Budget

The EPA develops a proposed budget each February for the upcoming fiscal year (e.g, the FY 2010 budget was developed in February 2009).    The budget defines the goals and objectives towards which the Agency intends to work within the fiscal year and the funding the Agency believes is necessary to accomplish these goals and objectives. This budget is combined with the budgets of the rest of the Executive Branch and is then sent by the President to the Congress (this occurs in the first quarter of the calendar year). The Congress then acts on the various budgets by developing, amending, and, ultimately, passing bills which enact the budgets into law (normally prior to the start of the fiscal year covered by the budget). At this point the enacted budget becomes the blueprint for the Agency’s activities during the next fiscal year.

The “Summary of the EPA’s Budget” (also known as the “Budget in Brief”) provides an overview of the Agency’s budget and of the Agency activities as a whole.
FY 2010 Budget-in-Brief (PDF) (98pp, 472K)  
FY 2009 Budget-in-Brief (PDF) (94pp, 1.8M)  
FY 2008 Budget-in-Brief (PDF) (68pp, 1.8M)  
FY 2007 Budget-in-Brief (PDF) (94pp, 1.8M)
FY 2006 Budget-in-Brief (PDF) (95pp, 1.7M)

The “Congressional Justification” (sometimes known as the “CJ”) is the formal title for the actual budget document which is submitted to Congress.


FY 2010 Congressional Justification
FY 2009 Congressional Justification
FY 2008 Congressional Justification
FY 2007 Congressional Justification
FY 2006 Congressional Justification
FY 2005 Congressional Justification
FY 2004 Congressional Justification
FY 2003 Congressional Justification
FY 2002 Congressional Justification
FY 2001 Congressional Justification
FY 2000 Congressional Justification (PDF) (643pp, 1.5M,about PDF)

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