The EPA Awarded WIIN Act Funds Consistent with Nearly All Guidance and Improved Its Processes to Increase Transparency of Funding Decisions

We determined that the EPA awarded WIIN Act funds consistent with nearly all guidance and improved Agency processes to increase the transparency of funding decisions. We identified two documentation issues that the EPA experienced before it awarded funds. Agency staff reported to us that they had addressed one of these issues with additional controls and a new oversight structure within the Office of Water, or the OW, and the other through a new standard operating procedure within the Office of Grants and Debarment.