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EPA's Key Management Challenges - 2014

We are pleased to provide you with a list of areas the Office of Inspector General considers as key management challenges confronting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Compendium of Unimplemented Recommendations: Oct 1, 2010 - Mar 31, 2011

Compendium #11-N-0212, Apr 29, 2011. The goal is to improve overall audit management by increasing EPA managers’ awareness of outstanding agreed-to commitments for action on OIG report recommendations.

Report: EPA’s Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program Should Establish Management Controls to Ensure More Timely Results

Report #11-P-0215, May 3, 2011. Fourteen years after passage of the FQPA and Safe Drinking Water Act amendments, EPA’s EDSP has not determined whether any chemical is a potential endocrine disruptor.

Report: CSB's Fiscal Year 2014 Management Challenges

June 9, 2014. The Office of Inspector General is beginning work to update the fiscal year 2014 list of areas we consider to be the key management challenges confronting the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.

Follow-Up Report: EPA Improves Management of Its Radiation Monitoring System

Report #14-P-0321, July 22, 2014. RadNet improvements have increased the EPA’s ability to assess radioactive threats to the public and the environment.

Report: EPA’s Alternative Asbestos Control Method Experiments Lacked Effective Oversight and Threatened Human Health

Report #14-P-0359, September 25, 2014. Improving oversight of the EPA's research activities can minimize the risk of waste, noncompliance with EPA rules and policies, and project failures.

Report: EPA Needs to Improve Its Process for Accurately Designating Land as Clean and Protective for Reuse

Report #14-P-0364, September 29, 2014. The EPA’s lack of controls over designating sites as protective and ready for reuse calls into question the reliability and value of the designations for protecting human health.

Annual Plan for the EPA and CSB - FY 2015

This plan describes how the OIG will achieve its statutory mission of promoting economy, efficiency, effectiveness and integrity relating to the programs and operations of the EPA and the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.

Early Warning Report: Not Following Internal Controls Put Acquisitions at Risk

Report #15-P-0007, October 29, 2014. Over $1.9 million in CSB acquisitions are at risk because the Board did not approve the acquisitions.

Report: Fiscal Year 2014 Federal Information Security Management Act Report: Status of EPA’s Computer Security Program

Report #15-P-0020, November 13, 2014. The lack of a fully developed Configuration Management program places the EPA’s network at a greater risk of being compromised.

Report: Early Warning Report - Some EPA Employees Found to Be on Paid Administrative Leave for Years

Report #15-N-0025, November 19, 2014. We provided to the EPA Administrator data on eight employees who had recorded significant amounts of administrative leave.

Compendium of Unimplemented Recommendations: Apr 1, 2011 - Sept 30, 2011

Compendium #12-N-0034, Oct 31, 2011. We hope that you find this tool useful in identifying ways to further improve Agency operations.

Report: Semiannual Report to Congress (April 1, 2014 - September 30, 2014)

EPA-350-R-14-002, November 2014. This is the EPA Office of Inspector General's Semiannual Report to Congress for the 6-month period ending September 30, 2014

EPA OIG Semiannual Reports to Congress

Semiannual Reports to Congress issued by the Office of Inspector General

Semiannual Report: Apr 1, 2014 - Sept 30, 2014

Semiannual Report #EPA-350-R-14-002, Nov, 2014. The OIG reported $380 million in savings, a $7.35 return on investment for every $1 spent by the OIG.

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