Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Environmental Protection Agency. Performance and Accountbility Series. (January 2003)

摘要

This report addresses the major management challenges and program risks facing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as it works to carry out its complex mission of protecting human health and safeguarding the environment. The report discusses the actions that EPA has taken and that are under way to address the challenges GAO identified in its Performance and Accountability Series 2 years ago. The report also summarizes the challenges that remain, new ones that have emerged, and further actions that GAO believes are needed. This analysis should help the new Congress and the administration carry out their responsibilities and improve government for the benefit of the American people. In its 2001 performance and accountability report on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), GAO identified important challenges facing the agency in improving environmental information, developing a comprehensive human capital approach, and strengthening working relationships with the states. The information GAO presents in this report is intended to help to sustain congressional attention and an agency focus on continuing to make progress in addressing these challenges-and others that have arisen since 2001-and ultimately overcoming them. This report is part of a special series of reports on government wide and agency specific issues.