Laws & Regulations
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Report: Results of Technical Network Vulnerability Assessment: Region 9
Report #09-P-0052, December 9, 2008. Vulnerability testing of EPA’s Region 9 network identified Internet Protocol addresses with high-risk and medium-risk vulnerabilities.
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Report: Results of Technical Network Vulnerability Assessment: EPA’s Las Vegas Finance Center
Report #09-P-0054, December 9, 2008. Vulnerability testing of EPA’s Las Vegas Finance Center network identified Internet Protocol addresses with medium-risk vulnerabilities.
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Report: EPA Could Improve Physical Access and Service Continuity/Contingency Controls for Financial and Mixed-Financial Systems Located at its Research Triangle Park Campus
Report #2006-P-00005, December 14, 2005. Controls needed to be improved in areas such as visitor access to facilities, use of contractor access badges, and general physical access to the NCC, computer rooms outside the NCC, and media storage rooms.
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Report: EPA’s California Waiver Decision on Greenhouse Gas Automobile Emissions Met Statutory Procedural Requirements
Report #09-P-0056, Dec 9, 2008. Administrator Johnson conducted a notice and hearing phase and based his decision to deny the waiver on one of the three criteria set out in Section 209(b); therefore, he satisfied the procedural statutory requirements.
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Report: Improvements Needed to Validate Reported ENERGY STAR Benefits
Report #09-P-0061, December 17, 2008. Reported ENERGY STAR benefits represented one-half of EPA’s total greenhouse gas emissions avoided in 2006.
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Report: Office of Inspector General Scientific Analysis of Perchlorate
Report #10-P-0101, April 19, 2010. EPA should conduct a cumulative risk assessment to reduce the uncertainty in characterizing the public health risk posed by perchlorate.
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Report: Costs Claimed under EPA Grant XP98011401 Awarded to the City of Rupert, Idaho
Report #09-2-0078, January 12, 2009. The grantee did not meet the Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 31 requirements for financial management.
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Report: Office of Inspector General Access Survey Results
Report #09-P-0079, January 13, 2009. The results of our survey disclosed significant lack of knowledge about the Agency’s policies with regard to interaction with the OIG, and numerous requests for training in this area by survey respondents.
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Report: Congressionally Requested Report on EPA Staffing Levels and Total Costs for EPA Facilities
Report #09-P-0080, January 14, 2009. Additional information on the staffing levels, rental/lease fees, and utility and security costs for all of the EPA facilities and/or locations where EPA incurs costs associated with its employees.
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Report: No Violations Found Regarding Removal of Comments from an External Peer Review
Report #09-P-0084, January 16, 2009. We conclude that EPA did not violate existing federal law, regulations, guidance or other relevant requirements in its actions.
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Report: EPA Region 10 Took Adequate Corrective Actions for Alaska Village Safe Water Program
Report #09-P-0085, January 21, 2009. We found that Region 10 had adequately followed up on each of the findings and recommendations from the single audit reports.
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Report: EPA Should Strengthen Internal Controls over Interagency Agreement Unliquidated Obligations
Report #09-P-0086, January 26, 2009. EPA has not closed out IAs that have at least $4.2 million of unneeded funds that should be deobligated.
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Report: EPA Plans for Managing Counter Terrorism/ Emergency Response Equipment and Protecting Critical Assets Not Fully Implemented
Report #09-P-0087, January 27, 2009. EPA has progressed in implementing the counter terrorism/emergency response (CT/ER) initiatives, but is behind schedule in implementing the Radiation Ambient Monitoring (RadNet) System.
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Report: Measuring and Reporting Performance Results for the Pollution Prevention Program Need Improvement
Report #09-P-0088, January 28, 2009. The P2 Program’s data provided in response to the OMB PART assessment generally addressed the PART questions and supported the moderately effective rating received.
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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.
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Steam Electric Power Generating Effluent Guidelines
Overview and documents for Steam Electric Power Generating effluent guidelines and standards (40 CFR Part 423)
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Federal Legislation, Regulation, and Executive Orders Relevant to Federal Electronics Stewardship
This document lists federal legislation, regulation, rules, and Executive Orders that are applicable to the purchasing, operation and maintenance, and end-of-life management of electronic equipment.
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Report: Results of Technical Network Vulnerability Assessment: EPA Headquarters
Report #09-P-0097, February 23, 2009. Field work disclosed weaknesses in the quality of information EPA uses to track the ownership of IP addresses.
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Report: Fiscal Year 2008 and 2007 Financial Statements for the Pesticide Registration Fund
Report #09-1-0107, March 3, 2009. The Agency was in substantial compliance with the statutory decision time frames.
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Report: Results of Independent Groundwater Sampling at Neal’s Dump Superfund Site
Report #09-P-0110, March 4, 2009. Our results showed that PCBs in the two residential wells did not exceed safe levels for drinking water.