Laws & Regulations

Report: Decline In EPA Particulate Matter Methods Development Activities May Hamper Timely Achievement of Program Goals

Report #2003-P-00016, September 30, 2003. EPA has not supported PM2.5 methods development activities to the extent necessary to fully achieve the short- and long-range goals of the PM2.5 program in a timely manner.

Report: EPA’s Computer Security Self-Assessment Process Needs Improvement

Report #2003-P-00017, September 30, 2003. Thirty-six percent (78 of 216) of the critical self-assessment questions we examined were inaccurate or unsupported.

Report: Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium, Inc. Costs Claimed Under EPA Assistance Agreement Nos. X828299-01 and X828802-01

Report #2003-4-00120, September 30, 2003. The Consortium’s financial management system and procurement system did not comply with the requirements of 40 CFR Part 30 and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-122.

Report: Congressional Request on EPA Enforcement Resources and Accomplishments

Report #2004-S-00001, October 10, 2003. Following September 11, 2001, EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) assumed additional duties in conjunction with nation-wide efforts to improve homeland security.

Report: Audit of EPA’s Fiscal 2003 and 2002 Financial Statements

Report #2004-1-00021, November 21, 2003. The Superfund Trust Fund, managed by the U.S. Treasury Bureau of Public Debt, transferred funds to EPA in excess of the assets available to be transferred by $82.7 million in fiscal 2003.

Report: Survey Results on Information Used by Water Utilities to Conduct Vulnerability Assessments

Report #2004-M-0001, November 21, 2003. EPA developed a Strategic Plan for Homeland Security (Plan), dated Sept 2002, which states that EPA will work with the States, tribes, drinking water utilities, and others to enhance the security of water utilities.

Report: Significant Modifications Needed To Ensure Success of Fort Worth Asbestos Demolition Method

Report #2004-P-00002, December 19, 2003. According to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Asbestos Registry System, over 166,000 asbestos demolition and/or renovation projects were conducted in the last two years.

Report: Audit of EPA’s Fiscal 2001 and 2000 Financial Statements

Report #2002-1-00082, February 26, 2002. Review of EPA’s Required Supplemental Stewardship Information, Required Supplemental Information, and Management Discussion and Analysis.

Report: EPA Grants Awarded to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe

Report #1000370-2002-1-00089, March 5, 2002. We questioned a $25,789 contract payment made because the Northern Cheyenne Tribe did not follow competitive contracting requirements when it awarded this contract.

Report: State of Nevada Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program Financial Statements for Year Ended June 30, 2004

Report #2006-1-00024, January 23, 2006. We did not note any weaknesses in internal control that we consider to be material.

Report: EPA Grants Awarded to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe

Report #1000370-2002-1-00096, March 19, 2002. We questioned 86 percent, or $401,527, of all costs claimed under the four grants we audited. EPA’s share of questioned costs is $387,621.

Report: Information Security Series: Security Practices Integrated Contract Management System

Report #2006-P-00010, January 31, 2006. OARM should place greater emphasis on key information system security practices to comply with Federal and Agency information security requirements.

Report: Pennsylvania’s Reporting of Safe Drinking Water Violations

Report #2002-P-00007, March 25, 2002. Regulations Require Monitoring and Reporting of MCL Violations.

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 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 Grants Awarded to the Crow Tribe

Report #100370-2002-1-000098, March 27, 2002. We questioned 72 percent, or $308,237, of all costs claimed under the three grants we audited.

Proposed Determinations of Attainment by the Attainment Date, Extensions of the Attainment Date, and Reclassification of Several Areas Classified as Marginal for the 2015 Ozone Air Quality Standards

EPA proposed actions for 31 nonattainment areas classified as Moderate for the 2008 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The areas were required to attain the standards by July 20, 2021.

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.