Managing for Results: EPA's Efforts to Implement Needed Management Systems and Processes
RCED-97-156
Published: Jun 18, 1997. Publicly Released: Jul 08, 1997.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the status of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to: (1) establish a new office that would develop and implement an integrated planning, budgeting, and accountability system for the agency; and (2) ensure that the agency has comprehensive scientific and environmental data and appropriate environmental measures of progress for use in strategic planning, budgeting, and accountability. GAO also reviewed EPA's previous efforts to implement this type of system and identified elements of an effective system that could be used as benchmarks to gauge progress in this current effort.
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Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| Environmental Protection Agency | To help ensure the full implementation of the agency's plans for an integrated planning, budgeting, and accountability system, the EPA Administrator, in consultation with key stakeholders, should establish expectations or benchmarks for how the new system is to operate when fully implemented and use them to monitor the agency's progress in implementing the system. |
Closed – Implemented
EPA has taken several actions to integrate its planning, budgeting, and accountability system. While these actions are consistent with linking together agency goals, measures, and resources, in taking these actions, the agency did not establish benchmarks for how the new system is to operate when fully implemented and for use in monitoring progress toward implementing the system.
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AccountabilityAgency missionsData integrityEnvironmental monitoringFederal agency reorganizationstate relationsManagement information systemsMission budgetingPerformance measuresStrategic information systems planning