Federal Reports

Why We Did This Report

This fourth edition of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Oversight Plan summarizes our ongoing and planned audits, evaluations, and other engagements concerning the EPA’s implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Pub. L. No. 117-58 (2021).

Summary 

This document provides an update to our plan for oversight of the EPA’s implementation of the IIJA.

The 24 projects summarized in this plan relate to the EPA’s IIJA implementation work, although some of these projects have received or will receive partial support from annual appropriations. The appendix to this IIJA Oversight Plan illustrates which of the EPA’s IIJA programs our 24 projects address.

We concluded that the postsecondary institutions’ written policies complied with laws and policies, but documentation and training could be improved.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has developed a dam safety program to protect lives and property by ensuring that structures within the program are designed, constructed, and maintained as safely and reliably as practicable.  This program applies to dams, dikes, impoundments, levees, water barrier components, pumping stations, and other appurtenant structures that are included in TVA’s Dam Safety Program inventory.  Due to the importance of maintenance and inspections to the reliable operation of assets, we performed an evaluation of TVA dams to determine if maintenance and inspections had been performed in accordance with established schedules.  TVA has generally performed maintenance but has not performed all inspections in accordance with established schedules for TVA dams.  We identified 43 inspections that were between 1 and 99 months late and 33 that were not performed.  We also determined that TVA had not taken actions to address 34 recommendations from inspections completed in fiscal years 2022 through 2024 or the most recent risk assessments.  Additionally, we identified some areas where governance could be improved related to inaccuracies in inspection manuals and inspections.

Final Management Letter: Potential Opportunity to Consolidate the SEC’s Disclosure Review Information Technology Systems

An Amtrak Passenger Conductor based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on June 24, 2025, in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, to one count of wire fraud involving the fraudulent submission and subsequent receipt of $52,500 for two Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and one Economic Injury Disaster Loan. The employee’s spouse pleaded guilty on May 20, 2025, to one count of wire fraud involving the fraudulent submission of three PPP loans and the subsequent receipt of $53,845. Our investigation found that the couple provided fraudulent documents and made false representations to obtain the loans totaling $106,345 to which they were not entitled.