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EPA Needs an Agencywide Strategic Action Plan to Address Harmful Algal Blooms

2021
21-E-0264
Inspection / Evaluation
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

Scientists predict that harmful algal bloom occurrences in recreational waters and drinking water sources will increase as excess nutrients continue to flow into water bodies, temperatures warm, and extreme weather events occur due to climate change.

Pandemic Highlights Need for Additional Tribal Drinking Water Assistance and Oversight in EPA Regions 9 and 10

2021
21-E-0254
Inspection / Evaluation
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

The coronavirus pandemic negatively impacted the oversight and assistance that Regions 9 and 10 provide to the tribal drinking water systems under their purview, as well as the capacity of these systems to provide safe drinking water. The pandemic also underscored the limitations of both EPA...

EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management Lacked a Nationally Consistent Strategy for Communicating Health Risks at Contaminated Sites

2021
21-P-0223
Audit
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

As part of its mission to protect human health, the EPA communicates risks from contaminated sites to the public. Without accurate, clear, and timely information, residents living on or near contaminated sites cannot take precautions, if necessary, to protect their health and safety.

Compendium of Open and Unresolved Recommendations: Data as of March 31, 2021

2021
21-N-0191
Other
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

This compendium analyzes currently open and unresolved recommendations. From March 2017 through March 2021, the EPA OIG issued nine semiannual reports to Congress that identified an average of 99 open recommendations and 18 unresolved recommendations issued by the OIG to the EPA. The total potential...

EPA Should Conduct More Oversight of Synthetic-Minor-Source Permitting to Assure Permits Adhere to EPA Guidance

2021
21-P-0175
Audit
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

Without clear and enforceable limitations in synthetic-minor-source permits, facilities may emit excess pollution that would otherwise subject them to the more stringent requirements of the Clean Air Act major-source permitting programs.

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