Laws & Regulations

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.

Report: EPA Has Improved Five-Year Review Process for Superfund Remedies, But Further Steps Needed

Report #2007-P-00006, December 5, 2006. Since our last review in 1999, EPA has taken actions to improve the five-year review process.

Report: EPA Needs to More Actively Promote State Self Assessment of Environmental Programs

Report #2003-P-00004, December 27, 2002. EPA and states had not widely adopted the self assessment concept.

Report: Region 2's Management of Children’s Health Risk Initiative and Related Projects

Report #2001-P-00002, January 30, 2001. Region 2's children’s health initiative made great strides in the last three years towards accomplishing its goals in line with EPA’s overall mission.

DTE Gas Company, Milford Compressor Station - Permitting Information

US/Canada AQA Notification Table

Lordstown Energy Center - Permitting Information

US/Canada AQA Notification Table

Report: RCRA FINANCIAL ASSURANCE FOR CLOSURE AND POST-CLOSURE

Report #2001-P-007, March 30, 2001. We concluded that insurance policies written by captive insurance companies do not provide an adequate level of financial assurance for closure and post-closure.

Report: Remedial Project Manager Turnover at Superfund Sites

Report #2001-M-000015, June 15, 2001. We determined that EPA Region III did not have formal procedures in place to mitigate continuity problems caused by turnover of EPA personnel in the Superfund program.

Report: Superfund Interagency Agreements

Report #2001-P-00011, June 22, 2001. EPA generally had effective controls in place to ensure its Superfund IAGs achieve expected environmental results in a timely, cost-effective, and efficient manner.

Report: EPA Region III’s Management of Tranguch Gasoline Site, Hazleton, Pennsylvania

Report #2001-P-00015, August 29, 2001. We determined that the remediation efforts taken by EPA appeared sufficient to ensure the safety of residents of the Tranguch site.

Report: Government Information Security Reform Act - Status of EPA's Computer Security Program

Report #2001-P-00016, September 7, 2001. During recent years, we have audited many components and aspects of EPA’s security policies and practices.

Report: Evaluation of Superfund Environmental Indicators

Report #2002-P-3, December 27, 2001. Overall, the draft Superfund EIs were suitable because they measure a state of the environment, instead of marking the completion of an administrative step in the Superfund cleanup process.