# 2010-2015 EPA Strategic Plan Approach National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology May 25, 20102 **Strategic Planning**  **Annual Planning and Budgeting**  **Results Measurement,**  **Reporting, and Evaluation**  **2010 -** **2015 Strategic**  **Plan (under development)**  **Operations and Execution**  **Performance and**  **Ac countability**  **Report FY 2012**  **An nual Plan and Budget**  **FY 2012 National Program**  **Guidance** 

# EP A’s Performance Management System3 

# EPA Strategic Plan: Background  

### Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) requires EPA to publish a Strategic Plan at least every 3 years.  Describes the Agency’s long-term (5-year) environmental and human health outcomes, and strategies to accomplish those results.  4 Strategic Plans provided to OMB/Congress since 1997, most recently in 2006.  Basis for annual planning and budgeting and accountability reporting.4 

# Goals for EPA Strategic Plan Revision  

### Create a simplified and meaningful Strategic Plan that:  Advances the Administrator’s priorities  Sets Agency direction  Is used by senior leadership as a management tool  Reflects EPA’s core values: science, transparency, rule of law5 

# Administrator’s Priorities  

## Seven priorities:  

### Taking action on climate change  

### Improving air quality  

### Assuring the safety of chemicals  

### Cleaning up our communities  

### Protecting America’s waters  

### Expanding the conversation on environmentalism and working for environmental justice  

### Building strong state and tribal partnerships6 

# EPA Strategic Plan Approach  **Goals and Objectives:**  Sharpen and align the language of the goal and objective statements with Administrator’s priorities  **Cross -** **cutting fundamental**  **strategies:** Set expectations for fundamentally changing the way we work Agency-wide in achieving strategic goals  **Strategic Measures:**   Most critical measures to assess progress  Significantly reduce the number of strategic measures and make them more meaningful  Revise or add measures to capture new or different work  In sum: Clear, concise, measurable, and used to manage7 

# EPA Strategic Goals: Current and Proposed **Proposed Goals: 2010 -**  **2015**  Goal 1: Taking Action on Climate Change and Improving Air Quality  Goal 2: Protecting America’s Waters  Goal 3: Cleaning Up Our Communities  Goal 4: Ensuring the Safety of Chemicals  Goal 5: Enforcing Environmental Laws **Current Goals: 2006 -**  **2011**  Goal 1: Clean Air and Global Climate Change  Goal 2: Clean and Safe Water  Goal 3: Land Preservation and Restoration  Goal 4: Healthy Communities and Ecosystems  Goal 5: Compliance and Environmental Stewardship8 

# New: Cross-Cutting Fundamental Strategies  

### Proposed cross **- cutting fundamental strategies**   **Expanding the conversation on environmentalism**  **Working for environmental justice**  **and children’s health**  Advancing science, research, and technological innovation  Strengthening state, tribal, and international partnerships  **Strengthening EPA’s w** **orkforce and capabilities** 9 

# Expanding the Conversation on Environmentalism

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### Engage and empower communities and partners  

### Include those who have been historically underrepresented  

### Support and advance environmental protection and human health nationwide.10 

# Working for Environmental Justice and Children’s Health

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### Reduce and prevent harmful exposures and health risks to children and underserved, overburdened communities.  

### Support community efforts to build healthy, sustainable green neighborhoods.11



###  Improve EPA’s internal management  Encourage innovation and creativity in all aspects of our work  Ensure that EPA is an excellent workplace that attracts and retains a topnotch, diverse workforce  Positioned to meet and address the environmental challenges of the 21 st 

### century. 

# Strengthening EP

A’s Workforce and Capabilities12 

# Strategies in the Plan: Narrative  

### Vision for each strategy  

### Basic operating principles for changing how the Agency will do business  

### Overarching statement that the Agency will hold itself accountable and how it will do that.13 

# Framework of Fundamental Strategies

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### Vision and operating principles  

### Champions develop action plans  

### Program and Regional offices develop and propose firm commitments  

### Program and Regional offices report on progress14 

# Timeline

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### June 18-July 30 Public review of draft Strategic Plan  

### August 13 Initiate formal OMB Review  

### September 30 Issue final Strategic Plan