Science & Technology
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Report: The EPA’s Fiscal Years 2021 and 2020 (Restated) Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Fund Financial Statements
Report #22-F-0062, September 30, 2022. We found the fund’s financial statements, except for accounts receivable and earned revenue, to be fairly presented.
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Report: Fiscal Year 2023 U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board Management Challenges
The lack of board members continues to be the biggest risk to CSB operations.
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Contractor-Produced Report: U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statement Audit
Report #22-F-0060, September 26, 2022. We found the fund’s financial statements to be fairly presented and free of material misstatement.
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Report: The EPA’s Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Consolidated Financial Statements
Report #23-F-0002, November 15, 2022. We rendered an unmodified opinion on the EPA’s consolidated financial statements for fiscal years 2022 and 2021, meaning that they were fairly presented and free of material misstatement.
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Report: The EPA Met 2018 Water Security Requirements but Needs to Improve Oversight to Support Water System Compliance
Report #22-F-0060, September 26, 2022. We found the fund’s financial statements to be fairly presented and free of material misstatement.
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Report: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Findings for Consideration in the Implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Report #22-N-0061, September 30, 2022. We conducted this review to provide considerations for the EPA to strengthen its corrective action certification process. When the Agency certifies to the completion of corrective actions that have not been completed,
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Report: The EPA’s Fiscal Years 2020 and 2019 Toxic Substances Control Act Service Fee Fund Financial Statements
Report #23-F-0005, December 29, 2022. We found the fund’s financial statements, except for expenses and income from other appropriations, to be fairly presented.
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Report: The EPA Is Not on Track to Reach Its National Compliance Initiative Goals to Stop Aftermarket Defeat Devices and Tampered Vehicles
Report #23-E-0006, January 25, 2023.
The Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, or OECA, is not on track to achieve ten (25 percent) of the 40 measures and deliverables in its National Compliance Initiative, or NCI, strategic plan. -
Report: The EPA’s Residential Wood Heater Program Does Not Provide Reasonable Assurance that Heaters Are Properly Tested and Certified Before Reaching Consumers
Report #23-E-0012, February 28, 2023.
The EPA’s ineffective residential wood heater program puts human health and the environment at risk for exposure to dangerous fine-particulate-matter pollution. -
Report: The EPA’s January 2021 PFBS Toxicity Assessment Did Not Uphold the Agency’s Commitments to Scientific Integrity and Information Quality
The EPA did not follow the typical intra-agency review and clearance process during the development and publication of the January 2021 perfluorobutane sulfonic acid, or PFBS, toxicity assessment.
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Management Implication Report Concerning Vulnerabilities to EPA OIG Information Security and Oversight Independence
EPA OIG identified vulnerabilities related to the EPA's network structure, specifically, the Microsoft Office 365, or 0365, environment.
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Report: Compendium of Open and Unresolved Recommendations Related to Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act-Funded Programs
The purpose of this compendium is to analyze open and unresolved recommendations concerning programs that received funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
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Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Progress Report—Year One
As part of its IIJA oversight role, the OIG will assess whether the EPA is using its roughly $60 billion in IIJA funds in accordance with congressionally designated purposes. OIG oversight will focus on the execution of IIJA funds...
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Management Implication Report: Mitigation of Grant Fraud Vulnerabilities
The EPA Office of Inspector General has observed that grantees and subrecipients may not be fully aware of key fraud prevention and enforcement measures.
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Management Implication Report: Disclosure of Foreign Support for EPA Research Grants
The EPA OIG has identified a concern regarding the lack of a requirement for EPA research grant recipients to report foreign support after receiving a grant award.
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Report: Findings for Consideration in the Management of Congressional Earmarks
Report #23-N-0014, April 19, 2023. We performed this review to highlight prior audit findings about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s administration and oversight of congressional earmarks to inform the Agency’s management of earmarks i
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Report: EPA Region 9 Must Continue Oversight Throughout the Decontamination and Closure of the Red Hill Facility
This evaluation focused on EPA Region 9’s oversight of authorized Hawaii state programs for underground storage tanks and drinking water quality and the response to the Red Hill drinking water contamination incident.
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Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Oversight Plan—Year Two
The IIJA Oversight Plan describes the OIG’s planned and ongoing audit and evaluation projects for fiscal year 2023, or Year 2, and beyond. It also shows the distribution of our planned and ongoing work...
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UIC Permit: PAS2R930BMCK
Sliverville UIC permit for brine disposal injection well
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Semiannual Report to Congress: October 1, 2022–March 31, 2023
This Semiannual Report to Congress reflects how the EPA OIG is achieving its mission of preventing and detecting fraud, waste, abuse, mismanagement, and misconduct related to the programs and operations of the U.S. EPA and the U.S. CSB.