Laws & Regulations

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.

Report: EPA Has Not Fully Implemented a National Emergency Response Equipment Tracking System

Report #11-P-0616, September 13, 2011. Although EPA spent $2.8 million as of October 2010 to develop and implement an EMP emergency equipment tracking module, EPA has not fully implemented the module, and the module suffers from operational issues.

Report: EPA Needs Workload Data to Better Justify Future Workforce Levels

Report #11-P-0630, September 14, 2011. EPA has not collected comprehensive workload data or conducted workload analysis in about 20 years.

Report: EPA Should Improve Timeliness for Resolving Audits Under Appeal

Report #11-P-0687, September 21, 2011. EPA’s efforts to resolve over $55 million for audits under appeal in Regions 2 and 5 are not efficient, effective, or timely.

Report: EPA Should Bill Superfund Oversight Costs More Timely

Report #11-P-0697, September 22, 2011. Based on our audit of oversight billings for nine sites in Regions 1, 5, and 9, we found that Region 5 did not timely bill or did not bill approximately $8.6 million in oversight costs for two sites.

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

Report #11-2-0699, September 23, 2011. We performed certain agreed-upon procedures on the Agency’s FY 2011 Third Quarter Financial Statements.

EPA Responds to Administrative Petitions and Withdraws Proposed Error Correction for Areas in Texas

action, summary and documentation for error correction

Lead Designations - North Carolina State Recommendations and EPA Responses

Lead Designations - 2008 Standards. North Carolina State Recommendations and EPA Responses, Round 1 and 2

Report: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Site Visit of Wastewater Treatment Plant—Phase II Improvements Project, City of Ottawa, Illinois

Report #11-R-0700, September 23, 2011. We conducted an unannounced site visit of the wastewater treatment plant project in the City of Ottawa, Illinois.

Report: EPA Should Update Its Fees Rule to Recover More Motor Vehicle and Engine Compliance Program Costs

Report #11-P-0701, September 23, 2011. EPA is not recovering all reasonable costs of administering the MVECP.

Updated Guidance for Sulfur Dioxide Area Designations - March 2015

Report: Procedural Review of EPA’s Greenhouse Gases Endangerment Finding Data Quality Processes

Report #11-P-0702, September 26, 2011. EPA met statutory requirements for rulemaking and generally followed requirements and guidance related to ensuring the quality of the supporting technical information.

SO2 Designations - State Designations Round 1

Sulfur dioxide designations - state designations round 1

SO2 Designations State Designations Round 2

EPA supplements second Round of SO2 Nonattainment Designations - November 2016

Report: EPA’s Contract Oversight and Controls Over Personal Computers Need Improvement

Report #11-P-0705, September 26, 2011. EPA paid the CTS contractor a total of $489,734 over an 11-month period for 3,343 seats—a standard seat includes a leased computer with accessories and technical support—not ordered by the Agency during the period.

Report: EPA Should Clarify and Strengthen Its Waste Management Oversight Role With Respect to Oil Spills of National Significance

Report #11-P-0706, September 26, 2011. As a support agency to the Coast Guard, EPA’s oversight of the Gulf Coast oil spill waste management activities provided assurance that oil-contaminated waste was disposed of properly.