Appendix B: Performance Goals and Measures that Have Been Discontinued or Changed

Enhance the conservation and management of coastal and marine resources to meet America's economic, social, and environmental needs (NOAA)

Performance Goal: Protect, restore, and manage the use of coastal and ocean resource through an ecosystem approach to management (NOAA)
Corresponding Measures	Percentage of plans to rebuild overfished major stocks to sustainable levels Number of commercial fisheries that have insignificant marine mammal mortality
Change	Measures deleted
Justification	NOAA determined that these measures do not adequately reflect its work.
Corresponding Measures	Increase in number of threatened species with lowered risk of extinction Increase in number of endangered species with lowered risk of extinction
Change	Measures combined and reworded as “Number of protected species designated as threatened, endangered, or depleted with stable or increasing population levels”
Justification	Changes reflect a simplification of the collection of data as well as being easier to comprehend.
Corresponding Measures	Number of stocks of protected species with adequate population assessments Cumulative number of coastal, marine, and Great Lakes issue-based forecasting capabilities developed and used for management Annual number of coastal, marine, and Great Lakes ecological characterizations that meet management needs Annual number of coastal, marine, and Great Lakes habitat acres acquired or designated for long-term protection
Change	New measures
Justification	Measures better reflect the outcomes and activities of NOAA programs.

Performance Goal: Support the nation’s commerce with information for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation (NOAA)
Corresponding Measure	Percentage of National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) completed (cumulative %)
Change	Measure deleted
Justification	With the level approaching 100 percent, this measure does not reflect the nature of, or improvement as a result of, NOAA’s work. The measure that was added in FY 2005, “Percentage of U.S. counties rated as enabled or substantially enabled with accurate positioning capability,” is a better indicator of NOAA’s work.
Corresponding Measure	Accuracy (%) and FAR (%) of forecasts of ceiling and visibility
Change	Measure was split into two measures: “Accuracy (%) of forecasts of ceiling and visibility (aviation forecasts)” and “False alarm rate (FAR) (%) of ceiling and visibility (aviation forecasts)”
Justification	If NOAA meets one target and not another, it is reflected as a not met measure, rather than one met and one unmet. Allows for flexibility in reporting results.
Corresponding Measure	Accuracy (%) of forecast for wind speed and wave height
Change	Measure was split into two measures: “Marine wind speed accuracy (%)” and “Marine wave height accuracy (%)”
Justification	If NOAA meets one target and not another, it is reflected as a not met measure, rather than one met and one unmet. Allows for flexibility in reporting results.