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In this document, we outline our mission, vision, values, and lines of effort. We also identify our strategic goals for 2024 to 2028 and describe the objectives that will help us accomplish those goals.
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...
EPA guidance generally addresses IIJA Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, or DWSRF, emerging contaminants provisions. These provisions include focusing on projects that address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. However, the EPA's guidance does not detail allowable ranking and funding...
The EPA did not consistently manage its Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grants, or OSG, Program in accordance with some applicable laws, regulations, policies, and guidance. We found that, as of January 10, 2024, the EPA had not awarded approximately $20 million, or about 18 percent...
In compliance with the Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducts periodic audits, assessments, and reviews of the travel and purchase card programs at the EPA and the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. In fiscal year 2024, however, the EPA...
The EPA did not monitor bus deployment status and recipient use of over $836 million of 2022 Clean School Bus, or CSB, Program rebates, despite the Agency stating it would do so in the 2022 Clean School Bus (CSB) Rebates Program Guide. As of June 2024, only 22, or 6.1 percent, of the 360 schools...
This report summarizes EPA Office of Inspector General work and accomplishments from April 1, 2024, through September 30, 2024.
Allmond & Company rendered an unmodified opinion on the CSB's fiscal years 2024 and 2023 financial statements, 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 2024 and 2023 (restated), meaning that they were fairly presented and free of material misstatement. However, we noted three material weaknesses and one significant deficiency. The most concerning...
The passive assessment covered 1,062 drinking water systems for cybersecurity vulnerabilities that serve over 193 million people across the United States. Scan results for October 8, 2024, identified 97 drinking water systems serving approximately 26.6 million users as having either critical or high...
