Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Why We Did This Report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General performed this audit to determine whether the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, known as the CSB, complied with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 in fiscal year 2024. Summary of...

In compliance with the Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducts periodic audits, assessments, and reviews of the travel and purchase card programs at the EPA and the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. In fiscal year 2024, however, the EPA...

Allmond & Company rendered an unmodified opinion on the CSB's fiscal years 2024 and 2023 financial statements, meaning that the statements were fairly presented and free of material misstatements.

In fiscal year 2023, the CSB complied with improper payment requirements pursuant to the PIIA. The CSB's combined outlays for all programs totaled $8.988 million. CSB management decided to perform an improper payment risk assessment for fiscal year 2023 even though it was not required to do so, as...

This compendium focuses on a total of 90 recommendations to the EPA that remained unimplemented-79 open and 11 unresolved-as of May 31, 2024. The 90 recommendations we address in this compendium represent $74.5 million in potential cost savings. The compendium includes 17 open or unresolved...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducted this audit to determine whether the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board complied with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 in fiscal year 2022.

The lack of vulnerability scans increases the risk that vulnerabilities are not identified and remediated in a timely manner and could result in data loss or disruption to Agency operations.

The OIG found that the CSB was fully compliant with improper payments legislation and guidance during fiscal year 2020.

The CSB's operations are challenged by vacancies in mission-critical positions and an inability to fully use the resources allocated by Congress.