(AGENPARL) – lun 11 marzo 2024 Issued: Mar 11, 2024 (12:47pm EDT)
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Statement by Administrator Regan on the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget
President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget requests $11 billion to support
EPA’s essential work to tackle the climate crisis, advance environmental
justice, and protect human health and the environment
WASHINGTON – Today, March 11, 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration
released the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2025. Following historic
progress made since the President took office—with nearly 15 million jobs
created and inflation down two-thirds—the Budget protects and builds on this
progress by lowering costs for working families, protecting and strengthening
Social Security and Medicare, investing in America and the American people,
and reducing the deficit by cracking down on fraud, cutting wasteful spending,
and making the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share.
“President Biden’s Investing in America agenda and the FY 2025 Budget for
EPA deliver bold environmental actions and economic benefits for communities
across the county,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. “The Budget
announced today will advance the agency’s ongoing efforts to address our
most critical environmental challenges, from combating climate change, to
ensuring clean air, safe water, and healthy lands, to protecting communities
from harmful chemicals. EPA’s work will benefit all Americans and we have
made it a priority to ensure that a commitment to environmental justice is
central to all of the agency’s efforts as we continue our work to help
disadvantaged and overburdened areas become healthier, more resilient,
communities.”
The Budget makes critical, targeted investments in the American people that
will promote greater prosperity for decades to come. At EPA, the Budget will:
Advance Environmental Justice. The Budget bolsters the agency’s efforts to
achieve environmental justice in communities across the Nation by investing
nearly $1.5 billion in environmental justice-related programs. This investment
supports the implementation of the President’s Justice40 commitment, which
ensures at least 40 percent of the benefits of federal investments in climate
and clean energy as well as infrastructure work reach disadvantaged
communities, including rural and Tribal communities. These investments
continue to support efforts to promote cleaner air and cleaner water, focusing
on frontline communities.
Urgently Tackle Climate Change. The Budget prioritizes combatting climate
change with the urgency that science demands. The Budget includes $2.9 billion
in climate-related programs to support work reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions, building resilience in the face of climate impacts including
engaging with the global community, expanding upon the GHG Reporting Program
and Sinks Inventory, and implementing provisions in the American Innovation
and Manufacturing Act to continue phasing out the production and import of
hydrofluorocarbons.
Invest in Clean Air. The FY 2025 Budget provides a total of $1.5 billion for
the Office of Air and Radiation, an increase of $690 million since the
beginning of the Administration, to continue the development of national
programs, policies, and regulations that control indoor and outdoor air
pollution and radiation exposure. This funding includes $423 million to
assist EPA’s Tribal, state, and local partners in implementing their air
quality management programs, an increase of $158 million from the current
levels. Also included is $100 million for the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act
Program, which funds grants and rebates to reduce harmful emissions from
diesel engines, and $70 million for the Targeted Airshed Grants, which help
reduce air pollution in the most polluted nonattainment areas. The Budget
provides $186 million for the Federal Vehicle and Fuels Standards
Certification Program, which develops analytical methods, regulations, and
analysis to reduce GHG emissions from mobile sources.
Support the President’s Goal of Replacing All Lead Pipes. The Budget
includes a total of $101 million for two EPA grant programs dedicated to
remediating lead contamination in drinking water—the Reducing Lead in
Drinking Water grant program and the Voluntary School and Child Care Lead
Testing and Reduction Grant Program—an increase of $53 million over 2021
levels. This investment, along with other programs at EPA that can be used for
lead projects, builds on the historic $15 billion in direct funding for lead
pipe replacement through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and underscores the
President’s commitment to ensuring access to safe drinking water and
creating good-paying jobs in the process.
Invest in Critical Water Infrastructure. The Budget provides a total of $2.4
billion for the State Revolving Funds (SRFs) for drinking water and wastewater
infrastructure, an increase of more than $1 billion over the current levels.
The SRFs provide states with resources to fund high priority projects that
improve human health and environmental conditions. These funds, and other
water infrastructure programs within EPA, like the Water Infrastructure
Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) credit program and the two $25 million
grants programs focused on infrastructure resilience and sustainability,
complement funding provided for water infrastructure in the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law. The Budget also includes $30 million for a new program
that addresses gaps in resources to help improve the Federal response to
water-related emergencies, such as the recent arsenic contamination of a
public well in Coachella Valley, CA, and the drinking water access crisis in
Jackson, MS.
Safeguard Against Dangerous Chemicals and Protecting Public Health and the
Environment. EPA has a responsibility under the Toxic Substances Control Act
(TSCA) to ensure the safety of chemicals in or entering commerce and
addressing any unreasonable risks to human health or the environment. The
Budget invests nearly $132 million, an increase of $49 million above current
levels to continue building core capacity and modernizing information
technology and data software for the TSCA Program. The Budget also provides
$208 million for Brownfields to support efforts to revitalize sites by
awarding grants and providing technical assistance to Tribes, states, local
communities, and other stakeholders to plan, inventory, assess, safely clean
up, and reuse brownfields sites. Additionally, the Budget proposes
approximately $170 million for EPA to continue addressing per- and
polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) through actions highlighted in the
agency’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap. 
Continue to Build Back Capacity to Carry Out EPA’s Core Mission. The Budget
adds more than 2,000 Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) relative to the 2023
Operating Budget, for a total of more than 17,000 FTEs. This continues to
build back capacity for oversight of delegated programs, enforcement and
compliance, land clean-up, grant deployment, public communication and
engagement, and scientific research in support of all offices at EPA. These
staffing investments will enable EPA to better serve the American people and
protect public health and the environment.
Ensure Compliance with and Enforcement of the Nation’s Environmental
Laws. The Budget provides $260 million for civil enforcement efforts, which
includes funding to prevent the illegal importation and use of
hydrofluorocarbons in the United States. The Budget also includes $172 million
for compliance monitoring efforts, including funds to conduct inspections in
underserved and overburdened communities and rebuilding the inspector corps,
and $77 million for criminal enforcement efforts. The agency will implement
the National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives to target these
investments at the most serious environmental violations.
Support State and Tribal Partners. The Budget continues to request additional
resources to directly support EPA’s Tribal, state, and local partners with
an investment of $1.5 billion in categorical grants, an increase of $304
million. This includes a new $25 million program to develop and fund Direct
Implementation Tribal Cooperative Agreements to advance equitable
implementation of EPA authorities and directives in Indian Country, which will
include a focus on increasing resilience to climate change impacts.
The Budget builds on the President’s record while achieving meaningful
deficit reduction through measures that cut wasteful spending and ask the
wealthy to pay their fair share.
Find more information on the President’s FY 2025 Budget and EPA’s
Congressional Justification and Budget in Brief.
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