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Agency Snapshot: Environmental Protection Agency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s mission is to protect human health and the environment. The agency’s $8.7 billion budget is used for cleaning up communities, ensuring the safety of chemicals and preventing pollution, enforcing environmental laws, protecting America’s waters, and taking action on climate change and improving air quality. Like other agencies, EPA is committed to pursuing its mission while managing finances effectively. This includes ensuring financial information and payments are accurate and using only needed property.
Key Initiatives
The Administration is eager to reduce annual improper payments and is working with Federal and State partners, Congress, and other stakeholders to reduce the number of government-wide errors without negatively impacting citizen access to needed programs. "Improper payments" occur when funds go to the wrong recipient, the recipient receives the incorrect amount of funds, documentation is not available to support a payment, or the recipient uses funds in an improper manner. The government must better ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent wisely and efficiently. You can learn more about the Administration’s efforts to reduce improper payments at the newly launched PaymentAccuracy.gov. EPA’s improper payment rate is less than 1% of annual payments.
The chart to the right depicts the agency’s progress towards its real property savings goal. More information about the nature of the savings can be found on this agency’s page in the Real Property section of Performance.gov.
Decision makers and the public must have confidence in the financial information provided by agencies in order to make good decisions about managing government programs and implementing policy. The results of the annual independent audit are one of the best ways to assess agencies’ financial information and recordkeeping systems. All agencies are working to improve their financial management in order to ensure that taxpayer dollars are used as efficiently as possible. EPA has had an unqualified “clean” audit opinion for the last 10 consecutive years on the Agency’s consolidated financial statements.
