Laws & Regulations

Report: EPA Should Stop Providing Estimates of Total Labor Hours to Contractors

Report #09-P-0229, September 9, 2009. For 6 of the 22 contracts we reviewed, EPA provided the contractor with the government’s estimate for total labor hours prior to receiving the contractor’s proposal.

Report: EPA Should Delay Deploying Its New Acquisition System until Testing Is Completed

Report #09-P-0197, July 20, 2009. OAM did not comply with EPA’s System Life Cycle Management policy and procedure while developing the new EPA Acquisition System (EAS).

Report: EPA Needs to Improve Internal Controls to Increase Cost Recovery

Report #09-P-0144, April 27, 2009. Within a sample of removal actions we reviewed, EPA collected from responsible parties approximately 11 percent ($31.4 of $294.5 million) of the Federal Government’s costs for conducting the removal actions.

Report: EPA Needs to Improve Its Efforts to Reduce Air Emissions at U.S. Ports

Report #09-P-0125, March 23, 2009. While EPA has issued air emissions regulations for most port sources, EPA’s actions to address air emissions from large oceangoing vessels in U.S. ports have not yet achieved the goals for protecting human health.

Report: Measuring and Reporting Performance Results for the Pollution Prevention Program Need Improvement

Report #09-P-0088, January 28, 2009. The P2 Program’s data provided in response to the OMB PART assessment generally addressed the PART questions and supported the moderately effective rating received.

Report: EPA Plans for Managing Counter Terrorism/ Emergency Response Equipment and Protecting Critical Assets Not Fully Implemented

Report #09-P-0087, January 27, 2009. EPA has progressed in implementing the counter terrorism/emergency response (CT/ER) initiatives, but is behind schedule in implementing the Radiation Ambient Monitoring (RadNet) System.

Report: Improvements Needed to Validate Reported ENERGY STAR Benefits

Report #09-P-0061, December 17, 2008. Reported ENERGY STAR benefits represented one-half of EPA’s total greenhouse gas emissions avoided in 2006.

Report: EPA’s California Waiver Decision on Greenhouse Gas Automobile Emissions Met Statutory Procedural Requirements

Report #09-P-0056, Dec 9, 2008. Administrator Johnson conducted a notice and hearing phase and based his decision to deny the waiver on one of the three criteria set out in Section 209(b); therefore, he satisfied the procedural statutory requirements.

Report: EPA Needs Definitive Guidance for Recovery Act and Future Green Reserve Projects

Report #10-R-0057, February 1, 2010. EPA has not provided clear and comprehensive guidance to States for how to determine the eligibility of green reserve projects.

Report: EPA Needs to Comply with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and Improve Its Oversight of Exported Never-Registered Pesticides

Report #10-P-0026, November 10, 2009. EPA is not complying with FIFRA Section 17(a) which is, in part, intended to notify the government of an importing country that a potentially hazardous pesticide was imported into that country.

Report: EPA Needs to Improve Continuity of Operations Planning

Report #10-P-0017, October 27, 2009. EPA has limited assurance that it can successfully maintain continuity of operations and execute its mission essential functions during a significant national event such as a pandemic influenza outbreak.

Report: Project Delays Prevent EPA from Implementing an Agency-wide Information Security Vulnerability Management Program

Report #09-P-0240, September 21, 2009. EPA implemented 56 percent (15 of 27) of the information security audit recommendations we reviewed.

Report: Agreed-Upon Procedures on EPA’s Fiscal Year 2009 Second Quarter Financial Statements

Report #09-2-0200, July 30, 2009. We performed certain agreed-upon procedures on the Agency’s second quarter FY 2009 Financial Statements.

Report: Steps Taken But More Work Needed to Strengthen Governance, Increase Utilization, and Improve Security Planning for the Exchange Network

Report #09-P-0184, June 30, 2009. This report consists of the briefing presentation we provided to Office of Environmental Information managers on May 4, 2009.