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AWIA Section 2013/SDWA Section 1433: Risk and Resilience Assessments and Emergency Response Plans

Information and resources risk and resilience assessment and emergency response plan requirements under Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) section 1433, which was amended by America's Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) section 2013 in 2018.

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 Should Revise its Grant Accrual Methodology to Address Impact of Recovery Act Funds

Report #09-X-0217, August 19, 2009. EPA’s grant accruals for the Fiscal Year 2009 financial statements may not include adjustments for additional funds received under the ARRA.

Report: Office of Inspector General Access to Agency Information and Personnel

Report #09-P-0222, August 25, 2009. At the time of our review, EPA did not have consistent overall guidance governing interaction with the OIG.

Report: EPA Needs to Accelerate Adoption of Numeric Nutrient Water Quality Standards

Report #09-P-0223, August 26, 2009. EPA’s 1998 National Strategy and Plan to promote State adoption of nutrient water quality standards (which better protect aquatic life and human health) has been ineffective.

Report: ECHO Data Quality Audit – Phase I Results: The Integrated Compliance Information System Needs Security Controls to Protect Significant Non-Compliance Data

Report #09-P-0226, August 31, 2009. End users of the Permit Compliance System and Integrated Compliance Information System National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System can override the Significant Non-Compliance data field without more access controls.

Report: Results of Technical Network Vulnerability Assessment: EPA’s Research Triangle Park Finance Center

Report #09-P-0227, August 31, 2009. Vulnerability testing conducted in April 2009 of EPA’s Research Triangle Park Finance Center network identified Internet Protocol addresses with several highrisk vulnerabilities.

Report: EPA Should Stop Providing Estimates of Total Labor Hours to Contractors

Report #09-P-0229, September 9, 2009. For 6 of the 22 contracts we reviewed, EPA provided the contractor with the government’s estimate for total labor hours prior to receiving the contractor’s proposal.

Report: EPA Needs a Cohesive Plan to Clean Up the Great Lakes Areas of Concern

Report #09-P-0231, September 14, 2009. Since 2004, EPA has completed five Legacy Act-funded contaminated sediment clean-ups and remediated approximately 800,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment.

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 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 Needs an Oversight Program for Protocol Gases

Report #09-P-0235, September 16, 2009. We purchased 87 cylinders of EPA Protocol Gases and had NIST analyze each cylinder to determine whether the three gaseous mixtures contained in each cylinder met the Acid Rain Program’s accuracy criterion.

SBAR Panel: National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule

SBAR panel on effort to establish regulatory controls to address Cryptosporidium and to strengthen filtration performance requirements to ensure continued microbial protection

Report: Project Delays Prevent EPA from Implementing an Agency-wide Information Security Vulnerability Management Program

Report #09-P-0240, September 21, 2009. EPA implemented 56 percent (15 of 27) of the information security audit recommendations we reviewed.