EPA Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analysis

The Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analyses are part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (the EPA's) commitment to improve the preparation and use of sound science in economic analysis to inform decision making. Written primarily for the economic analyst, the main purpose of this document is to define and describe best practices for economic analysis grounded in the economics literature. It also describes Executive Orders (EOs) and other documents that impose analytic requirements and provides detailed information on selected important topics for economic analyses.