Report: Significant Data Quality Deficiencies Impede EPA’s Ability to Ensure Companies Can Pay for Cleanups
Report #16-P-0126, March 31, 2016
What Was Found
This report is an EPA OIG Management Alert. Environmental and extensive financial risks exist from the EPA's failure to have accurate and complete data to monitor and ensure compliance with RCRA and CERCLA financial assurance requirements.
Report Materials
- Report At A Glance (pdf)
- Full Report (pdf)
- EPA Response to Report (pdf)
- IG Comment on EPA Response (pdf)
OIG Independence of EPA
The EPA's Office of Inspector General is a part of the EPA, although Congress provides our funding separate from the agency, to ensure our independence. We were created pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended.
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