FY 2022 Budget
The President’s proposed budget outlines the EPA’s planned program activities for fiscal year 2022 (October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022) and associated resource requirements.
The proposed FY 2022 budget for the EPA provides $11.233 billion and 15,324 FTE to support the Agency’s mission of protecting human health and the environment. This includes more than 1,000 new FTE to address the Agency’s priorities and work with our partners across the Nation. This budget is rooted in the EPA’s commitment to advancing environmental justice, tackling climate change, protecting public health, improving infrastructure, and rebuilding the EPA workforce to accomplish the EPA’s mission. The budget also expands funding for research and development to ensure that scientific integrity guides the Agency in the years to come.
The priorities outlined in the budget will make a real difference in the lives of all Americans, particularly those in disadvantaged and vulnerable communities that often disproportionately bear the burden of pollution. This budget takes an important step towards ensuring that Americans across the Nation share in the benefits of clean air, clean water, and safe communities. The EPA recognizes that climate change is both a threat and an opportunity to build a cleaner and healthier future, and that we will only succeed by working together with our state, tribal and local partners, and by leveraging the talents of a renewed Agency workforce. The FY 2022 Budget delivers on all of these areas, and will support and strengthen the efforts of both the EPA and our partners across the Nation in building a cleaner, safer, and more equitable future. To learn more about how the Agency accomplishes its mission, please visit www.epa.gov/aboutepa.
For more information and details about the FY 2022 President’s Budget for the EPA, please see the below documents.
- FY 2022 EPA Budget in Brief: provides an overview of the Agency's proposed budget and activities.
- FY 2022 Justification of Appropriation Estimates for Committee on Appropriations: known as the Congressional Justification (CJ), includes detailed budget information for each of EPA's programs. For an accessible version, each of the tabs of the CJ are provided below:
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 00: Introduction and Overview (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 01: Resource Summary Tables (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 03: Science and Technology (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 04: Environmental Programs and Management (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 05: Inspector General (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 06: Building and Facilities (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 07: Superfund (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 08: Leaking Underground Storage Tanks (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 09: Inland Oil Spill Programs (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 10: State and Tribal Assistance Grants (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 11: Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Fund (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 12: Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Fund (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 13: Program and Performance Assessment (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 14: Annual Evaluation Plan and Other Evidence-Building Activities (pdf)
- FY 2022 CJ Tab 15: Appendix (pdf)
Additional Information
- EPA develops a proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year (which runs October 1 to September 30).
- The President sends federal budgets to Congress for deliberation.
- Congress considers the President's budget requests and passes appropriations bills.
- Appropriations bills enact federal agency budgets into law upon the President's signature.
- The appropriation bill that includes funding for EPA becomes the blueprint for EPA's budget activities during the fiscal year.