OIG Quarterly Newsletter - July 2024
This update highlights oversight activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General from April 1 to June 30, 2024.
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This update highlights oversight activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General from April 1 to June 30, 2024.
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...