[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 188 (Friday, October 1, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54448-54449]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-21349]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OA-2021-0403; FRL-9005-01-OCFO]


Draft FY 2022-2026 Environmental Protection Agency Strategic Plan

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability; request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing 
the availability of the Draft FY 2022-2026 EPA Strategic Plan for 
public review and comment, which is being revised as required by the 
Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Modernization Act of 2010 
(as amended by the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 
2018). The agency anticipates the final Strategic Plan will be 
submitted to Congress in February 2022. For this document, the EPA is 
seeking comment from individual citizens, states, tribes, local 
governments, industry, the academic community, non-governmental 
organizations, and all other interested parties.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before November 12, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OA-
2021-0403 to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or withdrawn. The 
EPA may publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not 
submit electronically any information you consider to be Confidential 
Business Information (CBI) or other information for which disclosure is 
restricted by statute. The EPA will generally not consider comments or 
comment contents located outside of the primary submission (i.e. on the 
web, cloud, or other file sharing system). Out of an abundance of 
caution for members of the public and our staff, the EPA Docket Center 
and Reading Room are closed to the public, with limited exceptions, to 
reduce the risk of transmitting COVID-19. Our Docket Center staff will 
continue to provide remote customer service via email, phone, and 
webform. We encourage the public to submit comments via https://www.regulations.gov/, as there may be a delay in processing mail and 
faxes.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Holly Green, Director, Planning 
Division, Office of Planning, Analysis, and Accountability, Office of 
the Chief Financial Officer, email address: green.holly@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-352), holds federal 
agencies accountable for using resources wisely and achieving program 
results. Specifically, the GPRA Modernization Act requires agencies to 
develop: Strategic Plans, which include a mission statement, long-term 
goals, objectives, and strategies to achieve them over a four-year time 
horizon; and two-year Agency Priority Goals to drive significant 
progress toward Agency leadership priorities. The GPRA Modernization 
Act also requires agencies to develop Annual Performance Plans, which 
provide annual performance measures and activities toward the Strategic 
Plan, and Annual Performance Reports, which evaluate an agency's 
success in achieving the annual performance measures.
    The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (Pub. 
L. 115-435) amended GPRA and requires two additional components in the 
Strategic Plan: An evidence-building plan, known as a Learning Agenda, 
which identifies policy-relevant questions for which agencies intend to 
develop evidence; and a Capacity Assessment, which gauges agencies' 
capacity to support the development and use of evaluation and other 
evidence.
    The Strategic Plan includes seven strategic goals focused on 
protecting human health and the environment and four cross-agency 
strategies that describe the essential ways EPA will work to carry out 
its mission. The Strategic Plan also establishes long-term performance 
goals and FY 2022-2023 Agency Priority Goals by which EPA will hold 
itself accountable to monitor progress in protecting human health and 
the environment in collaboration with EPA's partners and stakeholders.


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    Dated: September 27, 2021.
Faisal Amin,
Chief Financial Officer, Office of the Chief Financial Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-21349 Filed 9-30-21; 8:45 am]
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