United States
Environmental Protection Agency
Fiscal Year 2025
Justification of Appropriation
Estimates for the
Committee on Appropriations
Tab 07: Buildings and Facilities
EPA-190R24002 March 2024
www.epa.gov/cj
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Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2025 Annual Performance Plan and Congressional Justification
Table of Contents - Buildings and Facilities
Resource Summary Table 2
Program Projects in B&F 2
Homeland Security 3
Homeland Security: Protection of EPA Personnel and Infrastructure 4
Operations and Administration 6
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations 7
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Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2025 Annual Performance Plan and Congressional Justification
APPROPRIATION: Building and Facilities
Resource Summary Table
(Dollars in Thousands)
FY 2025
FY 2023
FY 2024
FY 2025
President's Budget
v.
Final
Annualized
President's
FY 2024
Actuals
CR
Budget
Annualized CR
Building and Facilities
Budget Authority
$21,446
$48,752
$105,569
$56,817
Total Workyears
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Bill Language: Buildings and Facilities
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, alteration, and purchase offixed equipment or
facilities of, or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency, $105,569,000, to remain available
until expended.
Program Projects in B&F
[Dollars in Thousands)
Program Pro ject
FY 2023
Final Actuals
FY 2024
Annualized
CR
FY 2025
President's
Budget
FY 2025 President's
Budget v.
FY 2024 Annualized
CR
Homeland Security
Homeland Security: Protection of EPA Personnel
and Infrastructure
$3,944
$6,676
$6,676
$0
Operations and Administration
Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
$17,502
$42,076
$98,893
$56,817
TOTAL B&F
$21,446
$48,752
$105,569
$56,817
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Homeland Security
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Homeland Security: Protection of EPA Personnel and Infrastructure
Program Area: Homeland Security
Goal: Safeguard and Revitalize Communities
Objective(s): Prepare for and Respond to Environmental Emergencies
(Dollars in Thousands)
FY 2023
Final Actuals
FY 2024
Annualized
CR
FY 2025
President's
Budget
FY 2025 President's
Budget v.
FY 2024 Annualized
CR
Environmental Programs & Management
$6,059
$5,188
$5,158
-$30
Science & Technology
$625
$625
$501
-$124
Building and Facilities
$3,944
$6,676
$6,676
$0
Hazardous Substance Superfund
$1,167
$1,029
$1,530
$501
Total Budget Authority
$11,795
$13,518
$13,865
$347
Total Workyears
12.3
13.3
13.3
0.0
Total workyears in FY 2025 include 13.3 FTE to support Homeland Security Working Capital Fund (WCF) services.
Program Project Description:
EPA's Buildings and Facilities resources, in the Homeland Security: Protection of EPA Personnel
and Infrastructure Program, support the protection of federal employees, contractors, grantees, and
private citizens who work within or visit EPA facilities. EPA's buildings include headquarters and
regional offices, program and research laboratories, and warehouses. These facilities are either
owned or leased by EPA or the General Services Administration (GSA). This funding ensures
federal mandates related to physical security and local emergency preparedness are met for EPA
facilities. These funds support the physical security protection equipment and mechanisms
required to protect occupants, facility relocation (e.g., moves, new leases, consolidations, etc.),
physical equipment upgrades/modernization, and corrective actions required to address security
vulnerabilities identified during physical security assessments.
FY 2025 Activities and Performance Plan:
Work in this program directly supports Goal 6/Objective 6.3, Prepare for and Respond to
Environmental Emergencies in the FY 2022 - 2026 EPA Strategic Plan.
In FY 2025, EPA will continue to partner with GSA on implementing Enterprise Physical Access
Control Systems (ePACS). ePACS modernizes EPA's security infrastructure in compliance with
Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12)1 and ensures that the Agency is
enhancing safety, security, and efficiency with more effective controlled access to EPA physical
space and networks.
In FY 2025, EPA will complete security projects to ensure protection of occupants and compliance
with federal mandates and Interagency Security Committee (ISC) standards, including:
1 For additional information, please see: https://www.dlis.gov/liomeland-securitv-presidential-directive-12
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• Migrating to ePACS at the Research Triangle Park, NC Laboratory, Gulf Breeze, FL
Laboratory, the Newport, OR Environmental Laboratory, the Washington, DC EPA
Headquarters facilities, the Edison, NJ Region 2 Laboratory, and the New York City, NY
Region 2 Headquarters.
• Upgrading closed-circuit television and physical security in response to vulnerabilities
identified in physical security assessments.
The Agency will continue to utilize GSA's Managed Service Office program, USAccess, for
Personal Identity Verification card enrollment and issuance. USAccess is a GSA managed, shared
services solution that provides EPA with the ability to produce and maintain secure and reliable
forms of identification, for all EPA employees and contractors as required by HSPD-12.
Performance Measure Targets:
EPA's FY 2025 Annual Performance Plan does not include annual performance goals specific to
this program.
FY 2025 Change from FY 2024 Annualized CR (Dollars in Thousands):
• There is no change in program funding.
Statutory Authority:
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004; Homeland Security Act of 2002;
Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1970, 84 Stat. 2086, as amended by Pub. L. 98-80, 97 Stat. 485
(codified at Title 5, App.) (EPA's organic statute).
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Operations and Administration
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Facilities Infrastructure and Operations
Program Area: Operations and Administration
Cross-Agency Mission and Science Support
(Dollars in Thousands)
FY 2023
Final Actuals
FY 2024
Annualized
CR
FY 2025
President's
Budget
FY 2025 President's
Budget v.
FY 2024 Annualized
CR
Environmental Programs & Management
$275,614
$283,330
$308,134
$24,804
Science & Technology
$65,328
$67,500
$72,906
$5,406
Building and Facilities
$17,502
$-12,076
$98,893
$56,817
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
$803
$754
$729
-$25
Inland Oil Spill Programs
$692
$682
$643
-$39
Hazardous Substance Superfund
$74,115
$65,634
$72,349
$6,715
Total Budget Authority
$434,054
$459,976
$553,654
$93,678
Total Workyears
304.7
321.8
331.1
9.3
Total work years in FY 2025 include 6.1 FTE to support Facilities Infrastructure and Operations Working Capital
Fund (WCF) services.
Program Project Description:
EPA's Buildings and Facilities (B&F) appropriation supports the design, construction, repair, and
improvement of EPA's federally owned and leased land and structures. B&F funds construction,
renovation, and alteration projects costing more than $300 thousand per statute. B&F resources
ensure that the Agency complies with requirements, including the Energy Policy Act of 2005; the
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA); the Energy Act of 2020; and regulatory
mandates associated with soil and water pesticides testing.
FY 2025 Activities and Performance Plan:
Work in this program provides Cross-Agency Mission and Science Support and is allocated across
strategic goals and objectives in the FY 2022 - 2026 EPA Strategic Plan.
In FY 2025, the Agency proposes an investment of an additional $56.8 million in the Facilities
and Operations Program. This funding supports critical space consolidation, construction, and the
repair and improvement (R&I) of EPA's aging facility and laboratory real estate inventory,
including to help reduce over $100 million in backlogged R&I projects. This funding includes $6
million to reconfigure and modernize the EPA-owned lab space at the Andrew W. Breidenbach
Environmental Research Center (AWBERC) in Cincinnati, Ohio to improve the Agency's per-
and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) research. Currently this work is conducted across several
isolated PFAS analytical laboratories in the AWBERC facility, resulting in inefficient processes
that limit the timeliness and number of analyses. This reconfiguration would create one contiguous
laboratory dedicated to PFAS research with an investment in state-of-the-art equipment to advance
PFAS analyses. This also includes investing $5 million to support the modernization and
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enhancement of the National Enforcement Investigations Center (NEIC) and National Forensics
Center in Denver, Colorado to keep up with the evolving laboratory and forensics needs.
In accordance with the Memorandum on Implementation of agencywide Real Property Capital
Planning (M-20-03) and the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act (FASTA),2 3 the Agency will
continue to review its space needs. B&F resources are essential to help EPA reduce the number of
occupied leased facilities, consolidate and optimize space within owned facilities, and reduce
square footage. Good stewardship practices demand that the physical conditions, functionality,
safety and health, security, and research capabilities of the Agency's facilities are properly
maintained to ensure successful completion of EPA's mission requirements and goals.
In FY 2025, EPA proposes an administrative provision to raise the B&F per project threshold from
$300 thousand in FY 2024 to $350 thousand. The purpose of this proposed increase is to regularly
adjust the threshold to keep it in line with construction and labor costs for smaller-scale
construction and R&I projects. Economic conditions have created long lead times for services and
materials, and higher construction costs are making projects more difficult to fund due budget
constraints. The current $300 thousand project threshold was set in FY 2023 after 10 years at $150
thousand. Additional information is found in the Proposed FY 2025 Administrative Provisions
section.
In accordance with the Memorandum on Advancing Climate Resilience through Climate-Smart
Infrastructure Investments and Implementation Guidance for the Disaster Resiliency Planning Act
(M-24-03), this program supports EPA's efforts to increase facility resiliency and sustainability to
combat the effects of climate change while adapting EPA space to a growing workforce.4 EPA
will continue incorporating natural hazard and climate vulnerability assessments into their real
property risk management process. In FY 2025, EPA will continue conducting climate resiliency
assessments at EPA-owned facilities and prioritize additional opportunities to reduce climate-
related fiscal risks. Assessments will identify potential projects that the Agency can undertake to
increase facility resiliency against the impacts of climate change, such as roof stability or seawall
construction projects. EPA will initiate all high-priority projects within 24 months of a climate
assessment.
Through master planning and nationwide efforts to use space more efficiently, EPA identifies B&F
projects which support the long-term conditions and efficiency of EPA facilities. Further, B&F
resources are necessary for EPA to comply with GSA leasing practices requiring agencies to fund
construction initiatives, including sustainable features as tenant improvements (TI) or up front and
ongoing project costs.5 These requirements significantly increase TI costs for new leases, pulling
2 For additional information, please refer to: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/ll/M-20-03.pdf.
3 For additional information, please refer to: Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act of 2016,
https://www.congress.gov/114/plaws/publ287/PLAW-114publ287.pdf.
4 Work in this program takes direction for climate change and sustainability related initiatives from the following: EO 14008:
Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad ("https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefmg-room/presidential-
actions/2021/01/27/executive-order-on-tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad/) EO 14057: Catalyzing Clean Energy'
Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability' (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefmg-room/presidential-
actions/2021/12/08/executive-order-on-catalvzing-clean-energv-industries-and-iobs-through-federal-sustainabilitv/')
5 Many of these features are required by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 or executive orders.
5 For additional information, please see: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/ll/M-24-03-Advancing-Climate-
Resilience-tlirough-Climate-Smart-Infrastructure-Investments.pdf
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critical funding from ongoing efforts to consolidate space and reduce the Agency's footprint in
accordance with FASTA.
Space consolidation and reconfiguration enable EPA to reduce its footprint to create a more
efficient, collaborative, and technologically sophisticated workplace. In FY 2025, the Agency will
continue to reconfigure EPA's workplaces to ensure the space footprint can accommodate a
growing and hybrid workforce. EPA will consider all opportunities for supporting organizational
health, in line with OMB Memoranda M-23-15 - Measuring, Monitoring, and Improving
Organizational Health and Organizational Performance in the Context of Evolving Agency Work
Environments,6 and requests an additional $5 million for this effort. EPA will work to optimize its
space footprint to ensure that its facilities remain a critical place to collaborate, maintain
connections, including engagement with local stakeholders and the public, and perform specialized
work, while also adapting to the hybrid work model to reduce long-term rent costs.
The FY 2025 request will support the initiation of, and ongoing projects that provide critical
maintenance for aging laboratory facilities and are key to ensuring that the Agency has access to
preeminent laboratory science. To accomplish this, EPA must invest in infrastructure (e.g.,
architectural and design) and mechanical systems (e.g., electrical, water/steam, HVAC). These
investments maintain a safe workplace and provide for high quality science that advance the
Agency's mission. EPA will focus on critical facility repairs and infrastructure upgrades to
maintain an acceptable Facility Condition Index (FCI), which measures the current state of EPA
owned facilities.7 Delaying essential repairs results in the deterioration of EPA's facilities, which
increases long-term repair costs and enhances safety risks.
In FY 2025, the Agency will continue the following space optimization projects with the potential
for the greatest long-term cost and energy savings:
• Co-Locating in the Ada, Oklahoma, laboratory. EPA will continue its work, which
began in 2020, to consolidate employees currently in leased laboratory space into owned
space. The Agency is co-locating operations for the regional laboratory in Houston, Texas,
with the EPA-owned laboratory in Ada, Oklahoma. EPA is currently in the process of
awarding contracts for phase two and phase three of the overall eight phase consolidation
plan. Phase two entails library consolidation and renovations for a Glassware Prep room,
and phase three will convert the Main Building's basement into R6 laboratories. In FY
2025, EPA will complete building infrastructure, electrical and mechanical upgrades.
• Optimizing space at the Athens, Georgia, laboratory. In FY 2025, EPA will continue
construction in the Region 4 Main Lab Building to combine the facility with Office of
Research and Development - Athens, as both of these facilities have not been fully utilized.
This consolidation effort will save the Agency several million per year in rent, utilities,
operation and maintenance, IT, and support services costs. The Athens space consolidation
project started construction in 2020 and consists of six phases, EPA plans on awarding
phase four in FY 2025.
"For additional information, please see: https://www.wliitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/M-23-15.pdf
0 For additional information on the Synthesis Report of the U.S. EPA Laboratory Enterprise Evaluation, please refer to:
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-03/documents/svntliesisreportoftheusepalaboratorventerprise.pdf.
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• Co-Locating in the Corvallis, Oregon, laboratory. The Agency is co-locating operations
for the Region 9 laboratory in Richmond, California, with the EPA-owned laboratory in
Corvallis, Oregon. In FY 2025, the Agency will finalize construction of the Region 9
Facilities Support Services Center, which is designed for Region 9 laboratory support, and
will continue renovations to accommodate Region 9 laboratory storage and office space in
Corvallis, Oregon. In addition, EPA will perform upgrades to the central utility plant for
the main lab building in FY 2025.
Performance Measure Targets:
(PM CAA) Number of EPA-owned facility climate adaptation assessments completed.
FY
2018
FY
2019
FY
2020
FY
2021
FY
2022
FY
2023
FY
2024
FY
2025
Units
Target
2
7
11
14
Assessments
Actual
1
7
(PM CRP) Perce
months of a com
ntage of priority climate resiliency Projects for EPA-owned facilities initiated within 24
)leted facility climate assessment and Project prioritization.
FY
2018
FY
2019
FY
2020
FY
2021
FY
2022
FY
2023
FY
2024
FY
2025
Units
Target
100
100
100
Percent
Actual
100
Numerator
1
Projects
Denominator
1
FY 2025 Change from FY 2024 Annualized CR (Dollars in Thousands):
• (+$39,817.0) This program change supports implementation of EO 14057: Catalyzing
Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability requirements that will
require EPA to increase facility resiliency against the impact of climate change and to
advance sustainability of EPA operations.
• (+$6,000.0) This program change supports OMB Memoranda M-23-15 - Measuring,
Monitoring, and Improving Organizational Health and Organizational Performance in the
Context of Evolving Agency Work Environments. This investment will modernize and
enable EPA facilities to support meaningful in-person work and advance organizational
health.
• (+$6,000.0) This program change will reconfigure lab space and invest in state-of-the-art
equipment at the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center in Cincinnati,
Ohio. This investment will enable EPA to advance and improve the Agency's PFAS
research.
• (+$5,000.0) This program change is an increase to improve and make repairs at the
National Enforcement Investigations Center and upgrade National Forensics Center in
Denver, Colorado. This investment will enable EPA to keep up with the evolving
laboratory and forensics needs.
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Statutory Authority:
Federal Property and Administration Services Act; Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1970, 84 Stat.
2086, as amended by Pub. L. 98-80, 97 Stat. 485 (codified at Title 5, App.) (EPA's organic statute).
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