Laws & Regulations

Report: Region 4 Should Strengthen Oversight of Georgia’s Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Program

Report #11-P-0274, June 23, 2011. We found significant deficiencies in the Georgia Environmental Protection Division’s (GEPD’s) management and Region 4’s oversight of the CAFO program.

Risk Evaluation for 1,4-Dioxane

Page with all information for 1,4-Dioxane.

Risk Management for 1,4-Dioxane

Risk management page for 1,4-dioxane, launched following the release of the final risk evaluation.

Risk Evaluation for Asbestos

risk evaluation for asbestos

Risk Evaluation for Perchloroethylene (PCE)

documents for Tetrachloroethylene (also known as perchloroethylene)

Report: EPA Has Taken Steps to Address Cyber Threats but Key Actions Remain Incomplete

Report #11-P-0277, June 23, 2011. News publications have reported that APTs are increasingly prevalent throughout the federal government.

Report: Agreed-Upon Procedures on EPA’s Fiscal Year 2011 Second Quarter Financial Statements

Report #11-2-0300, June 29, 2011. We performed certain agreed-upon procedures on the Agency’s FY 2011 Second Quarter Financial Statements.

Report: Agency-Wide Application of Region 7 NPDES Program Process Improvements Could Increase EPA Efficiency

Report #11-P-0315, July 6, 2011. Although Region 7 NPDES Kaizen event participants continued to follow up on the commitments and action items identified, no single authority was responsible for tracking the process improvement outcomes.

Report: Office of Research and Development Needs to Improve Its Method of Measuring Administrative Savings

Report #11-P-0333, July 14, 2011. ORD’s efforts to reduce its administrative costs are noteworthy, but ORD needs to improve its measurement mechanism for assessing the effectiveness of its initiatives to reduce administrative costs.

Report: EPA Needs to Reexamine How It Defines Its Payment Recapture Audit Program

Report #11-P-0362, July 19, 2011. EPA makes numerous efforts to recapture improper payments, but does not consider its activities to be a formal payment recapture audit program, as defined by OMB guidance.

Report: EPA’s Voluntary Chemical Evaluation Program Did Not Achieve Children’s Health Protection Goals

Report #11-P-0379, July 21, 2011. The VCCEP pilot did not achieve its goals to design a process to assess and report on the safety of chemicals to children.

Report: Office of Research and Development Should Increase Awareness of Scientific Integrity Policies

Report #11-P-0386, July 22, 2011. ORD has internal controls that include policies, procedures, training, and peer review.

Report: Results of Technical Network Vulnerability Assessment: EPA’s National Health & Environment Effects Research Laboratory, Western Ecology Division

Report #11-P-0429, August 3, 2011. Vulnerability testing of EPA’s NHEERL Western Ecology Division network conducted in March 2011 identified Internet Protocol addresses with numerous high-risk and medium-risk vulnerabilities.

Report: An Overall Strategy Can Improve Communication Efforts at Asbestos Superfund Site in Libby, Montana

Report #11-P-0430, August 3, 2011. Region 8 does not have an overall communication strategy to guide, coordinate, and evaluate its communication efforts at the Libby Asbestos Superfund Site.

Report: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Site Visit of the Tower Chemical Superfund Site, Clermont, Lake County, Florida

Report #11-R-0431, August 3, 2011. We conducted an unannounced visit at the Tower Chemical Superfund site in Clermont, Lake County, Florida, on July 12–13, 2010.

Report: Observed Conditions at Five Deleted Superfund Sites

Report #11-P-0433, August 3, 2011. Conditions at two of the five sites we visited in EPA Region 3, which had been remediated and deleted from the National Priorities List, may warrant additional attention from EPA.

Report: EPA and States Should Strengthen Oversight of Clean Water State Revolving Fund Recovery Act Projects

Report #11-R-0519, August 24, 2011. State oversight of CWSRF projects does not always ensure subrecipient compliance with ARRA.

Report: EPA’s Gulf Coast Oil Spill Response Shows Need for Improved Documentation and Funding Practices

Report #11-P-0527, August 25, 2011. EPA needs additional management controls to track and recover its Gulf Coast oil spill response costs.

Report: Revisions Needed to National Contingency Plan Based on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Report #11-P-0534, August 25, 2011. EPA and the manufacturer of Corexit completed required steps to include Corexit products on the NCP Product Schedule.

Report: Results of Technical Vulnerability Assessment: EPA’s Directory Service System Authentication and Authorization Servers

Report #11-P-0597, September 9, 2011. Vulnerability testing of EPA’s directory service system authentication and authorization servers conducted in March 2011 identified authentication and authorization servers with numerous vulnerabilities.