Environmental Protection Agency OIG

We conducted this review to provide considerations for the EPA to strengthen its corrective action certification process. When the Agency certifies to the completion of corrective actions that have not been completed, it leads to inaccurate data in the Agency’s audit tracking system, limits the OIG...

We found the fund’s financial statements, except for accounts receivable and earned revenue, to be fairly presented.

The lack of board members continues to be the biggest risk to CSB operations.

Allmond & Company rendered an unmodified opinion on the CSB’s financial statements for the CSB’s financial fiscal years 2022 and 2021, meaning that the statements were fairly presented and free of material misstatements.

We rendered an unmodified opinion on the EPA’s consolidated financial statements for fiscal years 2022 and 2021, meaning that they were fairly presented and free of material misstatement.

If water systems do not complete risk and resilience assessments or emergency response plans, they are more vulnerable to cyberattacks and other malevolent acts. The 19 percent of water systems that did not certify completion of these assessments and plans serve 40 million people.

This report presents selected findings and three lessons developed from prior OIG reports on EPA programs that received funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Consideration of these lessons may help the EPA prepare, implement, and oversee programs receiving Infrastructure Investment...

We rendered a qualified opinion on the EPA’s fiscal years 2020 and 2019 Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA, Service Fee Fund financial statements, meaning that, except for material errors in expenses and income from other appropriations, the fiscal years 2020 and 2019 financial statements were...

The Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, or OECA, is not on track to achieve ten (25 percent) of the 40 measures and deliverables in its National Compliance Initiative, or NCI, strategic plan.

The EPA’s ineffective residential wood heater program puts human health and the environment at risk for exposure to dangerous fine-particulate-matter pollution by allowing sales of wood heaters that may not meet emission standards.