Laws & Regulations
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Abandoned Mine Lands
Abandoned Mine Lands are those lands, waters, and surrounding watersheds where extraction, beneficiation, or processing of ores and minerals (excluding coal) has occurred. These lands also include areas where mining or processing activity is inactive.
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Report: Assistance Agreements EPA’s Lack of Oversight Contributed to Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair’s Grant Management Problems
Report #10960-2002-M-000031, August 22, 2002. EPA’s lack of oversight contributed to CCAR’s grant management problems.
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Report: Studies Addressing EPA’s Organizational Structure
Report #2006-P-00029, August 16, 2006. The 13 studies, articles, publications, and reports we reviewed identified issues with cross-media management, regional offices, reliable information, and reliable science.
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EPA's Key Management Challenges - 2002
We are pleased to provide you with a list of areas the Office of lnspector General considers as key management challenges confronting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Stratospheric Ozone Protection Form: Transfers of Production Allowances, Consumption Allowances, or Article 5 All Allowances
Form #5900-205 regarding the transfer of HCFC allowances.
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Electronic Reporting Training Slides
Training slides covering the EPA Stratospheric Protection Division electronic reporting process and resources available to reporting entities.
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Report: GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SECURITY REFORM ACT STATUS OF EPA’s COMPUTER SECURITY PROGRAM
Report #2002-S-00017, September 16, 2002. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had not finalized its list of agency systems for FY02 by the end of our fieldwork.
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Benefits of 2015 HFC Amendment
Benefits of Addressing HFCs under the Montreal Protocol
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Class II Substances Reporting Forms
Page provides links to forms for reporting on Class II substances.
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The Accelerated Phaseout of Class I Ozone-Depleting Substances
Explains the accelerated phaseout of Class I ozone-depleting substances.
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Flexibility in the HCFC Allowance System
The rule that established the HCFC allowance system also created an allowance transfer mechanism to provide flexibility. This fact sheet highlights the flexibilities incorporated into the HCFC allowance system.
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Report: Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) Data Quality
Report #2002-P-00016, September 30, 2002. Over 40 percent of CERCLIS data on site actions reviewed was inaccurate or not adequately supported.
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Report: EPA Grants Supported Restoring the Chesapeake Bay
Report #2006-P-00032, September 6, 2006. EPA awarded assistance agreements (grants) that contributed toward meeting the goals of the Clean Water Act and the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement.
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Report: EPA Grants to the National Rural Water Association
Report #2006-S-00005, September 12, 2006. Under its grants, NRWA is not required to measure the environmental outcomes of the technical assistance activities it provides.
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Connecticut NPDES Permits
NPDES Permits for Connecticut
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Report: EPA Management of Information Technology Resources Under The Clinger-Cohen Act
Report #2002 - P - 00017, September 30, 2002. EPA’s CIO has sufficient authority to shape and direct Information Resource Management (IRM) activities.
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Report: Science to Support Rulemaking
Report #2003-P-00003, November 15, 2002. The rules included in the pilot study were not a representative statistical sample of EPA rules, and we did not identify all ofthe critical science inputs for every rule.
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Report: EPA Needs to Strengthen Oversight of Government Furnished Property
Report #2006-P-00035, September 19, 2006. EPA’s Office of Acquisition Management (OAM) needs to improve its management and administrative controls over GFP.
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Report: Assessing EPA’s Efforts to Protect Sensitive Information
Report #2006-S-00006, September 19, 2006. This is the EPA OIG's completed Data Collection Instrument, as prescribed by the PCIE to use in meeting its requirements under OMB Memo M-06-16, Protection of Sensitive Agency Information.
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Report: EPA Needs to Emphasize Management of Earmark Grants
Report #2006-P-00037, September 26, 2006. EPA has not managed earmark grants in accordance with Agency policy and regulations.