Laws & Regulations

Report: EPA Should Revise its Grant Accrual Methodology to Address Impact of Recovery Act Funds

Report #09-X-0217, August 19, 2009. EPA’s grant accruals for the Fiscal Year 2009 financial statements may not include adjustments for additional funds received under the ARRA.

Report: Results of Technical Network Vulnerability Assessment: EPA’s National Computer Center

Report #09-P-0186, June 30, 2009. Vulnerability testing of EPA’s National Computer Center (NCC) network devices conducted in April 2009 indicated several high-risk vulnerabilities.

Report: Congressionally Requested Report on Comments Related to Effects of Jurisdictional Uncertainty on Clean Water Act Implementation

Report #09-N-0149, April 30, 2009. This is in response to a request dated April 24, 2009, asking that the EPA OIG provide information we have collected on the impact of the Rapanos case on Clean Water Act (CWA) enforcement.

Report: Recommendation to Strengthen Management Integrity Processes Affecting Recovery Act Activities

Report #09-X-0145, April 27, 2009. The EPA OIG has completed a review of the Agency’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Management Integrity guidance for reporting on internal control reviews and preparing the annual assurance letters sent to the Administrator.

Report: Results of Technical Network Vulnerability Assessment: EPA Headquarters

Report #09-P-0097, February 23, 2009. Field work disclosed weaknesses in the quality of information EPA uses to track the ownership of IP addresses.

Report: EPA Does Not Always Receive Adjustment Vouchers from Contractors

Report #10-P-0075, March 8, 2010. EPA does not always receive adjustment vouchers from contractors for final negotiated indirect cost rates.

Report: EPA Needs a Coordinated Plan to Oversee Its Toxic Substances Control Act Responsibilities

Report #10-P-0066, February 17, 2010. EPA does not have integrated procedures and measures in place to ensure that new chemicals entering commerce do not pose an unreasonable risk to human health and the environment.

Report: Improved Security Planning Needed for the Customer Technology Solutions Project

Report #10-P-0028, November 16, 2009. EPA lacks a process to routinely test CTS equipment for known vulnerabilities and to correct identified threats.

Report: EPA Oversight and Policy for High Priority Violations of Clean Air Act Need Improvement

Report #10-P-0007, Oct 14, 2009. HPVs were not being addressed in a timely manner as regions and States did not follow the HPV policy, EPA Headquarters did not oversee regional and State HPV performance, and regions did not oversee State HPV performance.

Report: Costs Claimed Under EPA Grant XP97424901 Awarded to West Rankin Utility Authority, Flowood, Mississippi

Report #10-4-0003, October 13, 2009. The grantee did not meet the procurement and financial management requirements of Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 31.

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

Report #09-2-0247, September 24, 2009. We performed certain agreed-upon procedures on the Agency’s FY 2009 Third Quarter Financial Statements.

Report: Office of Inspector General Access to Agency Information and Personnel

Report #09-P-0222, August 25, 2009. At the time of our review, EPA did not have consistent overall guidance governing interaction with the OIG.

Report: Contaminated Soil Waste Repository at East Mission Flats, Idaho

Report #09-P-0162, June 8, 2009. We found that many physical aspects of flooding have been investigated and considered in the design process.

Report: Results of Hotline Complaint Review for California Superfund Site

Report #09-P-0131, March 31, 2009. We substantiated that Region 9 inappropriately charged oversight costs to the CTS Printex Site responsible parties for greening activities and other activities.

Report: No Violations Found Regarding Removal of Comments from an External Peer Review

Report #09-P-0084, January 16, 2009. We conclude that EPA did not violate existing federal law, regulations, guidance or other relevant requirements in its actions.

Report: EPA Travel Program Lacks Necessary Controls

Report #10-P-0078, March 9, 2010. The EPA travel program, which comprises EPA policies and GovTrip, lacks necessary control procedures to assure all travel authorizations were necessary and in the best interest of the government.

Report: EPA’s Office of Research and Development Performance Measures Need Improvement

Report #10-P-0176, August 4, 2010. The difficulty of measuring research performance has been recognized by the National Research Council of the National Academies and other authoritative sources.

Report: Plans to Migrate Data to the New EPA Acquisition System Need Improvement

Report #10-P-0071, February 24, 2010. EPA’s plans for migrating data from ICMS to EAS lack sufficient incorporation of data integrity and quality checks to ensure the complete and accurate transfer of procurement data.

Report: EPA Has Improved Its Response to Freedom of Information Act Requests But Further Improvement Is Needed

Report #09-P-0127, March 25, 2009. EPA has reduced its backlog of FOIA initial requests and appeals.

Report: Open Audit Recommendations Affecting Recovery Act Activities

Report #09-X-0136, April 9, 2009. We identified five open recommendations, from three EPA OIG reports, that could have an impact on Recovery Act funding.