Laws & Regulations

Flexibility in the HCFC Allowance System

The rule that established the HCFC allowance system also created an allowance transfer mechanism to provide flexibility. This fact sheet highlights the flexibilities incorporated into the HCFC allowance system.

Report: Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) Data Quality

Report #2002-P-00016, September 30, 2002. Over 40 percent of CERCLIS data on site actions reviewed was inaccurate or not adequately supported.

Report: EPA Grants Supported Restoring the Chesapeake Bay

Report #2006-P-00032, September 6, 2006. EPA awarded assistance agreements (grants) that contributed toward meeting the goals of the Clean Water Act and the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement.

Report: EPA Grants to the National Rural Water Association

Report #2006-S-00005, September 12, 2006. Under its grants, NRWA is not required to measure the environmental outcomes of the technical assistance activities it provides.

Report: EPA Management of Information Technology Resources Under The Clinger-Cohen Act

Report #2002 - P - 00017, September 30, 2002. EPA’s CIO has sufficient authority to shape and direct Information Resource Management (IRM) activities.

Report: Science to Support Rulemaking

Report #2003-P-00003, November 15, 2002. The rules included in the pilot study were not a representative statistical sample of EPA rules, and we did not identify all ofthe critical science inputs for every rule.

Report: EPA Needs to Strengthen Oversight of Government Furnished Property

Report #2006-P-00035, September 19, 2006. EPA’s Office of Acquisition Management (OAM) needs to improve its management and administrative controls over GFP.

Report: Assessing EPA’s Efforts to Protect Sensitive Information

Report #2006-S-00006, September 19, 2006. This is the EPA OIG's completed Data Collection Instrument, as prescribed by the PCIE to use in meeting its requirements under OMB Memo M-06-16, Protection of Sensitive Agency Information.

Report: EPA Needs to Emphasize Management of Earmark Grants

Report #2006-P-00037, September 26, 2006. EPA has not managed earmark grants in accordance with Agency policy and regulations.

Report: Existing Contracts Enabled EPA to Quickly Respond to Hurricane Katrina; Future Improvement Opportunities Exist

Report #2006-P-00038, September 27, 2006. EPA’s existing contracts awarded for responding to natural disasters worked as intended and allowed EPA to quickly respond to Hurricane Katrina.

Report: Progress Report on EPA’s Nonroad Mobile Source Emissions Reduction Strategies

Report #2006-P-00039, September 27, 2006. EPA has issued nonroad mobile source emissions control regulations that, when fully implemented, should result in significant reductions in such emissions.

Report: Fiscal 2005 and 2004 Financial Statements for the Pesticides Reregistration and Expedited Processing Fund

Report #2007-1-00001, October 10, 2006. We did not identify any noncompliances that would result in a material misstatement to the audited financial statements.

Report: Audit of EPA’s Fiscal 2006 and 2005 Consolidated Financial Statements

Report #2007-1-00019, November 15, 2006. EPA is in noncompliance with regulations relating to reconciling intragovernmental transactions.

Report: Saving the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Requires Better Coordination of Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Report #2007-P-00004, November 20, 2006. Despite significant efforts to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, excess nutrients and sediment continue to impair the Bay’s water quality.

Report: International City/County Management Association Reported Outlays Under Seven Selected Cooperative Agreements

Report #2007-4-00026, November 28, 2006. We questioned $1,007,858 of the $9,871,025 in reported outlays because the recipient claimed unallowable outlays for contractual services, subgrant costs, indirect labor and facilities costs, and in-kind costs.