Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Why We Did This Report The Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012, Pub. L. No. 112-194, requires inspectors general to conduct periodic audits and assessments of purchase card programs and periodic audits or reviews of travel card programs at their agencies. Summary of Findings The U.S...

Why We Did This Report This audit was performed in accordance with the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, as amended by the Accountability of Tax Dollars Act of 2002, which requires the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board to prepare, and the Office of Inspector General to audit...

Why We Did This Report The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. EPA, which also provides oversight for the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, or CSB, contracted with the independent accounting firm SB & Company LLC to initiate an audit of the CSB’s compliance with the Federal...

Why We Did This Report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General contracted this audit to assess the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board’s compliance with Fiscal Year 2023–2024 Inspector General Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014...

Why We Did This Report The Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, requires each inspector general to prepare semiannual reports for Congress. As part of that reporting, the inspector general must identify all recommendations from the prior reporting period for which corrective actions have not...

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...