Laws & Regulations
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Report: Fiscal Year 2009 Federal Information Security Management Act Report
Report #10-P-0030, November 18, 2009. We believe the evidence obtained provides a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions, and in all material respects meets the FISMA reporting requirements prescribed by OMB.
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Report: EPA Should Strengthen Internal Controls over Interagency Agreement Unliquidated Obligations
Report #09-P-0086, January 26, 2009. EPA has not closed out IAs that have at least $4.2 million of unneeded funds that should be deobligated.
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Report: Costs Claimed Under EPA Grant XP9468195 Awarded to the City of Flowood, Mississippi
Report #10-4-0013, October 27, 2009. The grantee did not perform a cost analysis or negotiate a fair and reasonable profit as a separate element of the contract price as required under Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 31.36(f).
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Report: Review of Hotline Complaint on Employee Granted Full-Time Work-at-Home Privilege
Report #10-P-0002, October 7, 2009. We found an unauthorized, full-time work-at-home arrangement that has existed for 9 years and allows a NETI employee to work from home in Ohio instead of an office in Washington, DC.
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Report: EPA Needs a Better Strategy to Identify Violations of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act
Report #10-P-0009, October 26, 2009. EPA lacks a systematic framework for identifying the §404 violations for which it is responsible under a 1989 Memorandum of Agreement.
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Report: Internal Control Weaknesses under EPA Grant Nos. I004802070 and BG96483308, Awarded to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee, North Carolina
Report #10-4-0001, October 5, 2009. EBCI does not have a conflict of interest and its SF 272s are correct and prepared in compliance with federal requirements, EPA policies, and grant terms and conditions.
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Report: Contractor Invoice Internal Controls Need Improvement
Report #09-P-0242, September 23, 2009. EPA should improve its invoice review procedures to ensure costs are allowable and supported in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
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Report: ECHO Data Quality Audit – Phase I Results: The Integrated Compliance Information System Needs Security Controls to Protect Significant Non-Compliance Data
Report #09-P-0226, August 31, 2009. End users of the Permit Compliance System and Integrated Compliance Information System National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System can override the Significant Non-Compliance data field without more access controls.
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Report: Incurred Cost Audit of Three EPA Cooperative Agreements Awarded to National Tribal Environmental Council, Inc.
Report #10-4-0067, February 17, 2010. The recipient’s work plans do not include a description of the recipient’s goals or objectives for its participation in the Western Regional Air Partnership and National Tribal Air Association.
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Report: Regional Public Liaison Program Needs Greater Focus on Results and Customer Awareness
Report #09-P-0176, June 24, 2009. OSWER’s RPL program does not sufficiently focus on or measure specific outputs and outcomes and is not consistently implemented across offices.
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Report: Audit of EPA’s Fiscal 2009 and 2008 (Restated) Consolidated Financial Statements
Report #10-1-0029, November 16, 2009. We noted the three material weaknesses and eight significant deficiencies.
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Report: Response to EPA Administrator’s Request for Investigation into Allegations of a Cover-up in the Risk Assessment for the Coal Ash Rulemaking
Report #10-N-0019, November 2, 2009. We closed this investigation because we found no evidence warranting additional inquiry into the rulemaking process for CCW disposal in landfills or surface impoundments.
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Report: EPA Needs to Improve Physical Security at Its Offices in Las Vegas, Nevada
Report #10-P-0059, February 3, 2010. EPA needs to improve physical security at its Las Vegas facilities. The Las Vegas Finance Center’s (LVFC’s) server room and other key areas are susceptible to unauthorized access by personnel not a part of LVFC.
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Report: EPA Can Improve Managing of Working Capital Fund Overhead Costs
Report #09-P-0129, March 30, 2009. While we did not identify any significant cost savings for the WCF, we did identify two areas requiring management attention.
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Report: Office of Inspector General Access Survey Results
Report #09-P-0079, January 13, 2009. The results of our survey disclosed significant lack of knowledge about the Agency’s policies with regard to interaction with the OIG, and numerous requests for training in this area by survey respondents.
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Report: Improved Management of Superfund Special Accounts Will Make More Funds Available for Clean-ups
Report #09-P-0119, March 18, 2009. EPA had not used about $65 million in Superfund special accounts that were available because it lacked some management controls.
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Report: Results of Hotline Complaint Review of EPA’s Antimicrobial Testing Program
Report #09-P-0152, May 27, 2009. We found that the allegation against EPA’s ATP was unsubstantiated.
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Report: Audit of EPA Passport ControlsEPA Needs Procedures to Address Delayed Earmark Projects
Report #10-P-0081, March 22, 2010. Some SAAP funds were still unobligated 5 years after Congress appropriated them.
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Report: Assistance Agreement and Contract Recipients with Open Audit Recommendations May Affect Recovery Act Activities
Report #09-X-0196, July 14, 2009. As of June 30, 2009, EPA used Recovery Act funding to award one assistance agreement and one contract to recipients with open recommendations.
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Report: Examination of Costs Claimed under EPA Grant X96906001 Awarded to Walker Lake Working Group, Hawthorne, Nevada
Report #10-2-0054, January 6, 2010. The grantee did not meet financial management requirements specified by Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 30 and Title 2 Code of Federal Regulations Part 30.