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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.
The EPA did not follow the typical intra-agency review and clearance process during the development and publication of the January 2021 perfluorobutane sulfonic acid, or PFBS, toxicity assessment.
The purpose of this compendium is to analyze open and unresolved recommendations concerning programs that received funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
As part of its IIJA oversight role, the OIG will assess whether the EPA is using its roughly $60 billion in IIJA funds in accordance with congressionally designated purposes. OIG oversight will focus on the execution of IIJA funds, the efficiency and effectiveness of the programs receiving IIJA...
We performed this review to highlight prior audit findings about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s administration and oversight of congressional earmarks to inform the Agency’s management of earmarks in the fiscal year 2022 budget.
