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What to Report to the OIG Hotline
Be as specific as possible and provide the following: • Relevant name(s) of all parties involved, including witnesses and other contacts. • Dates and times of the events or issues that you are identifying. • The location of the issue or the area that it impacts. • Name of contractor or grantee. • Contract or grant numbers. • Contract or grant award date. • Any additional pertinent information you have concerning the issue.
What Not to Report to the OIG Hotline
The OIG Hotline handles allegations of fraud, waste and abuse in EPA and CSB programs generally. For immediate concerns regarding an environmental hazard, please contact an EPA hotline, as shown below. • Contact a specific EPA hotline. • Or use the EPA Environmental Violations Form to report any incident.

EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management Lacked a Nationally Consistent Strategy for Communicating Health Risks at Contaminated Sites

2021
21-P-0223
Audit
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

As part of its mission to protect human health, the EPA communicates risks from contaminated sites to the public. Without accurate, clear, and timely information, residents living on or near contaminated sites cannot take precautions, if necessary, to protect their health and safety.

Compendium of Open and Unresolved Recommendations: Data as of March 31, 2021

2021
21-N-0191
Other
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

This compendium analyzes currently open and unresolved recommendations. From March 2017 through March 2021, the EPA OIG issued nine semiannual reports to Congress that identified an average of 99 open recommendations and 18 unresolved recommendations issued by the OIG to the EPA. The total potential...

EPA Should Conduct More Oversight of Synthetic-Minor-Source Permitting to Assure Permits Adhere to EPA Guidance

2021
21-P-0175
Audit
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

Without clear and enforceable limitations in synthetic-minor-source permits, facilities may emit excess pollution that would otherwise subject them to the more stringent requirements of the Clean Air Act major-source permitting programs.

EPA Has Reduced Its Backlog of State Implementation Plans Submitted Prior to 2013 but Continues to Face Challenges in Taking Timely Final Actions on Submitted Plans

2021
21-E-0163
Audit
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

Delays in EPA SIP actions increase the risk that state or local air agencies are not implementing plans sufficient to achieve or maintain the NAAQS.

EPA's National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory Has Taken Steps to Mitigate Impact of Coronavirus Pandemic on Mobile Source Emission Compliance

2021
21-E-0158
Audit
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency
Pandemic

This report examines the EPA’s activities to oversee mobile source compliance with clean air laws and regulations during the coronavirus pandemic. It highlights National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory’s efforts to minimize the potential for noncompliance during the pandemic and the importance...

Semiannual Report to Congress: October 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021

2021
EPA-350-R-21-001
Semiannual Report
Environmental Protection Agency OIG
Environmental Protection Agency

This Semiannual Report to Congress reflects how the EPA OIG is achieving its mission of preventing and detecting fraud, waste, abuse, mismanagement, and misconduct related to the programs and operations of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation...

Newport Woman Sentenced for Wire Fraud and Stealing from Federally Funded Program

Newport Woman Sentenced for Wire Fraud and Stealing from Federally Funded Program
Article Type
Investigative Press Release
Publish Date

Newport Woman Sentenced for Wire Fraud and Stealing from Federally Funded Program BANGOR, Maine: A Newport woman was sentenced today in federal court for wire fraud and federal government program theft, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced. U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr,,,

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