout and walleye.
Some of the key activities include
preventing and controlling invasive species,
cleaning up Areas of Concern through the
Great Lakes Legacy Act.
Core Clean Water Programs: While
the Great Lakes face a range of unique
pollution problems (e.g., extensive
sediment contamination) they also face
problems common to most other water
bodies around the country. Core clean
water programs must be fully and
effectively implemented throughout
the Great Lakes Basin. EPA will focus
on assuring that by 2008, 100 percent
of the major, permitted discharges to
the Lakes or major tributaries have
permits that reflect the most current
standards. In addition, EPA will focus
on assuring that 95 percent of permits
are consistent with the national
Combined Sewer Overflow Policy.
Great Lakes Legacy Act:
Restoration of contaminated sediments
around the Great Ixikes is a critical
step toward meeting water quality
goals. In FY 2007, EPA will expedite
work to address contaminated
sediment. EPA anticipates that FY
2007 funding will result in cleanup of
a half million cubic yards of
contaminated sediments.
Critical Ecosystem Issues: In FY
2007 EPA will lead the development
of management recommendations to
mitigate the underlying causes of the
annual occurrence of high rates of
oxygen depletion which lead to low
dissolved-oxygen levels in Lake Erie
in the so-called "dead zone." EPA will
also lead Canadian and U.S. Federal
agencies and the academic community
in exploring causes of the rapid decline
of the Diporeia population in the Great
Lakes. The dead zone occurrence and
the Diporeia decline are both problems
believed to be related to invasive
species.
Mexico Border Water Quality
The United States and Mexico have a long-
standing commitment to protect the
environment and public health in the U.S.-
Mexico Border Region. The U.S.-Mexico
Border 2012 Program, a joint effort between
the U.S. and Mexican governments, will
work with the 10 border states and with
border communities to improve the region's
environmental health using the Border 2012
Plan. Under this Plan, EPA expects to take
several key actions to improve water quality
and protect public health.
Core Program Implementation:
EPA will continue to implement core
programs under the Clean Water Act
(CWA) and related authorities, ranging
from discharge permit issuance, to
watershed restoration, to nonpoint
pollution control.
Wastewater Treatment Financing:
Federal, state, and local institutions
participate in border area efforts to
improve water quality through the
construction of infrastructure and
development of pretreatment
programs. Specifically, Mexico's
National Water Commission (CNA)
and EPA provide funding and
technical assistance for project
planning and construction. The
program has sufficient resources to
carry out currently approved projects
and provides $25 million to address
new needs in FY 2007.
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Build Partnerships: In FY 2007,
EPA will establish a workgroup with
Mexico to develop a workplan to
define specific steps needed to
accomplish the water quality
improvement goals expressed in the
Border 2012 Plan.
National Estuary Program (NEP)/CoastaI
Watersheds
The goal of this program is to restore the
physical, chemical, and biological integrity
of the Nation's estuaries and coastal
watersheds by protecting and enhancing
water quality and living resources.
In FY 2007, EPA will undertake various
efforts in support of coastal watershed
protection and restoration. In the area of
monitoring, we will continue to work with
our Federal and state partners on the
National Coastal Condition Report, the only
statistically-significant measure of U.S.
water quality on a nationwide basis. We
will also support estuarine monitoring
efforts using such tools as the Ocean Survey
Vessel Bold, EPA's research vessel. EPA
will also support coastal watersheds to
enhance their efforts to address threats to the
health of estuaries and coastal waters
through various means, including providing
technical assistance on financing estuary and
coastal protection projects, developing and
disseminating tools and resources for
localities on planning for growth, and
continuing to play a lead role in the five-
year reassessment of the Action Plan for
Reducing, Mitigating, and Controlling
Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.
The NEP is EPA's flagship watershed
protection effort. The NEP provides
inclusive, community-based planning and
action at the watershed level and has an
established record of improvements to
ecosystem conditions.
A top priority in FY 2007 is to continue
supporting the efforts to implement
Comprehensive Conservation and
Management Plans in all 28 NEP estuaries.
EPA created a baseline to track priority
actions in 2004 and now tracks
implementation of actions.
The health of the nation's estuarine
ecosystems also depends on the maintenance
of high-quality habitat. Diminished and
degraded habitats are less able to support
healthy populations of wildlife and marine
organisms and perform the economic,
environmental, and aesthetic functions on
which coastal populations depend for their
livelihood. A key success has been the
restoration of over 500,000 acres of habitat
over the past decade. For 2007, EPA has set
a goal of protecting or restoring an
additional 75,000 acres of habitat within the
28 study areas. Finally, EPA will work with
NEPs in FY 2007 to provide more focused
support for several priority areas, including
invasive species, nutrient over-enrichment,
and coastal growth.
Wetlands Protection
Wetlands are among our Nation's most
critical and productive natural resources.
They provide a variety of benefits, such as
water quality improvements, flood
protection, shoreline erosion control, and
ground water exchange. Wetlands are the
primary habitat for fish, waterfowl, and
wildlife, and as such, provide numerous
opportunities for education, recreation, and
research. EPA recognizes that the
challenges the nation faces to conserve our
wetland heritage are daunting and that many
partners must work together for this effort to
succeed. EPA's strategy for meeting
wetland goals in FY 2007 is described
below.
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Net Gain Goal: Meeting the
President's goal of restoring,
protecting, or creating 3 million
wetland acres primarily will be
accomplished by other Federal
programs (Farm Bill, agriculture
incentive programs, and wetlands
acquisition and restoration programs,
including those administered by Fish
and Wildlife Service) and non-Federal
programs. EPA supports the goal
through EPA's regulatory programs,
including the CWA Section 404/401
permit review, compliance and
enforcement, and other programs.
EPA will also support states, Tribes,
and others to protect and restore
wetlands and build capacity to increase
wetland functionality. In
implementing these responsibilities,
each Region will identify watersheds
where wetlands and other aquatic
resources are most at risk, including
from cumulative impacts. EPA will
improve levels of protection by
integrating wetlands protection into
other EPA programs such as Section
319, State Revolving Fund, NEP;
working with the COE and/or states on
permitting and mitigation compliance;
providing grants and technical
assistance to state, Tribal or local
organizations; and developing
information, education and outreach
tools.
Building upon the analysis of existing
mitigation data base systems, the COE,
EPA, USDA, DOI, and NOAA is in
the process of establishing a shared
mitigation database. Utili/ing the
shared database, the Agencies will
provide an annual public report card
on compensatory mitigation to
complement reporting of other
wetlands programs. The COE has
initiated six new performance
measures designed to improve
permitting and mitigation compliance,
including compliance inspections and
audits, and resolution of enforcement
actions.
EPA will work with the COE to ensure
application of the 404(b)(l) guidelines,
which require that discharges into waters of
the U.S. be avoided and minimized to the
extent practicable. Each Region will also
identify opportunities to partner with the
COE in meeting performance measures for
compensatory mitigation for unavoidable
impacts. The Agency is also working
closely v'h the COE to develop and
implement wetlands and barrier island
restoration projects along the Gulf Coast to
help ensure an improved level of protection
from hurricanes.
Chesapeake Bay Protection and
Restoration
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in
the United States and a water resource of
tremendous ecological and economic
importance. For over twenty years, efforts
to protect and restore the Bay have been led
by the Chesapeake Bay Executive
CouncilBay area governors, the mayor of
the District of Columbia; the EPA
Administrator, and the chair of the
Chesapeake Bay Commission, a tri-state
legislative body. This unique regional
partnership has defined environmental
improvements needed in the Bay and
developed a strategy that blends regulatory
and voluntary processes.
While there are a number of measures used
by the Chesapeake Bay Program, a key
measure of success, which integrates both
water quality and essential aquatic habitat, is
the restoration of submerged aquatic
vegetation (SAV). An additional measure of
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environmental improvement in the Bay is
the reduction in nitrogen, phosphorus, and
sediment entering the bay.
To achieve improved water quality needed
to restore submerged aquatic vegetation, the
Chesapeake Bay Program partners
committed to reducing nutrient and sediment
pollution loads sufficiently to remove the
Bay and the tidal portions of its tributaries
from the list of impaired waters by 2010.
Key elements of state strategies to achieve
these reductions include: the implementation
of advanced treatment of wastewater to
reduce nutrient discharges, the use of a
range of management practices to reduce
nutrients and sediments from farms, and the
restoration and protection of riparian forests
that serve as a buffer against sediment and
nutrient pollution that enters waterways
from the land.
The targets in EPA's plan for nutrient and
sediment reductions are scientifically based
and also reflect a multi-state consensus. The
Program plans to conduct a full re-
evaluation in 2007. In the meantime, the
Program continues to pursue program
strategies to accelerate nutrient-sediment
reduction, including state adoption of
enforceable bay-specific water quality
standards, an innovative new basin-wide
NPDES permitting strategy for nitrogen and
phosphorus, and development of a strategy
to address excess animal manure and poultry
litter for Chesapeake Executive Council
endorsement in 2005. Attention is also
being given to financing issues.
Protecting and Restoring the Gulf of
Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico basin has been called
"America's Watershed." Its U.S. coastline is
1,630 miles long; thirty-three major rivers
feed into it; and, drainage from 31 states in
addition to a similar drainage area from
Mexico flow into it. One sixth of the U.S.
population now lives in Gulf Coast states.
For FY 2007, EPA has worked with states
and other partners to define key activities to
support attainment of environmental and
health goals. These activities fall into three
categories:
Core Clean Water Programs: The
Clean Water Act provides authority
and resources that are essential to
protecting water quality in the Gulf of
Mexico and in the larger Mississippi
River Basin that contributes pollution,
especially oxygen demanding
nutrients, to the Gulf. EPA will work
with states to assure effective
implementation of core clean water
programs, including discharge permits,
nonpoint pollution controls,
wastewater treatment, and protection
of wetlands.
Protecting and Restoring the Gulf of
Mexico: A central pillar of the
strategy to restore the health of the
Gulf is restoration of water quality and
habitat in 12 priority coastal
watersheds. These 12 watersheds
include 354 of the impaired segments
identified by states around the Gulf
and will receive targeted technical and
financial assistance to restore impaired
waters. The 2008 goal is to fully
attain water quality standards in at
least 20 percent of these segments.
Reducing the Size of the Hypoxic
Zone: Any strategy to improve the
overall health of the entire Gulf of
Mexico must include a focused effort
to reduce the size of the zone of
hypoxic conditions (i.e. low oxygen in
the water) in the northern Gulf.
Aclions to address this problem will
need to focus on both controlling
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localized addition of pollution to the
Gulf and on controlling the loadings of
nutrients from the Mississippi River.
9 In working to accomplish this goal,
EPA and other Federal agencies will
continue implementation of core clean
water programs and partnerships
among agencies. Specific efforts in
FY 2007 will include:
Work with states to select a project
watershed in each of the states in the
Lower Mississippi River Basin to
reduce nitrogen loadings to the lower
Mississippi River;
Work with states and other partners to
identify "100 Highest Opportunity
Watersheds" where nitrogen reduction
strategies will be implemented;
Implement the "Friends of the Gulf
award program to recognize
corporations, organizations, or
individuals that have taken effective,
voluntary measures to reduce nutrient
inputs; and
Work with the private sector to support
Industry Led Solutions for reducing
both point and nonpoint sources.
Multidisciplinary Programs
Children's Health
EPA's Children's Health program reduces
risks to children from a range of
environmental hazards. The Agency builds
partnerships and effective working
relationships with other Federal agencies,
health care providers, and international
organizations to incorporate children's
environmental health concerns into their
programs and activities. In addition, work is
underway to reduce exposure of older adults
to environmental hazards. Efforts focus on
building capacity, providing tools and
information for better decision-making, and
engaging in outreach activities.
Solid Waste and Emergency Response
To reduce or eliminate the potential risks
associated with chemical releases, EPA must
first identify and understand potential
chemical risks and releases. EPA will use
information generated by the Risk
Management Program (RMP), Emergency
Planning and Community Right-to-Know
Act (EPCRA), and the Spill Prevention
Control and Countermeasure (SPCC)
program to supplement data on potential
chemical risks and to develop voluntary
initiatives and activities to reduce risk at
high-risk facilities, priority industry sectors,
and/or specific geographic areas.
To meet its objective of protecting human
health, communities, and ecosystems from
chemical releases through facility risk
reduction efforts and building community
infrastructures, EPA, working with state and
local implementing agencies, intends to
complete 400 RMP audits in FY 2007. EPA
will also continue to work to transition the
RMP submission system to allow complete
Internet-based risk management plan
submission.
Information collected from the local
emergency planning committees (LEPCs)
indicating how they have incorporated
appropriate facility risk information into
their emergency preparedness and
community right-to-know programs will
serve as a baseline from which EPA will
track progress toward this strategic goal in
later years. EPA will also continue an
initiative to improve and enhance
emergency preparedness and prevention in
Tribal communities.
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Brownfields
Economic changes over several decades
have left thousands of communities with
these contaminated properties and
abandoned sites. Working with its state,
Tribal, and local partners to meet its
objective to sustain, cleanup, and restore
communities and the ecological systems that
support them, together with extension of the
Brownfields tax credit, EPA intends to
achieve the following results in FY 2007:
Assess 1,000 Brownfields properties
8 Clean up 60 properties using
Brownfields funding
Leverage $900 million in
cleanup/redevelopment funding
Train 200 participants, placing 65
percent in jobs
Smart Growth
The Smart Growth program achieves
measurably improved environmental and
economic outcomes by working with states,
communities, industry leaders, and nonprofit
organizations to minimize the environmental
impacts of development. EPA provides
tools, technical assistance, education,
research, and environmental data to help
states and communities grow in ways that
minimize environmental and health impacts
and evaluate environmental consequences of
various development patterns. EPA's Smart
Growth activities and tools show community
and government leaders how they can meet
environmental standards through innovative
community design, and identify and research
new policy initiatives to improve
environmental quality by supporting
environmentally friendly development
patterns. In FY 07, EPA plans to build upon
its work in Smart Growth outreach and
direct implementation assistance.
EPA will also continue to coordinate smart
growth work with EPA's Brownfield
program to reuse and revitalize vacant and
abandoned properties. EPA plans to
continue developing incentives for
brownfield redevelopment, provide direct
assistance to communities working on
brownfields, and maintain our education and
outreach on innovative methods for
brownfield redevelopment.
Community Action for a Renewed
Environment
EPA supports community-based, multi-
media approaches to the reductions of toxics
through the Community Action to Renew
the Environment (CARE) program. This
program fills a gap in our national programs
which provide a broad level of basic health
and environmental protection but which do
not always sufficiently meet the needs of all
communities, especially those which are
overburdened by toxic pollutants. CARE
works to reduce those risks through cost-
effective, tailored and immediate actions.
Grants will be awarded to provide funding
for communities to organize and assess the
risks in their community and to take action
to reduce those risks. The program also
provides multi-media risk reduction and risk
assessment tools, models to assist
communities in identifying, prioritizing and
reducing risks. This program will result in
measurable results in the reduction of
exposures to toxic pollutants including toxic
chemicals, lead, pesticides and particulates,
as well as a reduction in exposure to asthma
triggers.
Enforcement and Compliance
EPA's continued enforcement efforts will be
strengthened through the development of
measures to assess the impact of
enforcement activities, and assist in
targeting areas that pose the greatest risks to
human health or the environment, display
patterns of noncompliance, and include
disproportionately exposed populations.
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Environmental Justice
EPA's enforcement program supports
Environmental Justice efforts by focusing
enforcement actions and criminal
investigations on industries that have
repeatedly violated environmental laws in
minority and/or low-income areas. EPA's
environmental justice program will continue
education, outreach, and data availability
initiatives. The program provides a central
point for the Agency to address
environmental and human health concerns in
minority and/or low-income communities,
segments of the population that have been
disproportionately exposed to environmental
harms and risks. The program will continue
to manage the Agency's Environmental
Justice Community Small Grants program
which assists community-based
organizations working to develop solutions
to local environmental issues.
The Agency will continue to support the
National Environmental Justice Advisory
Council (NEJAC). The Council provides the
Agency with significant input from
interested stakeholders such as community-
based organizations, business and industry,
academic institutions, state, Tribal and local
governments, non-governmental
organizations and environmental groups.
The Agency will also continue to chair an
Interagency Working Group (IWG)
consisting of eleven departments and
agencies, as well as representatives of
various White House offices, to ensure that
environmental justice concerns are
incorporated into all Federal programs.
International Affairs: Many human health
and environmental risks to the American
public originate outside our borders. Many
pollutants can travel easily across borders -
via rivers, air and ocean currents, and
migrating wildlife. Even in the remote
Arctic,, industrial chemicals such as
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been
found in the tissues of local wildlife.
Further, differences in public health
standards can contribute to global pollution.
A chemical of particular concern to one
country may not be controlled or regulated
in the same way by another. EPA employs a
range of strategies for achieving its goals.
These strategies include participation in
bilateral programs (U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-
Canada programs, and the Border
Environmental Cooperation Commission
(BECC)), cooperation with multinational
organizations like the Commission for
Environmental Cooperation, the World
Trade Organization and the World Health
Organization, and contribution to a set of
measurable end points that will show
reduction in pollutants of concern and that
will reduce exposure to our citizens along
the US borders, and the reduction of
pollutants at their origin thereby reducing
the level of pollutants in the global
atmosphere.
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 identification of the most important
sources of risk to human health and the
environment as well as the best means to
detect, abate, and avoid possible
environmental problems, and thereby guides
our priorities, policies, and deployment of
resources.
To enable the Agency to enhance science
and research for healthy people,
communities, and ecosystems, EPA will
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engage in high priority, multidisciplinary
research efforts in areas related to human
health, ecosystems, mercury, global change,
pesticides and toxics, endocrine disrupters,
computational toxicology and Homeland
Security. The Agency is also proposing an
investment in nanotechnology research, and
an investment to promote transparency of
and participation in EPA assessments (as
part of the IRIS process) in FY 2007.
In FY2007, the human health research
program will continue research efforts on
cumulative risks. Research will focus on
risk intervention and prevention strategies
that ultimately reduce human risk associated
with exposures to single and multiple
environmental stressors, including reducing
chemical exposure in schools. Also, the
Agency's human health risk assessment
research program will complete 16 human
health assessments of high priority
chemicals for interagency review or external
peer review, and deliver final air quality
criteria documents for lead, which will serve
as the basis for the EPA staff paper
supporting the National Ambient Air
Quality Standards (NAAQS).
In order to balance the growth of human
activity with the need to protect the
environment, it is important to understand
the current condition of ecosystems, what
stressors are changing that condition, what
the effects are of those changes, and what
can be done to prevent, mitigate, or adapt to
those changes. To meet these objectives, the
Agency's ecosystems research will continue
to develop approaches to identify and test
the linkages between probability-based and
targeted water quality monitoring programs,
landscape characteristics, and the probability
of water body impairment. The Agency will
continue to develop monitoring methods and
decision support systems to improve its
ability to identify probable causes of
ecological impairment in streams. Diagnosis
and forecasting models previously
developed will be applied to provide a better
scientific basis for ecosystem protection and
restoration.
With the completion of critical research
efforts in FY2006 in areas such as the
development of tools and approaches for the
prioritization of endocrine disrupter
screening and testing needs, the
computational toxicology research program
is positioned to expand efforts in FY 2007 to
focus on four key areas: information
technology, chemical prioritization and
categorization tools, system biology models,
and cumulative risk assessment. In the
pesticides and toxics research program,
research r1 -signed to provide updated tools
for asbestos risk assessments will be
completed in 2007.
In FY 2007, an increased investment in
nanotechnology research will accelerate
efforts to generate the underlying science
needed to better understand and predict the
potential implications of nanoparticle
releases to the environment and their fate,
transport, and potential effects on human
health and ecosystems. Nanotechnology
research will also identify how nano-scale
science can be responsibly used for
beneficial environmental applications, such
as improved sensors and new control and
remediation technologies.
In addition, resources in FY 2007 supporting
health risk assessments will elevate and help
to ensure acceptance of Agency assessments
through identification and airing of scientific
issues at an early stage in assessment
development, improve transparency in how
issues are resolved, and enhance the quality,
objectivity, utility, and integrity of health
assessments that result from advice and
review from the National Academy of
Sciences.
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Recognizing that environmental policy and
regulatory decisions will only be as good as
the science upon which they are based, EPA
makes every effort to ensure that its science
is of the highest quality and relevance,
thereby providing the basis for sound
environmental results. EPA uses the
Research and Development (R&D)
Investment Criteria of quality, relevance,
and performance in its decision-making
processes through the use of research
strategies and plans, program review and
evaluation by the Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC) and the Science
Advisory Board (SAB), and peer review.
In 2005, the BOSC evaluated the endocrine
disrupters, human health, and ecological
research programs to assess the quality and
relevance of the research and the programs'
historical performance. The endocrine
disrupters subcommittee concluded that the
program's goals and scientific questions are
appropriate and represent an understandable
and solid framework for setting research
priorities. The human health subcommittee
concluded that the program's research is of
high quality and appropriately focused. In
addition, the ecological subcommittee stated
that the potential benefits of the program to
the public are evident and clearly
articulated. The subcommittees also
reviewed each program's external research,
which is usually conducted through
FY 2005 PARTs
The following programs were assessed by
OMB's Program Assessment Rating Tool
(PART) for the FY 2005 PART process:
9 Lead Risk Reduction
* Human Health Research
competitive, peer-reviewed grants under the
Agency's Science to Achieve Results
(STAR) program.
Research is guided by a number of research
strategies and plans, which are developed in
concert with internal and external partners.
Strategies arc tailored to specific research
needs and priorities. The Agency maintains
multi-year research plans (MYP) that outline
steps for meeting those strategic research
needs and annual performance goals and
measures for evaluating progress.
Three major research programs in this Goal
have undergone OMB's PART evaluation
through FY 2005. They include endocrine
disruptors research, ecosystems protection
research and human health research.
Climate change research is tentatively
scheduled for PART review in FY 2006.
Lastly, workforce planning is essential to
sustaining a viable and credible research
program. The Agency approaches its
research program workforce planning in a
manner consistent with its human capital
strategy. Key elements of this strategy
include working to develop and implement a
holistic approach to recruitment, preserving
a diverse workforce that reflects a wide
spectrum of viewpoints, and retaining
existing talent.
* Ecological Research (re-PART)
* Human Health Research
Oceans and Coastal Programs
More detailed information is provided in
specific program project descriptions.
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Compliance and Environmental Stewardship
Improve environmental performance through compliance with environmental requirements,
preventing pollution, and promoting environmental stewardship. Protect human health and
the environment by encouraging innovation and providing incentives for governments,
businesses, and the public that promote environmental stewardship.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:
By 2008, maximize compliance to
protect human health and the environment
through compliance assistance, compliance
incentives, and enforcement by achieving a
5 percent increase in the pounds of pollution
reduced, treated, or eliminated, and
achieving a 5 percent increase in the number
of regulated entities making improvements
in environmental management practices.
(Baseline established in 2006.)
9 By 2008, improve environmental
protection and enhance natural resource
conservation on the part of government,
business, and the public through the
adoption of pollution prevention and
sustainable practices that include the design
of products and manufacturing processes
that generate less pollution, the reduction of
regulatory barriers, and the adoption of
results-based, innovative, and multimedia
approaches.
Through 2008, assist all federally
recognized tribes in assessing the condition
of their environment, help in building their
capacity to implement environmental
programs where needed to improve tribal
health and environments, and implement
programs in Indian country where needed to
address environmental issues.
* Through 2008, strengthen the scientific
evidence and research supporting
environmental policies and decisions on
compliance, pollution prevention, and
environmental stewardship.
GOAL, OBJECTIVE SUMMARY
Budget Authority / Obligations
Full-time Equivalents
(Dollars in Thousands)
Compliance and Environmental
Stewardship
Improve Compliance
Improve Environmental Performance
through Pollution Prevention and
Innovation
Build Tribal Capacity
Enhance Science and Research
FY 2005
Obligations
$773,201.2
$470,414.5
$121,112.5
$88,989.5
$92,684.7
FY 2006
Enacted
$742,815.3
$485,146.6
$120,975.7
$73,551.6
$63,141.4
FY 2007
Pres Bud
$733,539.6
$491,033.4
$112,735.3
$74,630.5
$55,140.4
FY 2007 Pres Bud v.
FY 2006 Enacted
($9,275.7)
$5,886.8
($8,240.4)
$1,078.9
($8,001.0)
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Total Authorized Workyears
FY 2005
Obligations
3,464.0
FY 2006
Enacted
3,495.3
FY 2007
Pres Bud
3,480.5
FY 2007 Pres Bud v.
FY 2006 Enacted
-14.8
In FY 2007, the Environmental Protection
Agency will work to improve the nation's
environmental protection practices, and to
enhance natural resource conservation on
the part of government, business, and the
public. To accomplish these goals, the
Agency will employ a mixture of effective
inspection, enforcement and compliance
assistance strategies; provide leadership and
support for pollution prevention and
sustainable practices; reduce regulatory
barriers; and refine and apply results-based,
innovative, and multimedia approaches to
environmental stewardship and safeguarding
human health.
In order to be effective, the EPA requires a
strong enforcement and compliance
program, one which identifies and reduces
noncompliance problems; assists the
regulated community in understanding
environmental laws and regulations;
responds to complaints from the public;
Improving Compliance with
Environmental Laws
Critical to the success of EPA's mission is a
strong commitment to ensuring compliance
with environmental laws and policies.
Working in partnership with state and Tribal
governments, local communities and other
Federal agencies, in FY 2007 EPA will
identify and address significant
environmental and public health problems,
strategically deploy its resources, and make
use of integrated approaches to reduce
noncompliance and achieve strong
environmental protection outcomes.
In order to meet the Agency's goals, its
"smart enforcement" strategy employs an
integrated, common-sense approach to
strives to secure a level economic playing
field for law-abiding companies; and deters
future violations. In FY 2007, the
enforcement program will also carry out
actions outlined in the Domenici-Barton
Energy Policy Act of 2005, providing
compliance assistance to owners and
operators of Underground Storage Tanks.
The EPA will protect human health and the
environment by increasing compliance with
existing laws and regulations. Innovation
and environmental stewardship will be
encouraged. In addition, EPA will assist
Federally recognized Tribes in assessing
environmental conditions in Indian Country,
and will help build their capacity to
implement environmental programs. EPA
will also strengthen the scientific evidence
and research supporting environmental
policies and decisions on compliance,
pollution prevention, and environmental
stewardship
problem-solving and decision-making. An
appropriate mix of data collection and
analysis; compliance monitoring, assistance
and incentives; civil and criminal
enforcement resources; and innovative
problem-solving approaches are used to
address significant environmental issues and
achieve environmentally beneficial
outcomes.
This approach also requires that the Agency
develop and maintain strong and flexible
partnerships with regulated entities and a
well-informed public, in order to foster a
climate of empowerment and shared
responsibility for the quality of our nation's
land, resources and communities. Thus the
Agency can carefully target its enforcement
and compliance assurance resources,
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personnel and activities to address the most
significant risks to human health and the
environment, and to ensure that certain
populations do not bear a disproportionate
environmental burden.
EPA's continued enforcement efforts will be
strengthened through the development of
meaningful measures to assess the impact of
enforcement and compliance activities;
assist in targeting areas that pose the greatest
risks to human health or the environment;
display patterns of noncompliance; or
include disproportionately exposed
populations. Further, EPA cooperates with
states and the international community to
enforce and ensure compliance with cross-
border environmental regulations, and to
help build their capacity to design and
implement effective environmental
regulatory, enforcement and Environmental
Impact Assessment programs.
Compliance Assistance and Incentives:
The Agency's Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance Program uses compliance
assistance and incentive tools to encourage
compliance with regulatory requirements,
and to reduce adverse public health and
environmental problems. To achieve
compliance, the regulated community must
first understand its obligations, and then
learn how to best comply with regulatory
obligations. Throughout FY 2007, EPA will
support the regulated universe by working to
assure that requirements are clearly
understood. EPA also enables other
assistance providers (e.g., states,
universities) to provide compliance
information to the regulated community.
Compliance Monitoring: The Agency
reviews and evaluates the activities of the
regulated community to determine
compliance with applicable laws,
regulations, permit conditions and
settlement agreements, and to determine
whether conditions presenting imminent and
substantial endangerment exist. The
majority of work years devoted to
compliance monitoring are provided to the
Agency's Regional offices to conduct
investigations and on-site inspections, and
perform monitoring, sampling and emissions
testing. FY 2007 Compliance Monitoring
activities will be both environmental media-
and sector-based. The traditional media-
based inspections complement those
performed by states and Tribes, and are a
key part of our strategy for meeting the
long-term and annual goals established for
the air, water, pesticides, toxic substances,
and hazardous waste environmental goals
included in the EPA Strategic Plan. The
National Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance Program will utilize statistically
valid noncompliance information to select
and evaluate National Priorities.
Enforcement: The Enforcement Program
addresses violations of environmental laws,
to ensure that violators come into
compliance with Federal laws and
regulations. In FY 2007, the program will
work to achieve the Agency's environmental
goals through consistent, fair and focused
enforcement of all environmental statutes.
The overarching goal of the Enforcement
program is to protect human health and the
environment, targeting its actions according
to degree of health and environmental risk.
Further, it aims to level the economic
playing field by ensuring that violators do
not realize an economic benefit from non-
compliance, and also seeks to deter future
violations; one way the enforcement
program carries this out is by working with
the Department of Justice (DOJ) on
enforcement of all environmental laws and
regulations. In FY 2007, EPA will continue
to implement its National Compliance and
Enforcement Priorities, which address the
most widespread types of violations that also
pose the most substantive health and
environmental risks. The National
Compliance and Enforcement Priority list
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will use the statistically valid
noncompliance information developed by
Compliance Monitoring. Also in FY 2007,
the enforcement program will also carry out
actions outlined in the Domenici-Barton
Energy Policy Act of 2005, providing
compliance assistance to owners and
operators of Underground Storage Tanks.
Auditing and Evaluation Tools:
Maximum compliance requires the active
efforts of the regulated community to police
itself. Evaluation of self-reporting will occur
in order to understand the effectiveness and
accuracy of such self-reporting. Throughout
Partnering: State, Tribal and local
governments bear much of the responsibility
for ensuring compliance, and EPA works in
partnership with them and other Federal
agencies to promote environmental
protection. EPA also develops and
maintains productive partnerships with other
nations to enable and enforce compliance
with U.S. environmental standards and
regulations.
Improving Environmental Performance
through Pollution Prevention
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A Decade of Pollution Prevention Results, 1990-
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167 Billion Pounds of
Pollution Prevented by
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Resources Conserved
215 million kWh of energy
9 4.1 billions gallons of water
$666 million in cost savings
Source: National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, January 2003 report on achievement of slate and local P2
FY 2007, EPA will continue to investigate
options for encouraging self-directed audits
and disclosures. We will also continue to
measure and evaluate the effectiveness of
Agency programs in improving compliance
rates and provide information and
compliance assistance to the regulated
community. Further, the Agency will
maintain its focus on evaluating the
effectiveness of the innovative approaches
developed through better communication,
fostering partnerships and cooperation, and
the application of new technologies.
Through pollution prevention integration,
EPA will work to bring about a
performance-oriented regulatory system that
develops innovative, flexible strategies to
achieve measurable results; promotes
environmental stewardship in all parts of
society; supports sustainable development
and pollution prevention; and fosters a
culture of creative environmental problem
solving.
Partnering with Businesses and
Consumers: In 2007, through the Pollution
Prevention (P2) program, EPA will continue
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to encourage, empower, and assist
government and business to "green" the
nation's supply and demand structures to
make them more environmentally sound.
Through the Environmentally Preferable
Purchasing Program, the Agency will
provide enhanced guidance to the Federal
building community on model green
construction specifications and help Federal
agencies identify and procure those products
that generate the least pollution, consume
fewest non-renewable natural resources, and
constitute the least threat to human health
and to the environment. EPA's innovative
Green Suppliers Network Program works
with large manufacturers to increase energy
efficiency; identify cost-saving
opportunities; optimize resources and
technology through the development of
sound business approaches incorporating
pollution prevention; and to promote those
approaches among their numerous suppliers.
Partnering with Industry: EPA will
continue to reduce the amount of toxic
chemicals in use by encouraging the design
of alternative less toxic chemicals and
industry processes through its Green
Chemistry and Green Engineering
Programs. New emphasis will be placed on
the development of environmentally
preferable substitutes for emerging
chemicals of concern such as brominated
flame retardants, perfluorinated acids, and
chemicals which are persistent in the
environment, toxic, and capable of
accumulating in animal, fish, and human
tissue. In conjunction with the efforts of the
Green Chemistry and Green Engineering
Programs, the Design for the Environment
Program will continue collaborative
partnerships with industries to develop safer
products, processes and technologies.
Reducing Impacts in the Electronics
Lifecycle: EPA is focusing FY 2007 efforts
to address key environmental impacts in the
electronics lifecycle. End-of-life impacts of
used and obsolete electronics are part of an
increasing and complex waste stream that
poses enormous environmental management
problems. Almost 3 million tons of
consumer electronics entered the municipal
waste stream in 2003, up from 2 million in
2001. This includes personal computers,
TVs, other video and audio products,
telephones, fax machines, printers, and
modems. Electronic products contain
hazardous materials. Monitors, circuit
boards, batteries, and other electronic
components contain lead, mercury,
brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and
cadmium.
Pollution Prevention Grant Program:
Pollution Prevention Grants to states and
Tribes enable them to provide technical
assistance, education and outreach to assist
businesses and industries in identifying
strategies and solutions to reduce wastes and
pollution at the source. The importance of
tracking outcomes from P2 grants has been
reinforced by adding key P2 environmental
outcome targets to program guidance
reporting measures. The P2 grant
management system will be enhanced by the
incorporation of P2 metrics that capture
quantifiable environmental results within
individual work plans and sharing those
results regionally and nationally.
NEPA Federal Review: EPA fulfills its
uniquely Federal responsibilities under the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
by reviewing and commenting on other
Federal agency Environmental Impact
Statements (EISs). 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
negative impacts. The Enforcement and
Compliance Assistance Program maximizes
its use of NEPA review resources by
targeting its efforts toward potentially high-
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impact projects, thereby promoting
cooperation and innovation, and working
towards a more streamlined review process.
Environmental Information Exchange
Network: The Exchange Network Grant
Program provides funding to states,
territories, Tribes, and Tribal consortia to
help them develop the information
management and technology (IM/IT)
capabilities they need to participate in the
Environmental Information Exchange
Network (Exchange Network). In FY 2007,
EPA, states, Tribes, and territories will
continue to re-engineer data systems so that
information previously not available or not
easily available can be exchanged using
common data standards. By the end of 2007
all fifty states and approximately ten Tribes
will have established nodes on the Exchange
Network and will be mapping data for
sharing with partners and submission to
EPA.
Promoting Environmental Stewardship and
Innovation
In FY 2007, EPA will promote
environmental stewardship, an ethic that
goes beyond the minimum compliance with
environmental regulations. The Agency will
accomplish this through education, and by
providing incentives, tools and technical
assistance to states, tribes, communities and
businesses. EPA will accomplish its goals
using the next generation of voluntary
environmental protection strategies, which
emphasize results rather than process, and
promote business practices that are both
environmentally and economically
sustainable. EPA will work to achieve a
performance-oriented regulatory system that
allows flexible strategies to achieve
measurable results; environmental
stewardship that maintains sustainable
development and places pollution prevention
first; and a culture of creative environmental
problem solving that emphasizes
collaboration and results-driven work. EPA
will focus on five areas under its innovation
strategy:
Promote innovative environmental
leadership in business, one that uses
new ideas, creative partnerships, and
sound analysis to grow their business
and protect the environment;
Instill the ethics of environmental
stewardship and sustainability in
business practices;
Promote stronger facility-level
environmental management, including
Environmental Management Systems
(EMSs);
Improve overall environmental
performance within high-priority
business sectors; and
Improve program efficiency through
increased evaluation and measurement.
Innovation Grant Program: EPA will
expand the Innovation Grants program, to
encourage states and tribes to develop and
test innovative protection strategies, such as
permit streamlining and environmental
management systems. These grants promote
the use of innovative technologies for better
environmental results, and demonstrate
measurable efficiencies in environmental
management.
Performance Track: Performance Track is
one of EPA's most successful and fastest
growing voluntary programs. Successful
because it uses positive incentives to
recognize and reward private and public
facilities that demonstrate environmental
stewardship, and strong environmental
performance beyond current requirements.
In FY 2007, EPA will move to significantly
increase the number of facilities
participating in the program, with closer
coordination and involvement of states.
EPA will expand activities to recruit
facilities to participate in Performance Track
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and provide assistance to those facilities. In
FY 2007 Performance Track members will
collectively achieve an annual reduction of:
1.1 billion gallons in water use; 8.4 million
MMBTUs in energy use; 20,000 tons in
materials use; 360,000 tons of solid waste;
42,000 tons of air releases; and 10,000 tons
in water discharges.
Sector-based Stewardship: In FY 2007
EPA will continue to work with twelve
industrial business sectors: agribusiness,
cement manufacturing, construction, forest
products, iron and steel manufacturing, paint
and coatings, ports, shipbuilding, metal
finishing, die casting and meat processing.
EPA will work with national representatives
of these business sectors to set pollution
reduction goals, measure performance,
provide environmental protection tools and
technical assistance, remove barriers,
develop incentives, reduce unnecessary
regulatory burden and test innovative
strategies.
Small Business Ombudsman: EPA will
continue to support the Small Business
Ombudsman
who serves as
EPA's
gateway and
leading
advocate
for
small business
issues,
partnering
with state Small Business Assistance
Programs, and hundreds of small business
trade associations, to reach out to the small
business community. These partnerships
provide the information and perspective
EPA needs to help small businesses reduce
waste and materials use, and to achieve their
environmental goals. This is a
comprehensive program that provides
networks, resources, tools and forums for
education and advocacy on behalf of small
businesses.
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continues to take advantage of new
technology to establish direct links to the
U.S. Geological Service, Bureau of
Reclamation, Indian Health Service, and
other Federal agency data systems to further
the development of an integrated,
comprehensive, multi-agency Tribal
Program Enterprise Architecture. The
Agency continues to formalize interagency
data standards and protocols to ensure
quality information is collected and reported
consistently among the Federal agencies.
To this end, EPA has adopted Tribal
Identifier codes that will enable data systems
to identify Tribal sources of information. In
FY 2007, EPA will integrate two additional
existing Agency data systems within the
Tribal Program Enterprise Architecture and
encourage other agencies to adopt common
Tribal codes.
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 addition to assisting in the
building of Tribal environmental capacity,
another key role of the environmental
presence workforce in Indian Country is to
alert EPA of immediate public health and
ecological threats, so EPA can work with the
Tribe to respond quickly and effectively.
Pollution Prevention and Enforcement
Research
EPA has developed and evaluated tools and
technologies to monitor, prevent, control,
and clean up pollution throughout its
history. During the 1970s and 1980s, the
agency emphasized controlling or
remediating environmental dangers. Since
the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990, the
agency has increasingly focused on
preventative and sustainable approaches to
health and environmental problems.
Sustainable approaches require: (1)
innovative design and production-techniques
that minimize or eliminate environmental
liabilities; (2) integrated management of air,
water, and land resources; and (3) changes
in the traditional methods of creating and
distributing goods and services. EPA
remains committed to helping industry
achieve these ideals while at the same time
adopting more effective and efficient
practices, materials, and technologies.
EPA's pollution prevention work promotes
innovative new technology, assessing the
interaction of stressors threatening human
and environmental health, and developing
cost-effective responses to those stressors
(R&D Criteria: Relevance). In FY 2007,
research will continue to explore the
principles governing sustainable systems
and the integration of social, economic, and
environmental objectives in environmental
assessment and management. In a broader
context, the program will focus not just on
the industrial sectors, but on all decision-
makers in areas critical to environmental
stewardship (e.g., municipal sector and
ecosystems) such as testing the effectiveness
of a market-based incentive as a tool to
manage storm water run-off in urban
watersheds. Efforts within environmental
economics and decision science research are
designed to improve EPA's decision
making, cost-benefit analyses, and
implementation strategies (R&D Criteria:
Performance). Research will focus on
benefit transfer methods and better
understanding of and design for practical
trading programs. These two areas are high
priorities for EPA's program offices and
have broad applications to the Agency's
regulatory work.
Also in FY 2007, the innovative student
design competition award program known
as P3 (People, Prosperity, and Planet) will
support up to 50 student design projects
from around the country. This awards
program encourages technological
innovation in a wide range of activities. This
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competition promotes innovative thinking in
sustainable approaches toward research,
development and design of scientific and
technical solutions to environmental
problems. In FY 2006 several awards have
already moved from the design stage to
business plan and may soon be ready for
commercialization (R&D Criteria:
Relevance; Performance),
Recognizing that environmental policy and
regulatory decisions will only be as good as
the science upon which they are based, EPA
makes every effort to ensure that its science
is of the highest quality and relevance,
thereby, providing the basis for sound
environmental results. EPA uses the
Research and Development (R&D)
Investment Criteria of quality, relevance,
and performance in its decision-making
processes through a) the use of research
strategies and plans, b) peer review, and c)
program review and evaluation by the Board
of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) and the
Science Advisory Board (SAB). EPA's
Science Advisory Board (SAB), an
independently chartered Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA) committee,
annually conducts in-depth reviews and
analyses of EPA's Science and Technology
(S&T) account and other science activities.
The SAB provides its findings to the House
Science Committee of Congress and reports
them to EPA's Administrator.
Research is guided by research strategies
and plans, which are developed with
participation from our major clients (R&D
Criteria: Quality; Relevance). The strategy
outlines the research needs and priorities.
The Agency also maintains multi-year
research plans (MYP) that outline steps for
meeting strategic research needs, and annual
performance goals and measures for
evaluating progress. Taken together, these
mechanisms serve to ensure that EPA's
research and science remain relevant, of
high quality, and contribute to superior
environmental performance.
In order to sustain a viable and credible
workforce, the Agency approaches its
research programs' workforce planning in a
manner consistent with its human capital
strategy. Key elements of this strategy
include working to develop and implement a
holistic approach to recruitment, preserving
a diverse workforce that reflects a wide
spectrum of viewpoints, and retaining
existing talent.
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No programs within Goal 5 were
assessed by OMB's Program
Assessment Rating Tool (PART) in FY
2005.
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permitting programs' quality, efficiency, and
compliance.
Develop at least one efficiency measure that
adequately reflects program efficiency.
Develop policy and criteria for transitioning the
fine particulate matter (PM2.5) monitoring
program from Clean Air Act Section 103 grant
funding to Clean Air Act Section 105 grant
funding.
Review and update current grant allocation
processes to ensure resources are properly
targeted.
Develop program regulations that improve
oversight and accountability and reduce chances
for waste, fraud, and abuse.
Reduce program funding by $20 million until
there is greater confidence that the funds are
achieving the desired results.
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Conduct regional program reviews to share and
implement best practices among regional offices
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Improve grantee use of electronic reporting
systems to reduce data lags in performance
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Action taken, but not completed
2004
Clean Water State Revolving Fund
EPA will focus on improving the quality and
breadth of CWSRF performance data. In
particular, EPA needs to focus on collecting
data on minor systems, which receive a
significant proportion of CWSRF funding, and
waterborne disease.
Action taken, but not completed
2006
Drinking Water Research
Develop a performance measure which tracks
the efficiency with which the program delivers
its services to its primary client, the EPA Office
of Water.
No action taken
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Drinking Water Research
Develop baselines and targets for all long term
and annual performance measures. These will
allow the program to set quantitative goals and
assess progress through time.
Action taken, but not completed
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Improve oversight of non-grant partners and
require non-grant partners to work towards the
annual and long term goals of the program.
No action taken
2005
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
Develop a new long-term outcome performance
measure to assess the impact of drinking water
compliance improvements on public health.
Action taken, but not completed
2005
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
Implement recommendations from the second
triennial drinking water data quality review
which are designed to improve the overall
quality of the data in EPA's drinking water
compliance reporting system.
Action taken, but not completed
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compelling, merit -based justifications for
funding allocations.
By the end of CY 2006, develop baseline data
for an efficiency measure that compares
dollars/labor hours in validating chemical
assays.
Maintain funding at approximately the FY 2005
President's Budget level.
Remove statutory requirements that prevent
program from having more impact including
(but not limited to) barriers that; set maximum
emissions reduction targets, exempt certain
viable facilities from contributing, and limit the
scope of emission reduction credit trading. The
Administration's Clear Skies proposal
adequately addresses these and other statutory
impediments. Program should work as
appropriate to promote the enactment of the
Clear Skies legislation.
Program should develop efficiency measures to
track and improve overall program efficiency.
Measures should consider the full cost of the
program, not just the federal contribution.
EPA will complete an assessment and
comparison of the potential benefits and efforts
of the Clean Automotive Technology program
to other agency's efforts with similar goals by
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will work to develop better performance
measures that more clearly link to greenhouse
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Develop a program-specific customer survey to
improve the program's utility to the Agency.
Link budget resources to annual and long-term
performance targets by requesting and reporting
Human Health Research and Ecosystem
Research funding separately.
Refine the questions used in independent
scientific reviews to improve EPA's
understanding of program utility and
performance in relationship to environmental
outcomes.
Calculate and evaluate recidivism rates.
Continue to expand and improve use of
statistically valid non-compliance rates.
Develop meaningful baseline and targets for
outcome oriented performance measures, with
particular emphasis on pounds of pollutants
reduced characterized for risk.
Direct funds toward completion of the Permit
Compliance System (PCS)
EPA will consider contracting for an
independent evaluation of the program that can
serve as the basis for further improvements.
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and take into account recommendations by the
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and merging data bases from within the agency
to allow easier implementation and evaluation
of measures.
Developing baselines and targets to measure
recidivism.
Developing a baseline and targets for the
outcome measure, pounds of pollutants reduced,
that is characterized as to risk.
The administration is continuing its
recommendation to terminate the program at
EPA and rely on NSF programs to fulfill
scientific education initiatives.
Create outcome measures for AEGLs.
Develop a cost efficiency measure for
management of the Toxic Substances Control
Act 8(e) Hazard Notification process.
Develop a long-term outcome efficiency
measure.
Develop an efficiency measure for Acute
Exposure Guidance Levels
Maintain funding at the 2004 President's Budget
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Develop ambitious long-term performance
targets that clearly define what outcomes would
represent a successful program.
Action taken, but not completed
2006
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Improve ability to link budget resources to
annual and long-term performance targets by
requesting and reporting Human Health
research and Ecosystem research funding as
separate program-projects.
No action taken
2006
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Improve transparency by making State radon
grantee performance data available to the public
via a website or other easily accessible means.
No action taken
2006
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Link budget requests more explicitly to
accomplishment of performance goals,
specifically by stipulating how adjustments to
resource levels would impact performance.
No action taken
2006
EPA Indoor Air Quality
Use efficiency measures to demonstrate
improved efficiencies or cost effectiveness in
achieving program goals.
No action taken
2006
EPA Lead-Based Paint Risk
Reduction Program
Develop and implement a method of measuring
the impacts of the program's outreach and
education efforts.
Work will begin in 2006.
2006
EPA Lead-Based Paint Risk
Reduction Program
Improve the consistency of grantee and regional
office accountability mechanisms and develop a
system that ensures all relevant performance
data from grantees and the Regional offices is
being collected for the purposes of focusing
program actions.
Work will begin in 2006.
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Improve the linkage between program funding
and the associated contributions towards
progress in achieving program goals, especially
for program grant and contractor funding.
Develop an efficiency measure to target
improvements in the initial phases of EPA's
management of Pre-Manufacture Notices
(PMNs).
Establish targets and timeframes for its
measures, including efficiency measures.
Maintain funding at the 2004 President's Budget
level.
Propose appropriations language to change the
Toxic Substances Control Act to lift the cap on
fees that the Agency can coilcct for new
chemical reviews.
Develop a forum for sharing and implementing
best practices among regional offices that will
improve the program's overall performance and
efficiency.
Develop a second long-term outcome measure
and at least one annual outcome measure.
Develop stronger strategic planning procedures
to ensure continuous improvement in the
program, including regular procedures that will
track and document key decisions and work
products.
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used by the program to improve the accuracy
and reliability of performance information.
Develop targets and baselines.
Evaluate why cost effectiveness appears
inversely proportional to amount of Federal
funding.
Work to develop appropriate outcome
performance measures.
Conduct one evaluation on an aspect of the
program to identify areas and means for
program improvements.
Work with other Federal agencies to support
attainment of long-term environmental and
human health goals.
EPA will develop ambitious performance
targets for its annual and efficiency measures.
EPA will improve the program's accountability.
Improving data quality both in terms of scope
and reliability to assist in setting meaningful
targets for program improvement.
Work to increase the implementation and
delegation of environmental programs on Indian
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2006
EPA's Recycling, Waste
Minimization, and Waste
Management Program
Continuously improving the program fay
identifying where compliance costs are
excessive and reducing the cost of compliance
where appropriate (i.e. RCRA manifest rule).
Action taken, but not completed
2006
EPA's Recycling. Waste
Minimization, and Waste
Management Program
Develop an efficiency measure for the waste
minimization component of the RCRA base
program.
Action taken, but not completed
2006
EPA's Recycling, Waste
Minimization, and Waste
Management Program
Develop a new regulatory definition of solid
waste that satisfies the judicial requirements
while ensuring that costs are not inappropriately
shifted to the Superfund or other corrective
action programs by narrowing the exclusion of
previously regulated substances.
Action taken, but not completed
2006
Leaking Underground Storage Tank
Cleanup Program
In response to initial findings that the program
needed better long-term outcome goals with
adequate baselines and targets, the program has
been participating in an Office of Pesticide
Completed
2006
Leaking Underground Storage Tank
Cleanup Program
Programs initiative on performance indicators.
The program has proposed new measures for
this reassessment.
Action taken, but not completed
2006
Leaking Underground Storage Tank
Cleanup Program
Seek out regular independent evaluations and a
systematic process to review the program's
strategic planning.
Completed
2005
Mobile Source Air Pollution
Standards and Certification
Begin collecting data to support two new
efficiency measures - one long and one short-
term - to enable the program to measure further
efficiency improvements.
Action taken, but not completed
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Mobile Source Air Pollution
Standards and Certification
Request $66 million for EPA's mobile source
programs, $1.5 million more than the 2005
President's Budget request.
Completed
2005
Mobile Source Air Pollution
Standards and Certification
Systematically review existing regulations to
maintain consistency and ensure that regulations
maximize net benefits. Conduct thorough ex
ante economic analyses and evaluations of
alternatives in support of regulatory
development.
Action taken, but not completed
2006
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards and Regional Haze
Programs
Develop at least one efficiency measure that
adequately reflects program efficiency.
Work will begin in 2006.
2006
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards and Regional Haze
Programs
Implement improvements within current
statutory limitations that address deficiencies in
design and implementation and identify and
evaluate needed improvements that are beyond
current statutory authority.
Work will begin in 2006.
2006
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards and Regional Haze
Programs
Improve the linkage between program funding
and the associated contributions towards
progress in achieving program goals.
Work will begin in 2006.
2006
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards Research
Develop an annual measure that more directly
demonstrates progress on toward the long-term
goal of reducing uncertainty in identified
research areas of high priority.
Work will begin in 2006.
2006
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards Research
Develop and implement adequate methods for
determining progress on the program's two new
long-term measures (uncertainty and source-to-
health linkage measures) as well as for the new
annual measure (customer survey measure).
Work will begin in 2006.
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Nonpoint Source Pollution Control
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Ocean, Coastal, and Estuary
Protection
Ocean, Coastal, and Estuary
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data tracking systems and procedures to better
and more transparently integrate grantee and
program performance with financial
information.
The program must develop at least one
efficiency measure that adequately reflects the
efficiency of the program.
EPA will consider contracting for an
independent evaluation of the program that can
serve as the basis for further improvements.
To continue to improve this program and meet
its long-term goals, EPA will focus on ensuring
its funds are used for the most beneficial
projects.
Develop an additional performance measure for
non-estuary program activities.
Develop an annual performance measure for the
Ocean Dumping Program.
Developing more ambitious targets for the
National Estuary Program's annual and long
term measures on habitat acres protected and
restored.
Develop and implement a method of compiling
and disseminating Field Programs grantee
performance data in a manner easily accessible
to the public.
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Work will begin in 2006.
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Develop and implement annual goals and
efficiency measures and continue development
of baselines and targets for long-term outcome
measures for all Field Programs.
Make the Field Programs budgeting more
transparent and more clearly link to adequate
and relevant program-specific measures.
The Administration recommends maintaining
funding at the 2004 President's Budget level
adjusted for the annual pay increase.
The program will also work on long-term
outcome efficiency measures.
The program will develop long-term risk-based
outcome performance measures that will
supplement the existing long-term measures.
Per the Agency targets develop and finalize
appropriate regional performance targets.
Address the issue; priorities among goals and
activities; human and capital resources
anticipated; and intended program outcomes
against which success may later be assessed.
Establish performance measures, including
efficiency measures.
Institute a plan for regular, external reviews of
the quality of the program's research and
research performers, including a plan to use the
results from these reviews to guide future
program decisions.
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Actuals
Impaired Gulf coastal river and estuary 137
segments implementing watershed restoration
actions (incremental).
Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic
systems so that overall aquatic system health of
coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico is
improved
Reduce releases of nutrients throughout the
Mississippi River Basin to reduce the size of the
hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico, as
measured by the five year running average
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Baseline: There are 95 coastal watersheds at the 8-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC) scale on the Gulf coast. The Gulf of Mexico
Program has identified 12 priority coastal areas for assistance. These 12 areas include 30 of the 95 coastal watersheds.
Within the 30 priority watersheds, the Gulf States have identified 354 segments that are impaired and not meeting full
designated uses under the States' water quality standards. 71 or 20% is the target proposed to reinforce Gulf State
efforts to implement 5-year basin rotation schedules. The target of 71 is divided by 5 to achieve the goal for assistance
provided in at least 14 impaired segments each year for the next 5 years. The 1996-2000 running average size = 14,128
km2. In 2002, the Gulf of Mexico rating of fair/poor was 1.9 where the rating is based on a 5-point system in which 1
is poor and 5 is good and is expressed as an aerially weighted mean of regional scores using the National Coastal
Condition Report indicators.
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Great Lakes Implementation Actions
In 2007 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic systems so that overall ecosystem health of the Great Lakes is improved.
In 2006 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic systems so that overall ecosystem health of the Great Lakes is improved.
In 2005 Reduced by 5% average concentrations of PCBs in whole lake trout and walleye samples.
In 2004 The reduction in the phosphorus concentration in Lake Erie was not met; the problem continues to be studied in
conjunction with the Canadian government.
In 2003 Phosphorus concentrations were exceeded.
In 2002 By removing or containing contaminated sediments, 100,000-200,000 pounds of persistent toxics which could
adversely affect human health will no longer be biologically available through the food chain. This contributes to
decreasing fish contaminants and advances the goal of removing fish advisories
Performance Measures FY2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 FY2005 FY2006 FY2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres
Bud
Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic 21.9 21 40 point
systems so that overall ecosystem health of the points Great Lakes
Great Lakes is improved (cumulative) Ecosystem
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Cubic yards (in millions) of contaminated 3.7 M 4.5 M Cubic
sediment remediated in the Great Lakes. cubic yds yards/M
(cumulative from 1997)
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FY2002 FY2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 FY2006 FY 2007
Actuals
Actuals
18.40
Total phosphorus concentrations (long-term) in Mixed
the Lake Erie Central Basin.
Average concentrations of PCBs in whole lake Declinin
trout and walleye samples will decline. g
Average concentrations of toxic chemicals in declining Data lag
the air in the Great Lakes basin will decline
Restore and delist Areas of Concern (AOCs)
within the Great Lakes basin
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Baseline: In 2003, Great Lakes rating of 20 on a 40 point scale where the rating uses select Great Lakes State of the Lakes
Ecosystem indicators based on a 1 to 5 rating system for each indicator, where 1 is poor and 5 is good. The trend
(starting with 1972 data) for toxics in Great Lakes top predator fish is expected to be less than 2 parts per million (the
FDA action level) but far above the Great Lakes Initiative target or levels at which fish advisories can be removed. The
trend (starting with 1992 data) for PCB concentrations in the air is expected to range from 50 to 250 picograms per
cubic meter. In 2002, no Areas of Concern had been delisted. The 2.1 million yards of remediated sediments are the
cumulative number of yards from 1997 to 2001.
Wetland and River Corridor Projects
In 2007 Working with partners, achieve no net loss of wetlands.
In 2006 Working with partners, achieve no net loss of wetlands.
In 2005 EPA is working with partners to achieve an increase of wetlands with additional focus on biological and functional
measures. Annually, in partnership with the Corps of Engineers and states, EPA is working to achieve no net loss of
wetlands in the Clean Water Act Section 404 regulatory program.
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Performance Measures
Working with partners, achieve a net increase of
wetlands
Annually, in partnership with the Corps of
Engineers and States, achieve no net loss of
wetlands in the Clean Water Act Section 404
regulatory program
FY2002 FY2003 FY2004 FY 2005 FY 2006 FY2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres Bud
Data lag 100,000 100,000 Acres/year
Data lag No Net No Net
Loss Loss
Acres
Baseline: Annual net loss of an estimated 58,500 acres. In partnership with the Corps of Engineers, a baseline and initial
reporting will begin in FY 2004 on net loss of wetlands in the CWA Section 404 regulatory programs.
Chesapeake Bay Habitat
In 2007 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic systems so that overall aquatic system health of the Chesapeake Bay is
improved enough so that there are 100,000 acres of submerged aquatic vegetation, (cumulative)
In 2007 Reduce nitrogen loads by 80 million pounds per year; phosphorus loads by 9.0 million pounds per year, and sediment
loads by 1.16 million tons per year from entering the Chesapeake Bay, from 1985 levels.
In 2006 Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic systems so that overall aquatic system health of the Chesapeake Bay is
improved enough so that there are 90,000 acres of submerged aquatic vegetation, (cumulative)
In 2006 Reduce nitrogen loads by 74 million pounds per year; phosphorus loads by 8.7 million pounds per year, and sediment
loads by 1.06 million tons per year from entering the Chesapeake Bay, from 1985 levels.
In 2005 Prevented water pollution and protected aquatic systems so that overall aquatic system health of the Chesapeake Bay
was improved enough so that there was 89,659 acres of submerged aquatic vegetation, (cumulative)
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In 2005 EPA reduced nitrogen loads by 67 million pounds per year; phosphorus loads by 8.4 million pounds per year, and
sediment loads by 0.92 million tons per year from entering the Chesapeake Bay, from 1985 levels.
In 2004 Due to record wet weather in 2003, massive amounts of nutrients and sediments were washed into the Chesapeake Bay,
which resulted in a 30% decline in submerged aquatic vegetation in a single year.
In 2003 Improved habitat in the Chesapeake Bay.
In 2002 Meeting the annual performance goal to improve habitat in the Bay requires adherence to commitments made by the
Chesapeake 2000 agreement partners and monumental effort/resources from all levels of government (local, state, and
a range of Federal agencies) and from private organizations/citizens.
Performance Measures FY2002 FY2003 FY2004 FY 2005 FY 2006 FY 2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted PresBud
Reduction, from 1985 levels, of nitrogen 67/8.4/0. 74/8.7/1. 80/9.0/1. Lbs/Lbs/To
(M/lbs), phosphorus (M/lbs), and sediment 92 06 16 ns
loads (tons) entering Chesapeake Bay.
(cumulative)
Acres of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) 85,252 89,659 64,709.0 89,659 90,000 100,000 Acres
present in the Chesapeake Bay. (cumulative) 0
Baseline; In 1984, there were 37,000 acres of submerged aquatic vegetation in the Chesapeake Bay. In 2002, baseline for
nitrogen loads was 51 million pounds per year; phosphorus loads was 8.0 million pounds per year; and sediment loads
was 0.8 million tons per year.
OBJECTIVE: ENHANCE SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
Through 2008, provide a sound scientific foundation for EPA's goal of protecting, sustaining, and restoring the health of people,
communities, and ecosystems by conducting leading-edge research and developing a better understanding and characterization of
environmental outcomes under Goal 4.
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Research
Research on Commercial Chemicals and Microorganism
In 2007 Reduction of uncertainty in characterizing the impacts of biotechnology (genetically modified crops) on ecosystems.
Performance Measures FY2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 FY2005 FY 2006 FY2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres Bud
Improved risk assessment tools and 6
characterization of ecological risks of
genetically modified crops.
reports
Baseline: EPA has developed performance indicators that monitor research activities and outputs. The targets referenced for
biotechnology research include products that contribute to reducing scientific uncertainty such as reports on the
development of tools and their applications in assessments to characterize the impacts of genetically modified crops on
ecosystems.
Global Change Research - Human Health and Ecosystems
In 2007 A preliminary evaluation of the direct effects of climate change on regional air quality for input to the Climate Change
Science Program's Synthesis and Assessment Products.
Performance Measures
Conduct numerical air quality simulations using
as input regional climate modeling, emissions
modeling, and driver scenarios.
FY2002 FY2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 FY 2006 FY2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres Bud
evaluation
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Baseline: This goal represents an important new contribution because it focuses on the effects of climate change on air quality,
rather than the effects of air quality on climate change. This represents a unique contribution by EPA, as a member
agency in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP). This work is important due to its potentially significant
implications for the ability of states and cities to meet EPA's air quality standards. Also, the results of this work are
supporting the production of CCSP Synthesis & Assessment (S&A) Reports, due to be completed in December 2007.
For this reason, communication and dissemination of the results of this work will be closely coordinated with the
CCSP. This effort responds to President Bush's direction that climate change research activities be accelerated to
provide the best possible scientific information to support public discussion and decision making on climate-related
issues.
Estuarine Ecosystem Conditions
In 2007 30 states having estuarine resources use a common monitoring design and appropriate indicators to determine the status
and trends of ecological resources and the effectiveness of programs and policies.
Performance Measures FY2002 FY2003 FY2004 FY 2005 FY 2006 FY 2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres
Bud
Number of states using a common monitoring 30 States
design and appropriate indicators to determine
the status and trends of ecological resources and
the effectiveness of national programs and
policies.
Baseline: ORD has developed a standard protocol for monitoring the ecological condition of estuaries; including, probabilistic
sampling designs, response designs for indicators, laboratory analyses, statistical analyses and reporting formats. By
2007, ORD is targeting that 30 states having estuarine resources used a common monitoring design and appropriate
indicators to determine the status and trends of ecological resources and the effectiveness of programs and policies. In
2005, 22 states used a common monitoring design.
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Human Health Risk Assessment Research
In 2007 Complete 16 human health assessments of high priority chemicals for interagency or external peer review so that EPA
program offices and regions, states and local risk assessors have state-of-the-science health hazard assessment
information on priority substances
In 2007 Complete the Air Quality Criteria Document (AQCD) for Lead in support of the EPA/OAQPS review and
promulgation of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS).
In 2006 By 2006, deliver at least 20 dose-response assessments, provisional values, or pathogen risk assessments so that by
2010, at least 100 assessments have been made available through the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
database and other communications to EPA program offices, regions, states and Tribes providing the necessary
information to predict risk and make risk management decisions that protect public health.
Performance Measures FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 FY 2006 FY 2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres
Bud
Completed dose-response assessments, 20 Assessment
provisional values, or pathogen risk assessments s
Complete 16 human health assessments of high 16 assessments
priority chemicals for interagency or external
peer review, including acrylonitrile, methanol,
methylene, chloride, trichloroethylene, and
dioxin.
Final AQCD for Lead which serves as the basis 1 AQCD
for the EPA/OAQPS staff paper for the National
Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS)
Baseline: The Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) is an electronic data base used in risk assessments, decision-making,
and regulatory activities. EPA produces many of its major health assessments under the auspices of IRIS, the primary
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EPA database containing the Agency's scientific positions on human health effects that might result from exposure to
various substances found in the environment. Through the IRIS Program, ORD administers an Agency-wide process of
chemical nomination, assessment, consensus building, and peer review through which assessments on IRIS are
produced and updated. The schedule of IRIS products for FYs 2006 and 2007 represent the highest program priorities.
National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) are required by the Clean Air Act to protect against health and welfare
(environmental) effects of ambient concentrations of widespread major air pollutants (particulate matter, ozone, carbon monoxide,
nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and lead). The NAAQS and its scientific bases ("criteria") must periodically be reviewed and revised as
appropriate. The last Lead NAAQS review was 1990. Criteria for review of the Lead NAAQS are developed in the Lead Air Quality
Criteria Document (AQCD) which covers chemical and physical properties, sources and emissions, environmental concentrations,
human exposure, toxicology, epidemiology, and environmental effects.The Lead AQCD will be used by the Office of Air Quality,
Planning and Standards to develop a Staff Paper risk assessment.
Research on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
In 2007 By 2007, develop improved protocols for screening and testing for the Agency's Endocrine Disrupters Screening
Program and reduce scientific uncertainty on effects, exposure, and risk management issues
In 2006 By 2006, develop and transfer standardized protocols for screen!' ~ chemicals for their potential effects on the
endocrine system, so that EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances has the necessary protocols to
validate for use in the Agency's Endocrine Disrupters Screening Program, mandated by the Food Quality Protection
Act, as determined by independent expert review.
Performance Measures FY 2002 FY2003 FY2004 FY2005 FY 2006 FY2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres
Bud
Report on a protocol to screen environmental 1 Report
chemicals for their ability to interact with the
male hormone receptor
Improved protocols for screening and testing 6 Reports
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Performance Measures
Effects and exposure milestones met
Assessment milestones met
Risk management milestones met
FY 2002
Actuals
FY2003 FY2004 FY2005 FY 2006
Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted
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Baseline: The Endocrine Disrupters program provides EPA with the scientific information necessary for the Agency to reduce or
prevent potential unreasonable risks to human health and wildlife from exposures to chemicals that adversely affect the
endocrine system, called endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). In 1998, the Endocrine Disrupters Screening and
Testing Advisory Committee, a FACA convened by EPA to provide advice on the development and implementation of
a screening program, identified a few assays to use as starting points. However, as they affirmed, no assays were
considered to be "validated" at the time. EPA's endocrine disruptor research program refined these assays and
developed new ones when the starting point assays were found to be unreliable or inadequate. Between FY 2000 and
FY 2006, EPA will have completed 22 milestones associated with this APG, including reducing scientific uncertainty
regarding the mechanisms by which chemicals interfere with the endocrine system, developing reports on a variety of
screening assays in different animal species (e.g., fish, frogs, rats), and transferring protocols that have been
standardized in our laboratories and accompanying background documentation to OPPTS. OPPTS will have the
protocols validated by an external peer review panel and will implement a screening program using them. The data that
will be developed from the application of the validated protocols will enable the Agency to conduct risk assessments
from which decisions can be made that will reduce or prevent unreasonable risks to humans and wildlife from exposure
to endocrine disruptors.
Beginning in FY 2005, regular evaluations by independent and external panels will provide reviews of EPA research programs'
relevance, quality, and successful performance to date, and will determine whether EPA has been successful in meeting its annual and
long-term commitments for research.
Homeland Security Research
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Annual Performance Goals and Measures
In 2007 Enhance public health and safety and mitigate adverse effects of the purposeful introduction of hazardous chemical,
biological, or radiological materials into the environment.
In 2006 Provide methods, guidance documents, technologies and tools to first responders and decision-makers to enhance
safety and to mitigate adverse effects of the purposeful introduction of hazardous chemical or biological materials into
the environment.
Performance Measures
Comprehensive guidance document for building
owners and managers on restoration of buildings
after terrorist contamination with biological or
chemical hazards
Guidance document for emergency and
remedial response personnel and water utility
operators for the restoration of water systems
after terrorist contamination with biological or
chemical hazards
Comprehensive guidance package including
data, methodologies, and other risk assessment
tools that will assist emergency responders in
establishing remediation goals at incident sites
Provide guidance documents to support efficient
and effective outdoor clean-ups and safe
disposal of decontamination wastes.
Develop emergency/laboratory capacity
documents to improve the standardization of
methods and/or safety of personnel involved
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Guidance
Guidance
Guidance
products
protocols
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with the collection of environmental samples
during a significant event.
Test and evaluate homeland security-related
technologies, producing technology evaluation
reports.
Provide products to enhance security of water
systems through early detection and prepare for
a terrorist attack on water system for treatment
of the water and decontamination of the
infrastructure.
Evaluate relevant health and risk-related data to
support risk assessors in the rapid assessment of
risk.
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40
reports
reports
advisory
levels
Baseline: The goal of the National Homeland Security Research Center is to provide appropriate and effective threat and
consequence assessment guidance and technologies to help decision-makers prepare for and respond to attacks
involving chemical, biological and radiological contaminants. This goal encompasses improving ways to detect and
contain contaminants, and providing improved methods to decontaminate buildings, water infrastructure systems and
outdoor environments. The Center is also committed to providing emergency response support, expanded laboratory
capacity and capabilities, and evaluations of homeland security-related technologies. The Center was created in
recognition of terrorists threats to the United States and its citizens and the need to improve the nation's domestic
preparedness and response to intentional attacks.
Computational Toxicology
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In 2007 Initiation of a research program (ToxCast) to categorize the potential hazard of chemicals using modern tools of computational
toxicology.
Performance Measures FY2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 FY2005 FY2006 FY2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres Bud
Identification and evaluation of in silico and 1 method
molecular indicators that can be used to validate
the predictiveness of high through put tools for
categorizing potential for toxicity
Baseline: Despite pressing needs of a number of EPA Program Offices, there is no scientifically acceptable method for efficiently
and effectively prioritizing broad lists of chemicals (e.g., endocrine disrupting chemicals, high production volume
chemicals) for toxicological testing. This research program will create the foundation for such a method.
Human Health Research
In 2007 Increased use of human health research products
Performance Measures FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 FY2006 FY2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres Bud
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in 100 Percent
support of public health outcomes long-term
goal.
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in 100 Percent
support of mechanistic data long-term goal.
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in 100 Percent
support of aggregate and cumulative risk long-
term goal.
Percentage of planned outputs delivered in 100 Percent
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support of the susceptible subpopulations long-
term goal.
Average time (in days) to process research 292 Average
grant proposals from RFA closure to submittal Days
to EPA's GAD, while maintaining a credible
and efficient competitive merit review system
Baseline: To assess progress toward the goal of increased use of human health research products, ORD will measure the
percentage of planned outputs delivered on time for each long-term goal. As an efficiency measure, the program will
also track the average time to process research grants proposals.
GOAL: COMPLIANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
Improve environmental performance through compliance with environmental requirements, preventing pollution, and promoting
environmental stewardship. Protect human health and the environment by encouraging innovation and providing incentives for
governments, businesses, and the public that promote environmental stewardship.
OBJECTIVE: IMPROVE COMPLIANCE
By 2008, maximize compliance to protect human health and the environment through compliance assistance, compliance incentives,
and enforcement by achieving a 5 percent increase in the pounds of pollution reduced, treated, or eliminated, and achieving a 5 percent
increase in the number of regulated entities making improvements in environmental management practices.
Non-Compiiance Reduction
In 2007 Through monitoring and enforcement actions, EPA will increase complying actions, pollutant reduction or treatment,
and improve environmental management practices.
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In 2006 Through monitoring and enforcement actions, EPA will increase complying actions, pollutant reduction or treatment,
and improve environmental management practices.
In 2005 Through monitoring and enforcement actions, EPA increased complying actions, pollutant reduction or treatment, and
improved environmental management practices (BMP), reducing 1.1 billion pounds of pollutants in FY 2005.
In 2004 Enforcement actions taken in 2004 required defendants to reduce, treat, or eliminate 1 billion pounds of illegal
emissions and discharges, and establish improved EMPs that will help detect and prevent potential future non-
compliance; the 21,000 inspections, 425 criminal investigations, and 455 civil investigations conducted maintain an
effective deterrent to violations of federal environmental laws.
In 2003 EPA directed enforcement actions to maximize compliance and address environmental and human health problems.
In 2002 Based upon one measure, this APG was not met.
Performance Measures
Millions of pounds of pollutants required to be
reduced through enforcement actions settled this
fiscal year.(core optional)
Pounds of pollution estimated to be reduced,
treated, or eliminated as a result of concluded
enforcement actions, (civil enf)
Percentage of concluded enforcement cases
(including SEPs) requiring that pollution be
reduced, treated, or eliminated.
Percentage of concluded enforcement cases
including SEPs requiring implementation of
FY 2002 FY 2003
Actuals Actuals
261 600
FY 2004 FY 2005
Actuals Actuals
1,000
1,100
28.8
72.5
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Enacted
450
30
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Pres
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pounds
500 Million
pounds
30 Percentage
70 Percentage
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Actuals
improved environmental management practices.
Percentage of regulated entities taking
complying actions as a result of on-site
compliance inspections and evaluations.
Dollars invested in improved environmental
performance or improved environmental
management practices as a result of concluded
enforcement actions (i.e., injunctive relief and
SEPs)
Percent of concluded enforcement actions that 77
require an action that results in environmental
benefits and/or changes in facility management
or information practices.
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Actuals
19
$10
Billion
FY 2006
Enacted
25
$4.1
Billion
FY 2007
Pres
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30
$4.2
Billion
Percentage
Dollars
63
83
Percent
Baseline: The FY2005 baseline for the number of facilities taking complying actions to address deficiencies identified during on-
site compliance inspections and evaluations is 947 facilities that took complying actions. The 2008 strategic target is a
5% increase in complying actions taken during inspections compared to the FY2005 baseline of 947 facilities. The
FY2005 baseline for the percent of enforcement actions requiring that pollutants be reduced, treated, or eliminated is
28.8%. The strategic target is a 5% increase in the percent of enforcement actions requiring that pollutants be reduced,
treated, or eliminated by FY 2008 based on the FY2005 baseline. The FY2005 baseline for the percent of enforcement
actions requiring improvement of EMPs is 72.5%. The FY2005 baseline for the increase in the pounds of pollution
reduced, treated, or eliminated is 620 million pounds. The baseline for the number of regulated entities making
improvements in EMPs is 5,220 regulated entities. The strategic target is a 5% increase in the percent of enforcement
actions requiring improvement in environmental management practices by FY2008.
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Compliance Incentives
In 2007 Identify and correct noncompliance and reduce environmental risks through an increase in the percent of facilities that
use EPA incentive policies to conduct environmental audits or other actions that reduce, treat, or eliminate pollution or
improve environmental management practices.
In 2006 Through self-disclosure policies, EPA will increase the percentage of audits or other actions reducing pollutants or
improving EMP.
In 2005 Through self-disclosure policies, EPA increased the percentage of audits or other actions reducing 1.9 million pounds
of pollutants & improved environmental management practices.
In 2004 In FY2004, over 900 facilities voluntarily self-disclosed and corrected violations for reduced or eliminated penalties.
The incentives programs have helped return thousands of facilities to compliance, furthering environmental
stewardship through the provision of information, incentives and innovation approaches to reduce or eliminate
pollution.
In 2003 Increased opportunities through new targeted sector initiatives for industries to voluntarily self-disclose and correct
violations on a corporate-wide basis.
In 2002 The number of facilities that participated in voluntary self-audit programs, disclosed and corrected violations greatly
exceeded the target.
Performance Measures FY 2002 FY2003 FY2004 FY200S FY 2006 FY 2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres
Bud
Pounds of pollutants reduced, treated, or 1.9 0.4 0.4 Pounds
eliminated, as a result of audit agreements. million million million
Facilities voluntarily self-disclose and correct 1,467 848 969 Facilities
violations with reduced or no penalty as a result
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of EPA self-disclosure policies.
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Baseline: The FY2005 baseline for the number of facilities that use EPA incentive policies to conduct environmental audits or
other actions that reduce, treat, or eliminate pollution or improve EMPs is 1,095 regulated entities. The strategic target
by FY2008 is a 5% increase in the percent of facilities that use EPA incentive policies to conduct environmental audits
or other actions that reduce, treat, or eliminate pollution or improve environmental management practices. The baseline
for the pounds of pollutants reduced, treated or eliminated as a result of audits or other actions and for the dollars
invested in improved environmental performance or improved EMPs will be developed in FY2006.
Regulated Communities
Jn 2007 Prevent noncompliance or reduce environmental risks through EPA compliance assistance by achieving: an increase in
the percent of regulated entities that improve their understanding of environmental requirements; an increase in the
number of regulated entities that improve environmental management practices; and an increase in the percentage of
regulated entities that reduce, treat, or eliminate pollution.
In 2006 Through compliance assistance, EPA will increase the understanding of regulated entities, improve Environmental
Management Practices, and reduce pollutants.
In 2005 Through compliance assistance, EPA increased the understanding of regulated entities, improved Environmental
Management Practices, and reduced pollutants. Seventy-eight percent of the Compliance Assistance Centers' survey
respondents from the regulated community improved environmental management practices as a result of information
provided by the Centers.
In 2004 In FY 2004, EPA provided compliance assistance to 731,000 entities. Providing compliance assistance to businesses,
local governments, and federal facilities, improved understanding of regulations, promoted best management practices
and reduced pollution while saving regulated entities money.
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In 2003 Increased the regulated community's compliance with environmental requirements through their expanded use of
compliance assistance. The Agency continued to support small business compliance assistance centers and developed
compliance assistance tools such as sector notebooks and compliance guides.
Performance Measures
Percentage of regulated entities receiving direct
compliance assistance from EPA reporting that
they improved EMP as a result of EPA
assistance.
Percentage of regulated entities receiving direct
assistance from EPA reporting that they
reduced, treated, or eliminated pollution, as a
result of EPA assistance.
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Actuals
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Actuals
FY 2004
Actuals
FY 2005
Actuals
72
FY2006
Enacted
50
FY 2007
Pres
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50
13
15
15
Percentage
Percentage
Baseline: The FY 2005 baseline for the percent of regulated entities that improve their understanding of environmental
requirements is 80%. The strategic target is a 5% increase in the number of regulated entities that increase their
understanding of environmental requirements by FY2008. The FY2005 baseline for the percent increase in the number
of regulated entities that improve environmental management practices is 1,602 entities. The strategic target for
increasing environmental management practices through compliance assistance is a 5% increase (1,682 regulated
entities) by FY 2008. The FY2005 baseline for the percent of regulated entities that reduce, treat, or eliminate pollution
as a result of EPA compliance assistance is 10%. The strategic target for increasing the percentage of compliance
assistance recipients that reduce, treat, or eliminate pollution is 5% by FY2008.
OBJECTIVE: IMPROVE ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE THROUGH POLLUTION PREVENTION AND
INNOVATION
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By 2008, improve environmental protection and enhance natural resource conservation on the part of government, business, and the
public through the adoption of pollution prevention and sustainable practices that include the design of products and manufacturing
processes that generate less pollution, the reduction of regulatory barriers, and the adoption of results-based, innovative, and
multimedia approaches.
Reducing PBTs in Hazardous Waste Streams
In 2007 Reduce pollution in business operations.
In 2006 Reduce pollution in business operations.
Performance Measures FY2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 FY2005 FY2006 FY2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres
Bud
Number of pounds reduced (in millions) in 1.2 0.6 Pounds
generation of priority list chemicals from 2001 million million
baseline of 84 million pounds.
Baseline: In FY 2001, the baseline of priority chemicals in waste streams was initially established at 88 million pounds; however,
the baseline changes from year to year as industrial facilities correct past reporting errors. This necessitates
adjustments to annual targets. The FY 2008 goal is a reduction of 8.4 million pounds (10%). This is a two-year lag
reporting actual reductions.
Innovation Activities
In 2007 Performance Track facilities collectively will meet 4 of the 6 annual performance improvement targets for 3.7 billion
gallons of water use, 16.3 million MMBTUs of energy use, 1,050 tons materials use, 460,000 tons of non-hazardous
solid waste, 66,000 tons of air releases, and 12,400 tons of discharges to water.
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In 2006 Performance Track members collectively will meet targets for annual performance improvement targets for water use,
energy use, materials use, non-hazardous solid waste, air releases, and discharges to water.
In 2005 In FY 2005, Performance Track members collectively reduced water use by 528 million gallons, increased energy use
by 22 million MMBTUs, increased solid waste by 22,000 tons, reduced air releases by 7,700 tons, reduced water
discharges by 7,700 tons, and increased materials use by 125,000 tons.
Performance Measures
Specific annual reductions in six media/resource
areas: water use, energy use, solid waste, air
releases, water discharges, & materials use.
Reduce 3.7 billion gallons of water use; 16.3
million MMBTUs of energy use; 1,050 tons of
materials use; 460,000 tons of solid waste;
66,000 tons of air releases; & 12,400 tons of
water discharges.
Reduce 3.5 billion gallons of water use; 15.5
million MMBTUs of energy use; 1,000 tons of
materials use; 440,000 tons of solid waste;
66,000 tons of air releases; & 12,400 tons of
water discharges.
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Media
Reductions
Media
Reductions
Media
Reductions
Baseline: Annual performance goals are based on the collective normalized (production adjusted) improvements achieved by
Performance Track members in FY 2004 in 6 media areas. The FY 2004 improvements, normalized to FY 2003
economic activity levels were a reduction of 3,387,333,545 gallons of water use; a reduction of 14,809,395 MMBTUs
of energy use; an increase of 1,752 tons of materials use; a reduction of 418,421 tons of non-hazardous solid waste; a
reduction of 63,123 tons of air releases and a reduction of 12,109 tons of water discharges.
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Reduction of Industrial /Commercial Chemicals
In 2007 Prevent, reduce and recycle hazardous industrial/commercial chemicals and municipal solid wastes.
In 2006
In 2005
In 2004
In 2003
In 2002
Prevent, reduce and recycle hazardous industrial/commercial chemicals and improve environmental stewardship
practices.
FY 2005 data will be available in FY 2007.
FY 2004 data will be available in FY 2006 to verify whether the quantity of Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) pollutants
released, disposed of, treated or combusted for energy recovery in 2004, (normalized for changes in industrial
production) was reduced by 200 million pounds, or 2%, from 2002.
The quantity of TRI pollutants released, disposed of, treated or combusted for energy recovery in 2003 decreased by
622 million pounds of TRI pollutants.
The quantity of TRI pollutants released, disposed of, treated or combusted for energy recovery in 2002, (normalized for
changes in industrial production) increased by 366 million pounds of TRI pollutants, or 2%, from 2002.
Performance Measures
FY2002 FY2003 FY 2004 FY2005 FY2006 FY2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres
Bud
Reduction of TRI non-recycled waste 366 M 622 M
(normalized) Lbs
Quantity of hazardous chemicals/solvents
eliminated through the Green Chemistry
Challenge Awards Program
Percent reduction in both Toxics Release
Inventory (TRI) chemical releases to the
Data
Avail.
FY2006
460
Data
Avail.
28%
28%
Pounds
Pounds
Releases
(Cum)
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Actuals
environment from the business sector per unit of
production ("Clean Index")
Percent reduction in TRI chemicals in
production-related wastes generated by the
business sector per unit of production ("Green
Index").
Reduction in overall pounds of pollution.
Millions of dollars saved through reductions in
pollution.
Annual cumulative quantity of water conserved.
Billions of BTUs of energy conserved.
Annual cumulative quantity of water conserved.
Cumulative conservation of millions of BTUs of
energy and gallons of water.
Cumulative reduction of hazardous chemical
releases to the environment and hazardous
FY 2003 FY 2004 FY 2005
Actuals Actuals Actuals
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Data
Avail.
FY2007
Data
Avail.
FY 2006
Data
Avail.
FY2006
Data
Avail.
FY2006
Data
Avail.
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Enacted
14%
42
Billion
$170
Million
1.5
Billion
175
Billion
Data
Avail.
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Data
Avail.
FY2007
FY 2007
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Bud
14.5%
40.8
Billion
$175
Million
1.6
Billion
176
Billion
600
Million
25/600
820
Million
Waste
(Cum)
Pounds
(Cum)
Dollars
(Cum)
Gallons
BTUs
(Cum)
Gallons
BTUslGallo
ns
(in millions)
Pounds
chemicals in industrial waste, in millions of
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pounds.
Baseline: The baseline for TRI non-recycled wastes is 622M pounds based on 2003 TRI data reported in FY2005. The 2003
baseline for cumulative reduction of industrial hazardous chemical releases to the environment and hazardous
chemicals in industrial wastes is 326 million pounds. The FY 2005 baseline for conservation of BTUs is 15 billion
BTUs. The FY 2002 baseline for gallons of water is 330 million gallons. The 2005 baseline for money saved is $2.9
million. The 2003 baseline for the Clean Index is 8.1% of releases and the FY 2003 baseline for the Green Index is
7.5% of waste.
OBJECTIVE: BUILD TRIBAL CAPACITY
Through 2008, assist all federally recognized tribes in assessing the condition of their environment, help in building their capacity to
implement environmental programs where needed to improve tribal health and environments, and implement programs in Indian
country where needed to address environmental issues.
Build Tribal Capacity
In 2007 Assist federally recognized tribes in assessing the condition of their environment, help in building their capacity to
implement environmental programs where needed to improve tribal health and environments, and implement programs
in Indian country where needed to address environmental issues.
In 2006 Assist federally recognized tribes in assessing the condition of their environment, help in building their capacity to
implement environmental programs where needed to improve tribal health and environments, and implement programs
in Indian country where needed to address environmental issues.
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In 2005 EPA assisted Federally recognized tribes with assessing the condition of their environment, helped build their capacity
to implement environmental programs where needed to improve tribal health and environments, and implemented
programs in Indian Country where needed to address environmental issues.
In 2004 86% of Tribes have an environmental presence (e.g. one or more persons to assist in building Tribal capacity to
develop and implement environmental programs).
In 2003 In 2003. AIEO evaluated non-Federal sources of environmental data pertaining to conditions in Indian Country to
enrich the Tribal Baseline Assessment Project.
In 2002 A cumulative total of 331 environmental assessments have been completed.
Performance Measures FY2002 FY2003 FY2004 FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres
Bud
Percent of Tribes with EPA-approved 26 33 39 42 % Tribes
multimedia workplans (cumulative).
Percent of Tribes with delegated and non- 28 47 48 49 % Tribes
delegated programs (cumulative).
Percent of Tribes with EPA-reviewed 44 29 30 31 % Tribes
monitoring and assessment occurring
(cumulative).
Number of environmental programs 12.3 12.4 12.5 Programs
implemented in Indian Country per million
dollars.
Baseline: There are 572 tribal entities that are eligible for GAP program funding. The FY 2005 baseline for the percent of tribes
with EPA-approved multimedia workplans is 33% of tribes. The FY 2005 baseline for the percent of tribes with
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delegated and non-delegated programs is 47% of tribes. The FY 2005 baseline for the percent of tribes with EPA-
reviewed monitoring and assessment occurring is 29% of tribes. The FY 2005 baseline for the number of
environmental programs implemented in Indian Country per million dollars is 12.3 programs.
OBJECTIVE: ENHANCE SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
Through 2008, strengthen the scientific evidence and research supporting environmental policies and decisions on compliance,
pollution prevention, and environmental stewardship.
Research
Pollution Prevention Tools and Methodologies
In 2007 Ten percent increase in Pollution Prevention/Sustainability program publications rated as highly cited papers
Performance Measures FY 2002 FY2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 FY 2006 FY2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres
Bud
Percentage of Pollution 44.2 %
Prevention/Sustainability program publications
rated as highly cited papers (top 1%) in research
journals.
Baseline: Bibliometric analysis will be used to assess the impact of peer-reviewed publications. Recent results from a
bibliometric analysis completed for the P2/Sustainability research program will be used as the baseline for assessing
impact in the scientific community. In 2005, 34.2% of P2 papers qualified as highly cited. The P2/Sustainability
research program proposes to quantify citation rate increases for the program's top publications.
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NPM: OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Energy Consumption Reduction
In 2007 As required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, EPA will achieve a 4% reduction in energy consumption from the
Agency's 2003 baseline.
In 2006 As required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, EPA will achieve a 2% reduction in energy consumption from the
Agency's 2003 baseline.
Performance Measures FY 2002 FY2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 FY 2006 FY2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres
Bud
Cumulative percentage reduction in energy 2 4 Percent
consumption.
Baseline: For the Agency's 29 reporting facilities, the 2003 energy consumption of British Thermal Units (BTUs) per square foot
is 341,123 BTUs per square foot.
Human Capital
In 2007 EPA will develop workforce planning strategies that link current and future Human Capital needs to mission
accomplishments which will result in significant reductions in skill gaps for Mission Critical Occupations. In addition,
EPA's recruitment strategy will focus on hiring needs that will encourage the use of hiring flexibilities, build on
centralized and local recruitment approaches, and focus on attracting applicants who are talented, diverse, and
committed to EPA's mission.
Performance Measures FY2002 FY2003 FY2004 FY2005 FY 2006 FY 2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres
Bud
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FY 2003
Actuals
FY 2004
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25
Percent
15
100
Percent
Percent
Percent to which competency/skill gaps are
reduced (beginner to intermediate) in Mission
Critical Occupations.
Percent to which competency/skill gaps are
reduced (intermediate to expert) in Mission
Critical Occupations.
Number of new hires recruited through EPA's
Environmental Intern Program in Mission
Critical Occupations.
Average time to hire non-SES positions from
date vacancy closes to date offer is extended,
expressed in working days.
For SES positions, the average time from date
vacancy closes to date offer is extended,
expressed in working days.
BaseliLe: Baseline will be established by FY 2007.
NPM: OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
Information Exchange Network
In 2007 Improve the quality, comparability, and availability of environmental data for sound environmental decision-making
through the Central Data Exchange (CDX).
45 Days
90 Days
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In 2006 Improve the quality, comparability, and availability of environmental data for sound environmental decision-making
through the Central Data Exchange (CDX).
In 2005 Progress in developing the Central Exchange Network continues.
In 2004 Significant progress has been made in developing the Exchange Network over the past three years. The numbers of
Exchange Network nodes and data flows have increased making it possible to exchange and integrate large volumes of
environmental data to enhance environmental decision-making. A key component to the Network is EPA's Central
Data Exchange (CDX) and its ability to facilitate data exchange and information sharing. As a result, EPA has
experienced a tremendous growth in users of CDX and the Network.
In 2003 Continued to improve data access to ensure that decision makers have access to the environmental data that EPA
collects and manages to make sound environmental decisions while minimizing the reporting burden on data providers.
In 2002 The Central Data Exchange (CDX), a key component of the environmental information exchange network, became
fully operational and 45 states are using it to send data to EPA; thereby improving data consistency with participating
states.
Performance Measures
States using the Central Data Exchange (CDX)
to send data to EPA.
Number of major EPA environmental systems
that use the CDX electronic requirements
enabling faster receipt, processing, and quality
checking of data.
States will be able to exchange data with CDX
through state nodes in real time, using new web-
based data standards that allow for automated
FY 2002
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Actuals
FY2004
Actuals
FY2005
Actuals
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45
49
22
29
36
40
50
States
Systems
States
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data-quality checking.
Number of users from states, tribes,
laboratories, and others that choose CDX to
report environmental data electronically to EPA.
Percent of customer help desk calls resolved in a
timely manner.
In preparation for increasing the exchange of
information through CDX, implement four data
standards in 13 major systems and develop four
additional standards in 2003.
Number of private sector and local government
entities, such as water authorities, will use CDX
to exchange environmental data with EPA.
CDX offers online data exchange for all major
national systems by the end of FY 2004.
Number of states using CDX as the means by
which they routinely exchange environmental
data with two or more EPA media programs or
Regions.
FY 2002
Actuals
FY2003
Actuals
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States
Baseline: The Central Data Exchange program began in FY 2001, the baseline is 70 data flows. The baseline of users for the
scheduled deployment of data flows is approximately 75,000 users.
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In 2007 EPA will improve the quality and scope of information available to the public for environmental decision-making.
In 2006 EPA will improve the quality and scope of information available to the public for environmental decision-making.
In 2005 EPA continues to improve the quality and scope of information available to the public for environmental decision-
making.
In 2004 In FY 2004, EPA developed a management report on options for enhancing access to the next Report on the
Environment by making it easily available electronically.
In 2003 The public had access to a wide range of Federal, state, and local information about local environmental conditions and
features in an area of their choice.
In 2002 100% of the publicly available facility data from EPA's national systems accessible on the EPA Website is part of the
Integrated Error Correction Process; thereby reducing data error.
Performance Measures FY2002 FY2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 FY2006 FY2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres
Bud
Publicly available facility data from EPA's 100 Percent
national systems, accessible on the EPA
Website, will be part of the Integrated Error
Correction Process.
Responders to the baseline questionnaire on 63 Percent
customer satisfaction on the EPA Website report
overall satisfaction with their visit to EPA. GOV.
Window-to-My Environment is nationally Nationall Deployed
deployed and provides citizens across the y
country with Federal, state, and local
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environmental information specific to an area of
their choice.
Establish the baseline for the suite of indicators 1 Report
that are used by EPA's programs and partners in
the Agency's strategic planning and
performance measurement process.
Baseline: An effort to develop a State of the Environment report based on environmental indicators was initiated in FY 2002.
Information Security
In 2007 OMB reports that all EPA information systems meet/exceed established standards for security.
In 2006 OMB reports that all EPA information systems meet/exceed established standards for security.
In 2005 EPA continues to make progress in improving its information security program.
In 2004 EPA has made significant progress over the last 4 years in improving its information security program. For example,
EPA succeeded for a second year in achieving 100% intrusion detection, and the Agency's compliance with OMB's
security program criteria increased from 75% in FY 2003 to 91% in FY 2004.
In 2003 OMB reported that all EPA information systems meet/exceed established standards for security.
In 2002 Completed risk assessments on the Agency's critical infrastructure systems (12). critical financial systems (13), and
mission critical environmental systems (5).
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Critical infrastructure systems risk assessment
findings will be formally documented and
transmitted to systems owners and managers in
a formal Risk Assessment document.
Critical financial systems risk assessment 13
findings will be formally documented and
transmitted to systems owners and managers in
a formal Risk Assessment document.
Mission critical environmental systems risk 5
assessment findings will be formally
documented and transmitted to systems owners
and managers in a formal Risk Assessment
document.
Percent of Federal Information Security
Management Act reportable systems that are
certified and accredited.
Percent of intrusion detection monitoring
sensors installed and operational.
Enabling/Support Programs
Annual Performance Goals and Measures
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted
12
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Systems
Systems
Systems
75
75
91
100
94
100
100
Percent
Percent
Baseline: In FY 2002, the Agency started planning an effort to expand and strengthen its information security infrastructure.
NPM: OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
Fraud Detection and Deterrence
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In 2007 In 2007, the OIG will improve Agency business and program operations by identifying 840 recommendations, potential
savings and recoveries equal to 150 percent of the annual investment in the OIG, 230 actions for better business
operations, and 80 criminal, civil, or administrative actions reducing risk or loss of integrity.
In 2006 In 2006, the OIG will improve Agency business and program operations by identifying 820 recommendations, potential
savings and recoveries equal to 150 percent of the annual investment in the OIG, 225 actions for better business
operations, and 80 criminal, civil, or administrative actions reducing risk or loss of integrity.
In 2005 The OIG has begun including the non-monetary results of "Single Audits" and audits performed for OIG in its targets
and results. Therefore, OIG adjusted its original targets submitted to OMB to account for the large increase in the
expected and actual number of improved business practices and systems and the number of business recommendations,
risks, and best practices identified. The number of criminal, civil and administrative actions has increased, reflecting a
greater number of debarments and suspensions of contractors, and the number of cases involving laboratories, which
are time-lag results of prior years' performance. The 285 percent return on the dollar investment in OIG represent
$143.8 million in questioned costs, recommended efficiencies and fines, recoveries, and penalties.
In 2004 The OIG exceeded its annual targets except it only achieved a 48% potential dollar return on its budget.
In 2003 The OIG exceeded the targets for this goal by including measures of i -suits in promoting economy and efficiency and
preventing and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse in EPA programs and operations in addition to measures of
environmental recommendations and improvement.
Performance Measures FY2002 FY2003 FY2004 FY2005 FY2006 FY 2007
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Enacted Pres
Bud
Number of improved business practices and 133 724 225 230 Improveme
systems. nts
Number of criminal, civil, and administrative 108 125 80 80 Actions
actions.
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Annual Performance Goals and Measures
FY 2002
Actuals
Number of business recommendations, risks,
and best practices identified.
Return on the annual dollar investment in the
OIG.
FY2003
Actuals
312
856
FY 2004
Actuals
390
48
FY2005
Actuals
1,119
285
FY 2006
Enacted
820
150
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840
150
Recommend
a-tions
Percent
Baseline: In FY 2002, the OIG established a baseline of 150 business recommendations, 70 improved business practices, and 50
criminal, civil, and administrative actions for improving Agency management; and a 100% potential dollar return on
the investment in the OIG from savings and recoveries.
Audit and Advisory Services
In 2007 In 2007, the OIG will contribute to improved environmental quality and human health by identifying 115
environmental recommendations, best practices, risks, or opportunities for improvement; contributing to the reduction
or elimination of 33 environmental or infrastructure security risks; and 55 actions influencing environmental
improvements or program changes.
In 2006 In 2006, the OIG will contribute to improved environmental quality and human health by identifying 105
environmental recommendations, best practices, risks, or opportunities for improvement; contributing to the reduction
or elimination of 28 environmental or infrastructure security risks; and 50 actions influencing environmental
improvements or program changes.
In 2005 These performance results generally represent complex environmental actions to be taken subsequently to OIG
recommendations, risks, and best practices identified. While the results for Environmental Actions and Improvements
indicate the measure was not met, the system used to track this information currently does not capture actions taken by
EPA program managers prior to the issuance of the Inspector General's final report, which means the number of actions
taken (35) is probably artificially low from errors of omission. Further, there are a considerable number of primary and
secondary actions and improvements that are time lagged, occurring beyond the immediate scope of recognition as
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In 2003
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reportable results because of their complexity and expanded residual effect, thereby making them difficult to track.
Therefore, the reported results for this measure are conservative and do not fully reflect the scope or number of actions
taken and improvements made.
Exceeded its targets by identifying 116 environmental recommendations, risks, and best practices; contributing to the
reduction of 45 environmental risks; and 49 actions influencing positive environmental or health impacts.
Improved environmental quality and human health by identifying 312 environmental recommendations, risks, and best
practices; contributing to the reduction of 92 environmental risks, and 185 actions influencing positive environmental
or health impacts.
Performance Measures
Number of environmental risks reduced.
Number of environmental actions.
Number of environmental recommendations,
risks, and best practices identified.
FY2002 FY2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 FY2006 FY 2007
Actuals
92
185
485
Actuals
45
49
116
Actuals
35
35
112
Enacted
28
50
105
Pres
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33
55
115
Risks
Improveme
nts
Recommend
a-tions
Baseline: In FY 2002, the OIG established a baseline of: 75 recommendations, best practices and risks identified contributing to
improved Agency environmental goals; 15 environmental actions; and the reduction of 15 environmental risks
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COORDINATION WITH OTHER AGENCIES - ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
Goal 1- Clean Air and Global Climate Change
Objective: Healthier Outdoor Air
The Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) cooperates with other Federal, state,
Tribal, and local agencies in achieving goals
related to ground level ozone and PM. EPA
continues to work closely with the
Department of Agriculture and the Forest
Service in developing its burning policy and
reviewing practices that can reduce
emissions. EPA, the Department of
Transportation (DOT), and the Army Corps
of Engineers (COE) work with state and
local agencies to integrate transportation and
air quality plans, reduce traffic congestion,
and promote livable communities. EPA
continues to work with the Department of
the Interior (DO I), National Park Service
(NFS), in developing its regional haze
program and deploying the IMPROVE
visibility monitoring network. The operation
and analysis of data produced by the
paniculate matter (PM) monitoring system
is an example of the close coordination of
effort between the EPA and state and Tribal
governments.
For pollution assessments and transport,
EPA is working with the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) on technology transfer using
satellite imagery. EPA will be working to
further distribute NASA satellite products to
and NOAA air quality forecast products to
Regions, states, local agencies, and Tribes to
provide better understanding of air quality
on a day-to-day basis and to assist with PM
forecasting. EPA will also work with
NASA to develop a better understanding of
PM formation using satellite data. EPA
works with the Department of the Army,
Department of Defense (DoD) on advancing
emission measurement technology and with
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), Department of
Commerce for meteorological support for
our modeling and monitoring efforts.
To better understand the magnitude, sources,
and causes of mobile source pollution, EPA
works with the Departments of Energy
(DOE) and DOT to fund research projects.
A program to characterize the exhaust
emissions from light-duty gasoline vehicles
is being co-funded by DOE and DOT. Other
DOT mobile source projects include
TRANS1MS (TRansportation ANalysis and
SIMulation System) and other transportation
modeling projects; DOE is funding these
projects through the National Renewable
Energy Laboratory. EPA also works closely
with DOE on refinery cost modeling
analyses and the development of clean fuel
programs. For mobile sources program
outreach, the Agency is participating in a
collaborative effort with DOT's Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA) and the
Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
designed to educate the public about the
impacts of transportation choices on traffic
congestion, air quality, and human health.
This community-based public education
initiative also includes the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC). In addition, EPA is
working with DOE to identify opportunities
in the Clean Cities program. EPA also
works with other Federal agencies such as
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the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) on air
emission issues. Other programs targeted to
reduce air toxics from mobile sources are
coordinated with DOT. These partnerships
can involve policy assessments and toxic
emission reduction strategies in different
regions of the country.
To develop new continuous source
monitoring technology for toxic metals
emitted from smokestacks, EPA has
partnered with the DoD. This partnership
will provide a new source monitoring tool
that will streamline source monitoring
requirements that a number of DoD
incinerators are required to meet and
improve the operation of DoD incinerators
with real-time emissions information
resulting in reduced releases of air toxics to
the environment. In time, this technology is
expected to be available for use at non-DoD
facilities.
For the clean fuel programs, EPA works
closely with the DOE on refinery cost
modeling analyses. For mobile sources
program outreach, the Agency is
participating in a collaborative effort with
FHWA and FTA designed to educate the
public about the impacts of transportation
choices on traffic congestion, air quality,
and public health. This community-based
public education initiative also includes the
CDC. In addition, EPA works with DOE to
identify opportunities in the Clean Cities
program. EPA also works cooperatively
with DOE to better characterize gasoline PM
emissions and characterize the contribution
of gasoline vehicles and engine emissions to
ambient PM levels.
To reduce air toxic emissions that do not
inadvertently increase worker exposures,
EPA is continuing to work closely with the
Department of Labor's Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA) to
coordinate the development of EPA and
OSHA standards. EPA also works closely
with other health agencies such as the CDC,
the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS), and the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
on health risk characterization. To assess
atmospheric deposition and characterize
ecological effects, EPA works with NOAA
and the Department of the Interior's U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).
The Agency has worked extensively with
the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) on the National Health and
Nutritional Evaluation Study to identify
mercury accumulations in humans. EPA
also has worked with DOE on the 'Fate of
Mercury' study to characterize mercury
transport and traceability in Lake Superior.
To determine the extent to which
agricultural activities contribute to air
pollution, EPA will continue to work closely
with the USD A through the joint
USDA/EPA Agricultural Air Quality Task
Force (AAQTF). The AAQTF is a
workgroup set up by Congress to oversee
agricultural air quality-related issues and to
develop cost-effective ways in which the
agricultural community can improve air
quality. In addition, the AAQTF
coordinates research on agricultural air
quality issues to avoid duplication and
ensure data quality and sound interpretation
of data.
In developing regional and international air
quality programs and projects and working
on regional agreements, EPA works
primarily with the Department of State, the
Agency for International Development
(USAID), and the DOE as well as with
regional organizations. EPA's international
air quality management program will
complement EPA's programs on children's
health, Trade and the Environment, and
trans-boundary air pollution. In addition,
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EPA will partner with others worldwide,
including international organizations such as
the United Nations Environment
Programme, the European Union, the
Organization for Economic Development
and Co-operation (OECD), the World Bank,
the Asian Development Bank, and our
colleagues in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and
Japan.
Objective: Healthier Indoor Air
EPA works closely through a variety of
mechanisms with a broad range of Federal,
state, Tribal, and local government agencies,
industry, non-profit organizations, and
individuals, as well as other nations, to
promote more effective approaches to
identifying and solving indoor air quality
problems. At the Federal level, EPA works
closely with several departments or
agencies:
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) to develop and
conduction programs aimed at
reducing children's exposure to known
indoor triggers of asthma, including
secondhand smoke;
8 Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) on home health
and safety issues, especially those
affecting children;
Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC) to identify and mitigate the
health hazards of consumer products
designed for indoor use;
Department of Education (DoEd) to
encourage construction and operation
of schools with good indoor air
quality; and
Department of Agriculture (USDA) to
encourage USDA Extension Agents to
conduct local projects designed to
reduce risks from indoor air quality.
EPA plays a leadership role on the
President's Task Force on
Environmental Health Risks and
Safety Risks to Children, particularly
with respect to asthma and school
environmental health issues.
As Co-chair of the interagency Committee
on Indoor Air Quality (CIAQ), EPA works
with the CPSC, DOE, the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health, and
OSHA to review EPA draft publications,
arrange the distribution of EPA publications,
and coordinate the efforts of Federal
agencies with those of state and local
agencies concerned with indoor air issues.
Objective: nrotect the Ozone Layer
In an effort to curb the illegal importation of
ozone depleting substances (ODSs), an
interagency task force was formed
consisting of representatives from EPA, the
Departments of Justice (DOJ), Department
of Homeland Security (DHS), Department
of State, Department of Commerce, and the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Venting of
illegally imported chemicals has the
potential to prevent the United States from
meeting the goals of the Montreal Protocol
to restore the ozone layer.
EPA works very closely with the
Department of State and other Federal
agencies as appropriate in international
negotiations among Parties to the Protocol.
EPA works with the Office of the United
States Trade Representative to analyze
potential trade implications in stratospheric
protection regulations that affect imports
and exports.
EPA is working with USDA and the
Department of State to facilitate research
and development of alternatives to methyl
bromide. EPA collaborates with these
agencies lo prepare U.S. requests for
emergency and critical use exemptions of
methyl bromide. EPA is providing input to
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USDA on rulemakings for methyl bromide-
related programs. EPA consults with the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the
potential for domestic methyl bromide
needs.
EPA also coordinates closely with FDA to
ensure that sufficient supplies of
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are available
for the production of life-saving metered-
dose inhalers for the treatment of asthma
and other lung diseases. This partnership
between EPA and FDA combines the critical
goals of protecting public health and
limiting damage to the stratospheric ozone
layer.
EPA works with the CDC and the National
Weather Service (NWS) to coordinate the
Ultraviolet Radiation (UV) Index and the
health messages that accompany index
reports. EPA is a member of the Federal
Council on Skin Cancer Prevention, which
educates and protects all Federal employees
from the risks of overexposure to UV
radiation.
In addition to collecting its own UV data,
EPA coordinates with NASA and NOAA to
monitor the state of the stratospheric ozone
layer. EPA works with NASA on assessing
essential uses and other exemptions for
critical shuttle and rocket needs, as well as
effects of direct emissions of high-speed
aircraft flying in the stratosphere.
EPA coordinates with the Small Business
Administration (SBA) to ensure that
proposed rules are developed in accordance
with the Small Business Regulatory
Flexibility Act.
Objective: Radiation
In addition to the specific activities
described above, EPA continues to work
with Federal agencies including Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC), DOE, and
DHS to prevent metals and finished products
suspected of having radioactive
contamination from entering the country.
EPA also works with the DOT on initiatives
to promote use of non-nuclear density
gauges for highway paving, and with the
DOE and NRC to develop state-of-the-art
tracking systems for radioactive sources in
U.S. commerce.
Objective: Reduce Greenhouse Gas
Intensity
Voluntary climate protection programs
government-wide stimulate the development
and use of renewable energy technologies
and energy efficient products that will help
reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The
effort is led by EPA and DOE with
significant involvement from USDA, HUD
and the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST).
Agencies throughout the government make
significant contributions to the climate
protection programs. For example, DOE
will pursue actions such as promoting the
research, development, and deployment of
advanced technologies (for example,
renewable energy sources). The Treasury
Department will administer proposed tax
incentives for specific investments that will
reduce emissions. EPA is working with
DOE to demonstrate technologies that
oxidize ventilation air methane from coal
mines. EPA is broadening its public
information transportation choices campaign
as a joint effort with DOT. EPA coordinates
with each of the above-mentioned agencies
to ensure that our programs are
complementary and in no way duplicative.
This coordination is evident in work recently
completed by an interagency task force,
including representatives from the
Department of State, EPA, DOE, USDA,
DOT, Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), Department of Commerce,
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USGCRP, NOAA, NASA, and the DoD, to
prepare the Third National Communication
to the Secretariat as required under the
Framework Convention on Climate Change
(FCCC). The FCCC was ratified by the
United States Senate in 1992. A portion of
the Third National Communication
describes policies and measures (such as
ENERGY STAR and EPA's Clean
Automotive Technology initiative)
undertaken by the U.S. to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, implementation status of the
policies and measures, and their actual and
projected benefits. One result of this
interagency review process has been a
refinement of future goals for these policies
and measures which were communicated to
the Secretariat of the FCCC in 2002. The
"U.S. Climate Action Report 2002: Third
National Communication of the United
States of America under the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change"
is available at:
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/natc/usnc3.pdf
EPA works primarily with the Department
of Slate, USAID and DOE as well as with
regional organizations in implementing
climate-related programs and projects. In
addition, EPA partners with others
worldwide, including international
organizations such as the United Nations
Environment Programme, the United
Nations Development Programme, the
International Energy Agency, the OECD,
the World Bank, the Asian Development
Bank, and our colleagues in Canada,
Mexico, Europe and Japan.
EPA works primarily with the Department
of State, the Agency for International
Development as well as local and regional
foreign governments in implementing
climate-related programs and projects. In
addition, EPA partners with others
worldwide, including international
organizations such as the United Nations
Environment Programme, the United
Nations Development Programme, the
International Energy Agency, the OECD,
the World Bank, the Asian Development
Bank, and our colleagues in Canada,
Mexico, Europe, and Japan.
Objective: Enhance Science and Research
EPA works with the National Park Service
in operating Clean Air Status and Trends
Network (CASTNET). In addition, DOE
will pursue actions such as promoting the
research, development, and deployment of
advanced technologies (for example,
renewable energy sources). In the case of
fuel cell vehicle technology, EPA is working
closely with DOE as the Administration's
FreedomCAR initiative develops, taking the
lead on emissions-related issues.
The President's call for a greatly expanded
and coordinated inter-agency particulate
matter (PM) research effort led to the
creation in 1999 of the Particulate Matter
Workgroup, which is administered by the
Air Quality Research Subcommittee of the
Committee on Environment and Natural
Resources (CENR). This workgroup, co-
chaired by EPA and NIEHS, has completed
its Strategic Research Plan for Particulate
Matter24 to guide the coordinated Federal
research program over the next five to ten
years.
The body of national PM research dealing
with atmospheric sciences is coordinated
under North American Research Strategy for
Tropospheric Ozone) NARSTO.25 Its
24 Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Air
Quality Research Subcommittee, Strategic Research Plan
for Particulate Matter (Washington: CENR, 2002).
Available at:
15 Formerly an acronym for the North American Research
Strategy tor Tropospheric Ozone, the term NARSTO now
describes a public-private partnership across the U.S.,
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membership of more than 65 organizations,
which includes all major Federal, state, and
provincial governments, private industry,
and utilities, recently released an
assessment26 of PM atmospheric science to
help policy makers implement air quality
standards for PM. It presents the latest
understanding of PM atmospheric
phenomena over North America and
recommends additional work to fill
identified gaps.
EPA's air toxics research is coordinated as
needed with other Federal agencies, such as
the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National
Toxicology Program (as a source of toxicity
testing data). EPA also supports the Health
Effects Institute (HEI),27 which coordinates
with industry partners. In addition, EPA
conducts research on advanced source
measurement approaches jointly with the
Department of Defense through the Strategic
Environmental Research and Development
Program (SERDP).28
Canada, and Mexico for dealing with tropospheric
pollution, including ozone and suspended paniculate
matter. For more information, visit:
26 NARSTO, Paniculate Matter Scie.nc.e. for Policy Makers:
A NARSTO Assessment (London: Cambridge University
Press, 2004). Available at:
27 For more information, visit:
28 For more information, visit:
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Goal 2~ Clean and Safe Water
Objective: Protect Human Health
The 1996 SDWA amendments include a
provision that mandates joint EPA/CDC
study of waterborne diseases and occurrence
studies in public water supplies. CDC is
involved in assisting EPA in training health
care providers (doctors, nurses, public health
officials, etc.) on public health issues related
to drinking water contamination and there is
close CDC/EPA coordination on research on
microbial contaminants in drinking water.
EPA has in place a MOU and an Interagency
Agreement (TAG) with the CDC to
implement this provision.
In implementing its source water assessment
and protection efforts, the Agency
coordinates many of its activities with other
Federal agencies. There are three major
areas of relationships with other agencies
concerning source water assessments and
protection.
Public Water Systems (PWS)
Some Federal agencies, (i.e., USDA (Forest
Service), DoD, DOE, DOI/NPS, and USPS),
own and operate public water systems.
EPA's coordination with these agencies
focuses primarily on ensuring that they
cooperate with the states in which their
systems are located, and that they are
accounted for in the states' source water
assessment programs as mandated in the
1996 amendments to the SDWA.
Data Availability, Outreach and Technical
Assistance
EPA coordinates with USGS, USDA (Forest
Service, Natural Resources Conservation
Service, Cooperative State Research,
Education, and Extension Service
(CSREES), Rural Utilities Service); DOT,
DoD, DOE, DOI (NFS and Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA), Land Management, and
Reclamation); HHS (Indian Health Service)
and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Tribal Access Coordination
EPA will continue to work with other
Federal agencies to develop a coordinated
approach to improving tribal access to safe
drinking water. In response to commitments
made during the 2002 World Summit in
Johannesburg, the EPA committed to the
goal of coordinating with other Federal
agencies to reduce by half the number of
households on tribal lands lacking access to
safe drinking water by 2015. United
Nations. 2002. Report of the World Summit
on Sustainable Development: Johannesburg,
South Africa, 26 August - 4 September,
2002. New York, NY: United Nations.
Collaboration with USGS
EPA and USGS have identified the need to
engage in joint, collaborative field activities,
research and testing, data exchange, and
analyses, in areas such as the occurrence of
unregulated contaminants, the
environmental relationships affecting
contaminant occurrence, evaluation of
currently regulated contaminants, improved
protection area delineation methods,
laboratory methods, and test methods
evaluation. EPA has an IAG with USGS to
accomplish such activities. This
collaborative effort has improved the quality
of information to support risk management
decision-making at all levels of government,
generated valuable new data, and eliminated
potential redundancies.
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Collaboration with Public and Private
Partners on Critical Water Infrastructure
Protection
EPA coordinates with other Federal
agencies, primarily DHS, CDC, FDA and
DoD on biological, chemical, and
radiological contaminants, and how to
respond to their presence in drinking water
and wastewater systems. A close linkage
with the FBI, particularly with respect to
ensuring the effectiveness of the ISAC, will
be continued. The Agency is strengthening
its working relationships with the American
Water Works Association Research
Foundation, the Water Environment
Research Federation and other research
institutions to increase our knowledge on
technologies to detect contaminants,
monitoring protocols and techniques, and
treatment effectiveness.
Collaboration with FDA
EPA and FDA have issued joint national
fish consumption advisories to protect the
public from exposure to mercury in
commercially and recreationally caught fish,
as well as fish caught for subsistence.
EPA's advisory covers the recreational and
subsistence fisheries in fresh waters where
states and Tribes have not assessed the
waters for the need for an advisory, ibid.
http://mapl.epa.gov/html/federaladv
FDA's advisory covers commercially caught
fish, and fish caught in marine waters. Ibid.
http ://map 1 .epa. gov/html/federaladv EPA
works closely with FDA to distribute the
advisory to the public. In addition, EPA
works with FDA to investigate the need for
advisories for other contaminants and to
ensure that these federal advisories support
and augment advisories issued by states and
Tribes.
Beach Monitoring and Public Notification
The BEACH Act requires that all Federal
agencies with jurisdiction over coastal and
Great Lakes recreation waters adjacent to
beaches used by the public implement beach
monitoring and public notification
programs. These programs must be
consistent with guidance published by EPA.
ibid. "National Beach Guidance and
Required Performance Criteria for Grants."
EPA will continue to work with the USPS
and other Federal agencies to ensure that
their beach water quality monitoring and
notification programs are technically sound
and consistent with program performance
criteria published by EPA.
Objective. Protect Water Quality
Watersheds
Protecting and restoring watersheds will
depend largely on the direct involvement of
many Federal agencies and state, Tribal and
local governments who manage the
multitude of programs necessary to address
water quality on a watershed basis. Federal
agency involvement will include USDA
(Natural Resources Conservation Service,
Forest Service, Agriculture Research
Service), DOI (Bureau of Land
Management, Office of Surface Mining,
USGS, USFWS, and the Bureau of Indian
Affairs), NOAA, DOT, and DoD (Navy and
COE). At the state level, agencies involved
in watershed management typically include
departments of natural resources or the
environment, public health agencies, and
forestry and recreation agencies. Locally,
numerous agencies are involved, including
Regional planning entities such as councils
of governments, as well as local departments
of environment, health and recreation who
frequently have strong interests in watershed
projects.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System Program (NPDES)
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Since inception of the NPDES program
under Section 402 of the CWA, EPA and the
authorized states have developed expanded
relationships with various Federal agencies
to implement pollution controls for point
sources. HP A works closely with USFWS
and the National Marine Fisheries Service
on consultation for protection of endangered
species through a Memorandum of
Agreement. EPA works with the Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation on
National Historic Preservation Act
implementation. EPA and the states rely on
monitoring data from USGS to help confirm
pollution control decisions. The Agency
also works closely with SBA and the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) to
ensure that regulatory programs are fair and
reasonable. The Agency coordinates with
the NOAA on efforts to ensure that NPDES
programs support coastal and national
estuary efforts; and with the DOI on mining
issues.
Joint Strategy for Animal Feeding
Operations
The Agency is working closely with the
USDA to implement the Unified National
Strategy for Animal Feeding Operations
finalized on March 9, 1999. The Strategy
sets forth a framework of actions that USDA
and EPA will take to minimize water quality
and public health impacts from improperly
managed animal wastes in a manner
designed to preserve and enhance the long-
term sustainability of livestock production.
EPA's recent revisions to the CAFO
Regulations (effluent guidelines and NPDES
permit regulations) will be a key element of
EPA and USDA's plan to address water
pollution from CAFOs. EPA and USDA
senior management meet routinely to ensure
effective coordination across the two
agencies.
Clean Water State Revolving Fund
(CWSRF)
Representatives from EPA's SRF program,
HUD's Community Development Block
Grant program, and USDA's Rural Utility
Service have signed a MOU committing to
assisting state or Federal implementers in:
(1) coordination of the funding cycles of the
three Federal agencies; (2) consolidation of
plans of action (operating plans, intended
use plans, strategic plans, etc.); and (3)
preparation of one environmental review
document, when possible, to satisfy the
requirements of all participating Federal
agencies. A coordination group at the
Federal level has been formed to further
these efforts and maintain lines of
communication. In many states,
coordination committees have been
established with representatives from the
three programs.
In implementation of the Indian set-aside
grant program under Title VI of the CWA,
EPA works closely with the Indian Health
Service to administer grant funds to the
various Indian Tribes, including
determination of the priority ranking system
for the various wastewater needs in Indian
Country. In 1998, EPA and the Rural
Utilities Service of the USDA formalized a
partnership between the two agencies to
provide coordinated financial and technical
assistance to Tribes.
Construction Grants Program - US Army
Corps of Engineers
Throughout the history of the construction
grants program under Title II of the CWA,
EPA and the delegated states have made
broad use of the construction expertise of
the COE to provide varied assistance in
construction oversight and administrative
matters. EPA works with the Corps to
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provide oversight for construction of the
special projects that Congress has
designated. The mechanism for this
expertise has been and continues to be an
JAG between the two agencies.
Nonpolnt Sources
EPA will continue to work closely with its
Federal partners to achieve the ambitious
strategic objective of reducing pollutant
discharges, including at least 20 percent
from 1992 erosion levels. Most
significantly, EPA will continue to work
with the USDA, which has a key role in
reducing sediment loadings through its
continued implementation of the
Environmental Quality Incentives Program,
Conservation Reserve Program, and other
conservation programs. USDA also plays a
major role in reducing nutrient discharges
through these same programs and through
activities related to the AFO Strategy. EPA
will also continue to work closely with the
Forest Service and Bureau of Land
Management, whose programs can
contribute significantly to reduced pollutant
loadings of sediment, especially on the vast
public lands that comprise 29 percent of all
land in the United States. EPA will work
with these agencies, USGS, and the states to
document improvements in land
management and water quality.
EPA will also work with other Federal
agencies to advance a watershed approach to
Federal land and resource management to
help ensure that Federal land management
agencies serve as a model for water quality
stewardship in the prevention of water
pollution and the restoration of degraded
water resources. Implementation of a
watershed approach will require
coordination among Federal agencies at a
watershed scale and collaboration with
states, Tribes and other interested
stakeholders.
Vessel Discharges
Regarding vessel discharges, EPA will
continue working closely with the USCG on
addressing ballast water discharges
domestically, and with the interagency work
group and U.S. delegation to Marine
Environmental Protection Committee
(MEPC) on international controls. EPA will
continue to work closely with the USCG,
Alaska and other states, and the
International Council of Cruise Lines
regarding regulatory and non-regulatory
approaches to managing wastewater
discharges from cruise ships. EPA will also
continue to work with the Coast Guard
regarding the vessel sewage discharge
standards and with the Navy on developing
Uniform National Discharge Standards for
Armed Forces vessels. Regarding dredged
material management, EPA will continue to
work closely with the COE on standards for
permit review, as well as site
selection/designation and monitoring.
OIA also serves as the primary point-of-
contact and liaison with USAID. Specially
drawing on expertise from throughout EPA,
OIA administers a number of interagency
agreements for environmental assistance.
EPA works closely with a number of other
Federal agencies with environmental, health,
or safety mandates. These include (among
others) the DOL, DOT, USDA, DOI, HHS
and FDA.
EPA works with the Department of State,
NOAA, USCG, Navy, and other Federal
agencies in developing the technical basis
and policy decisions necessary for
negotiating global treaties concerning
marine an ti fouling systems, invasive
species, and air pollution from ships. EPA
also works with the same Agencies in
addressing land-based sources of marine
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pollution in the Gulf of Mexico and Wider
Caribbean Basin.
Objective: Enhance Science and Research
While EPA is the Federal agency mandated
to ensure safe drinking water, other Federal
and non-Federal entities are conducting
research that complements EPA's research
program on priority contaminants in
drinking water. For example, the CDC and
NIEHS conduct health effects and exposure
research. FDA also performs research on
children's risks.
Many of these research activities are being
conducted in collaboration with EPA
scientists. The private sector, particularly
the water treatment industry, is conducting
research in such areas as analytical methods,
treatment technologies, and the development
and maintenance of water resources.
Cooperative research efforts have been
ongoing with the American Water Works
Association Research Foundation and other
stakeholders to coordinate drinking water
research. EPA is also working with USGS
to evaluate performance of newly developed
methods for measuring microbes in potential
drinking water sources.
EPA has developed joint research initiatives
with NOAA and USGS for linking
monitoring data and field study information
with available toxicity data and assessment
models for developing sediment criteria.
The issue of eutrophication, hypoxia, and
harmful algal blooms (HABs) is a priority
with the Committee on Environment and
Natural Resources (CENR). An interagency
research strategy for pfiesteria and other
harmful algal species was developed in
1998, and EPA is continuing to implement
that strategy. EPA is working closely with
NOAA on the issue of nutrients and risks
posed by HABs. This CENR is also
coordinating the research efforts among
Federal agencies to assess the impacts of
nutrients and hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.
Urban wet weather flow research is being
coordinated with other organizations such as
the Water Environment Research
Foundation's Wet Weather Advisory Panel,
the ASCE Urban Water Resources Research
Council, the COE, and USGS. Research on
the characterization and management of
pollutants from agricultural operations (e.g.,
CAFOs) is being coordinated with USDA
through workshops and other discussions.
EPA is pursuing collaborative research
projects with the USGS to utilize water
quality data from urban areas obtained
through the USGS National Ambient Water
Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program,
showing levels of pesticides that are even
higher than in many agricultural area
streams. These data have potential uses for
identifying sources of urban pesticides, and
EPA will evaluate how the USGS data could
be integrated into the Geographic
Information System (GIS) database system.
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Goal 3-Land Preservation and Restoration
Objective: Preserve Land
Pollution prevention activities entail
coordination with other Federal
departments/agencies, such as the General
Services Administration (GSA) (use of safer
products for indoor painting and cleaning),
the DoD (use of safer paving materials for
parking lots), and Defense Logistics Agency
(safer solvents). The program also works
with the NIST, the International Standards
Organization, and other groups to develop
standards for Environmental Management
Systems.
In addition to business, industry and other
non-governmental organizations, EPA will
work with Federal, state, Tribal, and local
governments to encourage reduced
generation as well as the safe recycling of
wastes. Frequently, successful programs
require multiple partners to address the
multi-media nature of effective source
reduction and recycling. The Agency has
brought together a range of stakeholders to
examine alternatives in specific industrial
sectors, and several regulatory changes have
followed which encourage hazardous waste
recycling. Partners in this effort include the
Environmental Council of States, the Tribal
Association on Solid Waste and Emergency
Response, and the Association of State and
Territorial Solid Waste Management
Officials.
As Federal partners, EPA and the USPS
work together on several municipal solid
waste projects. For instance, rather than
dispose of returned or unwanted mail, EPA
and the USPS developed and implemented
successful recycling procedures and
markets. For example, unwanted mail
(advertisements, catalogues, etc.) is being
returned to the Post Office for recycling
rather than disposal by the recipient. In
addition, Integrated Solid Waste
Management Plans are being implemented
at parks in western states because of
Regional offices' assistance to the NFS.
EPA also works with the SBA to provide
support to recycling businesses.
The Federal government is the single largest
potential source for "green" procurement in
the country for office products as well as
products for industrial use. EPA works with
other Federal agencies and departments in
advancing the purchase and use of recycled-
content and other "green" products. In
particular, the Agency is currently engaged
with other organizations within the
Executive Branch to foster compliance with
Executive Order 13101 and in tracking and
reporting purchases of products made with
recycled contents.
In addition, the Agency is currently engaged
with the DoD, DoEd, DOE, USPS, and other
agencies to foster proper management of
surplus electronics equipment, with a
preference for reuse and recycling. With
these agencies, and in cooperation with the
electronics industry, EPA participated in
developing a draft interagency MOU which
will lead to increased reuse and recycling of
an array of computers and other electronics
hardware used by civilian and military
agencies. Implementation of this MOU will
divert substantial quantities of plastic, glass,
lead, mercury, silver, and other materials
from disposal. Currently, EPA works with
USDA and FDA on a variety of issues
related to the disposal of agricultural
products (food and/or animals),
contaminated with chemical or biological
pathogens.
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Concerns about the use of contaminants of
concern (e.g., methyl-tertiary-butyl-ether, or
MTBE) in gasoline further underscores
EPA's and the state's emphasis on
promoting compliance with all Underground
Storage Tanks (UST) requirements. EPA
provides technical information, forums for
information exchanges and training
opportunities to sates, Tribes and Intertribal
Consorita to encourage program
development and/or implementation of the
UST program. In FY 2007, EPA will
continue to promote cross media
opportunities (e.g. targeted public health
protection through UST and Source Water
Protection Programs, support core
development and implementation of state
and Tribal UST programs, strengthen
partnerships among stakeholders and
provide technical assistance, compliance
assistance, and training to promote and
enforce UST facilities' compliance.
Objective: Restore Land
Superfund Remedial Program
The Superfund Remedial program
coordinates with many other Federal and
state agencies in accomplishing its mission.
Currently, EPA has active interagency
agreements with NOAA, DOI, OSHA, the
Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), and USCG.
These agencies provide numerous Superfund
related services such as providing technical
support during hazardous waste site
investigations and identifying and evaluating
the severity of risks posed to natural
resources from hazardous waste sites;
providing scientific support for response
operations in EPA's Regional offices;
supporting the national response system by
providing emergency preparedness expertise
and administrative support to the National
Response Team and the Regional Response
Teams; assisting in the coordination among
Federal and state natural resource trustee
agencies; conducting outreach to stales,
Indian Tribes and Federal natural resource
trustee officials regarding natural resource
damage assessments; conducting
compliance assistance visits to review site
safety and health plans and developing
guidelines for assessing safety and health at
hazardous waste sites; supporting the
Superfund program in the management and
coordination of training programs for local
officials through the Emergency
Management Institute and the National Fire
Academy: esponding to actual or potential
releases of hazardous substances involving
the coastal zones, including the Great Lakes
and designated inland river ports; and,
litigating and settling cleanup agreements
and cost recovery cases.
Superfund Federal Facilities Program
The Superfund Federal Facilities Program
coordinates with Federal agencies (e.g.
DoD, DOE, DOI, etc.), states, Tribes and
state associations and others to implement
its statutory responsibilities to ensure
cleanup and property reuse. The Federal
Facilities Program provides technical and
regulatory oversight at Federal facilities to
ensure human health and environment are
protected. Executive Order 12580 delegates
certain authorities for implementing
Superfund to other Federal agencies. EPA's
participation in the acceleration process of
the first four rounds of Base Realignment
and Closures (BRAC) was funded through
an IAG which expires on September 30,
2008. BRAC Round 5, finalized in 2005,
will result in additional work requirements
in FY 2006 and outyears. In expediting
DOE's cleanup program, DOE has signed
lAGs with EPA for technical input regarding
innovative and flexible regulatory
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approaches, streamlining of documentation,
integration' of projects, deletion of sites from
the NPL, field assessments, and
development of management documents and
processes. The lAGs have received
recognition by DOE as a model for potential
use at other DOE field offices.
The Agency also works in partnership with
state and Tribal governments to strengthen
their hazardous waste programs and improve
the efficiency and effectiveness of the
nation's overall hazardous waste response
capability. EPA assists the states in
developing their Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act (CERCLA) implementation
programs through infrastructure support,
financial and technical assistance, and
training. Partnerships with states increase
the number of site cleanups, improve the
timeliness of responses, and make land
available for economic redevelopment
earlier in the process, while allowing for
more direct local involvement in the cleanup
process.
EPA partners with other Federal agencies,
state and local governments, and private
industry to fulfill Superfund program
priorities when a site is radioactively
contaminated. Under CERCLA,
radioactively contaminated sites are
addressed in a manner consistent with how
chemically contaminated sites are addressed,
accounting for the technical differences.
The radiation program provides radiological
scientific and technical expertise and
leadership in evaluating projects as well as
providing field and laboratory support.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
The Agency maintains a close relationship
with the state agencies that are authorized to
implement the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA) Permitting and
Corrective Action Programs. EPA expects
states to achieve the same level of Federal
standards as the Agency, including annual
performance goals of human exposures and
groundwater releases controlled, as well as
the number of facilities brought under
approved controls. As part of the state grant
process, Regional offices negotiate with the
states their progress in meeting the
corrective action environmental indicator
goals.
Encouraging states to become authorized for
the RCRA Corrective Action Program
remains a priority. Currently, 41 states and
territories have been authorized to
implement the program. EPA also
encourages states to use alternate (non-
RCRA) authorities to accomplish the goals
of the Corrective Action Program. These
include state Superfund and voluntary
programs.
The RCRA Permitting and Corrective
Action Programs also coordinate closely
with other Federal agencies, primarily the
DoD and DOE, which have many sites in
the corrective action universe. Encouraging
Federal facilities to meet the RCRA
Corrective Action program's goals remains
a top priority.
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
EPA, with very few exceptions, does not
perform the cleanup of leaking underground
storage tanks (LUST). States and territories
use the LUST Trust Fund to administer their
corrective action programs, oversee
cleanups by responsible parties, undertake
necessary enforcement actions, and pay for
cleanups in cases where a responsible party
cannot be found or is unwilling or unable to
pay for a cleanup. Thirty-seven states have
their own cleanup funds to pay for the
majority of owners' and operators' cleanup
costs. The vast majority of LUST cleanups
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are paid for by state LUST cleanup funds
and not by private parties; state funds are
separate from the Federal LUST Trust Fund.
States are key to achieving the objectives
and long-term strategic goals. Except in
Indian Country, EPA relies on state agencies
to implement the LUST Program, including
overseeing cleanups by responsible parties
and responding to emergency LUST
releases. LUST cooperative agreements
awarded by EPA are directly given to the
states to assist them in implementing their
oversight and programmatic role. The EPA
LUST Program also coordinates its efforts
with EPA's Office of Water to jointly work
with the states to address contamination in
areas that are the sources of drinking water.
Emergency Preparedness and Response
EPA plays a major role in reducing the risks
accidental and intentional releases of
harmful substances and oil pose to human
health and the environment. This requires
continuous coordination with many Federal,
state and local agencies. As the Federal on-
sccne coordinator (OSC) in the inland zone,
EPA evaluates and responds to thousands of
releases annually as part of the National
Response Plan (NRP). The NRP is a multi-
agency preparedness and response
mechanism that includes the following key
components: the National Response Center
(NRC); the National Response Team (NRT),
composed of 16 Federal agencies; 13
Regional Response Teams (RRTs); and
Federal OSCs. These organizations work
with state and local officials to develop and
maintain contingency plans will enable the
Nation to respond effectively to hazardous
substance and oil emergencies.
In addition, the Agency plays a leadership
role in crisis management, requiring
participation on a number of interagency
committees and workgroups. Building on
current efforts to enhance national
emergency response management, EPA and
its role on the NRT will continue
implementation of the new National Incident
Management System (NIMS).
The NRP, under the direction of DHS
provides for the delivery of Federal
assistance to states to help them deal with
the consequences of terrorist events as well
as natural and other significant disasters.
EPA has the lead responsibility for the
plan's Emergency Support Function
covering hazardous materials and inland
petroleum releases. Accordingly, EPA
participates in the Federal Emergency
Support Function Leaders Group which
addresses NRP planning and implementation
at the operational level. Through this
interagency organization, Federal agencies
handle issue formulation and resolution,
review after-action reports, and evaluate the
need for changes to NRP planning and
implementation strategies. They also
participate in NRP exercises, training and
post event evaluation actions, coordinating
these activities closely with the NRT.
EPA coordinates its preparedness activities
with DHS, FEMA, Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), other Federal agencies,
states and local governments. EPA will also
continue to clarify its roles and
responsibilities to ensure that Agency
security programs are consistent with the
national homeland security strategy.
EPA provides staff support to the Homeland
Security Operations Center (HSOC) during
national disasters and emergencies, response
to terrorist incidents and other responses
under the NRP. EPA will also continue to
develop and participate in training courses
on emergency support function
responsibilities, deliver presentations on the
NRP to national forums and participate in
nationwide exercises to test and improve the
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Federal government's preparedness and
response system as well as its capabilities.
Under the Oil Spill Program, EPA works
with other Federal agencies such as
USFWS, NOAA, USCG, FEMA, DOI,
DOT, DOE, and other Federal agencies and
states, as well as with local government
authorities to develop Area Contingency
Plans. DOJ also provides assistance to
agencies with judicial referrals when
enforcement of violations becomes
necessary. EPA and the USCG work in
coordination with other Federal authorities
to implement the National Preparedness for
Response Program.
The COE and the Bureau of Reclamation
contribute to the cleanup of Superfund sites
by providing technical support for the design
and construction of many remediation
projects through site-specific interagency
agreements. These Federal partners have the
technical design and construction expertise
and contracting capability needed to assist
EPA regions in implementing most of
Superfund's high-cost fund-financed
remedial action projects. The two agencies
also provide technical on-site support to
Regions in the enforcement oversight of
numerous construction projects performed
by Potentially Responsible Parties (PRPs).
EPA expends substantial effort coordinating
its research with other Federal agencies,
including work with DoD in its Strategic
Environmental Research and Development
Program (SERDP) and the Environmental
Security Technology Certification Program,
DOE and its Office of Health and
Environmental Research. EPA also conducts
collaborative laboratory research with DoD,
DOE, DOI (particularly the USGS), and
NASA to improve characterization and risk
management options for dealing with
subsurface contamination.
Other research efforts involving
coordination include the unique controlled-
spill field research facility designed in
cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation.
Geophysical research experiments and
development of software for subsurface
characterization and detection of
contaminants are being conducted with the
USGS and DOE's Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory. The USGS also has a
number of programs, such as the Toxic
Substances Hydrology Program, that support
studies related to contamination of surface
water and groundwater by hazardous
materials.
The Agency is also working with NIEHS,
which manages a large basic research
program focusing on Superfund issues, to
advance fundamental Superfund research.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry (ATSDR) also provides
critical health-based information to assist
EPA in making effective cleanup decisions.
EPA works with these agencies on
collaborative projects, information
exchange, and identification of research
issues and has a MOU with each agency.
Additionally, the Interstate Technology
Regulatory Council (ITRC) has proved an
effective forum for coordinating Federal and
state activities and for defining continuing
research needs through its teams on topics
including permeable reactive barriers,
radionuclides, and Brownfields EPA has
developed an MOU29 with several other
agencies [DOE, DoD, NRC, USGS, NOAA,
and USDA] for multimedia modeling
research and development.
29 For more information please go to: Interagency Steering
Committee on Multimedia Environmental Models MOU,
http://www.iscrnem.orE/Memorandum.htm
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Goal 4-Healthy Communities and Ecosystems
Objective: Chemical, Organism and
Pesticide Risks
Coordination with state lead agencies and
with the USDA provides added impetus to
the implementation of the Certification and
Training program. States also provide
essential activities in developing and
implementing the Endangered Species and
Worker Protection programs and are
involved in numerous special projects and
investigations, including emergency
response efforts. The Regions provide
technical guidance and assistance to the
states and Tribes in the implementation of
all pesticide program activities.
EPA uses a range of outreach and
coordination approaches for pesticide users,
agencies implementing various pesticide
programs and projects, and the general
public. Outreach and coordination activities
are essential to effective implementation of
regulatory decisions. In addition
coordination activities protect workers and
endangered species, provide training for
pesticide applicators, promote integrated
pest management and environmental
stewardship, and support for compliance
through EPA's Regional programs and those
of the states and Tribes.
In addition to the training that EPA provides
to farm workers and restricted use pesticide
applicators, EPA works with the State
Cooperative Extension Services designing
and providing specialized training for
various groups. Such training includes
instructing private applicators on the proper
use of personal protective equipment and
application equipment calibration, handling
spill and injury situations, farm family
safety, preventing pesticide spray drift, and
pesticide and container disposal. Other
specialized training is provided to public
works employees on grounds maintenance,
to pesticide control operators on proper
insect identification, and on weed control for
agribusiness.
EPA coordinates with and uses information
from a variety of Federal, state and
international organizations and agencies in
our efforts to protect the safety of America's
health and environment from hazardous or
higher risk pesticides. In May 1991, the
USDA implemented the Pesticide Data
Program (PDF) to collect objective and
statistically reliable data on pesticide
residues on food commodities. This action
was in response to public concern about the
effects of pesticides on human health and
environmental quality. EPA uses PDF data
to improve dietary risk assessment to
support the registration of pesticides for
minor crop uses.
PDF is critical to implementing the Food
Quality Protection Act (FQPA). The system
provides improved data collection of
pesticide residues, standardized analytical
and reporting methods, and sampling of
foods most likely consumed by infants and
children. PDF sampling, residue, testing
and data reporting are coordinated by the
Agricultural Marketing Service using
cooperative agreements with ten
participating states representing all regions
of the country. PDF serves as a showcase
for Federal-state cooperation on pesticide
and food safety issues.
FQPA requires EPA to consult with other
government agencies on major decisions.
EPA, USDA and FDA work closely together
using both a MOU and working committees
to deal with a variety of issues that affect the
involved agencies' missions. For example,
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agencies work together on residue testing
programs and on enforcement actions that
involve pesticide residues on food, and we
coordinate our review of antimicrobial
pesticides. The Agency coordinates with
USDA/ARS in promotion and
communication of resistance management
strategies. Additionally, we participate
actively in the Federal Interagency
Committee on Invasive Animals and
Pathogens (ITAP) which includes members
from USDA, DOL, DoD, DHS and CDC to
coordinate planning and technical advice
among Federal entities involved in invasive
species research, control and management.
While EPA is responsible for making
registration and tolerance decisions, the
Agency relies on others to carry out some of
the enforcement activities. Registration-
related requirements under FIFRA are
enforced by the states. The HSS/FDA
enforces tolerances for most foods and the
USDA/Food Safety and Inspection Service
enforces tolerances for meat, poultry and
some egg products.
Internationally, the Agency collaborates
with the Intergovernmental Forum on
Chemical Safety (IFCS), the CODEX
Alimentarius Commission, the North
American Commission on Environmental
Cooperation (NACEC), the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) and NAFTA Commission. These
activities serve to coordinate policies,
harmonize guidelines, share information,
correct deficiencies, build other nations'
capacity to reduce risk, develop strategies to
deal with potentially harmful pesticides and
develop greater confidence in the safety of
the food supply.
One of the Agency's most valuable partners
on pesticide issues is the Pesticide Program
Dialogue Committee (PPDC), which brings
together a broad cross-section of
knowledgeable individuals from
organizations representing divergent views
to discuss pesticide regulatory, policy and
implementation issues. The PPDC consists
of members from industry/trade
associations, pesticide user and commodity
groups, consumer and environmental/public
interest groups and others.
The PPDC provides a structured
environment for meaningful information
exchanges and consensus building
discussions, keeping the public involved in
decisions that affect them. Dialogue with
outside groups is essential if the Agency is
to remain responsive to the needs of the
affected , ublic, growers and industry
organizations.
EPA works closely with Federal agencies to
improve the health of children and older
adults. Working with the CDC, the
Environmental Council of the States
(ECOS), and the Association of State and
Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), a
national action agenda to reduce
environmental triggers of childhood asthma
was developed and implemented.
The Agency continues to work with other
Federal agencies in the development of
children's environmental health indicators
used to monitor the outcomes of children's
health efforts. The Agency collaborates
with the CDC, National Center for Health
Statistics and obtains approval from the
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and
Family Statistics (www.childstg.ts^gQy) on
the reporting of appropriate children's health
indicators and data. EPA also participates in
the development of the annual report entitled
"America's Children: Key National
Indicators of Weil-Being."
As a member of the Interagency Forum on
Aging Related Statistics, EPA helps to
assure that key indicators associated with
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important aspects of older Americans' lives
are considered in reports such as "Older
Americans 2004: Key Indicators of Well-
Being."
EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry (ATSDR) support the
Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty
Units (PEHSUs) which provide education
and consultation services on children's
environmental health issues to health
professionals, public health officials, and the
public.
EPA works closely with other Federal
agencies to improve children's health in
schools. For example, EPA has incorporated
into the new Healthy School Environments
Assessment Tool (HealthySEAT), a number
of recommendations and requirements from
the Department of Education, the CDC,
DOT, DOE, CPSC and OSIIA.
EPA relies on data from HHS to help assess
the risk of pesticides to children. Other
collaborative efforts that go beyond our
reliance on the data they collect include
developing and validating methods to
analyze domestic and imported food
samples for organophosphates, carcinogens,
neurotoxins and other chemicals of concern.
These joint efforts protect Americans from
unhealthful pesticide residue levels.
EPA's chemical testing data provides
information for the OSHA worker protection
programs, NIOSH for research, and the
Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC) for informing consumers about
products through labeling. EPA frequently
consults with these Agencies on project
design, progress and the results of chemical
testing projects.
The Agency works with a full range of
stakeholders on homeland security issues:
USDA, CDC, other Federal agencies,
industry and the scientific community.
Review of the agents that may be effective
against anthrax has involved GSA, State
Department, Research Institute for
Infectious Disease, FDA, EOSA, USPS, and
others, and this effort will build on this
network.
The Acute Exposure Guidelines (AEGL)
program is a collaborative effort that
includes ten Federal agencies (EPA, DHS,
DOE, DoD, DOT, NIOSH, OSHA, CDC,
ATSDR, and FDA), numerous state
agencies, private industry, academia,
emergency medical associations, unions, and
other organizations in the private sector.
The program also has been supported
internationally by the OECD and includes
active participation by the Netherlands,
Germany and France.
The success of EPA's lead program is due in
part to effective coordination with other
Federal agencies, states and Indian Tribes
through the President's Task Force on
Environmental Health Risks and Safety
Risks to Children. EPA will continue to
coordinate with HUD to clarify how new
rules may affect existing EPA and HUD
regulatory programs, and with the FHWA
and OSHA on worker protection issues.
EPA will continue to work closely with state
and Federally recognized Tribes to ensure
that authorized state and Tribal programs
continue to comply with requirements
established under TSCA, that the ongoing
Federal accreditation certification and
training program for lead professionals is
administered effectively, and states and
Tribes adopt the Renovation and
Remodeling and the Buildings and
Structures Rules when these rules become
effective.
EPA has a MOU with HUD on coordination
of efforts on lead-based paint issues. As a
result of the MOU, EPA and HUD have co-
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chaired the President's Task Force since
1997. There are fourteen other Federal
agencies including CDC and DoD on the
Task Force. HUD and EPA also maintain
the National Lead Information Center and
share enforcement of the Disclosure Rule.
Mitigation of existing risk is a common
interest for other Federal agencies
addressing issues of asbestos and PCBs.
EPA will continue to coordinate interagency
strategies for assessing and managing
potential risks from asbestos and other
fibers. Coordination on safe PCB disposal is
an area of ongoing emphasis with the DoD,
and particularly with the U.S. Navy, which
has special concerns regarding PCBs
encountered during ship scrapping. PCBs
and mercury storage and safe disposal are
also important issues requiring coordination
with the Department of Energy and DoD as
they develop alternatives and explore better
technologies for storing and disposing high
risk chemicals.
To effectively participate in the international
agreements on POPs, heavy metals and PIC
substances, EPA must continue to
coordinate with other Federal agencies and
external stakeholders, such as Congressional
staff, industry, and environmental groups.
For example, EPA has an interest in
ensuring that the listing of chemicals,
including the application of criteria and
processes for evaluating future chemicals for
possible international controls, is based on
sound science. Similarly, the Agency
typically coordinates with FDA's National
Toxicology Program, the CDC/ATSDR,
NIEHS and/or the Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC) on matters relating to
OECD test guideline harmonization.
EPA's objective is to promote improved
health and environmental protection, both
domesticallv and worldwide. The success of
this objective is dependent on successful
coordination not only with other countries,
but also with various international
organizations such as the Intergovernmental
Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS), the
North American Commission on
Environmental Cooperation (NACEC),
OECD, the United Nations Environment
Program (UNEP) and the CODEX
Alimentarius Commission. NAFTA and
cooperation with Canada and Mexico play
an integral part in the harmonization of data
requirements.
EPA is a leader in global discussions on
mercury and was instrumental in the launch
of UNEP's Global Mercury Program, and
we will continue to work with developing
countries and with other developed countries
in the context of that program. In addition,
we have developed a strong network of
domestic partners interested in working on
this issue, including the DOE and the USGS.
EPA has developed cooperative efforts on
persistant organic pollutants (POPs) with
key international organizations and bodies,
such as the United Nations Food and
Agricultural Organization, the United
Nations Environment Program, the Arctic
Council, and the World Bank. EPA is
partnering with domestic and international
industry groups and foreign governments to
develop successful programs.
Objective: Communities
The Governments of Mexico and the United
States agreed, in November 1993, to assist
communities on both sides of the border in
coordinating and carrying out environmental
infrastructure projects. The agreement
between Mexico and the United States
furthers the goals of the North American
Free Trade Agreement and the North
American Agreement on Environmental
Cooperation. To this purpose, the
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governments established two international
institutions, the Border Environmental
Cooperation Commission (BECC) and the
North American Development Bank
(NADBank), which manages the Border
Environmental Infrastructure Fund (BEIF),
to support the financing and construction of
much need environmental infrastructure.
The BECC, with headquarters in Ciudad
Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, assists local
communities and other sponsors in
developing and implementing environmental
infrastructure projects. The BECC also
certifies projects as eligible for NADBank
financing. The NADBank, with
headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, is
capitalized in equal shares by the United
States and Mexico. NADBank provides
new financing to supplement existing
sources of funds and foster the expanded
participation of private capital.
A significant number of residents along the
U.S.-Mexico border area are without basic
services such as potable water and
wastewater treatment and the problem has
become progressively worse in the last few
decades. Over the last several years, EPA
has continued to work with the U.S. and
Mexican Sections of the International
Boundary and Water Commission to further
efforts to improve water and wastewater
services to communities within 100 km of
the U.S.-Mexico border. Recently, EPA has
been involved in efforts to plan, design and
construct more than 10 water and
wastewater facilities in the border region.
EPA's environmental mandate and expertise
make it uniquely qualified to represent the
nation's environmental interests abroad.
While the Department of State is responsible
for the conduct of overall U.S. foreign
policy, implementation of particular
programs, projects, and agreements is often
the responsibility of other agencies with
specific technical expertise and resources.
Relations between EPA and DOS cut across
several offices and/or bureaus in both
organizations.
EPA works extensively with the Office of
the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), as
well as the USTR-chaired interagency Trade
Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) system, to
ensure that U.S. trade and environmental
polices are mutually supportive. (The TPSC
system consists of various interagency
workgroups that develop trade policy for
political level review and decision.) For
example, through the Agency's participation
in the negotiation of both regional and
bilateral trade agreements and the World
Trade Organization Agreements, EPA works
with USTR to ensure that U.S. obligations
under international trade agreements do not
hamper the ability of Federal and state
governments to maintain high levels of
domestic environmental protection.
The two agencies also work together to
ensure that new obligations are consistent
with U.S. law and EPA's rules, regulations,
and programs. In addition to the work with
USTR, EPA also cooperates with many
other Federal agencies in the development
and execution of U.S. trade policy, and in
performing environmental reviews of trade
agreements, developing and implementing
environmental cooperation agreements
associated with each new FTA, and
developing and implementing the associated
environmental capacity building projects.
EPA works most closely with the
Department of State, USAID and USTR in
the capacity building area. Finally, the
Agency also serves as the co-lead (with
USTR) of the Trade and Environment Policy
Advisory Committee (TEPAC), a formally-
constituted advisory body made up of
respected experts from industry, NGOs and
academia.
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Brownfields
Under the Brownfields Federal Partnership
Action Agenda, EPA and its partnering
agencies work together to prevent, assess,
safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. More than 20 federal agencies
dedicated to hrownfields cleanup and
redevelopment have committed their
resources to help revitalize communities
throughout the nation. Building on these
partnerships, EPA is initiating a
collaborative effort with other agencies
involved in brownfields revitalization to
develop a shared performance standard that
focuses on property reuse. Through this
effort, EPA and its partners will analyze
methods to demonstrate and measure the
transition of brownfields into productive
reuse.
Objective: Ecosystems
National Estuary Program
Effectively implementing successful
comprehensive management plans for the
estuaries in the NEP depends on the
cooperation, involvement, and commitment
of Federal and state agency partners that
have some role in protecting and/or
managing those estuaries. Common Federal
partners include NOAA, USFWS, COE, and
USDA. Other partners include state and
local government agencies, universities,
industry, non-governmental organizations
(NGO), and members of the public.
Wetlands
Federal agencies share the goal of increasing
wetlands functions and values, and
implementing a fair and flexible approach to
wetlands regulations. In addition, EPA has
committed to working with ACOE to ensure
that the Clean Water Act Section 404
program is more open, consistent,
predictable, and based on sound science.
Coastal America
In efforts to better leverage our collaborative
authorities to address coastal communities'
environmental issues (e.g., coastal habitat
losses, nonpoint source pollution,
endangered species, invasive species, etc.),
EPA, by memorandum of agreement in 2002
entered into an agreement with Multi-
agency signatories. November 2002.
Coastal America 2002 Memorandum of
Understanding. Available online at
http://www.CQastalamerica.gov/text/mou02.
htm
Great Lakes
Pursuant to the mandate in Section 118 of
the Clean Water Act to "coordinate action of
the Agency with the actions of other Federal
agencies and state and local authorities..."
Great Lakes National Program Office
(GLNPO) is engaged in extensive
coordination efforts with state, Tribal, and
other Federal agencies, as well as with our
counterparts in Canada. EPA and its local,
state, tribal and Federal partners are
coordinating restoration of the Great Lakes
pursuant to a Great Lakes Regional
Collaboration. EPA previously joined with
states, Tribes, and Federal agencies that
have stewardship responsibilities for the
Lakes in developing the new Great Lakes
Strategy. In addition to the eight Great
Lakes States and interested Tribes, partners
include the COE, USCG, USFWS, USGS,
NOAA and NRCS. The Strategy joins
environmental protection agencies with
natural resource agencies in pursuit of
common goals. These organizations meet
semi-annually as the Great Lakes U.S.
Policy Committee to strategically plan and
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prioritize environmental actions. GLNPO
monitoring involves extensive coordination
among these partners, both in terms of
implementing the monitoring program, and
in utilizing results from the monitoring to
manage environmental programs. GLNPO's
sediments program works closely with the
states and the Corps regarding dredging
issues. Implementation of the Binational
Toxics Strategy involves extensive
coordination with Great Lakes States.
GLNPO works closely with states, Tribes,
FWS, and NRCS in addressing habitat
issues in the Great Lakes. EPA also
coordinates with these partners regarding
development and implementation of
lakewide Management Plans for each of the
Great Lakes and for Remedial Action Plans
for the 31 U.S./binational Areas of Concern.
Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay Program has a Federal
Agencies Committee, chaired by EPA,
which was formed in 1984 and has met
regularly ever since. There are currently
over 20 different Federal agencies actively
involved with the Bay Program through the
Federal Agencies Committee. The Federal
agencies have worked together over the past
decade to implement the commitments laid
out in the 1994 Agreement of Federal
Agencies on Ecosystem Management in the
Chesapeake Bay and the 1998 Federal
Agencies Chesapeake Ecosystem Unified
Plan (FACEUP). The Federal Agencies
Committee has been focusing on how its
members can help to achieve the 104
commitments contained in the Chesapeake
2000 agreement adopted by the Chesapeake
Bay Program in June 2000. Through this
interagency partnership Federal agencies
have contributed to some major successes,
such as the U.S. Forest Service helping to
meet the year 2010 goal to restore 2,010
miles of riparian forest buffers eight years
early; the NPS the effort to establish over
500 miles of water trails three years early;
and the USFWS in reaching the Program's
fish passage goal of reopening 1,357 miles
of formerly blocked river habitat in 2004.
Also in 2004, through the Federal Agencies
Committee, the members sought better
coordination of agency budgets and other
programs to try to leverage maximum
benefit to the state, private, and Federal
efforts protect and restore the Bay.
Gulf of Mexico
Key to the continued progress of the Gulf of
Mexico Program is a broad multi-
organizational Gulf states-led partnership
comprises of regional; business and
industry; agriculture; state and local
government; citizens; environmental and
fishery interests; and, numerous Federal
departments and agencies. This Gulf
partnership is comprised of members of the
Gulf Program's Policy Review Board,
subcommittees, and workgroups.
Established in 1988, the Gulf of Mexico
Program is designed to assist the Gulf States
and stakeholders in developing a regional,
ecosystem-based framework for restoring
and protecting the Gulf of Mexico through
coordinated Gulf-wide as well as priority
area-specific efforts. The Gulf States
strategically identify the key environmental
issues and work at the regional, state, and
local level to define, recommend, and
voluntarily implement the supporting
solutions. To achieve the Program's
environmental objectives, the partnership
must target specific Federal, state, local, and
private programs, processes, and financial
authorities in order to leverage the resources
needed to support state and community
actions.
Objective; Enhance Science and Research
Several Federal agencies sponsor research
on variability and susceptibility in risks from
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exposure to environmental contaminants.
EPA collaborates with a number of the
Institutes within the NTH and CDC. For
example, NIEHS conducts multi-
disciplinary biomedical research programs,
prevention and intervention efforts, and
communication strategies. The NIEHS
program includes an effort to study the
effects of chemicals, including pesticides
and other toxics, on children. EPA
collaborates with NIEHS in supporting the
Centers for Children's Environmental
Health and Disease Prevention, which study
whether and how environmental factors play
a role in children's health.
Research in ecosystems protection is
coordinated government-wide through the
Committee on Environment and Natural
Resources (CENR). EPA is an active
participant in the CENR, and all work is
fully consistent and complementary with
other Committee member activities. EPA
researchers work within the CENR on the
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Program (EMAP) and other ecosystems
protection research, including the restoration
of habitats and species, impacts of landscape
change, invasive species and inventory and
monitoring programs.
The Mid-Atlantic Landscape Atlas
represents one of the EMAP's first regional-
scale ecological assessments, and was
developed in cooperation with NOAA,
USFWS, the University of Tennessee, and
DOE's Oak Ridge National laboratory.
Development of the Networking and
Information Technology Research &
Development (NITR) Modeling System is
coordinated with the COE, USDA and DOE.
Through interagency agreements with
USGS, EPA has worked to investigate and
develop tools for assessing the impact of
hydrogeology on riparian restoration efforts.
The collaborative work with the USGS
continues to play a vital role in investigating
the impact and fate of atmospheric loadings
of nitrogen and nitrogen applications as part
of restoration technologies on terrestrial and
aquatic ecosystems. All of these efforts have
significant implications for risk management
in watersheds, total maximum daily load
(TMDL) implementation, and management
of non-point source pollutants.
The Agency, through partnerships with
private sector companies, non-profits, other
Federal agencies, universities, and states,
including California EPA, has worked to
identify and control human exposure to
methyl-mercury. EPA has also been
working with DOE and USGS to address
risk management issues associated with
mercury emissions from utilities.
Homeland Security research is conducted in
collaboration with numerous agencies,
leveraging funding across multiple programs
and producing synergistic results. EPA's
National Homeland Security Research
Center (NHSRC) works closely with the
DHS to assure that EPA's efforts are directly
supportive of DHS priorities. EPA is also
working with DHS to provide support and
guidance to DHS in the startup of their
University Centers of Excellence program.
Recognizing that the DoD has significant
expertise and facilities related to biological
and chemical warfare agents, the NHSRC
works closely with the Edgewood Chemical
and Biological Center (ECBC), the
Technical Support Working Group, the
Army Corps of Engineers, and other
Department of Defense organizations to
address areas of mutual interest and concern.
In conducting biological agent research, the
NHSRC is also collaborating with CDC.
The NHSRC works with DOE to access and
support research conducted by DOE's
National Laboratories, as well as to obtain
data related to radioactive materials.
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In addition to these major collaborations, the
NHSRC has relationships with numerous
other Federal agencies, including the U.S.
Air Force, U.S. Navy, FDA, USGS, and
NIST. Also, the NHSRC is working with
state and local emergency response
personnel to understand better their needs
and build relationships, which will enable
the quick deployment of NHSRC products.
In the water infrastructure arena, the
NHSRC is providing information to the
Water Information Sharing and Analysis
Center (WaterlSAC) operated by the
Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies
(AMWA). The National Academy of
Sciences has also been engaged to provide
advice on the long-term direction of the
water research and technical support
program.
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Goal 5-Compliance and Environmental Stewardship
Objective: Improve Compliance
The Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance Program coordinates closely with
DOJ on all enforcement matters. In
addition, the program coordinates with other
agencies on specific environmental issues as
described herein.
The Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance (OECA) coordinates with the
Chemical Safety and Accident Investigation
Board, OSHA, and Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry in
preventing and responding to accidental
releases and endangerment situations, with
the BIA on Tribal issues relative to
compliance with environmental laws on
Tribal Lands, and with the SBA on the
implementation of the Small Business
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act
(SBREFA). OECA also shares information
with the IRS on cases which require
defendants to pay civil penalties, thereby
assisting the IRS in assuring compliance
with tax laws. In addition, it coordinates
with the SBA and a number of other Federal
agencies in implementing the Business
Compliance One-Stop Project, an "E-
Government" project that is part of the
President's Regulatory Management
Agenda. OECA also works with a variety of
Federal agencies including the DOL and the
IRS to organize a Federal Compliance
Assistance Roundtable to address cross
cutting compliance assistance issues.
Coordination also occurs with the COE on
wetlands,
Due to changes in the Food Security Act, the
USDA/NRCS has a major role in
determining whether areas on agricultural
lands meet the definition of wetlands and are
therefore regulated under the CWA. Civil
Enforcement coordinates with USDA/NRCS
on these issues also. The program
coordinates closely with the USDA on the
implementation of the Unified National
Strategy for Animal Feedlot Operations.
EPA's Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance Program also coordinates with
USDA on food safety issues arising from the
misuse of pesticides, and shares joint
jurisdiction with Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) on pesticide labeling and advertising.
Coordination also occurs with Customs on
pesticide imports. EPA and the FDA share
jurisdiction over general-purpose
disinfectants used on non-critical surfaces
and some dental and medical equipment
surfaces (e.g., wheelchairs). The Agency
has entered into a MOU with HUD
concerning lead poisoning.
The Criminal Enforcement program
coordinates with other Federal law
enforcement agencies (i.e. FBI, Customs,
DOL, U.S. Treasury, USCG and DOJ) and
with state and local law enforcement
organizations in the investigation and
prosecution of environmental crimes. EPA
also actively works with DOJ to establish
task forces that bring together Federal, state
and local law enforcement organizations to
address environmental crimes. In addition,
the program has an Interagency Agreement
with the DHS to provide specialized
criminal environmental training to Federal,
state, local, and tribal law enforcement
personnel at the Federal Law Enforcement,
Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, GA.
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Under Executive Order 12088, EPA is
directed to provide technical assistance to
other Federal agencies to help ensure their
compliance with all environmental laws.
The Federal Facility Enforcement Program
coordinates with other Federal agencies,
states, local, and tribal governments to
ensure compliance by Federal agencies with
all environmental laws.
OECA collaborates with the states and
Tribes. States perform the vast majority of
inspections, direct compliance assistance,
and enforcement actions. Most EPA statutes
envision a partnership between EPA and the
states under which EPA develops national
standards and policies and the states
implement the program under authority
delegated by EPA. If a state does not seek
approval of a program, EPA must
implement that program in the state.
Historically, the level of state approvals has
increased as programs mature and state
capacity expands, with many of the key
environmental programs approaching
approval in nearly all states. EPA will
increase its effort to coordinate with states
on training, compliance assistance, capacity
building and enforcement. EPA will
continue to enhance the network of state and
tribal compliance assistance providers.
The Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance chairs the Interagency
Environmental Leadership Workgroup
established by Executive Order 13148. The
Workgroup consists of over 100
representatives from most Federal
departments and agencies. Its mission is to
assist all Federal agencies with meeting the
mandates of the Executive Order, including
implementation of environmental
management systems and environmental
compliance auditing programs, reducing
both releases and uses of toxic chemicals,
and compliance with pollution prevention
and pollution reporting requirements. In FY
2007, the OECA will work directly with a
number of other Federal agencies to improve
CWA compliance at Federal facilities.
OECA and other agencies will jointly
investigate the underlying causes of
persistent CWA violations and design and
implement fixes to the problems to keep
facilities in compliance over the long term.
OECA anticipates that FY 2007 will see the
completion of a multiple-year partnership
with the Veterans Health Administration
(VHA), a part of the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA). OECA and the VHA formed
the partnership in 2002 to improve
compliance at VHA medical centers across
the nation. Since then, EPA and VHA have
jointly designed and begun implementing
environmental management systems at all
VHA medical centers, completed multi-day
onsite reviews at more than 20 medical
centers to assess the strengths and
weaknesses of their environmental programs
and to guide the VHA in making program
improvements at all its medical centers, and
delivered multiple environmental
compliance courses for VHA staff and
managers.
EPA works directly with Canada and
Mexico bilaterally and in the trilateral
Commission for Environmental Cooperation
(CEC). EPA's border activities require
close coordination with the Bureau of
Customs and Border Protection, the Fish and
Wildlife Service, the Department of Justice,
and the States of Arizona, California, New
Mexico, and Texas.
Objective: Improve Environmental
Performance through Pollution Prevention
and Innovation
EPA is involved in a broad range of
pollution prevention (P2) activities which
can yield reductions in waste generation and
energy consumption in both the public and
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private sectors. For example, the EPP
initiative, which implements Executive
Orders 12873 and 13101, promotes the use
of cleaner products by Federal agencies.
This is aimed at stimulating demand for the
development of such products by industry.
This effort includes a number of
demonstration projects with other federal
Departments and agencies, such as the NFS
(to use Green Purchasing as a tool to achieve
the sustainability goals of the parks), DoD
(use of environmentally preferable
construction materials), and Defense
Logistics Agency (identification of
environmental attributes for products in its
purchasing system). The program is also
working within EPA to "green" its own
operations. The program also works with
NIST to develop a life-cycle based decision
support tool for purchasers.
Under the Suppliers' Partnership for the
Environment program and its umbrella
program, the GSN, EPA's P2 Program is
working closely with NIST and its
Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Program to provide technical assistance to
the process of "greening" industry supply
chains. The EPA is also working with the
DOE's Industrial Technologies Program to
provide energy audits and technical
assistance to these supply chains.
The Agency is required to review
environmental impact statements and other
major actions impacting the environment
and public health proposed by all Federal
agencies, and make recommendations to the
proposing Federal agency on how to
remedy/mitigate those impacts. Although
EPA is required under § 309 of the Clean
Air Act (CAA) to review and comment on
proposed Federal actions, neither the
National Environmental Policy Act nor §
309 CAA require a Federal agency to
modify its proposal to accommodate EPA's
concerns. EPA does have authority under
these statutes to refer major disagreements
with other Federal agencies to the Council
on Environmental Quality. Accordingly,
many of the beneficial environmental
changes or mitigation that EPA recommends
must be negotiated with the other Federal
agency. The majority of the actions EPA
reviews are proposed by the Forest Service,
Department of Transportation (including
FHWA and FAA), COE, DOI (including
Bureau of Land Management, Minerals
Management Service and NPS), DOE
(including Federal Regulatory Commission),
and DoD.
EPA an. DOI are coordinating an
Interagency Tribal Information Steering
Committee that. includes the Bureau of
Reclamation, DOE, HUD, USGS, Federal
Geographic Data Committee, BIA, Indian
Health Service, Department of the Treasury,
and DOJ. This Interagency effort is aimed
to coordinate the exchange of selected sets
of environmental, resource, and
programmatic information pertaining to
Indian Country among Federal agencies in a
"dynamic" information management system
that is continuously and automatically
updated and refreshed, to be shared equally
among partners and other constituents.
Under a two-party interagency agreement,
EPA works extensively with the Indian
Health Service to cooperatively address the
drinking water and wastewater infrastructure
needs of Indian Tribes. EPA is developing
protocols with the Indian Health Service
Sanitation Facilities Construction Program
for integration of databases of the two
agencies, within the framework of the Tribal
Enterprise Architecture.
EPA has organized a Tribal Data Working
Group under the Federal Geographic Data
Committee, and, along with BIA, is the co-
chair of this group. EPA will play a lead
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role in establishing common geographic data
and metadata standards for Tribal data, and
in establishing protocols for exchange of
information among Federal, non-Federal and
Tribal cooperating partners.
EPA is developing protocols with the
Bureau of Reclamation, Native American
Program, for integration of databases of the
two agencies, within the framework of the
Tribal Enterprise Architecture. EPA is also
developing agreements to share information
with the Alaska District, COE.
To promote mutual goals as leadership
programs with industry, the Office of Policy,
Economics, and Innovation (OPEI) through
its National Environmental Performance
Track, works with the Voluntary Protection
Programs (VPP) in the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA). EPA
and OSHA collaborate in developing
incentives for members, identifying
potential members, providing joint
recognition, and sharing best practices from
their experience in managing leadership
programs.
Under a MOU, EPA and NFS established a
partnership to share resources for promoting
environmental management system
approaches that are good for both the
environment and business. The MOU
promotes the implementation of cost-
effective environmental management
practices for businesses in the tourism
industry, including the approximately 600
NFS concessionaires that provide various
visitor services in more than 130 national
parks.
Information on regulations and other issues
that may have an adverse impact on small
businesses is shared regularly with the Small
Business Administration's Office of
Advocacy. An ongoing activity includes the
coordination of interactions among the
Office of Air and Radiation, the State Small
Business Assistance Program's National
Steering Committee, and the Office of
Advocacy in the development of the
proposed 55 area source Maximum
Achievable Control Technology (MACT)
rules that will impact small businesses and
state programs.
The Sector Strategies program addresses
issues that directly affect the environmental
performance of selected industries and other
sectors of the economy. At times, actions
taken to enhance sector-wide performance
involve other Federal agencies. This work
tends to be informal and issue-specific, as
opposed to formal inter-agency partnerships.
For example, previous work on Agribusiness
sector issues involved the Natural Resource
Conservation Service of the USDA. Energy
conservation work with the Metal Foundry
sector involved the DOE's innovative
technologies program. In 2005, Port sector
stakeholders include the U.S. Maritime
Administration (DOT), COE and NOAA.
Data work with the Cement sector involves
USGS contacts. And future "green
highway" work of the Construction Sector
may involve the FHWA.
Activities associated with the Environmental
Education Program are coordinated with
other Federal agencies in a variety of ways:
EPA currently funds approximately $1.5M
for eight interagency agreements with four
Federal agencies. Current projects are
focused on helping these agencies to better
coordinate their environmental education
efforts (see www.handsontheland.org) and
improving capacity to measure
environmental education program outcomes.
All of the activities are funded jointly by the
cooperating Federal agency and a third non-
profit partner. Detailed information about
the interagency agreements is available at
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http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/iag.html. EPA
chairs the Task Force on Environmental
Education which meets periodically to share
information. The current focus involves
sharing information on linking
environmental education programs to the
strategic planning initiatives of Federal
agencies and developing program impact
measures.
As a participant on the following
interagency workgroups, EPA remains
informed of related efforts across the
government and provides coordination
assistance as necessary: The Interagency
Committee on Education (Chair:
Department of Education); Partners in
Resource Education (Chair: National
Environmental Education and Training
Foundation); the Federal Interagency
Committee on Interpretation (Chair:
National Park Service); Ocean Education
Task Force (workgroup of the U.S. Ocean
Commission); and the Afterschool.gov
(Chair: General Services Administration).
EPA's web portal of all Federal
environmental education program web sites
is:
http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/FTFmemws.ht
ml.
Objective: Enhance Science and Research
EPA is coordinating with DoD's Strategic
Environmental Research and Development
Program (SERDP) in an ongoing
partnership, especially in the areas of
pollution prevention research and
incorporation of materials lifecycle analysis
into the manufacturing process for weapons
and military equipment. The agency has
also made contact with USDA regarding
lifecycle analysis of biologically- and
genetically-altered products. EPA and the
COE will address the costs and benefits
associated with new engineering projects
and technologies in order to respond to the
economic impacts of environmental
innovation. EPA's People, Prosperity, and
Planet (P3) student design competition for
sustainability will partner with NASA, NSF,
OFEE, USAID, USDA, CEQ, and OSTP.
EPA will continue work under the MOA
with the USCG and the State of
Massachusetts on ballast water treatment
technologies and mercury continuous
emission monitors. The agency also
coordinates technology verifications with
NOAA (multiparameter water quality
probes); DOE (mercury continuous emission
monitors); DoD (explosives monitors, PCB
detectors, dust suppressants); USDA
(ambient ammonia monitors); Alaska and
Pennsylvania (arsenic removal); Georgia,
Kentucky, and Michigan (storm water
treatment); and Colorado and New York
(waste-to-energy technologies).
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COORDINATION WITH OTHER AGENCIES - ENABLING SUPPORT PROGRAMS
Office of the Administrator (OA)
EPA collaborates with other Federal
agencies in the collection of economic data
used in the conduct of economic benefit-cost
analyses of environmental regulations and
policies. The Agency collaborates with the
Department of Commerce, Bureau of the
Census on the Pollution Abatement Costs
and Expenditure (PACE) survey in order to
obtain information on pollution abatement
expenditures by industry. Tn our effort to
measure the beneficial outcomes of Agency
programs, we co-sponsor with several other
agencies the U.S. Forest Service's National
Survey on Recreation and the Environment
(NSRE), which measures national recreation
participation and recreation trends. EPA
also collaborates with other natural resource
agencies (e.g., USDA, Department of
Interior, Forest Service, NOAA) to foster
improved interdisciplinary research and
reporting of economic information by
collaboratively supporting workshops and
symposiums on environmental economics
topics (ecosystem valuation resource
evaluation); economics of invasive species;
and measuring health benefits.
The Agency also continues to work with
other Federal agencies in the development of
children's environmental health indicators
used to monitor the outcomes of children's
health efforts. The Agency collaborates
with the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and the National Center for
Health Statistics to obtain approval of the
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and
Family Statistics (www.chiidstats.gov) on
the reporting of appropriate children's health
indicators and data.
The Office of Homeland Security (OHS)
continues to focus on broad, Agency and
government-wide homeland security policy
issues that cannot be adequately addressed
by a single program office, as well as
ensuring implementation of EPA's
Homeland Security Strategy. A significant
amount of the responsibilities require close
coordination with Federal partners, through
Policy Coordinating Committees (PCCs),
briefings and discussions with individual
senior Federal officials. OHS represents the
Administrator, Deputy Administrator, and
other senior Agency officials at meetings
with personnel from the White House and
Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
and other high-level stakeholders. OHS
coordinates the development of responses to
inquiries from the White House, DHS, the
Congress, and others with oversight
responsibilities for homeland security
efforts. EPA's ability to effectively
implement its broad range of homeland
security responsibilities is significantly
enhanced though these efforts. OHS helps
to reduce/eliminate redundancy in homeland
security efforts, therefore ensuring
consistent development and implementation
of the Agency's policies and procedures,
while building an external network of
partners so that EPA's efforts can be
integrated into, and build upon, the efforts of
other Federal agencies.
The Science Advisory Board (SAB)
primarily provides the Administrator with
independent peer reviews and advice on the
scientific and technical aspects of
environmental issues to inform the Agency's
environmental decision-making. Often, the
Agency program office seeking the SAB's
review and advice has identified the Federal
agencies interested in the scientific topic at
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issue. The SAB coordinates with those
Federal agencies by providing notice of its
activities through the Federal Register, and
as appropriate, inviting Federal agency
experts to participate in the peer review or
advisory activity. The SAB, from time to
time, also convenes science workshops on
emerging issues, and invites Federal agency
participation through the greater Federal
scientific and research community.
EPA's Office of Small and Disadvantaged
Business Utilization (OSDBU) works with
the Small Business Administration (SBA)
and other federal agencies to increase the
participation of small and disadvantaged
businesses in EPA's procurement of goods,
services, equipment, and construction.
OSDBU works with the SBA to develop
EPA's goals for contracting with small and
disadvantaged businesses; address bonding
issues that pose a roadblock for small
businesses in specific industries, such as
environmental clean-up and construction;
and address data-collection issues that are of
concern to OSDBUs throughout the federal
government. EPA's OSDBU works closely
with the Center for Veterans Enterprise and
EPA's regional and program offices to
increase the amount of EPA procurement
dollars awarded to Service-Disabled
Veteran-Owned Small Businesses. It also
works with the Department of Education and
the While House HBCU (Historically Black
College and University) Workgroup to
increase opportunities for HBCUs to partner
with small businesses and federal agencies,
especially in the area of scientific research
and development. Work is also coordinated
with the Minority Business Development
Agency to fund opportunities for small
disadvantaged businesses, and to collaborate
to provide outreach to small disadvantage
businesses and Minority-Serving Institutions
throughout the United States and the trust
territories. EPA's OSDBU Director is an
active participant in the federal OSDBU
Council (www.osdbu.gov), and served as the
Council's Chairperson in FY 2004 and FY
2006. The OSDBU Directors collaborate to
the extent possible to support major outreach
efforts to small and disadvantaged
businesses, Service-Disabled Veteran-
Owned Small Businesses, and minority-
serving educational institutions via
conferences, business fairs, and speaking
engagements.
Office of the Chief Financial Officer
(OCFO)
To achieve its mission, EPA has undertaken
specific coordination efforts with Federal
and state agencies and departments through
two separate vehicles: 1) the National
Academy of Public Administration's
Consortium on Improving Government
Performance; 2) active contributions to
standing interagency management
committees, including the Chief Financial
Officers Council and the Federal Financial
Managers' Council. These groups are
focused on improving resources
management and accountability throughout
the Federal government. EPA also
coordinates appropriately with Congress and
other Federal agencies, such as Department
of Treasury, Office of Management of
Budget, and the Government Accountability
Office.
Office of Administration and Resources
Management (OARM)
EPA is committed to working with federal
partners that focus on improving
management and accountability throughout
the federal government. The Agency
provides leadership and expertise to
Government -wide activities in various areas
of human resources, grants administration,
contracts management and Homeland
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Security. These activities include specific
collaboration efforts with Federal agencies
and departments through the following
activities:
Chief Human Capital Officers, a group of
senior leaders that discuss human capital
initiatives across the federal government;
Legislative & Policy Committee, a
committee comprised of other federal
agency representatives who assist Office of
Personnel Management in developing plans
and policies for training and development
across the government;
The Agency is participating in the
government's implementation of Public Law
106-107 to improve the effectiveness and
performance of Federal financial assistance
programs, simplify application and reporting
requirements, and improve the delivery of
services to the public. This includes
membership on the Grants Policy
Committee, the Grants Executive Board, and
the Grants.gov Users Group. EPA also
participates in the Federal Demonstration
Partnership to reduce the administrative
burdens associated with research grants;
The Chief Acquisition Officers Council, the
principal interagency forum for monitoring
and improving the federal acquisition
system. The Council also is focused on
promoting the President's Management
Agenda in all aspects of the acquisition
system, as well as the President's specific
acquisition-related initiatives and policies;
and
EPA is working with the Office of
Management and Budget, General Services
Administrations, and Department of
Commerce's National Institute of Standards
and Technology to implement Homeland
Security Presidential Directive No. 12 -
Policy for a Common Identification
Standard for Federal Employees and
Contractors.
Office of Environmental Information
(QEI)
EPA is a leader in many areas, such as E-
dockets. EPA has a modern well-supported
system that can host other Agencies' docket
systems, thereby reducing their costs to
develop or deploy such a system. EPA will
also continue to coordinate with state
agencies on FT infrastructure and security
issues through state organizations such as
the Naf;'inal Association of State
Information Resources Executives. In
addition, EPA, along with other Federal
agencies, is involved in the OMB led e-Gov
initiatives. As part of this effort, EPA,
OMB, the Department of Transportation,
and ten other Federal agencies are
examining the expansion of EPA's
Regulatory Public Access System, a
consolidated on-line rule-making docket
system providing a single point of access for
all Federal rules. EPA is also coordinating
efforts with the National Archives and
Records Administration on an e-records
initiative. This effort is aimed at establishing
uniform procedures, requirements, and
standards for electronic record keeping of
Federal c-Gov records.
EPA works with its state partners under the
Slate/EPA Information Management
Workgroup and the Network Steering
Board. This workgroup has created action
teams to jointly develop key information
projects. Action teams consist of EPA,
state, and Tribal members. They are
structured to result in consensus solutions to
information management issues which affect
states, tribes, and EPA, such as the
development and use of environmental data
standards, and implementation of new
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technologies for collecting and reporting
information.
EPA also participates in multiple
workgroups with other Federal agencies
including the United States Geological
Survey (USGS), Federal Geographic Data
Committee (FGDC), and CIO Council
(http://www.cio.gov/). The Agency is
actively involved with several agencies in
developing government-wide e-government
reforms, and continues to participate with
the Office of Homeland Security and
national security agencies on homeland
security. These multi-agency workgroups
are designed to ensure consistent
implementation of standards and
technologies across Federal agencies in
order to support efficient data sharing.
EPA will continue to coordinate with
key Federal data sharing partners including
the USGS, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the
Fish and Wildlife Service as well as state
and local data sharing partners in public
access information initiatives. With respect
to community-based environmental
programs, EPA coordinates with state,
Tribal, and local agencies, and with
non-governmental organizations, to design
and implement specific projects.
The nature and degree of EPA's interaction
with other entities varies widely, depending
on the nature of the project and the
location(s) in which it is implemented. EPA
is working closely with the FGDC and the
USGS to develop and implement the
infrastructure for national spatial data. EPA
is coordinating its program with other state
and Federal organizations, including the
Council for Environmental Quality and the
Environmental Council of States, to insure
that the appropriate context is represented
for observed environmental and human
health conditions.
EPA will continue to coordinate with other
Federal agencies on IT infrastructure and
security issues by participating on the
Federal CIO Council. For example, EPA
(along with the Department of Labor)
recently co-chaired a Federal government
committee on security. EPA will continue
to participate on the CIO Council
committees on security, capital planning,
workforce development, interoperability,
and e-Gov, and will engage with other
Federal agencies in ensuring the
infrastructure for homeland security.
Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
The EPA Inspector General is a member of
the President's Council on Integrity and
Efficiency (PCEE), an organization
comprised of Federal Inspectors General
(IG). The PCIE coordinates and improves
the way IGs conduct audits and
investigations, and completes projects of
government-wide interest. The EPA IG
chairs the PCIE's Environmental
Consortium, GPRA Roundtable, and Human
Resources Committee. The Consortium,
which seeks effective solutions to cross-
cutting environmental issues, currently
includes representatives from 19 executive
agencies and GAO. The OIG Computer
Crimes Unit coordinates activities with other
law enforcement organizations that have
computer crimes units such as the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service,
and the Department of Justice. In addition,
the OIG participates with various inter-
governmental audit forums, professional
associations, and other cross-governmental
forums to exchange information, share best
practices, and direct collaborative efforts.
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MAJOR MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES
In April 2005, EPA's Office of Inspector
General (OIG) and the Government
Accountability Office (GAO) identified
areas they consider to be EPA's most
pressing management challenges. While
OIG identified the majority of the areas,
GAO raised a number of the same concerns,
such as human capital and assistance
agreements. Notably, neither OIG nor GAO
suggested elevating any of the issues to the
level of a material weaknessa reportable
condition that could adversely impact the
integrity of Agency programs and activities.
Most of the challenges identified are
recurring issues that take time to resolve.
EPA has been working to address these
long-standing issues and has made great
progress.
EPA senior managers are committed to
resolving current issues and identifying and
addressing emerging issues before they
become serious problems. EPA continues to
strengthen its management practices by
maintaining a system of internal controls
that helps identify and resolve potential
management vulnerabilities. In FY 2005,
for the fourth consecutive year, EPA
reported no material weaknesses under the
Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act
(FMFIA). The Agency resolved two of its
internal Agency-level weaknesses, which
are reportable conditions less severe than
material weaknesses, but that merit the
attention of the Administrator. Currently,
EPA has elevated three management
challenges (human capital, assistance
agreement, and homeland security) to the
level of Agency-level weaknesses under
FMFIA. EPA leaders meet periodically to
review and discuss the progress the Agency
is making to address the issues, and each
year the Agency reports on the status of its
efforts in its Performance and
Accountability Report and Budget
Submissions.
OMB continues to recognize EPA's efforts
to maintain effective and efficient
management controls. Since June 2003, the
Agency has maintained its "green" status
score for Improved Financial Performance
under the President's Management Agenda
(PMA). Following are discussions of the
Agency's management challenges and the
progress made in addressing them.
Challenges in Addressing the Air Toxics
Regulatory Program Goals
Scope of Challenge: While EPA has
achieved its Phase I goal of issuing
technology-based standards, there are
concerns about EPA's efforts to assess and
implement Phase 2, residual risk standards,
as well as the accuracy of air toxics data
used in measuring progress.
Agency Response: The Air Toxics Program
faces significant challenges because much
remains to be done to address requirements
of the Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments
(e.g., issuance of final standards for 70
stationary area source categories).
However, the Agency has made great
progress in reducing air toxic emissions. In
FY 2004, EPA closed Air Toxics Program
as an Agency-level weakness because it had
developed a strategy for achieving toxic risk
reductions. EPA issued 96 MACT standards
that apply to 174 industrial categories.
These MACT standards have resulted in
annual reductions of 1.5 million tons of
toxic emissions. By 2007, even greater
reductions will be achieved when all major
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stationary sources come into compliance
under the MACT program. To date, EPA
has completed 16 area source standards and
is working to develop standards for an
additional 25 (4 of which are under court-
ordered deadlines). Once completed,
standards for the 25 area source categories
will address a significant portion of urban
hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions, as
outlined in EPA's FY 1999 Integrated Urban
Air Toxics Strategy. EPA also expects to
have completed the first eight residual risk
standards by the end of 2006.
Implementing the residual risk program, as
dictated by the Clean Air Act, remains a
significant time and resource challenge. The
statute requires a comprehensive
quantitative assessment of the exposures and
risks associated with air emissions from all
of the sources in each category to inform the
potential development of a standard for the
category which is more stringent than the
original standard. It also, therefore, requires
knowledge of the methods available to
reduce emissions and risks beyond those
required in the original standard, as well as
the quantitative knowledge of the emission
reductions expected from implementation of
each of those methods. Each of these
assessments is turning out to be quite
extensive in terms of the resources and time
required to conduct, and the uncertainties
associated with the results remain fairly
large compared to the desired outcome and
the decisions required. For example, we
estimate that the development of the average
residual risk regulation, from start to finish,
requires significant funding and FTE over
the course of 4 years. Given the fact that
this requirement extends to about 170 source
categories over 10 years, it is easy to see that
the entire program will entail significant
resources to complete, and all of this is
occurring in a time of dwindling resources
for EPA in general and the air toxics
program specifically
In the meantime, we have embarked on
developing a voluntary process rule, which
may reduce any potential cost burden
associated with residual risk rules, and
which will allow the residual risk program
to focus its resources on addressing the most
significant risks associated with major
stationary sources of air toxics. This rule,
the Total Facility Low Risk Demonstration
(TFLRD) rule, will allow individual
facilities which are currently subject to
technology-based standards to conduct their
own risk assessments in order to
demonstrate to us and to their local
permitting authority that they present
negligible health and environmental risks to
their surrounding community, and thereby
ensure their future compliance with any
subsequently developed residual risk rules.
This will provide EPA with more accurate
site-specific emissions information about
low-risk sources and help to focus residual
risk requirements on those sources which
present significant risks. This should help to
reduce the resource burden required to
develop residual risk standards in addition to
reducing the implementation burden
associated with standards which are
developed.
Modeling studies, such as the National Air
Toxics Assessment (NATA), predict that the
air toxic risks to the public occur on two
distinct geographic scales. To improve our
ability to characterize these risks, EPA along
with its state, local government, and tribal
partners recently started a national air toxic
monitoring network with regional and local
components to measure ambient levels of
key air toxics pollutants. Several air toxic
pollutants have been predicted to contribute
to widespread regional and/or national
exposures and risks. The regional
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component of the national air toxic
monitoring network, the National Air Toxic
Trends Sites (NATTS), comprises 22 sites
nationwide designed to capture the impacts
of these pollutants. The first year of
NATTS monitoring was completed. The
local component of the monitoring network
comprises unique local scale monitoring
projects designed to answer specific
questions pertaining to local air toxic issues.
Thirteen local scale projects awarded in
2005 are nearing completion. In early 2006,
the Agency will award grants to
communities to initiate 19 new local scale
monitoring projects.
The NATA provides nationwide census tract
resolution of cancer and non-cancer risk
estimates from HAPs. The Agency uses
NATA information to help set priorities,
measure progress against goals, and develop
study plans for more detailed local
assessments. These detailed local
assessments will help identify areas where
potentially higher exposures (i.e., hotspots)
may exist in urban environments and link
these concerns to local risk reductions. The
NATA is updated periodically.
The Agency will continue to make Air
Toxics Program tracking a high priority and
will adjust its strategy as necessary to
comport with legal constraints and to
maximize air toxic risk reduction.
Highlights of Progress:
Completed one residual risk standard
for coke ovens.
Proposed 5 additional residual risk
rules.
9 Continue to work on seven residual
risk assessments for the 2-, 4-year
source categories with court-ordered
dates.
* In addition to EPA's 23 National Air
Toxics Trends Sites (NATTS), EPA
funded $6.3 million in 19 separate
grants to State and local agencies to
support additional local-scale
monitoring efforts and methods
development in FY06.
Plans for Further Improvements:
Continue to develop tools and
databases to more accurately perform
and improve the quality and the
timeliness of risk characterization.
Continue to develop a performance
measure, toxicity-weight emission, to
act as a surrogate for risk reduction
progress.
Exploring pollution prevention
approaches for area sources and
engaging with five industry groups to
explore and pilot these ideas.
Developing an "Area Source Program
White Paper" to provide flexibility in
how the states and /or EPA address the
area source program.
* Continuing to improve the quality and
timeliness of EPA's air toxic emissions
inventories.
Developing an air toxic monitoring
network to supplement "toxicity-
weighted emissions" as a measure of
progress in risk reduction.
0 Developing a mobile source air toxics
rulemaking to examine the need for
and feasibility of additional mobile
source controls options for gasoline,
motor vehicles, and portable gasoline
containers.
* Conducting research on near-roadway
exposure to assist federal, state, and
local transportation and air quality
planners.
Superfund Evaluation and Policy
Identification
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Scope of Challenge: OIG believes EPA
faces significant challenges in its ability to
effectively meet current and future
Superfund fiscal and program management
challenges and needs to establish a strong
working relationship between states and
tribes in order to achieve its environmental
goals.
Agency Response: While acknowledging
its fiscal and program management
challenges, EPA does not believe it has any
weaknesses in the area of Superfund
evaluation and policy identification. Despite
the program's complexity and unique
administrative structure, the Agency has
made and continues to make significant
progress in cleaning up Superfund sites and
reducing risk to human health and the
environment.
With regard to OIG's concern that EPA has
failed to proactively identify or
communicate current fiscal and other
program management challenges, EPA has
taken a number of actions to improve
program performance and address
management challenges. During FY 2004,
EPA completed and published an internal
review of its Superfund program, Superfund:
Building on the Past, Looking to the Future.
The purpose of this 120-Day Study was to
identify opportunities for program
efficiencies that would enable the Agency to
begin and ultimately complete more long-
term cleanups with current resources. An
in-house workgroup has been established to
review and implement the recommendations
and to track progress made in improving the
Superfund program. Some of the
recommendations that have been or are
being addressed include: establishing the
Superfund Board of Directors, which issued
the "Principles for Superfund Cleanup in the
21st Century" and set a hierarchy of goals for
the program; increasing the number of
Records of Decisions that will be reviewed
by the Remedy Review Board by 5 to 10
percent; and establishing a new enforcement
performance measure to implement the
"Enforcement First" policy.
The Agency's three major initiatives since
1.998 have produced some positive results
and lessons that have been incorporated into
its current strategy for managing the tribal
role. To ensure tribal needs are addressed,
EPA established the Superfund tribal forum
as a mechanism for sharing information
among regions to provide learning or
improverru .it opportunities. The Superfund
program will continue to coordinate with
tribes and EPA regions in implementing a
final Superfund tribal strategy.
Highlights of Progress:
Published Superfund: Building on the
Past, Looking to the Future, an
internal review of the Superfund
program that contains
recommendations for program
improvements.
Published the 120-Day Study Action
Plan, which outlines how EPA will
carry out the recommendations of the
study (February 2005).
* Initiated a formal benchmarking
program to identify best practices that
can be used throughout the program.
* Benchmarked site-specific payroll
charging practices in the regions to
identify and transfer best practices to
properly account for staff time spent
working on site-specific activities for
cost recovery and public accountability
purposes.
Improved communication of site
cleanup progress in new and
innovative ways through the recently
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released Superfund Site Progress
Profiles on the internet.
* Completed the Superfund Tribal
Strategy and Implementation Plan
(June 2005).
Plans for Further Improvements:
Continue to develop an Out-year
Liability Model to support forecasting
costs and accomplishments of the
Superfund Program over a 30-year
period.
Analyze all unliquidated obligations
balances to determine whether they can
be made available through the
deobligation process.
« Initiate a workforce analysis on the
effects of workload changes on FTE
needs for Agency programs.
* Develop a brochure for EPA Superfund
staff working with tribes that provides
ideas for consultation.
Information System Security
Scope of Challenge: Due to the dynamic
nature of information security, EPA needs to
continue its emphasis and vigilance on
strong information security.
Agency Response: EPA acknowledges that
as technology evolves, security of all types
(personnel, physical and cyber) remains a
key concern for both public and private
sector organizations. While OIG commends
EPA for its efforts to enhance its security
program through strengthened management
controls, risk assessments, penetration
testing, and monitoring of the Agency's
firewalls, the dynamics of security require
continued emphasis and vigilance. In FY
2004, EPA closed Information Security as
an Agency-level weakness because it had
addressed OTG's specific management
control concerns.
OIG stated that the Agency needs to develop
and ensure implementation of a training
program for employees with significant
security responsibilities. EPA currently has
a robust training program that requires all
EPA employees with significant security
responsibilities to complete at least two role-
based security training courses. This
requirement is in addition to the annual
mandatory Security Awareness Training that
EPA employees are required to complete.
The status of all employee security training
is tracked in a web-based database.
In FY 2005, OMB identified EPA as one of
only eight agencies deemed "green" in its
color coded scorecard for progress and
status under the President's Management
Agenda (PMA). The Agency will continue
to implement a PMA "green" security
program which includes all necessary and
many innovative security processes to
ensure the collection and analysis of quality
data now and in the future.
Highlights of Progress:
9 Established a robust training program
that requires all EPA employees with
significant security responsibilities to
complete at least two role-based security
training courses.
9 Developed a draft EPA Certification &
Accreditation (C&A) Guide, a tool
designed to help assist EPA staff in
conducting C&A for EPA information
systems.
* Continued to use the Plan of Action and
Milestones process to effectively
monitor program offices' mitigation
progress for FT security weaknesses
identified and reported to the Chief
Information Officer.
Plans for Further Improvements:
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Continue to implement a PMA "green"
security program which includes
innovative security processes to ensure
the collection and analysis of quality
data now and in the future.
Management
Information Resources
(IRM) and Data Quality
Scope of Challenge: EPA faces a number
of challenges (e.g., implementing data
standards to facilitate data sharing;
establishing quality assurance practices to
improve the reliability, accuracy, and
scientific basis of environmental data) with
the data it uses to make decisions and
monitor progress against environmental
goals.
Agency Response: EPA has made
significant progress in addressing this
challenge. In FY 2001, EPA acknowledged
both laboratory quality system practices and
data management practices as Agency-level
weaknesses. In FY 2004, the Agency
corrected its laboratory quality system
practices as a FMFIA weakness. The
Agency's actions to address and validate the
effectiveness of corrective actions included
providing tools, technical evaluations, and
training for environmental laboratories and
coordinating discussions with internal and
external representatives on how to assure the
quality of laboratory data. Additionally, the
Science Policy Council's Forum on
Environmental Measurement developed an
approach to ensure and document the
competency of Agency laboratories, which
was issued as a policy directive in February
2004. Under this policy, Agency
laboratories must demonstrate on-going
performance through independent external
assessments and participation in inter-
laboratory comparison studies.
In FY 2005, the Agency corrected its data
management practices as an Agency-level
weakness. EPA completed specific
corrective actions for this weakness and
validated those actions to ensure
deficiencies identified were effectively
eliminated. Specifically, EPA developed an
effective data standards program and
promulgated six Reinventing Environmental
Information Data Standards for the Agency.
Additionally, EPA developed an Agency
Data Architecture which serves as a
blueprint for the information needed to
support cross-organizational activities.
Having a well-defined and reliable
architecture to guide information
management decisions promotes improved
data quality and enables multiple and
secondary uses of the data. In FY 2005, the
Agency developed a process for ensuring
data management policies and procedures
are planned, maintained, and revised as
appropriate. For example, the Agency
changed the structure and operating
procedures of the Quality and Information
Council (QIC) to better fulfill its role as the
information-policy-making body.
Data standards are an essential component
of EPA's information program. As part of
its process for developing data standards,
EPA has established a System of Registries
that provides a reference point for
implementing the standards. However,
coordinating data standards in information
collections, from initial planning to data
analysis, is not yet routine in all programs.
EPA requires a process for ensuring that
each data standard adopted by the Agency is
fully implemented in a cost-effective and
timely manner. Therefore, EPA is
proposing a new Agency-level weakness,
Implementation of Data Standards, to
address the issue.
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Highlights of Progress:
* Developed an Agency-approved
planning process to identify key data
gaps by building on data gaps
information included in EPA's Draft
Report on the Environment 2003.30
Proposed a new Agency-level weakness,
Implementation of Data Standards, to
ensure that new standards adopted by the
Agency are fully implemented in a cost
effective and timely manner.
Plans for Further Improvements:
9 Establish a procedure for reporting on
the process of implementation across the
Agency to the QIC and the Chief
Financial Officer on a regular basis.
Develop a detailed description of the
Agency's strategy to correct the
Implementation of Data Standards
weakness, including major milestones
and a validation plan.
Human
Capital
..Strategy
Implementation/Employee Competencies
Scope of Challenge: While EPA has made
progress in addressing human capital
concerns, OIG believes EPA continues to
face challenges in developing and sustaining
a highly skilled, diverse, result-oriented
workforce with the right mix of technical
expertise, experience and leadership
capabilities.
Agency Response: OIG and GAO
acknowledge the Agency's progress in
addressing human capital concerns, but
believe EPA needs to continue monitoring
its Agency-wide implementation of human
capital activities. In FY 2005, EPA initiated
J" U.S. EPA, EPA Draft Report on the Environment 2003
(EPA-260-R-02-006). Available at
http://www.epa.gov/indicators/roc/index.htin
a number of activities that helped the
Agency make progress in addressing many
of its human capital challenges.
Specifically, EPA implemented a human
capital accountability system to monitor and
report on the Agency's progress in human
capital management. This allows EPA to
gauge the overall effectiveness of its
Strategy for Human Capital and to
determine whether the Agency is achieving
its desired results. Additionally, each
headquarters program and regional office
was required to develop a local-level human
capital action plan by adopting the required
goals and strategies identified in the
Agency's Strategy for Human Capital and
reporting on its results. To further the
Agency's workforce planning efforts in
developing an agency-level Strategic
Workforce Plan (SWP), each headquarters
and regional office submitted workforce
(occupation-based) needs using a planning
template. This information was used to
develop a high-level SWP to identify
competency needs and frame the Agency's
comprehensive National Recruitment and
Outreach Strategy that coordinates outreach
activities for a variety of positions and
Agency programs, particularly focusing on
Hispanics, African Americans, and
American Indians/Alaska Natives.
EPA is committed to addressing its human
capital challenges. The Agency will
continue to implement an aggressive
corrective action plan to ensure that
deficiencies identified do not impair the
Agency's ability to accomplish its mission.
Highlights of Progress:
* Established a Senior Human Capital
Official in each program and regional
office.
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Completed a review of the Human
Capital Strategy conducted by EPA's
Human Resources Council resulting in
improved outcome-based goals.
* Revised EPA's approach to its Agency-
wide strategic workforce planning and
began integrating workforce planning
into the Agency's planning and
budgeting process.
Developed human capital measures and
achievements for inclusion in the FY
2007 Annual Plan.
Completed advertising for EPA's eighth
Intern Program class to facilitate
outreach and recruitment efforts.
Plans for Further Improvements:
« Develop a Strategic Workforce Plan for
the Agency that will be revised in
conjunction with the Agency's Strategic
Plan.
* Continue to train and develop coaches to
increase the Agency's diverse "Coaching
Cadre."
Identify a competency assessment tool
and/or survey instrument to capture
workforce competencies mission critical
occupations (MCO), including leaders
(Senior Executive Service and GS-13,
14, and 15 supervisors and managers).
Technical competencies will be
developed for MCOs throughout FY
2006.
9 Work with programs and regions to
report on effective strategies and
solutions used to close competency gap.
Agency Efforts in Support of Homeland
Security (formerly. Protecting Critical
Infrastructure from Non-traditional Attacks)
Scope of Challenge: EPA needs to continue
to work with stakeholders to develop
performance measures for water security,
identify impediments preventing water
systems from addressing vulnerabilities in
computer systems, take steps to ensure it is
performing all designated BioWatch
responsibilities, and develop a better
process for identifying, obtaining,
maintaining, and tracking response
equipment necessary for Nationally
Significant Incidents.
Agency Response: EPA continues to refine
its role and strengthen its efforts in
Homeland Security. In FY 2005, EPA
declared Homeland Security an Agency
weakness and is developing a detailed
strategy to correct the weakness, including
major milestones, a validation plan, and
anticipated correction date.
The Agency has done extensive research on
various aspects of water security and is
making important progress on the
WaterSentinel surveillance and monitoring
project, including beginning a pilot testing
program. EPA continues to work with state
and local stakeholders to develop
comprehensive and accurate performance
measures for water security and to identify
impediments preventing water systems from
addressing vulnerabilities in computer
systems. EPA has taken multiple steps to
ensure that all of its BioWatch
responsibilities arc performed. The Agency
has on-going dialogue with the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS), as well as
state and local stakeholders, to ensure strong
lines of communication on this critical
project. EPA is involved in many aspects of
BioWatch: from the technical
recommendations that aid in developing the
monitors to their installation in the field.
Additionally, EPA is directly involved with
emergency response activities regarding
BioWatch. The Agency is currently
developing a better process for identifying,
obtaining, maintaining, and tracking
response equipment necessary for Nationally
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Significant Incidents using the lessons
learned from the response to Hurricane
Katrina. Using real-world examples like
these will ensure the accuracy of the process
and its applicability to the Agency's actual
needs.
Highlights of Progress:
Updated EPA's Homeland Security
Strategic Plan to identify the range of
EPA's homeland security activities,
taking into consideration the evolving
role of the DHS.
» Began the WaterSentinel pilot. This
pilot will gather valuable information
that will be used to design EPA's most
important water monitoring projects.
* Strengthened relationships with the
DHS, as well as with state and local
stakeholders, relative to BioWatch.
Constantly evaluating and revising
techniques and standards of operation to
ensure maximum efficiency.
Plans for Further Improvements:
Continue to enhance and improve the
WaterSentinel, based on lessons learned
from the pilot.
Finalize a process for identifying,
obtaining, maintaining, and tracking
response equipment necessary for
Nationally Significant Incidents.
Develop performance measures for
EPA's major homeland security projects.
Linking Mission and Management
Scope of Challenge: OIG believes that
while EPA has begun linking costs to goals,
it must continue to work with its partners to
develop appropriate outcome measures and
accounting systems that (rack environmental
and human health results across the
Agency's new goal structure. This
information must then become an integral
part of the Agency's decision-making
process.
Agency Response: EPA has sustained its
commitment to improving the way the
Agency manages for results and uses cost
and performance information in decision
making. During FY 2005, the Agency
developed and implemented a new
performance tracking feature in its Annual
Commitment System (ACS). This function
supports the entry and tracking of actual
performance data against annual regional
performance commitments, most of which
are directly linked to national performance
goals that support the Agency's Strategic
Plan. The. Agency continues to experience a
high demand for access to the ACS as more
national programs begin to use the system to
track regional performance against key
program measures. To date, six national
program offices and all ten regional offices
use the ACS. Also in FY 2005, the Agency
redefined its cost accounting unit from Sub-
Objective to Program/Project to allow EPA
to develop a variety of reports to address
financial requirements of Statement of
Federal Financial Accounting Standards No.
4, Managerial Cost Accounting.
OMB continues to recognize EPA for ils
efforts to improve the way the Agency
manages for results and uses cost and
performance information in decision
making. Since September 2003 (eight
consecutive quarters), EPA has maintained a
"green" status score for Improved Financial
Performance under PMA. EPA has also
received a progress score of "green" for
Budget and Performance Integration for all
but one consecutive quarter since June 2002.
Highlights of Progress:
* Developed and implemented a new
performance tracking feature in the
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Agency's Annual Commitment System
that supports the entry and tracking of
annual performance data against annual
regional performance commitments.
Improved PART scores. (As of July
2005, 6 of the 32 EPA programs
assessed show results not demonstrated.)
Enhanced the Office of the Chief
Financial Officer's Reporting and
Business Intelligence Tool (ORBIT)
functionality by expanding the
programmatic and performance
reporting capability and adding
additional data sources (Administrative
Data Mart).
Began to develop the Agency's 2006-
2011 Strategic Plan, including outreach
to partners and stakeholders and
consultation with state and tribal
partners.
9 Implemented a comprehensive strategy
to integrate PART measures and related
performance information into EPA's
external GPRA documents (i.e., OMB
Submission, Annual Plan &
Congressional Justification, Performance
and Accountability Report).
Plans for Further Improvements:
« Continue to develop the Agency's 2006-
20011 Strategic Plan, including outreach
lo partners and stakeholders and
consultation with state and tribal
partners to develop outcome-oriented
goals and objectives.
Continue to improve PART scores by
developing efficiency measures for
environmental programs.
Grants Management and Use of
Assistance Agreements
Scope of Challenge: EPA needs to improve
oversight for awarding and administering
assistance agreements to ensure effective
and efficient use of resources in attaining
environmental goals. Recent OIG and GAO
audits continue to identify problems in the
use of assistance agreements.
Agency Response: Assistance agreements
are one of EPA's primary mechanisms for
carrying out its mission to protect human
health and the environment. The Agency
awards approximately half of its budget to
organizations through assistance
agreements. Thus it is imperative that the
Agency use good management practices in
awarding and overseeing these agreements
to ensure they contribute cost effectively to
attaining environmental goals.
EPA acknowledges OIG and GAO concerns
regarding the management of assistance
agreements, and tracks this issue as an
Agency weakness in the FMFIA process.
The Agency has made significant progress
in developing and implementing a
comprehensive system of management
controls to correct grants management
problems. EPA issued its first long-term
Grants Management Plan,31 with associated
performance measures, in April 2003. The
plan, which GAO recognizes as a
comprehensive and coordinated plan for
strengthening grants management, outlines
an aggressive approach to ensure that the
commitments are fully implemented and that
employees are held accountable for
managing grants effectively. Also, EPA
established a Grants Management Council,
composed of EPA's Senior Resource
Officials, to provide the leadership,
coordination, and accountability needed to
implement the plan.
Highlights of Progress:
U.S. EPA, EPA Grants Management Plan. Available at
http://www.epa,gov/pgd/EO/tinalreport.pdf
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Issued a long-term Training Plan that
outlines the Agency's strategy for
ensuring that employees and grant
applicants are knowledgeable about their
grant management obligations.
Issued a revised Grants Competition
Policy that substantially reduced the
competition threshold from $75,000 to
$15,000. In FY 2005, EPA competed
approximately 87% of new non-profit
grants covered by the policy.
9 Posted grant opportunities and
application packages to www.grants.gov
making it easier for potential recipients
to obtain information about Federal
grants and submit application for those
grants.
9 Established a new "Grant Awards
Database" to improve the transparency
and accessibility of grants data to the
public. The database contains a
summary of records for all non-
construction EPA grants awarded in the
last 10 years and can be accessed at
http://yg$emite.epa.gov/oarm/igms_egf.n
sj/HQmePage?ReadForm
* Issued a new Environment Results Order
designed to ensure that grants are
outcome-oriented and linked to EPA
strategic goals.
* Issued a new policy on the internal
review of discretionary grants. The
policy requires Assistant and Regional
Administrators to certify that non-
competitive discretionary grants and
competitive announcements have
appropriate environmental outcomes and
support program goals.
B Issued a new Order designed to assess, at
the pre-award stage, the administrative
and programmatic capabilities of non-
profit organizations applying for EPA
assistance agreements.
Plans for Further Improvements:
9 Improve the delivery and availability of
training programs by developing on-line
training for project officers, grant
specialists, managers and supervisors,
and grant recipients.
Strengthen external peer review of
competitive grant applications to ensure
that taxpayer dollars are used
appropriately and promote
accountability, transparency and results.
Improve EPA project officers' efficiency
and effectiveness by developing project
officer workforce plans. In 2006, each
EPA office/region will be required to
develop a strategy for managing its
workforce to promote more accountable
grants management.
Strengthen Agency processes under the
Environmental Results Order for
identifying and reporting on significant
grant results information (e.g.,
highlighting results achieved through
grants in the FY 2005 Performance and
Accountability Report).
* Enhance accountability by incorporating
grants management responsibilities in
the Agency's new Performance
Assessment Rating System.
Begin pilot testing a statistical approach
for selecting recipients for post-award
monitoring reviews, which should help
the Agency obtain more accurate
information on trends in grantee
compliance.
Inconsistency Among EPA*s Regional
Offices
Scope of Challenge: GAO feels that
inconsistency in program delivery among
EPA's regional offices has often gone
beyond the level that should be expected to
take into account geographical diversity.
GAO has reported inconsistent approaches
in program delivery among regions,
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particularly in approving or disapproving
proposals by states to change their water
quality standards and in enforcement
philosophy. GAO feels that while EPA
attempts to achieve some level of
consistency to ensure that the public is
afforded equal protection under
environmental laws and that regulated
parties, taxpayers, and rate payers are not
subjected to widely varying costs of
environmental compliance, the extent of
variations is well beyond the level that
should be expected.
While EPA has mechanisms in place to
ensure basic consistency in environmental
programs, the Agency expects and
encourages some variation in regional-state
interaction. States are allowed, by statute, to
have variations in their programs, and some
states have chosen to put standards in place
that are more stringent than federal
requirements. States and regions have
differing ecological, economic, and other
factors that influence which environmental
laws and regulations require the most
immediate attention, and the manner in
which they can be most effectively
managed.
EPA has a significant effort underway with
the states to better align state, regional, and
national planning processes and better
define performance expectations. This
effort, which began in 2004, provides
expanded opportunities for states to
participate in all aspects of the EPA
planning processsetting mutual goals and
priorities and accountability for results.
Efforts underway include:
* The EPA Strategic Plan is the
overarching framework for all of the
planning, budgeting and priority setting
systems. The EPA Annual Plan and
Budget establishes annual performance
targets and funding levels for the fiscal
year to support accomplishment of the
Strategic Plan. Regional Plans, new in
2005, explain how regional offices will
make progress toward the Agency's
strategic goals over the next three to five
years.
Workplans for Performance Partnership
Agreements and Performance
Partnership Grants reflect the results of
previous joint planning and priority
setting efforts.
* An automated Annual Commitment
System through which the regions
identify their performance commitments
for the upcoming fiscal year. The
system allows states and tribes to review
and comment on draft commitments,
offering an unprecedented level of
transparency and collaboration and
increasing opportunities to align
national, regional, state and tribal
priorities.
Several Strategic Planning Pilots are
underway, through a cooperative
agreement with the Environmental
Council of the States. The pilots help
build states' planning capabilities,
stimulate state-regional joint planning,
improve performance reporting, and
support improvements to Performance
Partnership Agreements and other statc-
EPA agreements. For example, Texas
focused on improving alignment of EPA
and state performance measures. A
crosswalk of the measures showed that
43% to 53% of water measures and 55%
of air measures were highly related.
Region 6 and Texas are now striving to
revise or establish complementary
measures.
Some additional activities and studies are
underway that will also look at the issues of
flexibility and consistency in environmental
programs. First, the U.S. Senate
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Committee is initiating a review of oversight
of enforcement approaches among EPA
regions. EPW staff will visit EPA's regional
offices to review enforcement consistency.
This is expected to be a major,
comprehensive study. Second, GAO is
scoping a potential study that will focus on
the EPA-state relationship with regard to
enforcement: how priorities are established,
and how the programs are implemented.
Third, EPA expects to receive a report from
the National Academy of Public
Administration by the end of 2006 that
discusses how environmental services are
delivered in the nation.
Highlights of Progress:
* Improved alignment of EPA and state
planning and budgeting processes to
better define performance expectations
(as discussed above).
8 Developed the State Enforcement
Program Review Framework to achieve
greater consistency among state and
regional enforcement programs.
Established various internal and external
working groups to improve program
consistency, communications and
coordination on water quality standards
issues across regions and states.
Plans for Further Improvements:
* Continue to convene monthly meetings
of the Water Quality Standards (WQS)
Managers Association, Regional WQS
Coordinators, and Regional Endangered
Species Act Coordinators to discuss
issues of national significance and
ensure an appropriate level of
consistency.
Reflect regional and state priorities in
EPA's FY2007 Regional Plans and
include a strong measurement
component and better link priorities to
PART, the EPA Annual Commitment
System, and the Agency's budget and
accounting system.
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EPA USER FEE PROGRAM
In FY 2007, EPA will have several user fee
programs in operation. These user fee
programs and proposals are as follows:
Current Fees: Pesticides
The FY 2007 President's Budget reflects the
continued collection of Maintenance Fees
for review of existing pesticide registrations,
and Enhanced Registration Service Fees for
the accelerated review of new pesticide
registration applications.
« Pesticides Maintenance Fee Extension
The Maintenance Fee provides
funding for the Reregistration
program and a certain percentage
supports the processing of
applications involving "me-too" or
inert ingredients. The Agency is
scheduled to complete issuance of
Reregistration Eligibility Decisions
for the Reregistration program in
2008. In FY 2007, the Agency
expects to collect $21,000,000 in
Maintenance fees.
Enhanced Registration Services
Entities seeking to register pesticides
for use in the United Slates pay a fee
at the time the registration action
request is submitted to EPA
specifically for accelerated pesticide
registration decision service. This
process has introduced new
pesticides to the market more
quickly. In FY 2007, the Agency
expects to collect $10,000,000 in
Enhanced Registration Service fees
under current law.
Current Fees: Other
Pre-Manufacturing Notification Fee
Since 1989, the Pre-Manufacturing
Notifications (PMN) fee has been
collected for the review and
processing of new chemical pre-
manufacturing notifications
submitted to EPA by the chemical
industry. These fees are paid at the
lime of submission of the PMN for
review by EPA's Office of
Prevenlion, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances. PMN Fees are
authorized by the Toxic Substances
Control Act and contain a cap on the
amount the Agency may charge for a
PMN review. EPA is authorized to
collect up to $1,800,000 in PMN
Fees in FY 2007 under current law.
« Lead Accreditation and Certification
Fee
The Toxic Substances Control Act,
Title IV, Section 402(a)(3), mandates
the development of a schedule of
fees for persons operating lead
training programs accredited under
the 402/404 rule and for lead-based
painl contractors certified under this
rule. The training programs ensure
thai lead painl abalemenl is done
safely. Fees collected for this
activity are deposited in the U.S.
Treasury. EPA estimates that less
than $500,000 will be deposited in
FY 2007.
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a Motor Vehicle and Engine
Compliance Program Fee
This fee is authorized by the Clean
Air Act of 1990 and is managed by
the Office of Air and Radiation. Fee
collections began in August 1992.
This fee is imposed on
manufacturers of light-duty vehicles,
light and heavy trucks and
motorcycles. The fees cover EPA's
cost of certifying new engines and
vehicles and monitoring compliance
of in-use engines and vehicles. In
2004, EPA promulgated a rule that
updated existing fees and established
fees for newly-regulated vehicles and
engines. The fees established for
new compliance programs are also
imposed on heavy-duty, in-use, and
nonroad industries, including large
diesel and gas equipment
(earthmovers, tractors, forklifts,
compressors, etc), handheld and non-
handheld utility engines (chainsaws,
weed-whackers, leaf-blowers,
lawnmowers, tillers, etc.), marine
(boat motors, tugs, watercraft, jet-
skis), locomotive, aircraft and
recreational vehicles (off-road
motorcycles, snowmobiles). In FY
2007, EPA expects to collect
$19,000,000 from this fee.
Fee Proposals: Pesticides
8 Registration Review Fees
As the Reregistration program
approaches completion, the
Registration Review program,
through periodic 15-year cycle
reviews, will be initiated to ensure
that registered pesticides in the
marketplace continue to be safe for
use in accordance with the latest
scientific information. In 2007, the
President's Budget proposes to
collect $22,000,000 through a new
Registration Review fee aligned with
estimated costs associated with
registration review and evaluating
potential effects of pesticides on
endangered species.
Pesticides Tolerance Fee
A tolerance is the maximum legal
limit of a pesticide residue in and on
food commodities and animal feed.
In 1954, the Federal Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) authorized
the collection of fees for the
establishment of tolerances on raw
agricultural commodities and in food
commodities. The collection of this
fee has been blocked by
Congressional action through 2008.
Language will be submitted to
eliminate the prohibition on
collecting pesticide Tolerance fees.
In FY 2007, the President's Budget
proposes to collect $13,000,000 in
Tolerance Fees.
Enhanced Registration Services
In FY 2007, the President's Budget
proposes to publish a new fee
schedule and restructuring proposal
for registration services to collect an
additional $12,000,000.
Pesticides Maintenance Fee Extension
Under current law, the Agency
expects to collect $21,000,000 in
Maintenance fees in FY 2007.
Language will be submitted to
increase the authorized level of
collections and restructure the fee in
2007 to collect an additional
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$9,000,000 in order to align more
closely with program costs.
Fee Proposals: Other
Pre-Manufacturing Notification Fee
Under the current fee structure, the
Agency would collect $1,800,000 in
FY 2007. Language will be
submitted to remove the statutory
cap in the Toxic Substances Control
Act on Pre-Manufacturing
Notification Fees. In FY 2007, EPA
expects to collect an additional
$4,000,000 by removing the
statutory cap.
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WORKING CAPITAL FUND
in FY 2007, the Agency begins its eleventh
year of operation of the Working Capital
Fund (WCF). It is a revolving fund
authorized by law to finance a cycle of
operations, where the costs of goods and
services provided are charged to users on a
fee-for-service basis. The funds received
are available without fiscal year limitation,
to continue operations and to replace capital
equipment. EPA's WCF was implemented
under the authority of Section 403 of the
Government Management Reform Act of
1994 and EPA's FY 1997 Appropriations
Act. Permanent WCF authority was
contained in the Agency's FY 1998
Appropriations Act.
The Chief Financial Officer initiated the
WCF in FY 1997 as part of an effort to: (1)
be accountable to Agency offices, the Office
of Management and Budget, and the
Congress; (2) increase the efficiency of the
administrative services provided to program
offices; and (3) increase customer service
and responsiveness. The Agency has a
WCF Board which provides policy and
planning oversight and advises the CFO
regarding the WCF financial position. The
Board, chaired by the Associate Chief
Financial Officer, is composed of eighteen
permanent members from the program and
regional offices.
Two Agency Activities begun in FY 1997
will continue into FY 2007. These are the
Agency's information technology and
telecommunications operations, managed by
the Office of Environmental Information,
and Agency postage costs, managed by the
Office of Administration. A third Activity,
Financial Management, will be provided
pending a successful WCF pilot program in
FY 2006. This Activity provides the
Integrated Financial Management System
(IFMS), which is the core accounting system
for the Agency, and it is managed by the
Office of the Chief Financial Officer.
The Agency's FY 2007 budget request
includes resources for these three Activities
in each National Program Manager's
submission, totaling approximately $170.0
million. These estimated resources may be
increased to incorporate program office's
additional service needs during the operating
year. To the extent that these increases are
subject to Congressional reprogramming
notifications, the Agency will comply with
all applicable requirements. In FY 2007, the
Agency will continue to market its
information technology services to other
Federal agencies in an effort to deliver high
quality services external to EPA, which will
result in lower costs to EPA customers.
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ACRONYMS FOR STATUTORY AUTHORITIES
AEA: Atomic Energy Act, as amended, and Reorganization Plan #3
AHERA: Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act
AHPA: Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act
ASHAA: Asbestos in Schools Hazard Abatement Act
APA: Administrative Procedures Act
ASTCA: Antarctic Science, Tourism, and Conservation Act
BEACH Act of 2000: Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act
BRERA: Brownfields Revitalization and Environmental Restoration Act
CAA: Clean Air Act
CAAA: Clean Air Act Amendments
CCA: Clinger Cohen Act
CCAA: Canadian Clean Air Act
CEPA: Canadian Environmental Protection Act
CERCLA: Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(1980)
CFOA: Chief Financial Officers Act
CFR: Code of Federal Regulations
CICA: Competition in Contracting Act
CSA: Computer Security Act
CWPPR: Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act of 1990
CWA: Clean Water Act
CZARA: Coastal Zone Management Act Reauthorization Amendments
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CZMA: Coastal Zone Management Act
DPA: Deepwater Ports Act
DREAA: Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
ECRA: Economic Cleanup Responsibility Act
EFO1A: Electronic Freedom of Information Act
EPAA: Environmental Programs Assistance Act
EPAAR: EPA Acquisition Regulations
EPCA: Energy Policy and Conservation Act
EPACT: Energy Policy Act
EPCRA: Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act
ERD&DAA: Environmental Research, Development and Demonstration Authorization
Act
ESA: Endangered Species Act
ESECA: Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act
FACA: Federal Advisory Committee Act
FAIR: Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act
FCMA: Fishery Conservation and Management Act
FEPCA: Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act; enacted as amendments to FIFRA.
FFDCA: Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
FGCAA: Federal-Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act
FIFRA: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
FLPMA: Federal Land Policy and Management Act
FMFIA: Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act
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FOIA: Freedom of Information Act
FPA: Federal Pesticide Act
FPPA: Federal Pollution Prevention Act
FPR: Federal Procurement Regulation
FQPA: Food Quality Protection Act
FRA: Federal Register Act
FSA: Food Security Act
FUA: Fuel Use Act
FWCA: Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
FWPCA: Federal Water Pollution and Control Act (aka CWA)
GISRA: Government Information Security Reform Act
GMRA: Government Management Reform Act
GPRA: Government Performance and Results Act
HMTA: Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
HSWA: Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments
1GA: Inspector General Act
IPA: Intergovernmental Personnel Act
IPIA: Improper Payments Information Act
ISTEA: Intermodal Surface Transportation Bfficiency Act
LPA-US/MX-BR: 1983 La Paz Agreement on US/Mexico Border Region
MPPRCA: Marine Plastic Pollution, Research and Control Act of 1987
MPRSA: Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act
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NAAEC: North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
NAAQS: National Ambient Air Quality Standard
NAWCA: North American Wetlands Conservation Act,
NEPA: National Environmental Policy Act
NHPA: National Historic Preservation Act
NIPDWR: National Interim Primary Drinking Water Regulations
NISA: National Invasive Species Act of 1996
ODA: Ocean Dumping Act
OPA: The Oil Pollution Act
PFCRA: Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act
PIISA: Public Health Service Act
PLIRRA: Pollution Liability Insurance and Risk Retention Act
PR: Privacy Act
PRA: Paperwork Reduction Act
QCA: Quiet Communities Act
RCRA: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RLBPHRA: Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act
RFA: Regulatory Flexibility Act
RICO: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
SARA: Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986
SBREFA: Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996
SBLRBRERA: Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization and
Environmental Restoration Act
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SDWA: Safe Drinking Water Act
SICEA: Steel Industry Compliance Extension Act
SMCRA: Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
SPA: Shore Protection Act of 1988
SWDA: Solid Waste Disposal Act
TCA: Tribal Cooperative Agreement
TSCA: Toxic Substances Control Act
UMRA: Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
UMTRLWA: Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Land Withdrawal Act
USC: United States Code
USTCA: Underground Storage Tank Compliance Act
WQA: Water Quality Act of 1987
WRDA: Water Resources Development Act
WSRA: Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
WWWQA: Wet Weather Water Quality Act of 2000
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
FY 2007 STAG CATEGORICAL PROGRAM GRANTS
Statutory Authority and Eligible Uses
(Dollars in Thousands)
GranttiiUe
State and Local
Air Quality
Management
State and Local
Air Quality
Management
Statutory
Authorities:
Clean Air Act,
8103
Clean Air Act,
§103
EHgible
Recipients*
Air pollution
control agencies
as defined in
section 302(b) of
theCAA
Multi-
jurisdictional
organizations
(non-profit
organizations
whose boards of
directors or
membership is
made up of CAA
section 302(b)
agency officers
and Tribal
representatives
and whose
mission is to
support the
continuing
environmental
programs of the
states)
Eligible Uses
S/L monitoring
and data
collection
activities in
support of the
establishment of
a PM2.5
monitoring
network and
associated
program costs
Coordinating or
facilitating a
multi-
jurisdictional
approach to
addressing
regional haze
FY 2006
Enacted
Do|lars(K10pO)
$42,500.0
$5,000.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 1,
/"\l-il 1
Obj. 1
Goal 1,
Obj. 1
FY 2007
Request
DoHars(X1000)
$0.0
$2,500.0
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FY 2QQ7 Annual Plan
Grant Title
State and Local
Air Quality
Management
Statutory
Authorities
Clean Air Act,
Sections 103,
105, 106
Eligible
Recipients*
Air pollution
control agencies
as defined in
section 302(b) of
the CAA; Multi-
jurisdictional
organizations
(non-profit
organizations
whose hoards of
directors or
membership is
made up of CAA
section 302(b)
agency officers
and whose
mission is to
support the
continuing
environmental
programs of the
states); Interstate
air quality
control region
designated
pursuant to
section 107 of
the CAA or of
implementing
section 176 A, or
section 184
NOTE: only the
Ozone Transport
Commission is
eligible as of
2/1/99
Eligible Uses
Carrying out the
traditional
prevention and
control programs
required by the
CAA and
associated
program support
costs;
Coordinating or
facilitating a
multi-
jurisdictional
approach to
carrying out the
traditional
prevention and
control programs
required by the
CAA;
Supporting
training for CAA
section 302(b)
air pollution
control agency
staff; and
Coordinating or
facilitating a
multi-
jurisdictional
approach to
control interstate
air pollution
FY2006
Enacted
DoIIars(X1000)
$172,761.0
tV2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 1,
. .1 H
Obj. 1
FY 2007
Request
DaIlars(X1000)
$182,679,5
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
Grant Title
Tribal Air
Quality
Management
Radon
Water Pollution
Control (Section
106)
Nonpoint Source
(NFS - Section
319)
Statutory
Authorities
Clean Air Act,
Sections 103 and
105; Tribal
Cooperative
Agreements
(TCA) in annual
Appropriations
Acts
Toxic
Substances
Control Act,
Sections 10 and
306; TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts
FWPCA, as
amended, §106;
TCA in annual
Appropriations
Acts
FWPCA, as
amended,
§ 319(h); TCA
in annual
Appropriations
Acts
Eligible
Recipients*
Tribes;
Intertribal
Consortia;
State/ Tribal
college or
university
State Agencies,
Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
States, Tribes
and Intertribal
Consortia, and
Interstate
Agencies
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Conducting air
quality
assessment
activities to
determine a
Tribe's need to
develop a CAA
program;
Carrying out the
traditional
prevention and
control programs
required by the
CAA and
associated
program costs;
Supporting
training for CAA
for federally
recognized
Tribes
Assist in the
development and
implementation
of programs for
the assessment
and mitigation of
radon
Develop and
carry out surface
and ground
water pollution
control
programs,
including
NPDES permits,
TMDL's, WQ
standards,
monitoring, and
NFS control
activities.
Implement EPA-
approved state
and tribal
nonpoint source
management
programs and
fund priority
projects as
selected by the
State.
FY2006
. Enacted
Dollars(Xi000)
$10,887.0
$7,439.0
$216,172.0
$204,278.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 1,
Obj. 1
Goal 1 ,
rti ^
Uuj. 2
Goal 2,
Obj. 2
Goal 2,
Obj. 2
FY2007
Request
Dollars(XlOOO)
$10,939.5
$8,073.5
$221,661.0
$194,040.0
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
Grant Title
Wetlands
Program
Development
Targeted
Watershed
Grants
Public Water
System
Supervision
(PWSS)
Homeland
Security Grants
Underground
Injection Control
[IJIC]
Statutory
Authorities
FWPCA, as
amended,
§104 (b)(3);
TCA in annual
Appropriations
Acts
Department of
Interior,
Environment
and Related
Agencies
Appropriation
Act, 2006 Public
Law 109-54
Safe Drinking
Water Act,
§1443(a); TCA
in annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Safe Drinking
Water Act,
1442; TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts,
Safe Drinking
Water Act, g
1443(b);TCAin
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Eligible
Recipients*
States, Local
Governments,
Tribes,
Interstate
Organizations,
Intertribal
Consortia, and
Non-Profit
Organizations
States, Local
Governments,
Tribes, Interstate
Organizations,
Intertribal
Consortia, and
Non-Profit
Organizations
States, Tribes,
and Intertribal
Consortia
States, Tribes,
and Intertribal
Consortia
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
To develop new
wetland
programs or
enhance existing
programs for the
protection,
management and
restoration of
wetland
resources.
Assistance for
watersheds to
expand and
improve existing
watershed
protection
efforts.
Assistance to
implement and
enforce National
Primary
Drinking Water
Regulations to
ensure the safety
of the Nation's
drinking water
resources and to
protect public
health.
To assist States
and Tribes in
coordinating
their water
security
activities with
other homeland
security efforts.
Implement and
enforce
regulations that
protect
underground
sources of
drinking water
by controlling
Class I-V
underground
injection wells.
FY2006
. Enacted
D»Hars(X1000)
$15,765.0
$16,608.0
$98,279.0
$4,926.0
$10,838.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 4,
Obi 3
-j-uj. -J
Goal 4,
Obj.3
Goal 2,
Obj. 1
Goal 2,
Obj. 1
Goal 2,
Obj. 1
FY20Q7
Request
DoIlars(X1000)
$16,830.0
$6,930.0
$99,099.0
$4,950.0
$10,890.0
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
Grant Title
Beaches
Protection
Hazardous
Waste Financial
Assistance
Brown fields
Statutory
Authorities
Beaches
Environmental
Assessment and
Coastal Health
Act of 2000;
TCA in annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Resource
Conservation
Recovery Act,
§3011;
FY 1999
Appropriations
Act (PL 105-
276); TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Comprehensive
Environmental
Response,
Compensation
and Liability Act
of 1980, as
amended,
Section 128
Eligible
Recipients*
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia, Local
Governments
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consorlia
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Develop and
implement
programs for
monitoring and
notification of
conditions for
coastal
recreation waters
adjacent to
beaches or
similar points of
access that are
used by the
public.
Development &
Implementation
of Hazardous
Waste Programs
Build and
support
Brownfields
programs which
will assess
contaminated
properties,
oversee private
parly cleanups,
provide cleanup
support through
low interest
loans, and
provide certainty
for liability
related issues.
FY2006
Enacted
DoIlars(X1000)
$9,853.0
$101,944.0
$49,264.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 2,
Obj. 1
Goal 3,
Obj. 1
Obj. 2
Goal 4,
Obj. 2
FY2007
Request
Dollars(XlOOO)
$9,900.0
$103,345.5
$49,494.9
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
Grant Title
Underground
Storage Tanks
[USTj
Statutory
Authorities
Solid Waste
Disposal Act of
1976, Section
2007(f)(2), as
amended, 42
U.S.C.
6916(0(2) and
implemented by
regulations at 40
CFR 35.330;
Resource
Conservation
and Recovery
Act; Section 204
of the
Demonstration
Cities and
Metropolitan
Development
Act, as amended
at 42 U.S.C.
3334;
Departments of
Veterans Affairs,
Housing and
Urban
Development,
and Independent
Agencies
Appropriations
Act of 1999,
Public Law 105-
276, (112Stat.
2461, 2499; 42
U.S.C. 6908a);
Underground
Storage Tank
Compliance Act
of 2005; Section
2007 (f)
Eligible
Recipients*
States, federally-
recognized
Tribes and
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Develop and/or
implement state
or Indian UST
program;
provide funding
for SEE
enrollees to
work on the
state's
underground
storage tanks
and to support
direct UST
implementation
programs.
FY2006
. Enacted
Dollars(XlOOO)
$11,774.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal3
Obj. 1
FY2007
Request
DollarsCXIQflO)
$37,566.7
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
Grant TiHc
Pesticides
Program
Implementation
Lead
Statutory
Authorities
The Federal
Insecticide,
Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act
§20&23; the
FY 1999
Appropriations
Act (PT- 105-
276); FY 2000
Appropriations
Act (P.L. 106-
74); TCA in
annn al
d.llllU-d.1
Appropriations
Acts.
Toxic
Substances
Control Act,
§ 404 (g);
TSCA 10;
FY2000
Appropriations
Act (P.L, 106-
74); TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Eligible
Recipients*
States, Tribes
and Intertribal
Consortia
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Assist States and
Tribes to
develop and
implement
pesticide
programs,
including
pro'grams that
protect workers,
ground-water,
and endangered
species from
pesticide risks ,
and other
pesticide
management
programs
designated by
the
Administrator;
develop and
implement
programs for
certification and
training of
pesticide
applicators;
develop
Integrated
Pesticides
Management
(IPM) programs;
support
pesticides
education,
outreach, and
sampling efforts
for Tribes.
To support and
assist States and
Tribes to
develop and
carry out
authorized slate
lead abatement
certification,
training and
accreditation
programs; and to
assist tribes in
development of
lead programs.
FY2006
, Enacted
DoIlars(X10QO)
$12,907.0
$13,499.0
FY2007
Goal/
Objective
Goal 4,
Obj. I
Goal 4,
("11-1T 1
L/Dl 1
j
FY2007
Request
DollarsfSlOOO)
$12,968.9
$13,563.1
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
Grant Title
Toxic
Substances
Compliance
Pesticide
Enforcement
Statutory
Authorities
Toxic
Substances
Control Act,
§28(a) and 404
(g); TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
FIFRA
§23(a)(l);FY
2000
Appropriations
Act (P.L. 106-
74); TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Eligible
Recipients*
States,
Territories,
Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
States,
Territories,
Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Assist in
developing and
implementing
toxic substances
enforcement
programs for
PCBs, asbestos,
and lead-based
paint
Assist in
implementing
cooperative
pesticide
enforcement
programs
FY2006
, Enacted
DtoIlars(X1000)
$5,074.0
$18,622.0
FY20Q?
Goal/
Objective
Goal 5,
Obj. 1
Goal 5,
/-VL,' -1
UDJ. 1
FY2W7
Request
DoIlarsfXIOOO)
$5,098.5
$18,711.0
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
Grant Title
National
Environmental
Information
Exchange
Network
(NEIEN, aka
"the Exchange
Network")
Pollution
Prevention
Statutory
Authorities
As appropriate,
Clean Air Act,
Sec. 103; Clean
Water Act, Sec.
104; Solid Waste
Disposal Act,
Sec. 8001;
FIFRA, Sec 20;
TSCA, Sec. 10
and 28; Marine
Protection,
Research and
Sanctuaries Act,
Sec. 203; Safe
Drinking Water
Act, Sec. 1442;
Indian
Environmental
General
Assistance
Program Act of
1992, as
amended; FY
2000
Appropriations
Act (P.L. 106-
74); Pollution
Prevention Act,
Sec. 6605; FY
2002
Appropriations
Act and FY
2003
Appropriations
Acts.
Pollution
Prevention Act
of 1990, §6605;
TSCA 10;
FY2000
Appropriations
Act (P.L. 106-
74); TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Eligible
Recipients*
States, tribes,
interstate
agencies, tribal
consortium, and
other agencies
with related
environmental
information
activities.
States, Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Assists states
and others to
better integrate
environmental
information
systems, better
enable data-
sharing across
programs, and
improve access
to information.
To assist state
and tribal
programs to
promote the use
of source
reduction
techniques by
businesses and
to promote other
Pollution
Prevention
activities at the
state and tribal
levels.
FY2e96
Enacted
DoilarsQUOOO)
$19,706.0
$4,926.0
FY2097
Goal/
Objective
Goal 4
Obj. 2
Goal 4,
Obj. 1
FY2007
Request
DoJlars(XlOfiO)
$14,850.0
$5,940.0
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
Grant Title
Sector Program
(previously
Enforcement &
Compliance
Assurance)
Tribal General
Assistance
Program
Statutory
Authorities
As appropriate,
Clean Air Act,
Sec. 103; Clean
Water Act, Sec.
104; Solid Waste
Disposal Act,
Sec. 8001;
F1FRA, Sec 20;
TSCA, Sec. 10
and 28; Marine
Protection,
Research and
Sanctuaries Act,
Sec. 203; Safe
Drinking Water
Act, Sec. 1442;
Indian
Environmental
General
Assistance
Program Act of
1992, as
amended; FY
2000
Appropriations
Act (P.L. 106-
74); TCA in
annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Indian
Environmental
General
Assistance
Program Act of
1992, as
amended; TCA
in annual
Appropriations
Acts.
Eligible
Recipients*
State,
Territories,
Tribes,
Intertribal
Consortia,
Multi-
jurisdictional
Organizations
Tribal
Governments
and Intertribal
Consortia
Eligible Uses
Assist in
developing
innovative
sector-based,
multi-media, or
single-media
approaches to
enforcement and
compliance
assurance
Plan and develop
Tribal
environmental
protection
programs.
FY2W6
Enacted
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
INFRASTRUCTURE / STAG PROJECT FINANCING
(Dollars in Millions)
Infrastructure Financing
Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF)
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF)
STAG Projects
Brownfields Environmental Projects
Clean School Bus Initiative
Diesel Emissions Reduction Program
Mexico Border Projects
Alaska Native Villages
Targeted Projects - Puerto Rico
TOTAL
FY 2006
Enacted
Budget
$886.8
$837.5
$88.7
$6.9
$0.0
$49.3
$34.5
$0.0
$1,903.7
FY 2007
President's
Budget Request
$687.6
$841.5
$89.1
$0.0
$49.5
$24.8
$14.9
$1.0
$1,708.4
Infrastructure and Special Projects Funds
The President's Budget includes a total of
$1,708.4 million in 2007 for EPA's
Infrastructure programs and State and Tribal
Assistance Grant (STAG) projects.
Approximately $1,545 million will support
EPA's Goal 2: Clean and Safe Water, $114
million will support EPA's Goal 4: Healthy
Communities and Ecosystems and $50
million will support Goal 1: Clean Air and
Global Climate Change.
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 are essential to fulfill the
Federal government's commitment to help
our state, Tribal 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. As set-asides of
the SRF programs, grants are available to
Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages for
drinking water and wastewater infrastructure
needs based on national priority lists. 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
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EPA's state, local, and Tribal partners, to
achieve several important goals for 2007.
Some of these goals include:
- 94 percent of the population served
by community water systems will
receive drinking water meeting all
health-based standards.
- Award 101 assessment grants under
the Brownfields program, bringing
the cumulative total grants awarded
to 1,081 by the end of FY 2007
paving the way for productive reuse
of these properties. This will bring
the total number of sites assessed to
9,000 while leveraging a total of $10
billion in cleanup and redevelopment
funds since 1995.
Goal 1: Clean Air and Global Climate
Change
Diesel Emissions Reduction Grant
Program
In FY 2007, EPA will support 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% from
existing diesel engines, including on-
highway and nonroad 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. In 2007, up to
30 percent of the appropriated funds will be
used to provide formula grants to states for
the purpose of establishing state grant and
loan programs. EPA expects to fund at least
200 new grants deploying technology in
various sectors using diesel engines. These
funds will also support competitive grants
for replacing, repowering and retrofitting
older school buses with emission control
technology, potentially reducing PM
emissions by up to 95 percent.
Goal 2: Clean and Safe Water
Capitalizing Clean Water and Drinking
Water Std, j 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.
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Today, 99 percent of community wastewater
treatment plants, serving 181 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.
Improvements to our cities infrastructure
remain a top priority if we are to reclaim our
water resources.
The FY 2007 President's Budget Request
includes $687.6 million in funding for the
CWSRF. More than $23 billion has already
been provided to capitalize the CWSRF,
well over twice the original Clean Water Act
authorized level of $8.4 billion. Total
CWSRF funding available for loans since
1987, reflecting loan repayments, state
match dollars, and other funding sources, is
approximately $55 billion, of which more
than $52 billion has been provided to
communities as financial assistance.
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 percent of community wastewater
treatment plants, serving 181 million people,
use secondary treatment or better.
The DWSRF will be self-sustaining in the
long run and will help offset the costs of
ensuring safe drinking water supplies and
assisting small communities in meeting their
responsibilities. Since its inception in 1997,
the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
(DWSRF) program has made available
$11.1 billion to finance 4,196 infrastructure
improvement projects nationwide, with a
return of $1.73 for every $1 of Federal funds
invested.
Set-Asides for Tribes: To improve public
health and water quality on Tribal lands, the
Agency will continue the 1 Vz percent
CWSRF set-aside for funding wastewater
grants to tribes as provided in the Agency's
2002 appropriation. 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. Through this program, EPA
contributes to this goal which will provide
for the development of sanitation facilities
for tribes and Alaska Native Villages.
Alaska Native Villages
The President's Budget provides $15 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.
Puerto Rico
The President's Budget includes $1.0
million for the next design phase of
upgrades to Metropolitano's Sergio Cuevas
treatment plant in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
EPA and Puerto Rico provided $7 million to
date ($3.8 and $3.2 million, respectively).
When all upgrades are complete, EPA
estimates that about 1.4 million people will
enjoy safer, cleaner drinking water.
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Goal 4: Healthy Communities and
Ecosystems
Brownfields Environmental Projects
The President's Budget includes $89.0
million for Brownfields environmental
projects. EPA will award grants for
assessment activities, cleanup, and revolving
loan funds (RLF). Additionally, this
includes cleanup of sites contaminated by
petroleum or petroleum products and
environmental job training grants. In FY
2007, the funding provided will result in the
assessment of 1,000 Brownfields properties.
Brownfields grantees will leverage cleanup
and redevelopment jobs and $900,000 in
cleanup and redevelopment funding.
Mexico Border
The OMB Submission includes a total of
$25.0 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 for health risks by increasing the
number of homes connected to potable water
supply and wastewater collection and
treatment systems. The program has
sufficient resources to carry out currently
approved projects and provides $25 million
to address new needs in FY 2007.
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PROGRAM PROJECTS BY APPROPRIATION
(Dollars
> ~ \ *
Science & Technology
Air Toxics and Quality
Clean Air Allowance Trading Programs
Federal Support for Air Quality Management
Federal Support for Air Toxics Program
Federal Vehicle and Fuels Standards and Certification
Knergy Policy Act & Related Authorities
Implementation
Federal Vehicle and Fuels Standards and
Certification (other activities)
Subtotal, Federal Vehicle and Fuels Standards and
Certification
Radiation: Protection
Radiation; Response Preparedness
Subtotal, Air Toxics and Quality
Climate Protection Program
Climate Protection Program
Enforcement
Forensics Support
Homeland Security
Homeland Security; Critical Infrastructure Protection
Water sentinel and related training
Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure
Protection (other activities)
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure
Protection
Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Decontamination
Laboratory Security: Preparedness, Response, and
Recovery
Safe, Building
Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, and
in Thousands)
., OWigattorjs ' ' Enacted
$8,476.1
$10,747.8
$3,040.8
$0.0
$60,614,9
$60,614.9
$2,552.0
$2,460.0
$87,891,6
$20,448,0
$13,377.9
$0.0
$17,952.2
$17,952.2
$0.0
$0.0
$0.0
$33,417,3
$8,527.0
$10,012.0
$2,225.0
$0.0
$58,613.0
$58,613.0
$2,086.0
$3,468.0
$84,931.0
$18,648.0
$13,129.0
$8,131.0
$4,262.0
$12,393.0
$16,868.0
$591.0
$3,722.0
$14,571.0
i BpesBwJ ,
$9,259.4
$10,272.9
$2,264.7
$11,400.0
$56,924.5
$68,324.5
$2,054.3
$3,585.9
$95,761.7
$12,549.6
$13,185.2
$41,735.2
$3,515.8
$45,251.0
$24,666.7
$600.0
$4,000.0
$15,231.4
' -JPmBfi
$732.4
$260.9
$39.7
$11,400.0
($1,688.5)
$9,711.5
($31.7)
$117.9
$10,830.7
($6,098.4)
$56.2
$33,604.2
($746.2)
$32,858.0
$7,798,7
$9.0
$278.0
$660.4
Recovery (other activities)
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, $33,417.3 ' $35,752.0 $44,498.1 S8,746.1
and Recovery
Homeland Security: Protection of EPA Personnel and 52,517.6 52,050.0 $2,079.0 $29.0
Infrastructure
Subtotal, Homeland Security $53,887.1 $50,195.0 $91,828.1 $41,633.1
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Indoor Air
Indoor Air: Radon Program
Reduce Risks from Indoor Air
Subtotal, Indoor Air
IT / Data Management / Security
IT / Data Management
Operations and Administration
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
Pesticides Licensing
Pesticides: Registration of New Pesticides
Pesticides: Review / Reregistration of Existing Pesticides
Subtotal, Pesticides Licensing
Research / Congressional Priorities
Research: Clean Air
Research: Air Toxics
Research: Global Change
Research: NAAQS
Subtotal, Research: Clean Air
Research: Clean Water
Research: Drinking Water
Research: Water Quality
Subtotal, Research: Clean Water
Research: Human Health and Ecosystems
Human Health Risk Assessment
Research: Computational Toxicology
Research: Endocrine Disrupter
Research: Fellowships
Research: Human Health and Ecosystems
Subtotal, Research: Human Health and Ecosystems
vtms
~~ ObKgatkms
$696.7
$909.5
$1.606.2
$4,141.3
$8,892.1
$2,473.1
$2,471.1
$4,944.2
574,485.5
$14,472.5
$19,395.9
$63,156.4
$97,024.8
$46,824.0
$46,243.2
$93,067.2
$33,247.5
512,002.9
$12,559.5
$14,476.8
$169,805.8
$242,092.5
*rm
^IWKitoi.
$429.0
$810.0
$1,239.0
$4,173.0
$8,511.0
$2,463.0
$2,480.0
$4,943.0
$32,919.0
$16,226.0
$18,619.0
$66,777.0
$101,622.0
$45,170.0
551,269.0
$96,439.0
$35,637.0
$12,327.0
$10,494.0
$11,691.0
$167,703.0
$237,852.0
- wm?
" ^^
$442.2
$828.7
$1,270.9
$4,268.0
$70,239.5
$2,766.1
$2,820.4
$5,586.5
$0.0
$12,274.2
$17,456.4
$05,455.6
$95,186.2
$49,242.5
$56,988.2
$106,230.7
534,488.5
514,983.1
$9,081.2
58,383.0
5161,312.7
$228,248.5
$13.2
$18.7
$31.9
595.0
$61,728.5
$303.1
$340.4
$643.5
($32,919.0)
($3,951.8)
($1,162.6)
($1,321.4)
($6,435.8)
54,072.5
55,719.2
$9,791.7
($.1,148.5)
52,050.1
($1,412.8)
($3,308.0)
($6,390.3)
(59,603.5)
Research: Land Protection
Research: Land Protection and Restoration
510,257.6
$11,606.0
$10,552.8
($1,053.2)
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Research: Sustainability
Research: Economics and Decision Science(EDS)
Research: Environmental Technology Verification (ETV)
Research: Sustainability
Subtotal, Research: Sustainability
> FY-3005-
O&SBpfctas
$2,465.6
$3,364.9
$36,354.6
$42,185.1
5 ; ; Enacted ,
$2,361.0
$2,990.0
$25,803.0
$31,154.0
mm
ft^sBi
$2,494.6
$0.0
$21,404.9
$23,899.5
n- :-pm%*.
id , > , vs. Enact
$133.6
($2,990.0)
($4,398.1)
($7,254.5)
Toxic Research and Prevention
Research: Pesticides and Toxics
Water: Human Health Protection
Drinking Water Programs
Rescission of Prior Year Expired Contracts, Grants, and
Interagency Agreements
Total, Science & Technology
$28,276.0
$30,357.0
$26,223.7
($4,133.3)
$3,326.0
so.o
$785,903.1
$3,092.0
($1,000.0)
$729,810.0
$3,243.1
$0.0
$788,274.0
$151.1
$1,000.0
$58,464.0
Environmental Program & Management
Air Toxics and Quality
Clean Air Allowance Trading Programs
Federal Stationary Source Regulations
Federal Support for Air Quality Management
Energy Policy Act Implementation
Clean Diesel Initiative
Federal Support for Air Quality Management (other
activities)
Subtotal, Federal Support for Air Quality Management
Federal Support for Air Toxics Program
Radiation: Protection
Radiation: Response Preparedness
Stratospheric Ozone: Domestic Programs
Stratospheric Ozone: Multilateral Fund
Subtotal, Air Toxics and Quality
Brownfields
Brown fields
Climate Protection Program
Climate Protection Program
Energy Star
Methane to Markets
$17,513.5
$20,555.3
$0.0
$0.0
$89,350.1
$89,350,1
$23,518.7
$11,694.4
$2,284,4
$4,478.1
$9,920.0
$179,314.5
$27,248.4
$0.0
$0.0
$17,708.0
$23,215.0
$0.0
$5,867.0
$90,082.0
$95,949.0
$25,405.0
$11,178.0
$2,632.0
54,938.0
$8,600.0
$189,625.0
$24,534.0
$49,536.0
$1,971.0
$19,126.4
525,678.3
$2,800.0
$0.0
$85,265.6
$88,065.6
$25,513.7
$10,648.6
$2,688.7
$5,221.4
$13,365.0
$190,307.7
$24,637.3
$45,722.8
$4,420.5
$1,418.4
82,463.3
$2,800.0
($5,867.0)
($4,816.4)
($7,883.4)
$108.7
(S529.4)
$56.7
$283,4
$4,765.0
$682,7
$103.3
($3,813.2)
$2,449.5
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~ ~
Climate Protection Program (other activities)
Subtotal, Climate Protection Program
Subtotal, Climate Protection Program
Compliance
Compliance Assistance and Centers
Energy Policy Act Implementation
Compliance Assistance and Centers (other
activities)
Subtotal, Compliance Assistance and Centers
Compliance Incentives
Compliance Monitoring
Energy Policy Act Implementation
Compliance Monitoring (other activities)
Subtotal, Compliance Monitoring
Subtotal, Compliance
Enforcement
Civil Enforcement
Energy Policy Act Implementation
Civil Enforcement (other activities)
Subtotal, Civil Enforcement
Criminal Enforcement
Enforcement Training
Environmental Justice
NEPA Implementation
Subtotal, Enforcement
Environmental Protection / Congressional Priorities
Geographic Programs
Geographic Program: Chesapeake Bay
Geographic Program: Great Lakes
Geographic Program: Gulf of Mexico
Geographic Program: Lake Champlain
Geographic Program: Long Island Sound
ObKgittiofei
$92,457.2
$92,457.2
$92,457.2
$0.0
527,207.0
$27,207.0
$10,135.7
$0.0
$85,297.9
$85,297.9
$122,640.6
SO.O
$113,719.7
$113,719.7
$35,109.3
$3,766.2
$4,853.2
$13,016.8
$170,465.2
$89,868.8
522,886.6
$21,098.8
$3,739.8
$686.3
52,132.7
.
$39,327.0
$90,834.0
$90,834.0
$0.0
$27,935,0
$27,935.0
$9,412.0
$0.0
385,463,0
$85,463.0
$122,810.0
$0.0
$117,807.0
$1 17,807.0
$37,565.0
$2,945.0
$5,569.0
$12,640.0
$176,526.0
$49,799.0
$22,118.0
$21,164.0
$4,809.0
$1,926.0
$470.0
$41,700.0
$91,843.3
$91,843.3
$111.2
$28,779.5
$28,890.7
$9,702.2
$986.9
$92,031.9
$93,018.8
$131,611.7
$753.2
$120,024.5
$120,777.7
$37,793.5
$2,503.7
$3,859.0
$13,787.5
$178,721.4
$0.0
$26,397.7
$20,577.1
$4,310.7
$933.8
$466.9
few
$2,373.0
$1,009.3
$1,009.3
$111.2
$844.5
$955.7
$290.2
$986.9
$6,568.9
$7,555.8
$8,801.7
$753.2
$2,217.5
$2,970.7
$228.5
($441.3)
($1,710.0)
$1,147.5
$2,195.4
($49,799.0)
$4,279.7
($586.9)
($498.3)
($992.2)
($3.1)
Geographic Program: Other
Geographic. Program: Pugel Sound
$0.0
$1,971.0
SO.O
($1,971.0)
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Community Action for a Renewed Environment
(CARE)
Geographic Program: Other (other activities)
Subtotal, Geographic Program: Other
Regional Geographic Initiatives
Subtotal, Geographic Programs
Homeland Security
Homeland Security: Communication and Information
Laboratory Preparedness and Response
Homeland Security: Communication and
Information (other activities)
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Communication and
Information
Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Decontamination
Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure
Protection (other activities)
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure
Protection
Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Decontamination
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response,
and Recovery
Homeland Security: Protection of EPA Personnel and
Infrastructure
Subtotal, Homeland Security
Indoor Air
Indoor Air: Radon Program
Reduce Risks from Indoor Air
Subtotal, Indoor Air
Information Exchange / Outreach
Children and Other Sensitive Populations; Agency
Coordination
Congressional, Intergovernmental, External Relations
Environmental Education
Exchange Network
Small Business Ombudsman
Small Minority Business Assistance
State and Local Prevention and Preparedness
~ " " Ff'SMIS
, GMgitiioas " "
$0.0
$6,786.1
$6,786.1
$8,057.0
$65,387.3
$0.0
$5,432.4
$5,432.4
$0.0
$6,700.6
$6,700.6
$2,620.2
$2,620.2
$9,102.2
$23,855.4
S5,986.6
$21,464.4
$27,451.0
$7,135.8
$48,407.3
$8,648.1
$16,723.0
53,691.3
$2,245.7
$11,327,5
JFF3W
$2,862.0
$5,124.0
$9,957.0
$8,060.0
$68,504.0
$1,212.0
$5,263.0
$6,475.0
$98.0
$6,689.0
$6,787.0
$3,252.0
$3,252.0
$6,199.0
$22,713.0
$5,159.0
$23,137.0
$28,296.0
$5,633.0
$50,291.0
$8,889.0
$17.700.0
S3.343.0
$2,503.0
$11,377.0
-....#r#»
$4,448.4
$4,601.6
$9,050.0
$9,137.3
$70,873.5
$1,200.0
$5,599.7
$6,799.7
$99.0
$7,143.7
$7,242.7
$3,328.7
$3,328.7
$6,268.9
$23,640.0
$5,519.2
$23,464.3
$28,983.5
$6,063.8
$52,142.7
$0.0
$16,048.5
$3,501.7
$2,646.6
$12,508.4
$1,586.4
($522.4)
($907.0)
$1,077.3
$2,369.5
($12.0)
$336.7
$324.7
$1.0
$454,7
$455.7
$76.7
$76.7
$69.9
$927.0
S360.2
S327.3
$687.5
$430,8
$1,851.7
($8,889.0)
($1,651.5)
$158.7
$143.6
$1,131.4
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TRI / Right to Know
Tribal - Capacity Building
Subtotal, Information Exchange / Outreach
International Programs
Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Environment and Trade
International Capacity Building
POPs Implementation
US Mexico Border
Subtotal, International Programs
IT / Data Management / Security
Information Security
IT / Data Management
Subtotal, IT / Data Management / Security
Legal / Science / Regulatory / Economic Review
Administrative Law
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Civil Rights / Title VI Compliance
Legal Advice: Environmental Program
Legal Advice; Support Program
Regional Science and Technology
Regulatory Innovation
Regulatory/Economic-Managcment and Analysis
Science Advisory Board
Subtotal, Legal / Science / Regulatory / Economic Review
Operations and Administration
Acquisition Management
Central Planning, Budgeting, and Finance
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
Financial Assistance Grants / 1AG Management
Human Resources Management
Subtotal, Operations and Administration
, ~ CHtBgattwis - -
$15,380.7
$10,937.7
$124,497.1
$3,370.5
$2,211.7
$10,548.5
$3,196.5
$5,951.5
$25,278.7
$4,745,6
$84,371.1
$89,116.7
$4,784.2
$1,531.0
$10,905.7
$32,764.8
$13,864.0
$3,424.8
$21,215.1
$13,875.1
$4,660.8
$107,025.5
$21,830.4
$68,045.9
$317,744.7
$22,223.9
$46,795.7
$476,640.6
Enacted
$14,289.0
$11,049.0
$125,074.0
$4,116.0
SI, 766.0
$6,138.0
$1,697.0
$5,749.0
$19,466.0
$3,751.0
$94,567.0
$98,318.0
$4,607.0
$1,048.0
$10,575.0
$35,931.0
$13,206.0
$3,522.0
$21,511.0
$16,551.0
$4,402.0
$111,353.0
$23,265.0
$73,680.0
$343,908.0
$23,168.0
$41,275.0
$505,296.0
$15,243.4
$11,435.7
$119,590.8
$4,137.0
$1,861.2
$6,390.3
$1,808.7
$6,061.0
$20,258.2
$5,562.1
$96,807.2
$102,369.3
$4,860.9
$1,229.8
$11,053.7
$37,525.5
$13,465.9
53,520.7
525,853.6
517,554.8
54,615.7
$119,680.6
$25,418.3
$83,548.1
$294,760.1
$21,847.0
$40,202.5
$465,776.0
i - - ~ Tfc laacfeds
$954.4
$386.7
($5,483.2)
$21.0
$95.2
$252.3
$111.7
$312.0
$792.2
$1,811.1
$2,240.2
$4,051.3
$253.9
$181.8
$478.7
$1,594.5
$259.9
(SI. 3)
S4,342.6
$1,003.8
$213.7
$8,327.6
$2,153.3
S9,868.1
($49,147.9)
($1,321.0)
($1,072.5)
($39,320.0)
Pesticides Licensing
Pesticides: Field Programs
$25,649.5
$24,516.0
$24,926.3
$410.3
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0
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Pesticides: Registration of New Pesticides
Pesticides: Review / Reregistration of Existing Pesticides
Science Policy and Biotechnology
Subtotal, Pesticides Licensing
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
RCRA: Corrective Action
RCRA: Waste Management
RCRA: Waste Minimization & Recycling
Subtotal, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
Toxics Risk Review and Prevention
Toxic Substances: Chemical Risk Management
Toxic Substances: Chemical Risk Review and Reduction
Endocrine Disruptors
Toxic Substances: Lead Risk Reduction Program
Pollution Prevention Program
Subtotal, Toxics Risk Review and Prevention
Underground Storage Tanks (LUST / UST)
LUST/UST
Water: Ecosystems
Great Lakes Legacy Act
National Estuary Program / Coastal Waterways
Wetlands
Subtotal, Water: Ecosystems
Water: Human Health Protection
Beach / Fish Programs
Drinking Water Programs
Subtotal, Water: Human Health Protection
Water Quality Protection
Marine Pollution
Surface Water Protection
Water Quality Monitoring
Surface Water Protection (other activities)
Subtotal, Surface Water Protection
srsaas
" " /Vhtintxt&ffec "
UDugllutHiat
$39,321.6
$49,074.7
$1,961.5
$11 6,007 .3
536,575.0
$67,842.9
$10,878.7
$115,296.6
$8,462.3
$45,781.1
$8,696.4
$13,280.9
$15,889.3
$92,110.0
$6,459.2
$13,946.6
$25,902.3
$20,126.7
$59,975.6
83,723,7
894,559.1
$98,282.8
$13,114.0
$0.0
$186,745.5
$186,745.5
'WY3&8&
iT;rw»tf*tf
KaHKnSai
541,604.0
557,458.0
$1,694.0
$125,272.0
$39,396,0
$65,793.0
$11,825.0
$117,014.0
$9,008.0
$46,542.0
58,767.0
310,162.0
516,621.0
$91,100.0
$7,763.0
$28,989.0
523,773.0
519,416.0
$72,178.0
$3,156.0
$95,656.0
$98,812.0
$12,212.0
$7,193.0
$182,019.0
$189,212.0
. - ,Y ,ff 2$$?
iPwSMf Itnv)
jrTcS Jwufj
$39,767.6
$51,814.6
31,754.0
$118,262.5
$40,372.3
$67,887.3
$12,235.1
$120,494.7
$7,736.5
$44,637.0
$7,985.4
$11,367.6
$21,292.4
$93,018.9
$11,713.7
$49,600.0
$18,417.2
$20,992.2
$89,009.4
$2,653.9
$99,121.0
$101,774.9
$12,462.4
$7,120.7
$184,466.5
$191,587.2
"" ,~V "l^sSlH
1- . < ^M *TFifafti
₯$Fj&P3|£M
($1,836.4)
($5,643.4)
$60.0
($7,009.5)
$976.3
$2,094.3
$410.1
$3,480.7
($1,271.5)
($1,905.0)
($781.6)
$1,205.6
$4,671.4
$1,918.9
$3,950.7
$20,611.0
($5,355.8)
$1,576.2
$16,831.4
($502.1)
$3,465.0
$2,962.9
$250.4
($72.3)
$2,447.5
$2,375.2
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, - I
Subtotal, Water Quality Protection
Rescission of Prior Year Expired Contracts, Grants, and
Interagency Agreements
Total, Environmental Program & Management
Inspector General
Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations
Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations
Inspector General Congressionally Mandated Projects
Total, Inspector General
Building and Facilities
Homeland Security
Homeland Security: Protection of EPA Personnel and
Infrastructure
Operations and Administration
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
Total, Building and Facilities
Hazardous Substance Superfund
Air Toxics and Quality
Radiation: Protection
Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations
Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations
Compliance
Compliance Assistance and Centers
Compliance Incentives
Compliance Monitoring
Subtotal, Compliance
Enforcement
Civil Enforcement
Criminal Enforcement
Enforcement Training
Environmental Justice
- -Fy£flft§ , <
Obligations
$199,859.5
$0.0
$2,309,238.0
$44,580.7
$426,4
$45,007.1
$12,936.5
$32,244.5
$45,181.0
$1,969.4
$15,182.0
$0.0
$148.9
$1,452.4
$1,601.3
$625.2
$8,070.1
$897.8
$921.5
,. ,. « |T $Mfc > FY £($?' ' ' " fiSS'JBjffl
- , - Enacted , PnssiSuil , :'vfi. Enact
$201,424.0 $204,049.6 $2,625.6
($2,000.0) $0.0 $2,000.0
$2,344,711.0 $2,306,617.0 ($38,094.0
$36,904.0 $35,100.0 ($1,804.0)
$0.0 $0.0 $0.0
$36,904.0 $35,100.0 ($1,804.0)
$11,331.0 $11,385.1 $54.1
$28,295.0 $28,430.9 $135.9
$39,626.0 $39,816.0 $190.0
$2,120.0 $2,323.3 $203.3
$13,337.0 $13,316.0 ($21.0)
$11.0 $22.2 $11.2
$1.86.0 $142.7 ($43.3)
$955.0 $1,144.1 $189.1
$1,152.0 $1,309.0 $157.0
$796.0 $883.0 $87.0
$8,275.0 $8,502.2. $227.2
$581.0 $621.9 $40.9
$827.0 $756,7 ($70.3)
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-^ -^ .
Forensics Support
Superfund: Enforcement
Superfund: Federal Facilities Enforcement
Subtotal, Enforcement
Homeland Security
Homeland Security; Communication and Information
Laboratory Preparedness and Response
Subtotal, Homeland Security; Communication and
Information
Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Decontamination
Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure
Protection (other activities)
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure
Protection
Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Decontamination
Laboratory Preparedness and Response
Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response., and
Recovery (other activities)
Subtotal, Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response,
and Recovery
Homeland Security: Protection of EPA Personnel and
Infrastructure
Subtotal, Homeland Security
Information Exchange / Outreach
Congressional, Intergovernmental, External Relations
Exchange Network
Subtotal, Information Exchange / Outreach
IT / Data Management / Security
Information Security
IT / Data Management
Subtotal, IT / Data Management / Security
Legal / Science / Regulatory / Economic Review
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Legal Advice: Environmental Program
if'tlUij-hiiSilJiviJl
QragpW&S
$3,599.5
$165,634.0
$8,900.3
$188,648.4
$0.0
$0.0
$0.0
$1,348.2
$1,348.2
$0.0
$0.0
$38,131.8
$38,131.8
$694.2
$40,174.2
$111.7
$2,330.3
$2,442.0
S234.6
$17,734.0
$17,968.6
$980.4
$722.8
::.;.IT**
Enacted
$3,643.0
$156,653.0
$9,410.0
$180,185.0
$296.0
$296.0
$197.0
$1,245.0
$1,442.0
$10,395.0
$0.0
$27,184.0
$37,579.0
$588.0
$39,905.0
$48.0
$1,650.0
$1,698.0
S341.0
$17,053.0
$17,394.0
$975.0
$755.0
' t FY25MJ7,
$4,184.2
$163,650.5
$10,196.9
$188,795.4
S300.0
$300.0
$198.0
$1,373.6
$1,571.6
$12,271.3
$9,500.0
$28,003.6
S49,774.9
$594.2
$52,240.7
$130.4
$1,432.4
$1,562.8
S788.6
$17,120.4
$17,909.0
$887.2
$690.8
t - - -o ^-Pl^Sjqi^l
$541.2
$6,997.5
$786.9
$8,610.4
$4.0
$4.0
$1.0
$128.6
$129.6
$1,876.3
$9,500.0
$819.6
$12,195.9
$6.2
$12,335.7
$82.4
($217.6)
($135.2)
$447.6
$67.4
$515.0
($87.8)
($64.2)
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
V, ft- J « > *,O^^A ^ .V V V. w .j
Subtotal, Legal / Science / Regulatory / Economic Review
Operations and Administration
Financial Assistance Grants / 1AG Management
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
Acquisition Management
Human Resources Management
Central Planning, Budgeting, and Finance
Subtotal, Operations and Administration
Research: Human Health and Ecosystems
Human Health Risk Assessment
Research: Land Protection
Research: Land Protection and Restoration
Research: SITE Program
Subtotal, Research: Land Protection
Research: Sustainability
Research: Sustainability
Superfund Cleanup
Superfund; Emergency Response and Removal
Superfund: EPA Emergency Preparedness
Superfund: Federal Facilities
Supcrfund: Remedial
Superfund: Support to Other Federal Agencies
Brownfields Projects
Subtotal, Superfund Cleanup
Rescission of Prior Year Expired Contracts, Grants, and
Interagency Agreements
Total, Hazardous Substance Superfund
(Transfer to Office of Inspector General)
(Transfer to Science and Technology)
-£2Si"
$1,703,2
$3,109.3
$65,156.8
$17,464.2
$5,250.8
$20,620.3
$111,601.4
$3,848.8
$23,322.6
$6,730.9
$30,053.5
$501.0
$197,032.3
$11,387.4
$31,063.4
$711,969.6
$5,444.0
$2,299.0
$959,195.7
$0.0
$1,374,889.5
($15,182.0)
($38,821.1)
- SB-.-
$1,730.0
$3,060.0
$69,667.0
$19,727.0
$5,665.0
$24,349.0
$122,468.0
$3,755.0
$22,927.0
$1,206.0
$24,133.0
$292.0
$193,584.0
$10,540.0
$31,336.0
$588,905.0
$9,540.0
$0.0
$833,905.0
($11,000.0)
$1,231,074.0
($13,337.0)
($30,156.0)
ET3«? -
$1,578.0
$2,920.8
$73,944.7
$23,514.3
$5,270.2
$25,540.8
$131,190.8
$3,847.2
$21,963.9
$0.0
$21,963.9
$0.0
$192,398.9
$8,863.1
$31,486.6
$581,594.9
$8,575.4
$0.0
$822,918.9
so.o
$1,258,955.0
($13,316.0)
($27,811.1)
PresBud
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
IT / Data Management / Security
IT / Data Management
Operations and Administration
Acquisition Management
Central Planning, Budgeting, and Finance
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
Human Resources Management
Subtotal, Operations and Administration
Research: Land Protection
Research: Land Protection and Restoration
Underground Storage Tanks (LUST / UST)
LUST / UST
LUST Cooperative Agreements
Subtotal, Underground Storage Tanks (LUST / UST)
-JSB,
$108.0
$337.0
$730.4
$982.9
$5.0
$2,055.3
$699.3
$10,146,4
$57,048.9
$67,195.3
: XX
$182.0
$358.0
$1,010.0
$894.0
$3.0
$2,265.0
$634.0
$10,514.0
$65,647.0
$76,161.0
,: >. f; ,£>,-. -IPlFljbf'-^ftnij
$175.9
$360.8
$1,014.8
$916.8
$3.0
$2,295.4
$651.3
$10,590.1
$58,207.2
$68,797.3
, -iss
($6.1)
$2.8
$4.8
$22.8
$0.0
$30.4
$17.3
$76.1
($7,439.8)
(57,363.7)
Total, Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
Oil Spill Response
Compliance
Compliance Assistance and Centers
Enforcement
Civil Enforcement
IT / Data Management / Security
IT / Data Management
Oil
Oil Spill: Prevention, Preparedness and Response
Operations and Administration
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
Research: Land Protection
Research: Land Protection and Restoration
Total, Oil Spill Response
State and Tribal Assistance Grants
$70,589.5
$79,953.0
$270,1
$1,900.7
$39.5
$13,991.5
$552.1
$841.0
$17,594.9
$284.0
$1,910.0
$31.0
$12,066.0
$500.0
$838.0
$15,629.0
$72,759.0
$280.2
$1,826.3
S32.5
$12,964.6
S499.3
$903,1
$16,506.0
($7,194.0)
($3.8)
($83.7)
$1.5
$898.6
($0.7)
S65.1
$877.0
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
Air Toxics and Quality
Clean School Bus Initiative
Brownfields
Brownfields Projects
Infrastructure Assistance
Infrastructure Assistance: Alaska Native Villages
Infrastructure Assistance: Clean Water SRF
Diesel Emissions Reduction Grant Program
Infrastructure Assistance: Drinking Water SRF
Infrastructure Assistance: Mexico Border
Infrastructure Assistance: Puerto Rico
Subtotal, Infrastructure Assistance
STAG Infrastructure Grants / Congressional Priorities
Subtotal, State and Tribal Assistance Grants (excluding
categorical grants)
Categorical Grants
Categorical Grant: Beaches Protection
Categorical Grant: Brownfields
Categorical Grant: Knvironmenlal Information
Categorical Grant: Hazardous Waste Financial Assistance
Categorical Grant: Homeland Security
Categorical Grant: Lead
Categorical Grant: Nonpoint Source (Sec. 319)
Categorical Granl: Pesticides Enforcement
Categorical Grant: Pesticides Program Implementation
Categorical Grant: Pollution Control (Sec. 106)
Water Quality Monitoring Grants
Categorical Grant: Pollution Control (Sec. 106)
(other activities)
Subtotal, Categorical Grant: Pollution Control (Sec. 106)
Categorical Grant: Pollution Prevention
Categorical Grant: Public Water System Supervision
(PWSS)
Categorical Grant: Radon
Categorical Grant: Sector Program
Categorical Grant: State and Local Air Quality Management
Categorical Grant: Targeted Watersheds
$0.0
$88,065.1
$6,897.0
$88,676.0
$0,0
$89,119.4
($6,897.0)
$443.4
$50,866.5
$1,110,473.7
$0.0
$847,519.2
$66,176.9
$0.0
$2,073,036.3
$255,255.6
$2,418,357.0
$13,262.7
$47,411.0
$19,837.0
$105,786.4
$4,988.8
$14,169.0
$225,194.2
$20,468.4
SI 3,347.2
$0.0
$211,124.6
$211,124.6
55,161.7
$104,043.6
$8,739.4
52,464.3
5233,758.6
517,706.0
$34,485.0
$886,759.0
$0.0
$837,495.0
$49,264.0
$0.0
$1,808,003.0
$197,058.0
$2,100,634.0
$9,853.0
$49,264.0
$19,706.0
$101,94/1.0
$4,926.0
$13,499.0
$204,278.0
$18,622.0
512,907.0
518,228.0
$197,944.0
$216,172.0
$4,926.0
$98,279.0
$7,439.0
$2,21.7.0
$220,261.0
$16,608.0
$14,850.0
$687,555.0
$49,500.0
$841,500.0
$24,750.0
$990.0
$1,619,145.0
$0.0
$1,708,264.4
$9,900.0
$49,494.9
$14,850.0
$103,345.5
$4,950.0
$13,563.1
$194,040.0
$18,711.0
$12,968.9
$18,500.0
$203,161.0
$221,661.0
$5,940.0
$99,099.0
$8,073.5
$2,227.5
$185,179.5
$6,930.0
($19,635.0)
($199,204.0)
$49,500.0
$4,005.0
($24,514.0)
5990.0
($188,858.0)
($197,058.0)
($392,369.6)
$47.0
$230.9
(54,856.0)
$1,401.5
$24.0
$64.1
($10,238.0)
$89.0
$61.9
$272.0
$5,217.0
$5,489.0
$1,014.0
$820.0
S634.5
510.5
($35,081.5)
(S9,678.0)
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FY 2007 Annual Plan
Categorical Grant: Toxics Substances Compliance
Categorical Grant: Tribal Air Quality Management
Categorical Grant: Tribal General Assistance Program
Categorical Grant: Underground Injection Control (UIC)
Categorical Grant: Underground Storage Tanks
Categorical Grant: Wastewater Operator Training
Categorical Grant: Water Quality Cooperative Agreements
Categorical Grant: Wetlands Program Development
Subtotal, Categorical Grants
OWBgatiMS
55,516.4
$12,977.1
$72,212.5
$11,537.5
$12,073.1
$943.0
$12,372.9
$15,027.2
$1,190,122.6
.....
" ^ $na&$&
$5,074.0
$10,887.0
$56,654.0
$10,838.0
$11,774.0
$1,182.0
$0.0
$15,765.0
$1,113,075.0
$5,098.5
$10,939.5
$56,925.0
$10,890.0
$37,566.7
$0.0
$0.0
$16,830.0
$1,089,183.6
' ;°f$,,IlMK3U&i
$24.5
$52.5
$271.0
$52.0
$25,792.7
($1,182.0)
$0.0
$1,065.0
($23,891.4)
Rescission of Prior Year Expired Contracts, Grants, and
Interagency Agreements
Total, State and Tribal Assistance Grants
$0.0 ($66,000.0) SO.O $66,000.0
$3,608,479.6 $3,147,709.0 $2,797,448.0 ($350,261.0)
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