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Report: EPA’s Emergency Response Systems at Risk of Having Inadequate Security Controls

Report #21-E-0226, September 13, 2021

If the availability and integrity of emergency response system data are jeopardized, it could harm the EPA’s ability to coordinate response efforts to protect the public from environmental disasters.

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  • Update: IG Comment on EPA Response (pdf)

This report relates to: Project #OA&E-FY20-0176

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