Long-Term Planning

Planning Topics

Priorities

Short Term Planning

Long Term Planning

The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) requires each federal agency to delineate long-term goals and objectives through its strategic plan (SP) and update those plans every three years. EPA completed its most recent update in September 2003.

The 2003 Strategic Plan is built around five goals, centered on the themes of

1. Air and Global Climate Change
2. Water
3. Land
4. Communities and Ecosystems
5. Compliance and Environmental Stewardship

The majority of the enforcement and compliance activities are found within Goal 5 - "Compliance and Environmental Stewardship". In addition to enforcement and compliance activities, Goal 5 contains pollution prevention, regulatory, economic review and innovation, tribal, and science and research activities. A mix of traditional measures (number of inspections, number of companies utilizing self-audits) along with newer outcome measures (pounds of pollutants reduced, behavioral changes as a result of compliance assistance) are used to track the environmental progress made over the course of a year. These measures are contained in the Agency's budget and form the basis for the Annual Performance Report to Congress.

FY 2003 Goal 5 (PDF 377.4 KB, 25 pages): This chapter describes how EPA is protecting human health and the environment by improving environmental performance of individual, business and governmental entities in all media through regulatory and non-regulatory means.

FY2003-2008 Strategic Plan (2.76 MB, 284 pages) Entire document.

Strategic Plans from prior years:

FY 2000 Goal 9 (PDF 62 KB, 3 pages): This chapter describes the goals and objectives of the enforcement and compliance program, updating the FY1997 strategic plan. This chapter is part of the complete FY 2000 EPA Strategic Plan (PDF 1.40 MB, 110 pages).

FY1997 Goal 9 (PD 68.2 KB, 3 pages): This chapter describes the goals and objectives of the enforcement and compliance program. This chapter is part of the complete FY 1997 EPA Strategic Plan (PDF 1.4 MB, 111 pages).

See EPA's Office of the Chief Financial Office for more information on the Strategic Plan.