Environmental Protection Agency OIG

Why We Did This Report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General is issuing this report to Notify the Agency of concerns identified during a review of Inflation Reduction Act grants. The concerns relate to an EPA policy that applies to all Agency subawards, not just to...

Why We Did This Report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducted this audit to assess the EPA’s oversight of state subrecipient monitoring in the Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program, including the monitoring of subrecipients of Infrastructure Investment and...

Why We Did This Report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducted an audit of the EPA’s reporting of fiscal year 2022 financial and award data in USAspending.gov. During that audit, we identified grant information that was inexplicably changed in the EPA’s grants...

Why We Did This Report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducted this audit to determine whether the EPA has established sufficient controls to prevent unauthorized access to the Central Data Exchange system. Summary of Findings The EPA needs to strengthen...

Why We Did This Report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General initiated this project to determine whether Bacon & Company, CPAs, LLC performed the fiscal year 2022 single audit of the Narragansett Bay Commission in Rhode Island in accordance with applicable auditing...

Why We Did This Report The Pesticide Registration Improvement Act requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General to perform an annual audit of the financial statements for the Pesticide Registration Fund. Summary of Findings We rendered an unmodified opinion on the EPA...

Why We Did This Report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducted this audit to assess the EPA’s compliance with the fiscal year 2024 Inspector General Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 reporting metrics. The reporting metrics outline five...

Why We Did This Report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General is issuing this report addressing concerns regarding access to Superfund information identified in the EPA’s annual reports to Congress. Summary of Findings We discovered that more than half of federal...

The EPA does not have a national process in place to track or verify the status of land-use controls at Resource Conservation and Recovery Act corrective action facilities. The EPA has not identified standard methods for long-term oversight of land-use controls at corrective action facilities...