Environmental Protection Agency OIG

Why We Did This Report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General performed this audit pursuant to the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act. The Act requires the EPA to prepare and the OIG to audit the accompanying financial statements of the EPA’s...

Why We Did This Report The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act, requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General to perform an annual audit of the financial statements for the Pesticides Reregistration and...

The Office of Investigations initiated an investigation in June 2021 based on concerns from the EPA Office of Wastewater Management that Grandview, Washington, acquired construction materials for a CWSRF project that may have been falsely advertised on a Canadian manufacturing company’s website as...

Why We Did This ReportWhile conducting an evaluation of American Creosote Works Inc. in Pensacola, Florida, to determine whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency implements and oversees institutional controls, we noted the proximity of the Escambia Wood Treating Company, another...

Why We Did This ReportThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General initiated this audit based on a request from the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The objective of the audit is to assess the EPA’s preparation to implement the public...