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RCED-98-166R 1 (1998-04-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacmdx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: N )0 United States (3 O General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-279822 April 28, 1998 The Honorable Christopher Bond Chairman, Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Subject: Results Act: EPA's Annual Performance Plan for Fiscal Year 1999 Dear Mr. Chairman: As requested, this report summarizes our observations on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) annual performance plan for fiscal year 1999, which was submitted to the Congress in February 1998. As you know, the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (the Results Act) requires federal agencies, beginning with fiscal year 1999, to prepare annual performance plans covering the program activities set out in their budgets. These plans are to (1) establish performance goals to define the level of performance to be achieved by an agency's program activities, (2) briefly describe the resources required to meet the performance goals, (3) provide a basis for comparing actual program results with the performance goals, and (4) describe the means to verify and validate the information used to report on performance. (See enc. I for a more detailed overview of the Results Act.) We reviewed EPA's performance plan in terms of three basic questions: (1) To what extent does the plan provide a clear picture of intended performance across the agency? (2) How well does the plan discuss the strategies and the resources the agency will use to achieve its performance goals? (3) To what extent does the plan provide confidence that the agency's performance information will be credible? These questions are based on criteria in the Results Act, the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) guidance to federal agencies on developing their plans, and a December 1997 letter to OMB from eight congressional leaders on their expectations for these plans. GAO/RCED-98-166R Observations on EPA's Annual Performance Plan 160S37

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