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BUDGET
Revised Strategic Plan on Statistics for
Environmental-Economic Decisions
Office of Management and
Budget.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Office of Management
and Budget (OMB)—on behalf of the
Interagency Policy Working Group on
Statistics for Environmental-Economic
Decisions (Working Group)—is
announcing the availability of a
finalized Strategic Plan on Statistics for
Environmental-Economic Decisions,
which was revised in response to public
comments and other information
received.
SUMMARY:
Work described in the Strategic
Plan to develop natural capital accounts
and environmental-economic statistics
is ongoing at the time of publication and
DATES:
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is planned to continue through 2036,
with regular updating of these statistics
planned thereafter.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information, contact: Andrew
Stawasz, email:
NaturalCapitalAccounting@
omb.eop.gov, telephone: (202) 881–
7051.
On August
22, 2022, OMB, on behalf the Working
Group, issued ‘‘Request for Information
To Support the Development of a
Strategic Plan on Statistics for
Environmental-Economic Decisions.’’ 87
FR 51450. The Working Group is cochaired by OMB, the Office of Science
and Technology Policy, and the
Department of Commerce. The Request
for Information announced the
availability of a draft document entitled
‘‘National Strategy to Develop Statistics
for Environmental-Economic Decisions:
A U.S. System of Natural Capital
Accounting and Associated
Environmental-Economic Statistics’’
(Strategic Plan) and initiated a 60-day
public comment period. Public
comments received are available via
www.regulations.gov under docket
number OMB–2022–0009. The Working
Group revised the Strategic Plan in
response to comments and other
information received and is now
announcing the availability of the final
Strategic Plan, available at https://
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/
uploads/2023/01/Natural-CapitalAccounting-Strategy-final.pdf.
Following the Administration’s
commitment to initiate natural capital
accounts and environmental-economic
statistics in April 2022, Statistics for
Environmental-Economic Decisions
makes five recommendations to Federal
departments and agencies for how to
develop and use natural capital
accounts and environmental-economic
statistics.
1. The natural capital accounts and
environmental-economic statistics
should be pragmatic and provide
information to:
a. Guide sustainable development and
macroeconomic decision making;
b. Support Federal decision making in
programmatic, policy, and regulatory
settings;
c. Provide structure and data that
promote the competitiveness of U.S.
businesses;
d. Support resilient state, territorial,
Indigenous, Tribal, and local
communities; and
e. Facilitate conservation and
environmental policy.
2. The natural capital accounts and
associated environmental-economic
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statistics should provide domestic
comparability through time and advance
international comparisons and
harmonization in order to enable the
United States to lead with respect to the
development of global standards and
implementation of those standards.
3. The natural capital accounts and
associated environmental-economic
statistics should be embedded in the
broader U.S. economic statistical
system, and guide the process of
embedding with three subrecommendations. Federal departments
and agencies should:
a. Incorporate the internationallyagreed standards of the U.N. System of
Environmental Economic Accounting to
guide development of U.S. natural
capital accounts, where those standards
are relevant to the United States and
robustly developed. This includes
following the standard supply-use
framework that structures national
economic accounts;
b. Adhere to more than one, but a
small number of, specific asset
boundaries, connected to economic
activities, in order to accommodate
different applications and contexts and
be inclusive of different uses and
perspectives; and
c. Use rigorous and the best available
economic science for monetizing the
value of natural assets.
4. Federal departments and agencies
should use a 15-year phased approach
to transition from research grade
environmental-economic statistics and
natural capital accounts to core
statistical products, and produce a
single headline summary statistic, along
with supporting products, tables and
reports that provide information in
physical and monetary units.
a. The phased approach is designed to
enable new information to be available
early in the process, facilitate the first
pilot accounts appearing in 2023,
provide for testing and development,
while over the long term meeting high
statistical standards and producing a
durable and more comprehensive set of
statistics to expand the national
economic accounts.
b. The Strategic Plan recommends
that natural capital accounts produce a
new forward-looking headline measure
focused on the change in wealth held in
nature: Change in Natural Asset Wealth.
Integrating this new measure with
changes in GDP would provide a more
complete and more useful view of U.S.
economic progress. Pairing Change in
Natural Asset Wealth with GDP would
help society tell if today’s consumption
is being accomplished without
compromising the future opportunities
that nature provides.
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c. The Strategic Plan also
recommends the use of dashboards for
biological and physical measures.
5. The Federal Government should
apply existing authorities and make use
of the substantial expertise within
Federal departments and agencies, by
coordinating across agencies, to develop
and update the system of natural capital
accounts and environmental-economic
statistics in an efficient manner.
Richard L. Revesz,
Administrator, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
Revised Strategic Plan on Statistics for Environmental-Economic
Decisions
AGENCY: Office of Management and Budget.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)--on behalf of the
Interagency Policy Working Group on Statistics for Environmental-
Economic Decisions (Working Group)--is announcing the availability of a
finalized Strategic Plan on Statistics for Environmental-Economic
Decisions, which was revised in response to public comments and other
information received.
DATES: Work described in the Strategic Plan to develop natural capital
accounts and environmental-economic statistics is ongoing at the time
of publication and
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is planned to continue through 2036, with regular updating of these
statistics planned thereafter.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information, contact:
Andrew Stawasz, email: [email protected], telephone:
(202) 881-7051.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 22, 2022, OMB, on behalf the
Working Group, issued ``Request for Information To Support the
Development of a Strategic Plan on Statistics for Environmental-
Economic Decisions.'' 87 FR 51450. The Working Group is co-chaired by
OMB, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Department of
Commerce. The Request for Information announced the availability of a
draft document entitled ``National Strategy to Develop Statistics for
Environmental-Economic Decisions: A U.S. System of Natural Capital
Accounting and Associated Environmental-Economic Statistics''
(Strategic Plan) and initiated a 60-day public comment period. Public
comments received are available via www.regulations.gov under docket
number OMB-2022-0009. The Working Group revised the Strategic Plan in
response to comments and other information received and is now
announcing the availability of the final Strategic Plan, available at
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Natural-Capital-Accounting-Strategy-final.pdf.
Following the Administration's commitment to initiate natural
capital accounts and environmental-economic statistics in April 2022,
Statistics for Environmental-Economic Decisions makes five
recommendations to Federal departments and agencies for how to develop
and use natural capital accounts and environmental-economic statistics.
1. The natural capital accounts and environmental-economic
statistics should be pragmatic and provide information to:
a. Guide sustainable development and macroeconomic decision making;
b. Support Federal decision making in programmatic, policy, and
regulatory settings;
c. Provide structure and data that promote the competitiveness of
U.S. businesses;
d. Support resilient state, territorial, Indigenous, Tribal, and
local communities; and
e. Facilitate conservation and environmental policy.
2. The natural capital accounts and associated environmental-
economic statistics should provide domestic comparability through time
and advance international comparisons and harmonization in order to
enable the United States to lead with respect to the development of
global standards and implementation of those standards.
3. The natural capital accounts and associated environmental-
economic statistics should be embedded in the broader U.S. economic
statistical system, and guide the process of embedding with three sub-
recommendations. Federal departments and agencies should:
a. Incorporate the internationally-agreed standards of the U.N.
System of Environmental Economic Accounting to guide development of
U.S. natural capital accounts, where those standards are relevant to
the United States and robustly developed. This includes following the
standard supply-use framework that structures national economic
accounts;
b. Adhere to more than one, but a small number of, specific asset
boundaries, connected to economic activities, in order to accommodate
different applications and contexts and be inclusive of different uses
and perspectives; and
c. Use rigorous and the best available economic science for
monetizing the value of natural assets.
4. Federal departments and agencies should use a 15-year phased
approach to transition from research grade environmental-economic
statistics and natural capital accounts to core statistical products,
and produce a single headline summary statistic, along with supporting
products, tables and reports that provide information in physical and
monetary units.
a. The phased approach is designed to enable new information to be
available early in the process, facilitate the first pilot accounts
appearing in 2023, provide for testing and development, while over the
long term meeting high statistical standards and producing a durable
and more comprehensive set of statistics to expand the national
economic accounts.
b. The Strategic Plan recommends that natural capital accounts
produce a new forward-looking headline measure focused on the change in
wealth held in nature: Change in Natural Asset Wealth. Integrating this
new measure with changes in GDP would provide a more complete and more
useful view of U.S. economic progress. Pairing Change in Natural Asset
Wealth with GDP would help society tell if today's consumption is being
accomplished without compromising the future opportunities that nature
provides.
c. The Strategic Plan also recommends the use of dashboards for
biological and physical measures.
5. The Federal Government should apply existing authorities and
make use of the substantial expertise within Federal departments and
agencies, by coordinating across agencies, to develop and update the
system of natural capital accounts and environmental-economic
statistics in an efficient manner.
Richard L. Revesz,
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
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