FY 1999 Annual Plan: Table of Contents

Introduction and Overview

• Mission Statement and Agency Purpose
• Goals
• Guiding Principles
• New Approaches to Planning and Budgeting
• Organization for the Annual Plan
• Overview of the Plan

Resource Tables

• Resources by Appropriation
• Resources by Goal/Appropriation
• Resources by Goal/Objective

Goal 1: Clean Air

• Attain National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Ozone and PM
• Reduce Emissions of Air Toxics
• Attain NAAQS for CO, SO2, NO2, and Lead
• Acid Rain

Goal 2: Clean and Safe Water

• Enhance Human Health Through Safe Drinking Water
• Conserve and Enhance Nation's Waters
• Reduce Loadings and Air Deposition

Goal 3: Safe Food

• Reduce Agricultural Pesticides Risk
• Reduce Use on Food of Pesticides Not Meeting Standards

Goal 4: Preventing Pollution and Reducing Risk in Communities, Homes, Workplaces and Ecosystems

• Reduce Public and Ecosystems Exposure to Pesticides
• Reduce Lead Poisoning
• Safe Handling and Use of Commercial Chemicals and Microorganisms
• Healthier Indoor Air
• Improve Pollution Prevention Strategies, Tools, Approaches
• Decrease Quantity and Toxicity of Waste
• Assess Conditions in Indian Country

Goal 5: Better Waste Management and Restoration of Contaminated Waste Sites

• Reduce or Control Risks to Human Health
• Prevent Releases by Proper Facility Management
• Respond to All Known Emergencies

Goal 6: Reduction of Global and Cross-Border Environmental Risks

• Reduce Transboundary Threats, Shared North American Ecosystems
• Climate Change
• Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
• Protect Public Health and Ecosystems From Persistent Toxics
• Prevent Degradation of the Marine and Polar Environments
• Achieve Cleaner and More Cost-Effective Practices

Goal 7: Expansion of Americans' Right to Know About Their Environment

• Increase Quality/Quantity of Education, Outreach, Data Availability
• Improve Public's Ability to Reduce Exposure
• Enhance Ability to Protect Human Health

Goal 8: Sound Science, Improved Understanding of Environmental Risks, and Greater Innovation to Address Environmental Problems

• Research for Ecosystem Assessment and Restoration
• Research for Human Health Risk Assessment
• Research to Detect Emerging Risk Issues
• Pollution Prevention and New Technology for Environmental Protection
• Enable Research on Innovative Approaches to Current and Future Environmental Problems
• Increase Use of Integrated, Holistic, Partnership Approaches
• Increase Opportunities for Sector Based Approaches
• Regional Enhancement of Ability to Quantify Environmental Outcomes
• Science Advisory Board Peer Review
• Incorporate Innovative Approaches to Environmental Management

Goal 9: A Credible Deterrent to Pollution and Greater Compliance with the Law

• Enforcement Tools to Reduce Non-Compliance
• Increase Use of Auditing, Self-Policing Policies

Goal 10: Effective Management

• Executive Leadership
• Management Services, Administrative, and Stewardship
• Building Operations, Utilities and New Construction
• Regional Management Services and Support
• Provide Audit and Investigative Products and Services

Special Analysis

• EPA User Fees Program
• Non-Appropriated Funds
• Working Capital Fund
• The Customer Service Program and its Goals
• Costs and Benefits for Economically Significant Rule in 1998 Or 1999
• Funds for America Chart
• Appropriations by Object Class
• STAG State and Tribal Assistance Grants
• State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG)

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