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- Semiannual report to the Congress
- EPA OIG not fully compliant with OIG policy on time and attendance reporting
- EPA OIG not fully compliant with overtime policies
- EPA OIG's compliance with EPA passport guidance
- EPA Office of Inspector General Recommendations on Office of Management and Budget Guidance for Recovery Act Implementation
- EPA Office of Inspector General report to Congress, highlights
- EPA Region 6 mismanaged Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act funds
- EPA Region 8 needs to better manage the risk management program for airborne chemical releases
- EPA activities provide limited assurance of the extent of contamination and risk at a North Carolina hazardous waste site
- EPA can better address risks to the security of the nation's drinking water through new authorities, plans, and information
- EPA can better assure continued operations at National Computer Center through complete and up-to-date documentation for contingency planning
- EPA can better document resolution of ethics and partiality concerns in managing Clean Air Federal Advisory Committees
- EPA can further reduce space in under-utilized facilities
- EPA can help consumers identify household and other products with safer chemicals by strengthening its "Design for the Environment" Program
- EPA can improve implementation of the risk management program for airborne chemical releases
- EPA can improve its preparation and use of independent government cost estimates for superfund contracts
- EPA can improve managing of working capital fund overhead costs [electronic resource]
- EPA compliance with retention incentive regulations and policies
- EPA complied with improper payment legislation, but opportunities for improvement exist
- EPA complies with Payment Integrity Information Act but needs to determine cost allowability when testing for improper grant payments
- EPA could improve contingency planning for oil and hazardous substance response
- EPA did not conduct thorough biennial user fee reviews
- EPA did not properly account for all property for implementing Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12
- EPA does not adequately follow national security information classification standards
- EPA does not effectively control or monitor imports of hazardous waste
- EPA does not provide oversight of radon testing accuracy and reliability
- Response to Congressional request on EPA enforcement
- EPA effectively planned for future remote access needs but should disconnect unneeded services in timely manner
- EPA effectively reviewed Recovery Act recipient data but opportunities for improvement exist
- EPA employees did not act consistently with agency policy in assisting an EPA grantee
- Response to congressional inquiry concerning EPA's conduct related to draft/proposed legislative amendments
- EPA has developed guidance for disaster debris but has limited knowledge of state preparedness
- EPA has made progress in assessing historical lead smelter sites but needs to strengthen procedures
- Response to congressional inquiry regarding the EPA's emergency order to the Range Resources Gas Drilling Company
- EPA has not implemented adequate management procedures to address potential fraudulent environmental data
- EPA has reduced its backlog of state implementation plans submitted prior to 2013 but continues to face challenges in taking timely final actions on submitted plans
- Response to congressional request on signage requirements for projects funded by the Recovery Act
- EPA improperly awarded and managed information technology contracts
- Results and benefits information is needed to support impacts of EPA's Superfund Removal Program
- EPA improved controls over billing reimbursable interagency agreement expenditures to other agencies
- EPA is at risk of not achieving Special Local Needs program goals for pesticides
- EPA is not fully aware of the extent of its use of cloud computing technologies
- Results of network vulnerability assessment : EPA's Erlanger Building
- EPA is not recovering all its costs of the Lead-Based Paint Fees Program
- EPA met or exceeded most internal climate change goals, but data quality and records management procedures need improvement
- Results of technical network vulnerability assessment : EPA's region 4
- EPA mostly adheres to regulations when assessing risks of new pesticides but should improve internal controls
- EPA need to track compliance with superfund cleanup requirements
- EPA needs a better strategy to identify violations of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act
- EPA needs a comprehensive research plan and policies to fulfill its emerging climate change role
- EPA needs a coordinated plan to oversee its Toxic Substances Control Act responsibilities
- EPA needs an agencywide strategic action plan to address harmful algal blooms
- EPA needs better management of personal property in warehouses
- EPA needs definitive guidance for Recovery Act and future green reserve projects
- EPA needs procedures to address delayed earmark projects
- EPA needs to clarify its claim of "no net loss" of wetlands
- EPA needs to compy with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and improve its oversight of exported never-registered pesticides
- EPA needs to continue to improve controls for improper payment identification
- Review of hotline complaint 2010-282
- EPA needs to demonstrate public health benefits of drinking water state revolving fund projects
- Review of hotline complaint concerning the Region 4 environmental justice small grants selection process
- EPA needs to demonstrate whether it has achieved the goals it set under the National Petroleum Refinery Initiative
- EPA needs to improve Contract Management Assessment Program implementation to mitigate contracting vulnerabilities
- EPA needs to improve STAR grant oversight
- Review of hotline complaint on EPA's pre-award activities for multiple award contracts at the National Computer Center
- EPA needs to improve its process for accurately designating land as clean and protective for reuse
- EPA needs to improve its recording and reporting of fines and penalties
- EPA needs to improve management of the Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Regulation program in order to strengthen protection of human health and the environment
- Review of hotline complaint regarding residential soil contamination in Cherryvale, Kansas
- EPA needs to improve management practices to ensure a successful customer technology solutions project
- EPA needs to improve physical security at its offices in Las Vegas, Nevada
- EPA needs to improve safeguards for personally identifiable information
- EPA needs to improve timeliness and documentation of workforce and workload management corrective actions
- EPA needs to justify how it is using Title 42 hiring authority
- EPA needs to measure and track performance of programs eliminated in President's budget but later funded by Congress
- EPA needs to plan and complete a toxicity assessment for the Libby asbestos cleanup
- EPA needs to strengthen its purchase card approval process
- EPA needs to strengthen oversight of its travel program authorization and voucher approval processes
- EPA needs to update its pesticide and chemical enforcement penalty policies and practices
- EPA oversight addresses thermal variance and cooling water permit deficiencies but needs to address compliance with public notice requirements
- EPA oversight and policy for high priority violations of Clean Air Act need improvement
- EPA recovery act recipient reporting and data review process
- EPA regional offices need to more consistently conduct required annual reviews of Clean Water State Revolving Funds
- EPA regions have considered environmental justice when targeting facilities for air toxics inspections
- Self-reported data unreliable for assessing EPA's computer security program
- EPA OIG compliance with retention incentive regulations and policies
- EPA should conduct more oversight of synthetic-minor-source permitting to assure permits adhere to EPA guidance
- EPA should continue efforts to reduce federal advances and federal special accounts
- Semiannual report to the Congress
- EPA should improve compliance with blanket purchase agreement requirements
- EPA should improve its oversight of federal agency Superfund reviews
- EPA should improve its oversight of long-term monitoring at Wheeling Disposal Superfund site in Missouri
- EPA should improve oversight and assure the environmental results of Puget Sound cooperative agreements
- Semiannual report to the Congress
- EPA should improve oversight of long-term monitoring at PAB Oil and Chemical Services, Inc. superfund site in Louisiana
- EPA should increase fixed-price contracting for remedial actions
- Some safeguards in place for long-term care of disposed hazardous waste, but challenges remain
- EPA should revise outdated or inconsistent EPA-State Clean Water Act memoranda of agreement
- EPA should stop providing estimates of total labor hours to contractors
- EPA should update guidance to address the release of potentially harmful quantities of asbestos that can occur under EPA's asbestos demolition standard
- EPA submitted accurate and timely Recovery Act financial reports
- EPA's BioWatch role reduced
- EPA's Fleet Management Program needs improvement
- EPA's International Program Office needs improved strategic planning guidance
- EPA's National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory has taken steps to mitigate impact of coronavirus pandemic on mobile source emission compliance
- EPA's Office of Land and Emergency Management lacked a nationally consistent strategy for communicating health risks at contaminated sites
- EPA's Office of Research and Development performance measures need improvement
- State of New Hampshire drinking water state revolving fund program financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2005
- EPA's Risk Assessment Division has not fully adhered to its quality management plan
- EPA's alternative asbestos control method experiments lacked effective oversight and threatened human health
- EPA's contracts and grants workforce may face future workload issues
- EPA's emergency response systems at risk of having inadequate security controls
- EPA's endocrine disruptor screening program has made limited progress in assessing pesticides
- EPA's financial oversight of Superfund State Contracts needs improvement
- EPA's handling of a proposed alternative method for measuring oil and grease in wastewater met requirements but controls need to be strengthened
- Status of corrective actions in response to 2008 report, "Framework for developing tribal capacity needed in Indian General Assistance Program"
- EPA's human resources management system did not deliver anticipated efficiences to the share service centers
- Steps needed to prevent prior control weaknesses from affecting new acquisition system
- EPA's information systems and data are at risk due to insufficient training of personnel with significant information security responsibilities
- Steps taken but more work needed to strengthen governance, increase utilization, and improve security planning for the Exchange Network
- EPA's key management challenges
- EPA's oversight of state pesticide inspections needs improvement to better ensure safeguards for workers, public and environment are enforced
- EPA's revised hiring process needs additional improvements
- EPA's terms and conditions as well as process to award Recovery Act interagency agreements need improvement
- EPA's unliquidated obligations for grants
- Early warning report : National Service Center for Environmental Publications in Blue Ash, Ohio, spent $1.5 million to store excess publications
- Early warning report : main EPA headquarters warehouse in Landover, Maryland requires immediate EPA attention
- Early warning report : not following internal controls put acquisitions at risk
- Early warning report : some EPA employees found to be on paid administrative leave for years
- Early warning report, internal controls and management actions concerning John C. Beale pay issues
- Early warning report, internal controls and management actions concerning John C. Beale travel
- Efficiency of EPA's rule development process can be better measured through improved management and information
- Energy Star label needs to assure superior energy conservation performance : a summary report
- Superfund : backlog of five-year review reports increased nearly threefold
- Enhanced EPA oversight and action can further protect water resources from the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing
- Enhanced EPA oversight needed to address risks from declining Clean Air Act Title V revenues
- Ensuring the safety of chemicals : EPA deviated from typical procedures in its 2018 Dicamba pesticide registration decision
- Environmental benefits being considered in award of Great Lakes grants
- Evaluation of U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act and efforts to protect sensitive agency information : (fiscal year 2006)
- Examination of costs claimed under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Cooperative Agreement 2A-97706701 awarded to Grace Hill Settlement House
- Examination of costs claimed under EPA cooperative agreement X83275501 awarded to the Montana Physical Sciences Foundation
- Examination of costs claimed under EPA cooperative agreements 2A-96104501 and 2A-96107201 awarded under the Recovery Act to Chelsea Collaborative Inc., Chelsea, Massachusetts
- Examination of costs claimed under EPA grant X96906001 awarded to Walker Lake Working Group, Hawthorne, Nevada
- Examination of costs claimed under EPA grant XP98069201 awarded to the City of Blackfoot, Idaho
- Examination of costs claimed under Grant AB-83363501 awarded to Lead Remediation Association of America
- Federal facilities in Chesapeake Bay watershed generally comply with major Clean Water Act permits
- Follow-up report : EPA has completed actions to improve implementation of the rulemaking process
- Follow-up report : EPA improves management of its radiation monitoring system
- Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) review guide : assessing EPA and states' systems for measuring and reporting on environmental performance
- Hawaii Department of Health needs to reduce open grants and unspent funds
- Hyperspectral imaging can be a useful evaluation tool for Office of Inspector General reviews focused on contaminated land
- Impact of EPA's Conventional Reduced Risk Pesticide Program is declining
- Implementation plan with cost sharing methodology needed for Region 8 senior environmental employee work on lead risk reduction
- Improved contract administration needed for the customer technology solutions contract
- Improved data integrity needed for the Integrated Contracts Management System
- Improved information could better enable EPA to manage electronic waste and enforce regulations
- Improved internal controls needed in the Gulf of Mexico Program Office
- The EPA needs to improve management of its school environmental health efforts
- The EPA should assess the utility of the watch list as a management tool
- Improved oversight of EPA's grant monitoring program will decrease the risk of improper payments
- Improved security planning needed for the customer technology solutions project
- Improvements needed by EPA OIG to reduce risk in employee hiring process
- Improvements needed by EPA to reduce risk in employee hiring process
- Improvements needed in EPA efforts to address methane emissions from natural gas distribution pipelines
- The EPA should improve monitoring of controls in the renewable fuel standard program
- Improvements needed in EPA training and oversight for Risk Management Program inspections
- Improvements needed in EPA's Information Security Program
- The EPA's comments improve the environmental impact statement process but verification of agreed-upon actions is needed
- Improvements needed in EPA's Smartcard Program to ensure consistent physical access procedures and cost reasonableness
- Improvements needed in EPA's efforts to replace its core financial system
- Improvements needed in estimating and leveraging cost savings across EPA
- Improvements needed to ensure EPA terminates exceptions to biweekly pay limits at completion of emergency response work
- Improvements needed to secure it assets at EPA-owned research facilities
- Improvements needed to validate reported Energy Star benefits
- Improvements to EPA policies and guidance could enhance protection of human study subjects
- The state of Colorado did not fully assure that funds intended to treat mining wastes and remove contaminants from water were effectively spent
- Increased emphasis on strategic sourcing can result in substantial cost savings for EPA
- Independent environmental sampling shows some properties designated by EPA as available for use had some contamination
- Time and attendance fraud not identified for employees on extended absence, but matters of concern brought to EPA's attention
- Independent ground water sampling generally confirms EPA's data at Wheeler Pit Superfund site in Wisconsin
- Ineffective oversight of purchase cards resulted in improper purchases at EPA OIG
- Ineffective oversight of purchase cards results in inappropriate purchases at EPA
- Innovative techniques for state monitoring of revolving funds noted
- Interagency agreements to use other agencies' contracts need additional oversight
- To ensure greater use of scientific equipment, the Office of Research and Development should use an enterprise approach to property management
- Internal control lessons learned for Hurricane Sandy Disaster relief appropriations Act funds
- Internal controls needed to control costs of emergency and rapid response services contracts, as exemplified in Region 6
- Internal controls needed to control costs of superfund technical assessment & response team contracts, as exemplified in region 7
- Investigation of allegations concerning environmental justice issues in EPA Region 4
- Key activities in EPA's integrated urban air toxics strategy remain unimplemented
- Total national reported Clean Air Act compliance-monitoring activities decreased slightly during coronavirus pandemic, but state activities varied widely
- Key aspects of CSB Information Security Program need improvement
- Labor-charging practices at the New Mexico Environment Department
- Lack of final guidance on vapor intrusion impedes efforts to address indoor air risks
- Leaking Underground Storage Tank Recovery Act grants contained requirements but priority lists need more oversight
- Limitations on the EPA's authority under the Safe Drinking Water Act resulted in unaddressed concerns at a tribal drinking water plant
- Weak management of climate change services contract creates risk EPA did not receive services for which it paid
- Limited investigation led to missed contamination at Ringwood superfund site
- Limited oil spill funding since the Enbridge spill has delayed abandoned oil well cleanups; emergency oil responses not impacted
- U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board complied with reporting requirements of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act
- U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board complies with the Federal Information Security Management Act (Fiscal Year 2013)
- Management weaknesses delayed response to Flint water crisis
- Website for coal combustion products partnership conflicts with agency policies
- More action is needed to protect water resources from unmonitored hazardous chemicals
- Multi-year plan
- National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Research Foundation needs to comply with certain federal requirements and EPA award conditions to ensure the success of pesticide safety education programs
- National environmental policy and quadrennial review needed
- Need continues for a strategic plan to protect children's health
- New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection needs to meet cooperative agreement objectives and Davis-Bacon Act requirements to fully achieve leaking underground storage tank goals
- Wells Band Council needs to improve its accounting system to comply with federal regulations
- New housing contract for Hurricane Katrina command post reduced costs but limited competition
- New procedures aided Region 5 in reducing unliquidated obligations
- U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board did not comply with the do not pay requirements for improper payments
- U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board needs to complete more timely investigations
- No indications of bias found in a sample of Freedom of Information Act fee waiver decisions but the EPA could improve its process
- No significant residual contamination found at deleted superfund sites, but security fences were damaged at some sites
- Nutrient pollution : EPA needs to work with states to develop strategies for monitoring the impact of state activities on the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone
- Unless California Air Resources Board fully complies with laws and regulations, emission reductions and human health benefits are unknown
- OIG reports
- Office of Inspector General access to agency information and personnel
- Office of Inspector General annual plan
- Office of Inspector General strategic plan through 2005
- Office of the Inspector General audit plan : October 1, 1999 through September 30, 2000
- Office of the Inspector General semiannual report
- Open audit recommendations affecting Recovery Act activities
- Unliquidated obligations resulted in missed opportunities to improve drinking water infrastructure
- Opportunities for EPA-wide improvements identified during review of a regional time and materials contract
- Pandemic highlights need for additional tribal drinking water assistance and oversight in EPA Regions 9 and 10
- Projected emission reductions overstated and buy American requirements not met under EPA award to the Tennessee Department of Transportation
- Agreed-upon procedures on EPA's fiscal year 2009 third quarter financial statements
- Air quality objectives for the Baton Rouge ozone nonattainment area not met under EPA Agreement 2A-96694301 awarded to the Railroad Research Foundation
- America's clean water foundation incurred costs for EPA assistance agreements X82835301, X783142301, and X82672301
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site inspection of sewer pump station rehabilitation and improvements, Town of Ball, Louisiana
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site inspection of the high-rate water treatment facility, city of Newark, Ohio
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site inspection of water main extension project, Manchester Water Works, Manchester, New Hampshire
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site visit of Yauco - La Jurada community distribution system, Yauco, Puerto Rico
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site visit of combined sewer overflow detention facility city of Goshen, Indiana
- Annual Superfund report to the Congress : required by section 111(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1990 (CERCLA), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA)
- Annual performance report
- Audit follow-up process needed for the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
- Public may be making indoor mold cleanup decisions based on EPA tool developed only for research applications
- Audit of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act cooperative agreement 2A-00E85701 awarded to the Greater Lansing Area Clean Cities
- Audit of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-Funded Cooperative Agreement 2S-96099601 awarded to the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
- Public release of "Rumple Report" on preliminary investigation of EPA cleanup of amphibole asbestos in Libby, Montana
- Audit of EPA passport controls
- Audit of financial statements for EPA's Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Fund from inception (October 5, 2012) to September 30, 2014
- Vapor intrusion health risks at Bannister Federal Complex not a concern for buildings 50 and 52, unknown for other buildings
- Audit of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's Fiscal Years 2014 and 2013 financial statements
- Quality control review of EPA Office of Inspector General reports issued in fiscal year 2013
- Audit report : financial management : audit of EPA's fiscal 1998 financial statements
- Quarterly report
- Audits on EPA Recovery Act-funded Diesel Emission Reduction Act assistance agreements reported programmatic and management challenges
- Benefits of EPA initiative to promote renewable energy on contaminated lands have not been established
- Quick reaction report : EPA must take steps to implement requirements of its scientific integrity policy
- Better planning, execution and communication could have reduced the delays in completing a toxicity assessment of the Libby, Montana, superfund site
- Biosolids management and enforcement : water
- Briefing report : improvements needed in EPA's Information Security Program
- Quick reaction report : EPA oversight needed to ensure beach safety in U.S. Virgin Islands
- Walker River Paiute Tribe needs to improve its internal controls to comply with federal regulations
- Briefing report : review of EPA's process to release information under the Freedom of Information Act
- CSB complied with reporting requirements of the improper payments elimination and Recovery Act for Fiscal Year 2014
- CSB needs to improve its acquisition approvals and other processes to ensure best value for taxpayers
- Quick reaction report : EPA pesticide inspections must resume in North Dakota to determine compliance and protect human health and the environment
- CSB's fiscal year 2014 purchase card program assessed as high risk
- Quick reaction report : EPA should ensure positions vacated under buyouts are eliminated or properly filled
- CSB's information security program is not consistently implemented : improvements are needed to address rour weaknesses
- Call center : contract management needs improvement to reduce the risk of overbilling
- Chemical fume hood testing improvements needed to reduce health and safety risk to EPA employees
- Quick reaction report : complete and clear information on the effectiveness of ebola disinfectants will better inform the public
- Chemical import data may help EPA identify facilities that need to file or update risk management plans
- Chemical safety : EPA needs to improve outreach and communication about the National Pesticide Information Center's role and services
- Cloud oversight resulted in unsubstantiated and missed opportunities for savings, unused and undelivered services, and incomplete policies
- Compendium of open and unresolved recommendations
- Compendium of unimplemented recommendations as of ..
- Complaints regarding debris management at the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion have been addressed
- Conditions in the U.S. Virgin Islands warrant EPA withdrawing approval and taking over management of some environmental programs and improving oversight of others
- Congressionally requested information on EPA utilization of integrated Risk Information System
- Congressionally requested inquiry into EPA's response to a report of a leaking well in North Carolina and the National Response Center hotline
- Congressionally requested inquiry into the EPA's use of private and alias email accounts
- Recipient subawards to fellows did not comply with federal requirements and EPA's involvement in fellow selection process creates the appearance EPA could be circumventing the hiring process
- Congressionally requested report on EPA staffing levels and total costs for EPA facilities
- Contaminated soil waste repository at East Mission Flats, Idaho
- Contractor invoice internal controls need improvement
- Controls and oversight needed to improve administration of EPA's customer service lines
- Controls over EPA's compass financial system need to be improved
- Corrective action plan needed in order to fully comply with the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act
- Costs of $1.2 million for Brownfields Cooperative Agreement to Pioneer Valley Planning Commission in Massachusetts questioned
- Region 6 needs to improve oversight practices
- Development growth outpacing progress in watershed efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay
- ECHO data quality audit, phase 2 results : EPA could achieve data quality rate with additional improvements
- ENERGY STAR program integrity can be enhanced through expanded product testing
- EPA OIG compliance with managing vehicles within EPA's Fleet Management Program
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- Allegations Of improper use of EPA facilities at National Health And Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Gulf Ecology Division, Gulf Breeze, Florida
- Changes in conditions at Wildcat Landfill Superfund Site in Delaware call for increased EPA oversight
- Region 3's oversight of Safe Drinking Water Act activities
- The effectiveness and efficiency of EPA's Air Program
- ECHO data quality audit, phase I results : the integrated compliance information system needs security controls to protect significant non-compliance data
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site inspection of the ultraviolet treatment and chlorine disinfection facility, City of Bremerton, Washington : site inspection report
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site inspection of the water distribution system, Village of Buckeye Lake, Ohio : site inspection report
- The establishment of the National Environmental Supercomputing Facility in Bay City, Michigan
- Region 5 section 106 tribal water grants
- Promoting tribal success in EPA programs
- RCRA : RCRA financial assurance for closure and post-closure
- Proposed streamlining will result in increased costs
- Region 6's oversight of Arkansas air enforcement data
- Improving nationwide effectiveness of pump-and-treat remedies requires sustained and focused action to realize benefits
- Region 8 needed to further improve interagency agreement oversight to ensure efficient Summitville Superfund site cleanup
- Region III water quality standards, monitoring, and reporting
- Increased Region 8 involvement would improve tribal program results
- Development of Maximum Achievable Control Technology standards
- Region III's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Program
- Water : proactive approach would improve EPA's water quality standards program
- Animal waste disposal issues
- EPA Provided Quality and Timely Information on Hurricane Hazardous Material Releases and Debris Management
- EPA Region 3's oversight of Maryland's air enforcement data
- Regional Laboratories
- RCRA corrective action : RCRA corrective action focuses on interim priorities--better integration with final goals needed
- EPA Region 6 needs to improve oversight of Louisiana's environmental programs
- Annual performance report
- EPA Region 9 data quality oversight at the Aerojet Superfund site
- EPA Region III's management of Tranguch Gasoline Site, Hazleton, Pennsylvania
- EPA Regional Superfund Ombudsmen Program needs structure
- City of Elizabeth, New Jersey - excess clean water state revolving funds claimed
- Water enforcement : state enforcement of Clean Water Act dischargers can be more effective
- Regional public liaison program needs greater focus on results and customer awareness
- Replacement housing at the Austin Avenue radiation site
- Appropriate violator classifications and timely initial enforcement actions would strengthen Montana's RCRA enforcement program
- Report of EPA's oversight of state stack testing programs
- EPA can do more to help minimize hardrock mining liabilities
- Report of audit on Region 3's billing of Superfund oversight costs
- Information resources management : Office of Water data integration efforts
- Report of audit on the Center for Chesapeake Communities
- Information security series--security practices : clean air markets division business system
- Information technology : Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) data quality
- EPA can improve its oversight of audit followup
- Information technology : EPA management of information technology resources under the Clinger-Cohen Act
- Information technology : review of off-site consequence analysis information management
- EPA can improve use of federal supply schedules when procuring services
- Report of interim audit of Superfund cooperative agreement number CR818689 Clark Atlanta University
- Information technology : unreliable data affects usability of DOCKET information
- Report of investigation concerning Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Assessment of EPA's projected pollutant reductions resulting from enforcement actions and settlements
- Report of review : major EPA information systems are vulnerable to failure due to the upcoming century change
- Interagency agreements : follow-up audit on headquarters interagency agreements
- EPA controls over RCRA permit renewals
- Assessment of controls over emergency removal actions at methyl parathion sites
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act : report on the tank waste remediation system (TWRS) program for the Hanford federal facility
- EPA could improve controls over mainframe system software
- EPA could improve its redistribution of Superfund payments to specific sites
- EPA could improve processes for managing contractor systems and reporting incidents
- EPA could increase savings and improve quality through greater use of performance-based service contracts
- Assistance agreement X993795-01 awarded by EPA to the Lake Wallenpaupack Watershed Management District
- Assistance agreements : EPA cooperative agreements awarded to the coordinating committee for automotive repair
- Internal control weaknesses under EPA grant nos. 1004802070 and BG96483308, awarded to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee, North Carolina
- Resources Management Division Superfund Division : Audit of Superfund ConsolidatedCooperative Agreement Awarded to Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Under EPA Agreement No. V985687-01 October 1, 1997 through June 30, 2001
- EPA does not always receive adjustment vouchers from contractors
- Water : Kansas National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program
- Assistance agreements : EPA's lack of oversight contributed to Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair's grant management problems
- [Letter, 2002 Oct. 24] Washington, D.C. [to] the honorable Wayne Allard, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510-0606
- Assistance agreements : pre-award management of EPA assistance agreements
- Assistance agreements : statutory authority for EPA assistance agreements
- Response to EPA administrator's request for investigation into allegations of a cover-up in the risk assessment for the coal ash rulemaking
- Issues, standards, successes, approaches, problems : summary conference proceedings, survey results, conclusions and follow-up actions
- EPA grants awarded to the Crow Tribe
- EPA grants awarded to the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe
- EPA grants awarded to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe
- EPA grants awarded to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe
- Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators incurred costs for seven EPA assistance agreements
- Clean air design evaluation results
- EPA has improved five-year review process for Superfund remedies, but further steps needed
- Region 5's air enforcement and compliance assistance program
- Tribal successes : protecting the environment and natural resources
- RCRA enforcement : RCRA significant non-compiler identification and enforcement by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
- Laboratory data quality at federal facility Superfund sites
- Laboratory fraud : deterrence and detection
- EPA implementation of Government Performance and Results Act
- Validation of air enforcement data reported to EPA by Pennsylvania
- Lack of project plan resulted in transition and contractor performance problems for the institutional controls tracking system : quick reaction report
- Water : Mississippi's water quality standards, monitoring and reporting
- Land application of biosolids
- Results of hotline complaint review for California superfund site : hotline report
- Public participation in Louisiana's air permitting program and EPA oversight
- Results of hotline complaint review of EPA's antimicrobial testing program : hotline report
- Lessons learned : EPA's response to hurricane Katrina-evaluation report
- Costs claimed by Georgia Department of Natural Resources under EPA assistance agreement no. VC984299-98
- RCRA enforcement : Region 2's enforcement of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
- EPA maximized competition for Recovery Act grants under the National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program : cancellation memorandum
- Costs claimed by the Tribal Association on Solid Waste and Emergency Response under EPA assistance agreement No. CR827181-01
- Audit of EPA's fiscal 2002 and 2001 financial statements
- Audit of Region 9's administration of the California air compliance and enforcement program
- Review of ORD's extramural management specialist position
- EPA must emphasize importance of pre-award reviews for assistance agreements
- EPA need to accelerate adoption of numeric nutrient water quality standards
- Management assistance report : review of Region 10's Maxiflex program
- Audit of Region 9's controls over Superfund oversight cost billings
- EPA needs a better strategy to measure changes in the security of the nation's water infrastructure
- EPA needs a cohesive plan to clean up the Great Lakes areas of concern
- Audit of costs claimed under construction grant no. C530614-02 (Carkeek Project) awarded to King County Department of Natural Resources, Seattle, Washington
- Manifesting requirements on hazardous waste generators
- Measuring and reporting performance results for the Pollution Prevention Program need improvement : audit report
- Review of Region 5 laboratory operations
- EPA needs an oversight program for protocol gases
- EPA needs better integration of the National Environmental Performance Partnership System
- Review of barriers to Superfund site cleanups : case studies
- Memorandum of review on EPA's management of the Abex Superfund site
- Minimizing risk for the physically challenged at Waterside Mall
- Monitoring needed to assess impact of EPA's clean air mercury rule on potential hotspots : evaluation report
- EPA needs to assess the quality of vulnerability assessments related to the security of the nation's water supply
- RCRA enforcement : Resource Conservation and Recovery Act significant non-compiler enforcement
- Costs claimed under EPA grant XP9468195 awarded to the city of Flowood, Mississippi
- Much effort and resources needed to help small drinking water systems overcome challenges : evaluation report
- Complete assessment needed to ensure rural Texas community has safe drinking water
- U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board did not adhere to its Merit Promotion Plan
- Costs claimed under EPA grant XP97424901 awarded to West Rankin Utility Authority, Flowood, Mississippi
- Water : Missouri's water quality standards and monitoring
- Audit report on the National Association of Minority Contractors
- Water : New Jersey's water quality monitoring program
- Nevada Drinking Water State Revolving Fund : financial statements with independent auditor's report
- New Hampshire Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program : financial statements with independent auditor's report, June 30, 2002
- EPA needs to improve continuity of operations planning
- EPA needs to improve its efforts to reduce air emissions at U.S. ports : evaluation report
- New Hampshire Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program : financial statements with independent auditor's report, June 30, 2002
- Review of hotline complaint on employee granted full-time work-at-home privilege
- RCRA financial assurance for closure and post-closure : audit report
- Congressional request on EPA enforcement resources and accomplishments
- Costs claimed under EPA grant XP98011401 awarded to the city of Rupert, Idaho
- Water : EPA's Great Lakes program
- Better enforcement oversight needed for major facilities with water discharge permits in long-term significant noncompliance
- [Letter, 2002 June 24] Washington, D.C. [to] the honorable John D. Dingell, Ranking Member, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515
- Water : North Carolina NPDES enforcement and EPA Region 4 oversight
- Risk reduction through voluntary programs
- Costs claimed under construction grant no. C530608-03 (Richmond Beach) awarded to King County Department of Natural Resources, Seattle, Washington
- EPA needs to imrpove cost controls for equipment used during emergencies
- Biennial hazardous waste data : opportunity for improvement
- Saving the Chesapeake Bay watershed requires better coordination of environmental and agricultural resources
- Science to Achieve Results (STAR) fellowship program needs to place emphasis on measuring results
- [Letter, 2002 Oct. 25] Washington, D.C. [to] the honorable James Jeffords, Chairman, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.
- EPA needs to more actively promote state self assessment of environmental programs
- Number of and cost to award and manage EPA earmark grants, and the grants' impact on the agency's mission
- EPA needs to respond more timely to reports of investigation
- Science to support rulemaking
- Region 5's billing and collection of accounts receivable
- EPA needs to strengthen oversight of government furnished property : audit report
- Security of Region IV local area networks (LANs)
- Directions for printing air logic models
- EPA needs to take more action in implementing alternative approaches to Superfund cleanups
- Security of Science and Ecosystems Support Division (SESD) local area network (LAN)
- Decline in EPA particulate matter methods development activities may hamper timely achievement of program goals
- Security of Small Purchase Electronic Data Interchange (SPEDI) local area networks (LANs)
- What to do before and after the auditors arrive
- Congressionally requested report on comments related to effects of jurisdictional uncertainty on Clean Water Act implementation : special report
- EPA procedures to ensure drinking water data integrity
- Congressionally requested review of EPA actions taken in response to financial assistance agreement reports
- Selected children's health annual performance measures for Goal 8, Sound Science
- Office of Inspector General scientific analysis of perchlorate : science review
- Washington Drinking Water State Revolving Fund : financial statements with independent auditor's report, June 30, 2001
- Office of Inspector General's (OIG) FY 2000 audit plan
- Office of Research and Development : audit of extramural and property management at the Atlantic Ecology Division
- Consistency and transparency in determination of EPA's anticipated ozone designations
- Consolidated report on EPA's leaking underground storage tank program
- EPA should continue to improve its national emergency response planning
- Consolidated report on OECA's oversight of regional and state air enforcement programs
- Consolidated review of the air enforcement and compliance assistance programs
- Wastewater management : controlling and abating combined sewer overflows
- Whistleblower protection review
- Design for Objective 8.4 could be improved by reorienting focus on outcomes
- Pennsylvania's reporting of safe drinking water violations
- Performance partnership grants : Region 6 oversight of performance partnership grants
- Performance partnership grants : Region 8 needs to improve its performance partnership grant program to ensure accountability and improved environmental results
- Plans to migrate data to the new EPA acquisition system need improvement
- EPA should revise its grant accrual methodology to address impact of Recovery Act funds : quick reaction report
- Pollution prevention : effectiveness of EPA's efforts to encourage purchase of recycled goods has not been demonstrated
- Potential Misuse of the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, State of Missouri, Department of Natural Resources
- EPA should strengthen internal controls over interagency agreement unliquidated obligations
- EPA should take further steps to address funding shortfalls and time slippages in permit compliance system modernization effort
- President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency review of application software maintenance in federal agencies
- Water : Ohio's water quality program
- EPA should use FMFIA to improve programmatic operation
- Procurement practices under grant no. X825532-01 awarded to MBI International
- EPA travel program lacks necessary controls : interim report
- Procurements made by assistance agreement recipients should be competitive
- South Carolina Clean Water State Revolving Fund : financial statements with independent auditor's report, June 30, 2002
- Progress report on EPA's nonroad mobile source emissions reduction strategies
- Project delays prevent EPA from implementing an agency-wide information security vulnerability management program : audit report
- South Carolina Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program : financial statements with independent auditor's report, June 30, 2002
- Projected emission reductions overstated and buy American requirements not met under EPA award to the Tennessee Department of Transportation
- State of Nevada Division of Environmental Protection Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund : financial statements with independent auditor's report, June 30, 2001
- State of New Hampshire Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2005
- Despite progress, EPA needs to improve oversight of wastewater upgrades in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
- EPA's Office of Research and Development could better use the Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act to improve operations
- Validation of air enforcement data reported to EPA by Massachusetts
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