Improvements Needed in Estimating and Leveraging Cost Savings Across EPA

Since 2009, the President and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) have issued various memorandums and directives requesting agencies to identify ways to avoid costs and achieve efficiencies and savings. In August 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Office of Administration and Resources Management (OARM) issued an electronic memorandum titled "Management Reform Agenda" to request input from program offices and regions to identify efficiency projects. EPA program offices and regions identified 72 projects.