Laws & Regulations

Report: EPA Needs Better Management of Personal Property in Warehouses

Report #15-P-0033, December 8, 2014. Monetary benefits totaling $8.9 million can be achieved by the EPA through improved warehouse management of personal property.

Report: Fiscal Year 2022 U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board Management Challenges

Report #22-N-0003, November 10, 2021. The lack of board members continues to be the biggest risk to CSB operations.

Report: Whistleblower Protection Review

Report #2000-S-2, Jan 1, 2000. The March 23, 1999, letter from the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) to EPA’s Administrator stated that EPA has failed to inform its employees of their legal rights under the environmental whistleblower laws.

Report: EPA’s Multimedia Enforcement Program

Report #2000-P-000018, June 30, 2000. Multimedia enforcement actions can result in significant environmental benefits.

Report: North Carolina NPDES Enforcement and EPA Region 4 Oversight

Report #2000-P-00025, September 28, 2000. Region 4 needs to expand and strengthen its oversight of North Carolina’s NPDES program.

Report: Proactive Approach Would Improve EPA’s Water Quality Standards Program

Report #2000-P-001385-00023, September 29, 2000. Water quality criteria identify the amount of a specific pollutant that may be present in the water and still consider the water safe.

Report: EPA’s Competitive Practices for Assistance Awards

Report #2001-P-00008, May 21, 2001. EPA does not have a policy that requires program officials to award discretionary assistance funding competitively.

Report: Grant No. X-824519-01 Awarded to the National Association of Minority Contractors

Report #2001-1-00203, September 27, 2001. We determined that of the $712,041 in EPA’s share of the costs incurred by NAMC under this grant, $456,873 of those costs were ineligible and $141,237 were unsupported.

Report: Surveys, Studies, Investigations, and Special Purpose Grants

Report #2002-P-00005, March 21, 2002. EPA did not measure whether the CFDA 66.606 assistance agreements it awarded achieved results that contribute to protecting human health and the environment.

Report: Procurement Practices Under Grant No. X825532-01 Awarded to MBI International

Report #2002-2-00008, January 29, 2002. MBI did not have adequate justification to support the award of sole source contracts.

Report: Procurements Made by Assistance Agreement Recipients Should Be Competitive

Report #2002-P-00009, March 28, 2002. EPA had no assurance that as much as $187 million spent by assistance agreement recipients for procurements was used to obtain the best products, at the best price, from the most qualified firms.

Report: Public Participation in Louisiana’s Air Permitting Program and EPA Oversight

Report #01351-2002-P-00011, August 7, 2002. Although LDEQ met the public participation requirements for air permitting, its process could be improved.

Report: Federal Facility Cleanups Improvement Needed In EPA Oversight of Cleanup Actions at the Savannah River Nuclear Facility

Report #2002-P-00014, September 26, 2002. FFA cleanup requirements were consistent with CERCLA and the National Contingency Plan, and did not provide any exceptions to the requirements.

Report: Additional Efforts Needed to Improve EPA’s Oversight of Assistance Agreements

Report #2002-P-00018, September 30, 2002. Although EPA developed corrective actions to improve oversight controls for assistance agreements, a number of EPA OIG, Agency, and GAO reviews determined that oversight continued to be a weakness.

Report: Nevada Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Financial Statements with Independent Auditor's Report

Examination of the balance sheet of the Nevada Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program as of June 30, 2001, the related statement of revenues, expenses, and changes in retained earnings, and the statement of 2001 cash flows.

Report: Washington Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Financial Statements with Independent Auditor’s Report, June 30, 2001

Report #2003-1-00068, February 21, 2003. Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the combined financial statements taken as a whole.

Report: EPA Must Emphasize Importance of Pre-Award Reviews for Assistance Agreements

Report #2003-P-00007, March 31, 2003. Project officers did not perform all necessary steps when conducting pre-award reviews of assistance agreement applications.

Report: State of Utah Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Financial Statements with Independent Auditor’s Report, June 30, 2002

Report #2003-1-00110, June 3, 2003.Audit of the net assets statement of the Utah Dept of Env Quality Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Prog as of June 30, 2002, and the statements of revenues, expenses and changes in fund net assets, and 2002 cash flows.

Report: EPA’s Response to the World Trade Center Collapse: Challenges, Successes, and Areas for Improvement

Report #2003-P-00012, August 21, 2003. During our evaluation, we sought to answer six specific questions that address how EPA responded to September 11, and how it could better respond in the future.

Report: Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship Program Needs to Place Emphasis on Measuring Results

Report #2003-P-00019, September 30, 2003. NCER did not place emphasis on determining the results and achievements of its STAR Fellowship Program.