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Pollution Prevention and New Technologies Research

Pollution Prevention and New Technologies is a research program. The program's purpose is to provide a range of pollution reduction options to industry, all levels of government, and academia.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program lacks strategic planning and cannot show results. The program has not established adequate long-term or annual performance goals to indicate whether its efforts have resulted in decreases in pollution.
  • The program has not collected information that would help it to establish meaningful annual or long-term performance goals. For example, the program has not collected data on the use of its tools within industry. This lack of information limits the ability of the program to evaluate itself.
  • The program has not addressed findings in program evaluations, which included recommendations to improve its strategic planning and prioritization in order to measure and achieve greater environmental results. Reviews by EPA's Science Advisory Board (1998, 2001), for example, found the program's prioritization criteria were not distinct enough or not addressed in the program's multi-year plan.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Improving the program's strategic planning by conducting a comprehensive independent evaluation of the program and by responding to previous evaluations.
  • Establishing ways to measure the performance and efficiency of the program.
  • Developing a revised multi-year research plan with an improved strategic focus and clear goals and priorities.

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