Laws & Regulations

Report: Office of Underground Storage Tanks Has Improved Contract Administration, But Further Action Needed

Report #2006-P-00012, February 28, 2006. Of the nine corrective actions OUST proposed as a result of the previous review, it successfully implemented eight actions.

Report: EPA Can Better Manage Superfund Resources

Report #2006-P-00013, February 28, 2006. We provide answers to congressional questions about EPA’s Superfund program expenditures.

Report: EPA’s and Louisiana’s Efforts to Assess and Restore Public Drinking Water Systems after Hurricane Katrina

Report #2006-P-00014, March 7, 2006. The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and drinking water systems operators provided the public with timely and accurate information about the safety and proper treatment of drinking water.

Report: EPA Office of Air and Radiation and Office of Water Can Further Limit Use of Level-of-Effort Contracts

Report #2006-P-00015, March 14, 2006. OAR and OW need to improve efforts to limit the use of LOE contracts.

Report: EPA Can Better Implement Its Strategy for Managing Contaminated Sediments

Report #2006-P-00016, March 15, 2006. EPA needs to better manage its efforts to clean up contaminated sediments on a nationwide basis.

Report: EPA Can Improve Emissions Factors Development and Management

Report #2006-P-00017, March 22, 2006. EPA has made progress in emissions factors development since our review of the program in 1996, but a large number of factors continue to be rated low.

Report: EPA Provided Quality and Timely Information Regarding Wastewater after Hurricane Katrina

Report #2006-P-00018, March 28, 2006. EPA provided quality and timely information regarding wastewater to States, wastewater treatment facilities, and the general public.

Report: Information Security Series: Security Practices Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System

Report #2006-P-00019, March 28, 2006. OSWER’s implemented practices to ensure production servers were being monitored for known vulnerabilities and personnel with significant security responsibility completed the Agency’s recommended security training.

Report: Information Security Series: Security Practices Integrated Compliance Information System

Report #2006-P-00020, March 29, 2006. OECA could improve its practices to ensure that key security documents are maintained.

Report: Information Security Series: Security Practices Safe Drinking Water Information System

Report #2006-P-00021, March 30, 2006. We found that the Office of Water (OW) substantially complied with many of the information security controls reviewed and had implemented practices to ensure production servers are monitored.

Report: EPA Needs to Better Implement Plan for Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Used to Respond to Terrorist Attacks and Disasters

Report #2006-P-00022, April 26, 2006. Assignment of formal authority and more accountability is required to ensure the initiatives in the Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Protection Plan are accomplished in a timely manner.

Report: EPA Provided Quality and Timely Information on Hurricane Katrina Hazardous Material Releases and Debris Management

Report #2006-P-00023, May 2, 2006. After Hurricane Katrina, EPA was the agency with lead responsibility to prevent, minimize, or mitigate threats to public health and the environment caused by hazardous materials and oil spills in inland zones.

Report: Information Security Series: Security Practices Clean Air Markets Division Business System

Report #2006-P-00024, May 4, 2006. The Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) had substantially complied with many of the information security controls tested.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.