Summary: The President's Budget for fiscal year 1999 requested $633 million for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) science and technology budget account, which funds scientific research that supports its regulatory and other environmental programs. For fiscal year 1998, $614 million was requested for science and technology programs, and $631 million was appropriated. EPA's fiscal year 1999 budget justification was significantly different because it was organized according to goals and objectives outlined in the agency's strategic plan--a requirement of the Government Performance and Results Act. Because of the difficulty in identifying and comparing the proposed funds in the science and technology account for the budget justification for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, this report (1) identifies EPA's science and technology requested funds by the agency's strategic goals and objectives, (2) determines for each EPA program office the amount of science and technology funds that it plans to administer in fiscal year 1999, and (3) provides a "crosswalk" of funds appropriated for fiscal year 1998 by program components to strategic goals and objectives and determines the process or information that can be used to readily compare the funds requested for EPA's science and technology account in future years.
