Environmental Protection Agency

We are issuing this report to inform the Agency of our concerns relating to the lack of conflict-of-interest provisions and clauses in the SBIR procurement documents and to provide considerations for the EPA to strengthen its SBIR Program against fraud, waste, and abuse.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General, Administrative Investigations Directorate initiated an investigation into potentially improper expenditures made by Dr. Katherine A. Lemos.

EPA issuance of informative BEACH Act reports would allow Congress to make informed program decisions, improve program oversight, and enhance transparency.

Without timely tracking and remediation of known vulnerabilities, the Agency risks compromising the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of environmental and radiation data used for determining responses to national incidents and safeguarding first responder personnel.

The EPA can further strengthen program controls to better ensure the integrity of the RINs market and meet goals for increased use of renewable fuels.

The EPA needs to shift its focus from point sources to nonpoint sources to achieve the necessary Chesapeake Bay TMDL pollutant reduction goals.

The OIG has concerns that immediate public notifications are not being made for drinking-water lead-action-level exceedances that may pose a significant risk to public health.

Implementing corrective actions on the open and unresolved recommendations contained in this Compendium could have potential monetary benefits of $74.6 million.

The EPA’s NCD lacks assurance that the new chemicals review process operates as intended and achieves its objective to protect human health and the environment.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducted this evaluation to determine whether the EPA has verified that its own laboratories are complying with Resource Conservation and Recovery Act requirements for the management of hazardous waste.