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- 2003-02-14
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U.S. EPA announces its Annual Plan and Budget Submission for FY 2004
For every fiscal year (FY), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) develops a proposed budget, which defines the goals and objectives towards which the Agency intends to work within the fiscal year and the funding the Agency believes is necessary to accomplish these goals and objectives.
EPA announced its Annual Plan and Budget requests for the FY 2004 , totalling about 7.6 billion dollars in discretionary budget authority, which is about 10 million dollars increase from 2003. This budget request supports the Agency's core programs and implementation of critical issues of the President's Management Agenda.
The core programs include clean air, clean and safe water, safe food, pollution prevention, waste management, reduction of global cross-border environmental risks, quality environmental information, sound science, greater compliance with the law, and effective management.
This Budget is combined with the Budgets of the rest of the Executive Branch and is then sent by the President to the U.S. Congress. The Congress then acts on the various Budgets by developing, amending, and, ultimately, passing bills which enact the Budgets into law. At this point the enacted Budget becomes the blueprint for the Agency's activities during the next fiscal year.
For every fiscal year (FY), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) develops a proposed budget, which defines the goals and objectives towards which the Agency intends to work within the fiscal year and the funding the Agency believes is necessary to accomplish these goals and objectives.
EPA announced its Annual Plan and Budget requests for the FY 2004 , totalling about 7.6 billion dollars in discretionary budget authority, which is about 10 million dollars increase from 2003. This budget request supports the Agency's core programs and implementation of critical issues of the President's Management Agenda.
The core programs include clean air, clean and safe water, safe food, pollution prevention, waste management, reduction of global cross-border environmental risks, quality environmental information, sound science, greater compliance with the law, and effective management.
This Budget is combined with the Budgets of the rest of the Executive Branch and is then sent by the President to the U.S. Congress. The Congress then acts on the various Budgets by developing, amending, and, ultimately, passing bills which enact the Budgets into law. At this point the enacted Budget becomes the blueprint for the Agency's activities during the next fiscal year.
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