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Quality Control Review of Bacon & Company’s Fiscal Year 2022 Single Audit of the Narragansett Bay Commission

2025
25-N-0025
Audit
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

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...

Independent Audit of the EPA’s Fiscal Years 2023 and 2022 (Restated) Pesticide Registration Fund Financial Statements

2025
25-F-0024
Audit
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

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...

Audit of the EPA’s Compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act for Fiscal Year 2024

2025
25-P-0023
Audit
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

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...

Accessing Superfund Five-Year Reviews Listed in the EPA’s Annual Reports to Congress

2025
25-N-0022
Other
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

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 Needs to Improve the Verification of Land-Use Controls at Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Corrective Action Facilities

2024
24-E-0066
Inspection / Evaluation
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

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...

Evaluation of Institutional Control Documentation in the Superfund Enterprise Management System on IIJA-Funded Sites

2025
25-E-0020
Inspection / Evaluation
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

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...

Independent Audit of the EPA's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 (Restated) Toxic Substances Control Act Service Fee Fund Financial Statements

2025
25-F-0017
Audit
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

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...

Evaluation of the EPA Office of Water's Guidance to State Revolving Fund Programs for Implementing the Build America, Buy America Act Requirements

2025
25-E-0016
Inspection / Evaluation
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

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...

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