Laws & Regulations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Steam Electric Power Generating Effluent Guidelines

Overview and documents for Steam Electric Power Generating effluent guidelines and standards (40 CFR Part 423)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Report: Improved Management of Superfund Special Accounts Will Make More Funds Available for Clean-ups

Report #09-P-0119, March 18, 2009. EPA had not used about $65 million in Superfund special accounts that were available because it lacked some management controls.

Report: EPA Needs to Improve Its Efforts to Reduce Air Emissions at U.S. Ports

Report #09-P-0125, March 23, 2009. While EPA has issued air emissions regulations for most port sources, EPA’s actions to address air emissions from large oceangoing vessels in U.S. ports have not yet achieved the goals for protecting human health.

Report: EPA Has Improved Its Response to Freedom of Information Act Requests But Further Improvement Is Needed

Report #09-P-0127, March 25, 2009. EPA has reduced its backlog of FOIA initial requests and appeals.

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.

Electronic Reporting Requirements for Certain Information under the Toxic Substances Control Act

Describes TSCA eReporting guidance and information.

Report: EPA Can Improve Managing of Working Capital Fund Overhead Costs

Report #09-P-0129, March 30, 2009. While we did not identify any significant cost savings for the WCF, we did identify two areas requiring management attention.

Report: EPA Region 8 Needs to Better Manage the Risk Management Program for Airborne Chemical Releases

Report #09-P-0130, March 30, 2009. The two Region 8 offices jointly responsible for implementing the CAA 112(r) Risk Management Program have not effectively planned or coordinated compliance assurance activities.

Report: Results of Hotline Complaint Review for California Superfund Site

Report #09-P-0131, March 31, 2009. We substantiated that Region 9 inappropriately charged oversight costs to the CTS Printex Site responsible parties for greening activities and other activities.

Report: EPA Office of Inspector General Recommendations on Office of Management and Budget Guidance for Recovery Act Implementation

Report #09-P-0132, March 31, 2009. Overall, the guidance is prescriptive for agencies to make funding available in a transparent, need-driven way on an agency-by-agency basis.

Report: Open Audit Recommendations Affecting Recovery Act Activities

Report #09-X-0136, April 9, 2009. We identified five open recommendations, from three EPA OIG reports, that could have an impact on Recovery Act funding.