National Program Manager (NPM) Guidance FY 2011

EPA’s National Program Managers issue guidance documents that provide EPA’s 10 regional offices, the states, and tribes with guidance on programmatic priorities and implementation strategies for the coming year. NPM Guidance documents are issued annually by the five major EPA program offices below:

Air & Radiation (OAR)
Water (OW)
Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER)
Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances (OPPTS)
Enforcement & Compliance Assurance (OECA)

The developments of these documents serve as an opportunity to improve program planning and management by establishing clear lines of sight between the annual operational measures, annual budget measures, and long-term, strategic measures. OCFO begins this process by issuing guidance that provides context, requirements, and instructions for the formation of the NPM guidance documents with a focus on three main areas:

(1) Developing FY 2011 NPM priorities, strategies, and associated measures
(2) Reporting results for FY 2010 performance commitments
(3) Negotiating agreements for FY 2011 performance commitments.

EPA’s program offices reflect discussions and meetings with state associations, tribes, and other key stakeholders throughout the documents development in their final Guidance. After these Guidance documents are put into place, Regions, states and tribes are all encouraged to review them. In order to make sure all comments are addressed, all stakeholders providing comments are asked to use the official template (MS Word) (1pg, 34K). Please send all comments to the appropriate National Program Managers (see below) with a cc to Daniel Hopkins (hopkins.daniel@epa.gov) and Stephanie Santell (santell.stephanie@epa.gov) by no later than March 19, 2010.You can access a checklist for NPM Guidance milestones for regions (PDF) (2 pp, 98K, about PDF)and for states and tribes (PDF) (1pg, 79K, about PDF).

Key Links

OCFO Guidance on the FY 2011 NPM Guidance

FY 2011 Memorandum and Guidance from the CFO on National Program Manager Guidance and the Annual Commitment Process

Memo from the CFO, October 8th 2010 (PDF) (2 pp, 560K, about PDF)
Technical Guidance Transmittal Memo, October 14th 2010(PDF) (2 pp, 557K, about PDF)

FY 2011 OCFOs Technical Guidance on the NPM Guidance
- OCFO's Guidance on the NPM Guidance (Complete Document) (PDF) (37 pp , 490K, about PDF)

Section1: Introduction to the NPM Guidance Process (PDF) (2 pp , 112K, about PDF)
Section 2: Development of FY 2011 National Program Manager Guidance (PDF) (8 pp , 171K, about PDF)
Section 3: Annual Commitment Process and Measures Central (PDF) (7 pp , 144K, about PDF)

Attachments

Key contacts, Web links, Process information and Timelines (PDF) (13 pp , 289K, about PDF)
Templates and Documentation (PDF) (8 pp , 123K, about PDF)

FY 2011 NPM Guidance

Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) - Posted in February 2010

Program Contact:
Michael Hadrick (Hadrick.Michael@epa.gov)	(202) 564-7414

Office of Water (OW) - Posted in February 2010

Program Contact:
Vinh Nguyen (nguyen.vinh@epa.gov)	(202) 564-4631

Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) - Posted in February 2010

Program Contact:
Howard Rubin (Rubin.Howard@epa.gov)	(202) 566-1899

Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) - Posted in February 2010

Program Contacts:
Jennifer Vernon (vernon.jennifer@epa.gov)	(202) 564-6573
Brian Katz (katz.brian@epa.gov)	(202) 564-4828

Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assistance (OECA) - Posted in February 2010

Program Contacts:
James Pendergast (pendergast.jim@epa.gov)	(202) 566-0389
Ginger Gotliffe (gotliffe.ginger@epa.gov)	(202) 564-7072

Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations (OCIR) - Posted in February 2010

Program Contact:
Reynold Meni (meni.reynold@epa.gov)	(202) 565-3669

Further Background:

FY 2010 NPM Guidance
FY 2009 NPM Guidance
Pervious year's documents are available upon request. Please send requests to ocfoinfo@epa.gov

National Program Manager (NPM) Guidance FY 2011

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