Laws & Regulations
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Report: Monitoring Needed to Assess Impact of EPA’s Clean Air Mercury Rule on Potential Hotspots
Report #2006-P-00025, May 15, 2006. EPA brought significant scientific, technical, and modeling expertise to bear in developing a specific methodology to consider the potential for mercury hotspots.
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Report: PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP Single Audit of Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., for Year Ended June 30, 2003
Report #2006-S-00002, May 25, 2006. We did not adequately test and document the auditee’s compliance with Federal procurement regulations, and did not properly report the auditee’s lack of compliance with indirect cost proposal requirements.
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Report: Much Effort and Resources Needed to Help Small Drinking Water Systems Overcome Challenges
Report #2006-P-00026, May 30, 2006. The critical issues facing small drinking systems have not changed in recent years.
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Report: Congressional Request Regarding EPA Grants to the National Rural Water Association
Report #2006-S-00003, May 30, 2006. Under its grants, NRWA is not required to measure the environmental outcomes of the technical assistance activities it provides.
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Report: Single Audit Report for the State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation for the Year Ended June 30, 2003
Report #2006-3-00167, July 26, 2006. The single audit questioned $1,166,051 in labor costs because State employees did not account for their activities in accordance with Federal requirements.
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Report: Single Audit Report for the State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation for the Year Ended June 30, 2004
Report #2006-3-00168, July 26, 2006. The single audit questioned $1,115,721 in labor costs because State employees did not account for their activities in accordance with Federal requirements.
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Report: EPA Could Improve Its Redistribution of Superfund Payments to Specific Sites
Report #2006-P-00027, July 31, 2006. EPA did not make timely redistributions of Superfund coop agreement, interagency agreement, and small purchase payments from the general site identifier “WQ” to the specific Superfund sites or other site identifiers.
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Report: Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators Incurred Costs for Seven EPA Assistance Agreements
Report #2006-4-00122, July 31, 2006. The Association did not comply with the financial and program management standards and the procurement standards promulgated in Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Subchapter B, Part 30.
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Report: Measuring the Impact of the Food Quality Protection Act: Challenges and Opportunities
Report #2006-P-00028, August 1, 2006. The EPA OIG found that OPP has primarily measured its success and the impact of FQPA by adherence to its reregistration schedule rather than by reductions in risk to children’s health.
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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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Report: Weiss, Sugar, Dvorak & Dusek, Ltd., Single Audit of the Delta Institute and Affiliates for Year Ended June 30, 2003
Report #2006-S-00004, August 17, 2006. Weiss, Sugar, Dvorak & Dusek, Ltd., did not have sufficient quality control review procedures in place to ensure that all audit work performed was adequately supported by documentary evidence.
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Report: Review of the School of Audit and Inspections Course: Introductory Auditor Training
Report #2006-P-00030, August 18, 2006. We have considered the comments on the draft report and have included SAT's response on page 11 of this report.
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Report: EPA Is Properly Addressing the Risks of Using Mercury in Rituals
Report #2006-P-00031, August 31, 2006. EPA staff and the Mercury Poisoning Project representative agree that the ritual use of mercury poses a health risk.
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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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Report: Lessons Learned: EPA’s Response to Hurricane Katrina
Report #2006-P-00033, September 14, 2006. EPA generally followed its emergency response protocols to ensure that environmental concerns were addressed.
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Report: EPA Needs to Conduct Environmental Justice Reviews of Its Programs, Policies, and Activities
Report #2006-P-00034, September 18, 2006. Our survey results showed that EPA senior management has not sufficiently directed program and regional offices to conduct environment justice reviews in accordance with Executive Order 12898.
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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: Promising Techniques Identified to Improve Drinking Water Laboratory Integrity and Reduce Public Health Risks
Report #2006-P-00036, September 21, 2006. Within the drinking water sample analysis process we identified hundreds of vulnerabilities that are not addressed by EPA's process.