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EPA Great Lakes Program

This program provides programmatic, technical, and financial assistance to state and local governments to protect and restore the binational Great Lakes ecosystem. EPA carries out this work under the auspices of the Clean Water Act, the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1987, and the Great Lakes Legacy Act.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program has a suite of long term and annual performance measures that focus on appropriate outcomes and outputs and capture important program activities.
  • However, the program should better target its limited resources to sites that are least likely to be remediated by other parties.
  • The program also needs to improve coordination with other Federal programs that remediate contaminated sediments to ensure there are not duplicative efforts and that taxpayer funds are used effectively.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Determining options for ensuring Great Lakes water quality program goals are appropriately considered by other remediation programs, such as Superfund.
  • Developing a set of recommendations that address ways the program could improve how it targets funds while coordinating more effectively with other Federal programs.

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