Environmental Protection Agency OIG

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...

Why We Did This Report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducted this evaluation to determine whether the upgrade to the Superfund Enterprise Management System is likely to facilitate improved documentation of institutional controls in the “Institutional Controls...

We rendered a qualified opinion on the EPA's fiscal years 2022 and 2021 Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA, Service Fee Fund financial statements, meaning that, except for material errors in expenses and income from other appropriations and earned and unearned revenue, the statements were fairly...

In this document, we outline our mission, vision, values, and lines of effort. We also identify our strategic goals for 2024 to 2028 and describe the objectives that will help us accomplish those goals.

While the EPA Office of Water issued two memorandums on implementing the Build America, Buy America Act requirements, its guidance related to manufactured products, documenting compliance, the consequences for noncompliance, using current waivers, and applying for new waivers was not sufficient...

EPA guidance generally addresses IIJA Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, or DWSRF, emerging contaminants provisions. These provisions include focusing on projects that address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. However, the EPA's guidance does not detail allowable ranking and funding...