Potential impacts of reducing the Environmental Protection Agency's budget

Technical Report · Thu Dec 30 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6274393

EPA proposed to reduce its fiscal year 1983 operating budget by 12 percent to $96 million (excludes funds for Construction Grants and the Hazardous Waste Response Trust Fund). This represents a reduction of $125 million fiscal year 1982. Passage of EPA's fiscal year 1983 appropriation on September 30, 1982, at only a 4-percent decrease (for operating programs) from the 1982 appropriation reduced many of the anticipated impacts of the proposed 1983 budget reductions. However, information on these predicted impacts is presented in the report so that analogies can be drawn of budget cuts are proposed in future years. This report also addresses issues which transcend the fiscal year 1983 proposed budget, including the long-range implications of reductions to State grant assistance, the evolving Federal/State partnership and its role in achieving environmental goals, and the use of permit fees/user charges to replace Federal funding.

• Research Organization: General Accounting Office, Washington, DC (USA). Resources, Community and Economic Development Div.
• OSTI ID: 6274393
• Report Number(s): GAO/RCED-83-75; ON: DE83902431
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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