The ABCG is responsible for:
- Providing scientifically defensible and transparent economic assessments in a policy relevant timeframe;
- Developing methodologies, models and applied tools to provide scientifically defensible and transparent
economic analysis to EPA and other stakeholders in a policy-relevant time frame;
- Conducting analyses of costs, benefits, and economic impacts of air quality management strategies, programs,
and regulations developed throughout EPA;
- Participating in Agency-wide assessments of the costs, benefits, and economic impacts of environmental programs
and development of policies, methodologies and models for this purpose;
- Performing and documenting a wide range of economic analyses to address social cost and benefits, economic impacts,
regulatory flexibility (e.g., impacts on small entities and Tribes), information collection requests, and environmental justice;
- Collaborating with researchers throughout the Agency as well as in academic, research institutes,
and other government organizations to improve the science of applied environmental economics; and
- Providing technical support and expertise on benefit, cost and economic impact models to regional, State,
and local agencies, international agencies, Tribal agencies, and the public on the benefits and costs of improving air quality.
- Analysis prepared by ABCG can be found at Economics and Cost Analysis.
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