Laws & Regulations
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Report: State of New Hampshire Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program Financial Statements for the Year Ended June 30, 2005
Report #2007-1-00037, February 7, 2007. We noted various reportable conditions that we considered material weaknesses in internal controls.
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Report: Interagency Agreements to Use Other Agencies’ Contracts Need Additional Oversight
Report #2007-P-00011, March 27, 2007. While EPA has improved some interagency contracting processes, we found that the Agency entered into some interagency contracts without meeting all requirements.
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Report: New Housing Contract for Hurricane Katrina Command Post Reduced Costs but Limited Competition
Report #2007-P-00015, March 29, 2007. Contract EP-R6-06-03 contained several improvements over the previous housing contracts for the Metairie incident command post.
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Report: EPA Needs to Strengthen Financial Database Security Oversight and Monitor Compliance
Report #2007-P-00017, March 29, 2007. Weaknesses in how EPA offices monitor databases for known security vulnerabilities, communicate the status of critical system patches, and monitor the access to database administrator accounts and privileges.
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Report: Promoting Tribal Success in EPA Programs
Report #2007-P-00022, May 3, 2007. Tribes have made progress in overcoming barriers to successful management of environmental programs.
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Report: EPA Can Improve Its Oversight of Audit Followup
Report #2007-P-00025, May 24, 2007. EPA is generally undertaking actions for the nine water-related reports in our review— seven directed to the Office of Water (OW) and two directed to the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA).
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Annual Superfund Report - FY2006
May 2007. This report covers Fiscal Year 2006 Superfund-related activity of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG).
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Report: Fiscal Year 2006 and 2005 Financial Statements for the Pesticide Registration Fund
Report #2007-1-00071, May 30, 2007. EPA did not timely obligate PRIA funds, totaling $100,000, for worker protection activities.
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Semiannual Report: Oct 1, 2006 - Mar 31, 2007
Semiannual Report #EPA-350-R-07-002, May, 2007. We will continue to work with the Agency and Congress, serving as a catalyst for improving the environment.
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Report: Overcoming Obstacles to Measuring Compliance: Practices in Selected Federal Agencies
Report #2007-P-00027, June 20, 2007. Federal regulatory agencies with missions and obstacles similar to EPA use statistical methods to generate compliance information.
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Report: ENERGY STAR Program Can Strengthen Controls Protecting the Integrity of the Label
Report #2007-P-00028, August 1, 2007. To ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the ENERGY STAR program and the integrity of its label, EPA established several processes.
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Report: Making Better Use of Superfund Special Account Funds for Thermo Chem
Report #2007-S-00002, August 20, 2007. We found that Region 5 missed an opportunity to make timely and better use of the funds in the Thermo Chem special account.
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Report: Improved Management Practices Needed to Increase Use of Exchange Network
Report #2007-P-00030, August 20, 2007. EPA established a partnership with the Exchange Network’s governance bodies to assist them with accomplishing Network initiatives, more improvements are needed to ensure Network partners fully utilize the Network.
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Report: Total Maximum Daily Load Program Needs Better Data and Measures to Demonstrate Environmental Results
Report #2007-P-00036, September 19, 2007. EPA does not have comprehensive information on the outcomes of the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program nationwide, nor national data on TMDL implementation activities.
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Report: Decision Needed on Regulating the Cooling Lagoons at the North Anna Power Station
Report #2007-P-00038, September 20, 2007. NAPS has a water discharge permit allowing it to discharge water from the cooling lagoons into the Lake Anna reservoir.
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Report: Ineligible Federal Funds Drawn on EPA Grant No. XP98284701 Awarded to the City of Middletown, New York
Report #2007-2-00039, September 25, 2007. The City of Middletown (grantee) claimed costs that were incurred prior to the timeframes provided for in Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87 and the Special Appropriation Act Projects guidance.
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Watershed-Based Residual Designation Actions in New England
Information pertaining to Residual Designation petitions received in Region 1 pertaining to the designation of Commercial and Industrial sites.
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Report: Voluntary Programs Could Benefit from Internal Policy Controls and a Systematic Management Approach
Report #2007-P-00041, September 25, 2007. EPA has no Agency-wide policies that require voluntary programs to collect comparable data or conduct regular program evaluations.
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Report: Strategic Agricultural Initiative Needs Revisions to Demonstrate Results
Report #2007-P-00040, September 26, 2007. The SAI program has not demonstrated how it fulfills its unique role of helping growers transition away from Food Quality Protection Act high-risk pesticides.
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Report: Village of Laurelville, Ohio – Unallowable Costs Claimed Under EPA Grant XP97579701
Report #08-2-0039, December 5, 2007. The Village of Laurelville (grantee) did not maintain an acceptable financial management system in accordance with Federal regulations to support drawdown requests submitted to EPA for $278,448 in grant funds.