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Program Priorities, Goals, Performance and Accomplishments



EPA’s Strategic Plan
As required by the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), EPA has produced the 2006-2011 EPA Strategic Plan | PDF Version (184 pp, 9.9 MB, About PDF). The Plan outlines EPA’s mission and long-term goals, describes how EPA programs relate to those goals, and provides a framework for EPA’s focus on the results of work. The Federal facilities remedial and reuse program can be found within the Superfund program under Goal 3 – Land Preservation and Restoration (PDF) (20 pp, 1.3MB, About PDF).

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EPA’s Performance and Accountability Report
EPA’s Performance and Accountability Report describes to Congress, the President, and the public EPA's environmental, programmatic, and financial performance over the past fiscal year. It also reports EPA's progress in addressing management challenges.

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Program Assessment and Rating Tool (PART)
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) developed the PART for systematic assessment of Federal government program results. PART focuses on program purpose and design, strategic planning, program management, and program results/accountability. A Program Assessment of the Federal Facilities Remedial Program was conducted for Fiscal Year 2005 and scored the program as “moderately effective.” As an element of this assessment, a set of follow-up actions and recommendations designed to improve the program are currently underway.

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Superfund Program Implementation Manual (SPIM)
The SPIM defines program management priorities, procedures, and practices for Superfund, including the Federal facilities program. The SPIM provides a link between the Government Performance and Results Act, EPA’s Strategic Plan, and the Superfund program’s internal processes for setting priorities, meeting program goals, and tracking performance. The SPIM for Fiscal Year 2008/2009 is now available online. Appendix D of the FY08/09 SPIM (PDF) (50 pp, 346K, About PDF) addresses Federal facilities.

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Federal Facilities Snapshot of Accomplishments
Annual accomplishments snapshots for the Federal facilities National Priorities List (NPL) and Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) programs can be found below.

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Federal Facility NPL Program Accomplishments

Environmental Indicators
Environmental Indicators are used to measure program performance and communicate tangible progress made in protecting human health and the environment.

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Construction Completions at NPL Sites
EPA tracks construction completions to simplify its system of categorizing sites and better communicate the successful completion of cleanup activities. In addition, partial deletions help to promote the economic redevelopment of Superfund sites and better communicate the completion of successful partial cleanups.

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Sitewide Ready for Anticipated Use and Cross Program Revitalization Measure

In 2006, the Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office and the Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation jointly developed a performance measure, titled Sitewide Ready for Anticipated Use (SWRAU), to report the Superfund program’s accomplishments in making land ready for reuse at construction complete sites. This SWRAU measure was developed to comply with EPA's responsibility to report long-term, outcome-based accomplishments under the Government Performance and Results Act. The introduction of this measure also reflects the high priority that EPA places on land reuse and revitalization as an integral part of the Agency’s cleanup mission for the Superfund program, as well as its attention to post-construction activities at NPL sites.

EPA recognized that there was a need to establish a similar, consistent set of measures applied across all of the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response cleanup programs to track the efforts the Agency was making in preparing sites to be returned to use. All 10 EPA Regions began collecting information for a set of Cross Program Revitalization Measure (CPRM) indicators and performance measures in October 2007. This information is updated regularly. There are no annual targets in place for the CPRM performance measures at this time.

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FY 2008 Program Evaluation
FFRRO recently underwent a program evaluation designed to address two key areas of concern:

  1. Identify potential reasons why certain site cleanup milestone targets are not met under current planning and implementation processes;
  2. Identify processes/recommendations which regions can put in place to more effectively establish and meet targets

Final Program Evaluation report (PDF) (99 pp, 587K, About PDF)

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