Laws & Regulations

Report: Results of Hotline Complaint Review of EPA’s Antimicrobial Testing Program

Report #09-P-0152, May 27, 2009. We found that the allegation against EPA’s ATP was unsubstantiated.

Report: Audit of EPA Passport ControlsEPA Needs Procedures to Address Delayed Earmark Projects

Report #10-P-0081, March 22, 2010. Some SAAP funds were still unobligated 5 years after Congress appropriated them.

Report: Assistance Agreement and Contract Recipients with Open Audit Recommendations May Affect Recovery Act Activities

Report #09-X-0196, July 14, 2009. As of June 30, 2009, EPA used Recovery Act funding to award one assistance agreement and one contract to recipients with open recommendations.

Report: Examination of Costs Claimed under EPA Grant X96906001 Awarded to Walker Lake Working Group, Hawthorne, Nevada

Report #10-2-0054, January 6, 2010. The grantee did not meet financial management requirements specified by Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 30 and Title 2 Code of Federal Regulations Part 30.

Report: EPA Did Not Properly Account for All Property for Implementing Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12

Report #09-P-0233, September 15, 2009. EPA generally recorded HSPD-12 property accurately in EPA’s Fixed Assets Subsystem (FAS).

Report: EPA’s Human Resources Management System Did Not Deliver Anticipated Efficiencies to the Shared Service Centers

Report #09-P-0206, August 11, 2009. The EPA SSC initiative lacked the necessary management controls to achieve efficiency and effectiveness.

Report: EPA Has Improved Efforts to Reduce Unliquidated Obligations in Superfund Cooperative Agreements, But a Uniform Policy Is Needed

Report #09-P-0241, September 22, 2009. The regions audited (Regions 3, 5, and 8) have implemented effective procedures to adequately monitor the status of obligations under Superfund Cooperative Agreements.

Report: EPA Recovery Act Recipient Reporting and Data Review Process

Report #10-R-0020, October 29, 2009. We believe the Agency sufficiently designed its internal controls to detect material omissions and significant reporting errors.

Report: Self-reported Data Unreliable for Assessing EPA’s Computer Security Program

Report #10-P-0058, February 2, 2010. The oversight and monitoring procedures for ASSERT provide limited assurance the data are reliable for assessing EPA’s computer security program.

Report: Public Release of "Rumple Report" on Preliminary Investigation of EPA Cleanup of Amphibole Asbestos in Libby, Montana

Report #09-N-0146, April 28, 2009. On April 21, 2009, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a lawsuit against the Office of Inspector General (OIG) seeking the release of the “Rumple Report.”

Report: EPA Can Improve Its Process for Establishing Peer Review Panels

Report #09-P-0147, April 29, 2009. Certain areas of EPA operating guidance can be better defined.

Report: EPA Action Needed to Ensure Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Projects Meet the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Deadline of February 17, 2010

Report #10-R-0049, December 17, 2009. Facing a myriad of challenges, EPA and the States used various approaches to mitigate the risk that projects may not meet the ARRA deadline.

Report: Quality Control Review of Leland O’Neal, CPA, Single Audit for Town of Worthington, West Virginia, for Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2004

Report #09-2-0195, July 14, 2009. The single audit report for the Town of Worthington, West Virginia, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, was substandard.

Report: Examination of Costs Claimed under EPA Grant XP98069201 Awarded to the City of Blackfoot, Idaho

Report #10-4-0086, March 29, 2010. The grantee did not meet financial management requirements specified by Title 2 Code of Federal Regulations Part 225 and Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 31.

Report: EPA Maximized Competition for Recovery Act Grants under the National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program

We determined that EPA promoted competition to the maximum extent possible for the National Clean Diesel Emission Funding Assistance Program.

Report: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Site Inspection of the Water Distribution System, Village of Buckeye Lake, Ohio

Report #10-R-0079, March 10, 2010. Based upon our site inspection, nothing came to our attention that would require action from the Village or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Report: EPA’s Office of Research and Development Could Better Use the Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act to Improve Operations

Report #09-P-0232, September 15, 2009. EPA’s Office of Research and Development Could Better Use the Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act to Improve Operations

Report: EPA Can Improve Implementation of the Risk Management Program for Airborne Chemical Releases

Report #09-P-0092, February 10, 2009. EPA can improve its program management and oversight to better assure that facilities covered by the Clean Air Act’s Risk Management Program submit or re-submit an RMP.

Report: EPA Needs a Comprehensive Research Plan and Policies to Fulfill its Emerging Climate Change Role

Report #09-P-0089, February 2, 2009. EPA does not have an overall plan to ensure developing consistent, compatible climate change strategies across the Agency.

Report: Lack of Project Plan Resulted in Transition and Contractor Performance Problems for the Institutional Controls Tracking System

Report #09-P-0128, March 25, 2009. Lack of compliance with established project management procedures resulted in transitional problems in 2005 that delayed ICTS development and negatively affected contractor performance.