Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of the Inspector GeneralPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
EPA Needs to Measure and Track Performance of Programs Eliminated in President's Budget But Later Funded by Congress
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of the Inspector GeneralPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
The Impact of the Proposed EPA Budget on State and Local Environmental Programs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Toxic Substances and Environmental OversightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Cutting EPA Spending
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
EPA Elevation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conflict of interests
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Results Act
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (GPublisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289041724
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the draft strategic plan submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as required by the Government Performance and Results Act. GAO noted that: (1) EPA's draft strategic plan does not yet contain all the elements required by the Results Act; (2) the draft plan provides a mission statement, general goals and objectives, approaches and strategies, and an identification of key external factors; (3) it communicates the agency's planned activities, and its goals and objectives are generally results oriented and measurable; (4) the draft plan does not include two of the elements required by the Results Act: (a) the relationship between the goals and objectives and the annual performance goals; and (b) program evaluations used to develop the plan and a schedule for future evaluations; (5) on the basis of its review of relevant legislation, GAO believes that the: (a) activities defined in EPA's draft plan are supported by legislation; (b) draft plan reflects EPA's major legislative requirements; and (c) linkages that EPA provides between goals, objectives, and strategies and potential statutory authorities help the reader to understand the plan; (6) EPA's draft plan does not discuss interagency coordination for crosscutting programs, activities, or functions that are similar to those of other federal agencies; (7) EPA's draft strategic plan recognizes major management challenges that GAO has previously identified and discusses the agency's plans to act on them but provides limited details on how these long-standing problems will be resolved; (8) these challenges include setting priorities, making effective use of nonregulatory approaches to supplement traditional "command and control" regulations, improving working relationships with the states, and ensuring the quality and completeness of the scientific research on which the agency bases it decisions; (9) EPA is currently developing an agencywide information system to track performance and report on results; (10) however, this system will depend on data from various other systems and sources that currently do not provide the reliable information that EPA needs for measuring results; (11) effort is still needed to identify, develop, and reach agreement on a comprehensive set of performance measures for the agency; (12) particularly needed are additional environmental measures or indicators to link EPA's activities to changes in health and environmental conditions; and (13) EPA needs to improve its financial data by correcting internal control weaknesses that have been identified by the agency's Office of the Inspector General.
The Federal-state Relationship
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Waste, Fraud, and Abuse at EPA Due to Mismanagement of Grant Funds
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Pig Book
Author: Citizens Against Government WastePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312343576
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A compendium of the most ridiculous examples of Congress's pork-barrel spending.
EPA and the States
Author: Steve ElsteinPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788143489
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Congress designed most federal environmental programs so they could be administered at the state & local levels. Such a framework was intended to draw upon the strengths of federal, state, & local governments to protect the nation's environmental resources. This report examines (1) the difficulties that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) & the states have had in implementing federal environment requirements, (2) the reasons that they have had these difficulties, & (3) the ways that they can improve their ability to carry out the requirements. Charts & tables.