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- Agreed-upon procedures on EPA's fiscal year 2009 third quarter financial statements
- Air quality objectives for the Baton Rouge ozone nonattainment area not met under EPA Agreement 2A-96694301 awarded to the Railroad Research Foundation
- America's clean water foundation incurred costs for EPA assistance agreements X82835301, X783142301, and X82672301
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site inspection of sewer pump station rehabilitation and improvements, Town of Ball, Louisiana
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site inspection of the high-rate water treatment facility, city of Newark, Ohio
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site inspection of water main extension project, Manchester Water Works, Manchester, New Hampshire
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site visit of Yauco - La Jurada community distribution system, Yauco, Puerto Rico
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site visit of combined sewer overflow detention facility city of Goshen, Indiana
- Annual Superfund report to the Congress ... : required by section 111(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1990 (CERCLA), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA)
- Annual performance report
- Audit follow-up process needed for the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
- Audit of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act cooperative agreement 2A-00E85701 awarded to the Greater Lansing Area Clean Cities
- Audit of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-Funded Cooperative Agreement 2S-96099601 awarded to the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
- Audit of financial statements for EPA's Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Fund from inception (October 5, 2012) to September 30, 2014
- Audit of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's Fiscal Years 2014 and 2013 financial statements
- Audits on EPA Recovery Act-funded Diesel Emission Reduction Act assistance agreements reported programmatic and management challenges
- Benefits of EPA initiative to promote renewable energy on contaminated lands have not been established
- Better planning, execution and communication could have reduced the delays in completing a toxicity assessment of the Libby, Montana, superfund site
- Biosolids management and enforcement : water
- Briefing report : improvements needed in EPA's Information Security Program
- CSB complied with reporting requirements of the improper payments elimination and Recovery Act for Fiscal Year 2014
- CSB needs to improve its acquisition approvals and other processes to ensure best value for taxpayers
- CSB's fiscal year 2014 purchase card program assessed as high risk
- Call center : contract management needs improvement to reduce the risk of overbilling
- Chemical fume hood testing improvements needed to reduce health and safety risk to EPA employees
- Chemical import data may help EPA identify facilities that need to file or update risk management plans
- Chemical safety : EPA needs to improve outreach and communication about the National Pesticide Information Center's role and services
- Compendium of unimplemented recommendations as of ...
- Complaints regarding debris management at the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion have been addressed
- Conditions in the U.S. Virgin Islands warrant EPA withdrawing approval and taking over management of some environmental programs and improving oversight of others
- Congressionally requested information on EPA utilization of integrated Risk Information System
- Congressionally requested inquiry into EPA's response to a report of a leaking well in North Carolina and the National Response Center hotline
- Congressionally requested inquiry into the EPA's use of private and alias email accounts
- Congressionally requested report on EPA staffing levels and total costs for EPA facilities
- Contaminated soil waste repository at East Mission Flats, Idaho
- Contractor invoice internal controls need improvement
- Controls and oversight needed to improve administration of EPA's customer service lines
- Controls over EPA's compass financial system need to be improved
- Corrective action plan needed in order to fully comply with the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act
- Costs of $1.2 million for Brownfields Cooperative Agreement to Pioneer Valley Planning Commission in Massachusetts questioned
- Development growth outpacing progress in watershed efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay
- ECHO data quality audit, phase 2 results : EPA could achieve data quality rate with additional improvements
- ENERGY STAR program integrity can be enhanced through expanded product testing
- EPA OIG compliance with managing vehicles within EPA's Fleet Management Program
- EPA OIG not fully compliant with OIG policy on time and attendance reporting
- EPA OIG not fully compliant with overtime policies
- EPA Office of Inspector General recommendations on Office of Management and Budget guidance for Recovery Act implementation
- EPA Region 6 mismanaged Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act funds
- EPA Region 8 needs to better manage the risk management program for airborne chemical releases
- EPA activities provide limited assurance of the extent of contamination and risk at a North Carolina hazardous waste site
- EPA can better address risks to the security of the nation's drinking water through new authorities, plans, and information
- EPA can better assure continued operations at National Computer Center through complete and up-to-date documentation for contingency planning
- EPA can better document resolution of ethics and partiality concerns in managing Clean Air Federal Advisory Committees
- EPA can further reduce space in under-utilized facilities
- EPA can help consumers identify household and other products with safer chemicals by strengthening its "Design for the Environment" Program
- EPA can improve implementation of the risk management program for airborne chemical releases
- EPA can improve its preparation and use of independent government cost estimates for superfund contracts
- EPA can improve managing of working capital fund overhead costs
- EPA complied with improper payment legislation, but opportunities for improvement exist
- EPA could improve contingency planning for oil and hazardous substance response
- EPA did not conduct thorough biennial user fee reviews
- EPA did not properly account for all property for implementing Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12
- EPA does not adequately follow national security information classification standards
- EPA does not effectively control or monitor imports of hazardous waste
- EPA does not provide oversight of radon testing accuracy and reliability
- EPA effectively reviewed Recovery Act recipient data but opportunities for improvement exist
- EPA has developed guidance for disaster debris but has limited knowledge of state preparedness
- EPA improved controls over billing reimbursable interagency agreement expenditures to other agencies
- EPA is not recovering all its costs of the Lead-Based Paint Fees Program
- EPA need to track compliance with superfund cleanup requirements
- EPA needs a better strategy to identify violations of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act
- EPA needs a comprehensive research plan and policies for fulfill its emerging climate change role
- EPA needs a coordinated plan to oversee its Toxic Substances Control Act responsibilities
- EPA needs better management of personal property in warehouses
- EPA needs definitive guidance for Recovery Act and future green reserve projects
- EPA needs procedures to address delayed earmark projects
- EPA needs to clarify its claim of "no net loss" of wetlands
- EPA needs to compy with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and improve its oversight of exported never-registered pesticides
- EPA needs to continue to improve controls for improper payment identification
- EPA needs to demonstrate public health benefits of drinking water state revolving fund projects
- EPA needs to demonstrate whether it has achieved the goals it set under the National Petroleum Refinery Initiative
- EPA needs to improve Contract Management Assessment Program implementation to mitigate contracting vulnerabilities
- EPA needs to improve STAR grant oversight
- EPA needs to improve its process for accurately designating land as clean and protective for reuse
- EPA needs to improve its recording and reporting of fines and penalties
- EPA needs to improve management of the Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Regulation program in order to strengthen protection of human health and the environment
- EPA needs to improve management practices to ensure a successful customer technology solutions project
- EPA needs to improve physical security at its offices in Las Vegas, Nevada
- EPA needs to improve safeguards for personally identifiable information
- EPA needs to improve timeliness and documentation of workforce and workload management corrective actions
- EPA needs to justify how it is using Title 42 hiring authority
- EPA needs to plan and complete a toxicity assessment for the Libby asbestos cleanup
- EPA needs to update its pesticide and chemical enforcement penalty policies and practices
- EPA oversight addresses thermal variance and cooling water permit deficiencies but needs to address compliance with public notice requirements
- EPA oversight and policy for high priority violations of Clean Air Act need improvement
- EPA recovery act recipient reporting and data review process
- EPA regional offices need to more consistently conduct required annual reviews of Clean Water State Revolving Funds
- EPA regions have considered environmental justice when targeting facilities for air toxics inspections
- EPA should continue efforts to reduce federal advances and federal special accounts
- EPA should improve its oversight of federal agency Superfund reviews
- EPA should improve its oversight of long-term monitoring at Wheeling Disposal Superfund site in Missouri
- EPA should improve oversight of long-term monitoring at PAB Oil and Chemical Services, Inc. superfund site in Louisiana
- EPA should increase fixed-price contracting for remedial actions
- EPA should revise outdated or inconsistent EPA-State Clean Water Act memoranda of agreement
- EPA should stop providing estimates of total labor hours to contractors
- EPA should update guidance to address the release of potentially harmful quantities of asbestos that can occur under EPA's asbestos demolition standard
- EPA submitted accurate and timely Recovery Act financial reports
- EPA's BioWatch role reduced
- EPA's Fleet Management Program needs improvement
- EPA's International Program Office needs improved strategic planning guidance
- EPA's Office of Research and Development performance measures need improvement
- EPA's Risk Assessment Division has not fully adhered to its quality management plan
- EPA's alternative asbestos control method experiments lacked effective oversight and threatened human health
- EPA's contracts and grants workforce may face future workload issues
- EPA's financial oversight of Superfund State Contracts needs improvement
- EPA's handling of a proposed alternative method for measuring oil and grease in wastewater met requirements but controls need to be strengthened
- EPA's human resources management system did not deliver anticipated efficiences to the share service centers
- EPA's information systems and data are at risk due to insufficient training of personnel with significant information security responsibilities
- EPA's key management challenges
- EPA's oversight of state pesticide inspections needs improvement to better ensure safeguards for workers, public and environment are enforced
- EPA's revised hiring process needs additional improvements
- EPA's terms and conditions as well as process to award Recovery Act interagency agreements need improvement
- EPA's unliquidated obligations for grants
- Early warning report : National Service Center for Environmental Publications in Blue Ash, Ohio, spent $1.5 million to store excess publications
- Early warning report : main EPA headquarters warehouse in Landover, Maryland requires immediate EPA attention
- Early warning report : not following internal controls put acquisitions at risk
- Early warning report : some EPA employees found to be on paid administrative leave for years
- Early warning report, internal controls and management actions concerning John C. Beale pay issues
- Early warning report, internal controls and management actions concerning John C. Beale travel
- Efficiency of EPA's rule development process can be better measured through improved management and information
- Energy Star label needs to assure superior energy conservation performance : a summary report
- Enhanced EPA oversight and action can further protect water resources from the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing
- Enhanced EPA oversight needed to address risks from declining Clean Air Act Title V revenues
- Environmental benefits being considered in award of Great Lakes grants
- Evaluation of U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act and efforts to protect sensitive agency information : (fiscal year 2006)
- Examination of costs claimed under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Cooperative Agreement 2A-97706701 awarded to Grace Hill Settlement House
- Examination of costs claimed under EPA cooperative agreement X83275501 awarded to the Montana Physical Sciences Foundation
- Examination of costs claimed under EPA cooperative agreements 2A-96104501 and 2A-96107201 awarded under the Recovery Act to Chelsea Collaborative Inc., Chelsea, Massachusetts
- Examination of costs claimed under EPA grant X96906001 awarded to Walker Lake Working Group, Hawthorne, Nevada
- Examination of costs claimed under EPA grant XP98069201 awarded to the City of Blackfoot, Idaho
- Examination of costs claimed under Grant AB-83363501 awarded to Lead Remediation Association of America
- Federal facilities in Chesapeake Bay watershed generally comply with major Clean Water Act permits
- Follow-up report : EPA has completed actions to improve implementation of the rulemaking process
- Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) review guide : assessing EPA and states' systems for measuring and reporting on environmental performance
- Hawaii Department of Health needs to reduce open grants and unspent funds
- Hyperspectral imaging can be a useful evaluation tool for Office of Inspector General reviews focused on contaminated land
- Implementation plan with cost sharing methodology needed for Region 8 senior environmental employee work on lead risk reduction
- Improved contract administration needed for the customer technology solutions contract
- Improved data integrity needed for the Integrated Contracts Management System
- Improved information could better enable EPA to manage electronic waste and enforce regulations
- Improved internal controls needed in the Gulf of Mexico Program Office
- Improved oversight of EPA's grant monitoring program will decrease the risk of improper payments
- Improved security planning needed for the customer technology solutions project
- Improvements needed by EPA OIG to reduce risk in employee hiring process
- Improvements needed by EPA to reduce risk in employee hiring process
- Improvements needed in EPA training and oversight for Risk Management Program inspections
- Improvements needed in EPA's Information Security Program
- Improvements needed in EPA's Smartcard Program to ensure consistent physical access procedures and cost reasonableness
- Improvements needed in EPA's efforts to replace its core financial system
- Improvements needed in estimating and leveraging cost savings across EPA
- Improvements needed to ensure EPA terminates exceptions to biweekly pay limits at completion of emergency response work
- Improvements needed to secure it assets at EPA-owned research facilities
- Improvements needed to validate reported Energy Star benefits
- Improvements to EPA policies and guidance could enhance protection of human study subjects
- Increased emphasis on strategic sourcing can result in substantial cost savings for EPA
- Independent environmental sampling shows some properties designated by EPA as available for use had some contamination
- Independent ground water sampling generally confirms EPA's data at Wheeler Pit Superfund site in Wisconsin
- Ineffective oversight of purchase cards resulted in improper purchases at EPA OIG
- Ineffective oversight of purchase cards results in inappropriate purchases at EPA
- Innovative techniques for state monitoring of revolving funds noted
- Interagency agreements to use other agencies' contracts need additional oversight
- Internal control lessons learned for Hurricane Sandy Disaster relief appropriations Act funds
- Internal controls needed to control costs of emergency and rapid response services contracts, as exemplified in Region 6
- Internal controls needed to control costs of superfund technical assessment & response team contracts, as exemplified in region 7
- Investigation of allegations concerning environmental justice issues in EPA Region 4
- Key activities in EPA's integrated urban air toxics strategy remain unimplemented
- Key aspects of CSB Information Security Program need improvement
- Labor-charging practices at the New Mexico Environment Department
- Lack of final guidance on vapor intrusion impedes efforts to address indoor air risks
- Leaking Underground Storage Tank Recovery Act grants contained requirements but priority lists need more oversight
- Limitations on the EPA's authority under the Safe Drinking Water Act resulted in unaddressed concerns at a tribal drinking water plant
- Limited investigation led to missed contamination at Ringwood superfund site
- Limited oil spill funding since the Enbridge spill has delayed abandoned oil well cleanups; emergency oil responses not impacted
- Management weaknesses delayed response to Flint water crisis
- More action is needed to protect water resources from unmonitored hazardous chemicals
- Multi-year plan
- National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Research Foundation needs to comply with certain federal requirements and EPA award conditions to ensure the success of pesticide safety education programs
- National environmental policy and quadrennial review needed
- Need continues for a strategic plan to protect children's health
- New housing contract for Hurricane Katrina command post reduced costs but limited competition
- New procedures aided Region 5 in reducing unliquidated obligations
- No significant residual contamination found at deleted superfund sites, but security fences were damaged at some sites
- Nutrient pollution : EPA needs to work with states to develop strategies for monitoring the impact of state activities on the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone
- Office of Inspector General access to agency information and personnel
- Office of Inspector General annual plan
- Office of Inspector General strategic plan through 2005
- Open audit recommendations affecting Recovery Act activities
- Opportunities for EPA-wide improvements identified during review of a regional time and materials contract
- Projected emission reductions overstated and buy American requirements not met under EPA award to the Tennessee Department of Transportation
- Public may be making indoor mold cleanup decisions based on EPA tool developed only for research applications
- Public release of "Rumple Report" on preliminary investigation of EPA cleanup of amphibole asbestos in Libby, Montana
- Quality control review of EPA Office of Inspector General reports issued in fiscal year 2013
- Quarterly report
- Quick reaction report : EPA must take steps to implement requirements of its scientific integrity policy
- Quick reaction report : EPA oversight needed to ensure beach safety in U.S. Virgin Islands
- Quick reaction report : EPA pesticide inspections must resume in North Dakota to determine compliance and protect human health and the environment
- Quick reaction report : EPA should ensure positions vacated under buyouts are eliminated or properly filled
- Quick reaction report : complete and clear information on the effectiveness of ebola disinfectants will better inform the public
- Region 6 needs to improve oversight practices
- Response to Congressional request on EPA enforcement
- Response to congressional inquiry concerning EPA's conduct related to draft/proposed legislative amendments
- Response to congressional inquiry regarding the EPA's emergency order to the Range Resources Gas Drilling Company
- Response to congressional request on signage requirements for projects funded by the Recovery Act
- Results and benefits information is needed to support impacts of EPA's Superfund Removal Program
- Results of network vulnerability assessment : EPA's Erlanger Building
- Results of technical network vulnerability assessment : EPA's region 4
- Review of hotline complaint 2010-282
- Review of hotline complaint concerning the Region 4 environmental justice small grants selection process
- Review of hotline complaint on EPA's pre-award activities for multiple award contracts at the National Computer Center
- Review of hotline complaint regarding residential soil contamination in Cherryvale, Kansas
- Self-reported data unreliable for assessing EPA's computer security program
- Semiannual report to the Congress
- Some safeguards in place for long-term care of disposed hazardous waste, but challenges remain
- State of New Hampshire drinking water state revolving fund program financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2005
- Status of corrective actions in response to 2008 report, "Framework for developing tribal capacity needed in Indian General Assistance Program"
- Steps needed to prevent prior control weaknesses from affecting new acquisition system
- Steps taken but more work needed to strengthen governance, increase utilization, and improve security planning for the Exchange Network
- Superfund : backlog of five-year review reports increased nearly threefold
- The EPA needs to improve management of its school environmental health efforts
- The EPA should assess the utility of the watch list as a management tool
- The EPA should improve monitoring of controls in the renewable fuel standard program
- The EPA's comments improve the environmental impact statement process but verification of agreed-upon actions is needed
- The state of Colorado did not fully assure that funds intended to treat mining wastes and remove contaminants from water were effectively spent
- Time and attendance fraud not identified for employees on extended absence, but matters of concern brought to EPA's attention
- To ensure greater use of scientific equipment, the Office of Research and Development should use an enterprise approach to property management
- U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board complied with reporting requirements of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act
- U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board complies with the Federal Information Security Management Act (Fiscal Year 2013)
- U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board did not comply with the do not pay requirements for improper payments
- U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board needs to complete more timely investigations
- Unless California Air Resources Board fully complies with laws and regulations, emission reductions and human health benefits are unknown
- Vapor intrusion health risks at Bannister Federal Complex not a concern for buildings 50 and 52, unknown for other buildings
- Walker River Paiute Tribe needs to improve its internal controls to comply with federal regulations
- Website for coal combustion products partnership conflicts with agency policies
- Wells Band Council needs to improve its accounting system to comply with federal regulations
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- Acquisition management : OMB requested review of EPA contracting
- Acquisition management : contractor access to confidential data
- Acquisition management : review of personal services
- Additional efforts needed to improve EPA's oversight of assistance agreements
- Administration of Superfund special accounts needs improvement
- Advisory report on Region 10's award and administration of grants to the Western States Air Resources Council Lake Oswego, Oregon
- Agency management of the Superfund Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) program
- Agency's management and oversight of selected contracts awarded to a major EPA contractor
- Agreed-upon procedures on EPA's Fiscal Year 2008 first quarter financial statements
- Air : Idaho's air enforcement program
- Air : Region 10's oversight of Washington state's air compliance and enforcement program
- Air : open market trading program for air emissions needs strengthening
- Air enforcement : Region 6's oversight of New Mexico air enforcement data
- Air, EPA and state progress in issuing Title V permits
- Allegations Of improper use of EPA facilities at National Health And Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Gulf Ecology Division, Gulf Breeze, Florida
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site inspection of the ultraviolet treatment and chlorine disinfection facility, City of Bremerton, Washington : site inspection report
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site inspection of the water distribuiton system, Village of Buckeye Lake, Ohio : site inspection report
- Animal waste disposal issues
- Annual performance report
- Appropriate violator classifications and timely initial enforcement actions would strengthen Montana's RCRA enforcement program
- Assessment of EPA's projected pollutant reductions resulting from enforcement actions and settlements
- Assessment of controls over emergency removal actions at methyl parathion sites
- Assistance agreement X993795-01 awarded by EPA to the Lake Wallenpaupack Watershed Management District
- Assistance agreements : EPA cooperative agreements awarded to the coordinating committee for automotive repair
- Assistance agreements : EPA's lack of oversight contributed to Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair's grant management problems
- Assistance agreements : pre-award management of EPA assistance agreements
- Assistance agreements : statutory authority for EPA assistance agreements
- Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators incurred costs for seven EPA assistance agreements
- Audit of EPA's fiscal 2002 and 2001 financial statements
- Audit of Region 9's administration of the California air compliance and enforcement program
- Audit of Region 9's controls over Superfund oversight cost billings
- Audit of costs claimed under construction grant no. C530614-02 (Carkeek Project) awarded to King County Department of Natural Resources, Seattle, Washington
- Audit report on the National Association of Minority Contractors
- Better enforcement oversight needed for major facilities with water discharge permits in long-term significant noncompliance
- Biennial hazardous waste data : opportunity for improvement
- Changes in conditions at Wildcat Landfill Superfund Site in Delaware call for increased EPA oversight
- City of Elizabeth, New Jersey - excess clean water state revolving funds claimed
- Clean air design evaluation results
- Complete assessment needed to ensure rural Texas community has safe drinking water
- Congressional request on EPA enforcement resources and accomplishments
- Congressionally requested report on comments related to effects of jurisdictional uncertainty on Clean Water Act implementation : special report
- Congressionally requested review of EPA actions taken in response to financial assistance agreement reports
- Consistency and transparency in determination of EPA's anticipated ozone designations
- Consolidated report on EPA's leaking underground storage tank program
- Consolidated report on OECA's oversight of regional and state air enforcement programs
- Consolidated review of the air enforcement and compliance assistance programs
- Costs claimed by Georgia Department of Natural Resources under EPA assistance agreement no. VC984299-98
- Costs claimed by the Tribal Association on Solid Waste and Emergency Response under EPA assistance agreement No. CR827181-01
- Costs claimed under EPA grant XP9468195 awarded to the city of Flowood, Mississippi
- Costs claimed under EPA grant XP97424901 awarded to West Rankin Utility Authority, Flowood, Mississippi
- Costs claimed under EPA grant XP98011401 awarded to the city of Rupert, Idaho
- Costs claimed under construction grant no. C530608-03 (Richmond Beach) awarded to King County Department of Natural Resources, Seattle, Washington
- Decline in EPA particulate matter methods development activities may hamper timely achievement of program goals
- Design for Objective 8.4 could be improved by reorienting focus on outcomes
- Despite progress, EPA needs to improve oversight of wastewater upgrades in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
- Development of Maximum Achievable Control Technology standards
- Directions for printing air logic models
- ECHO data quality audit, phase I results : the integrated compliance information system needs security controls to protect significant non-compliance data
- EPA Provided Quality and Timely Information on Hurricane Hazardous Material Releases and Debris Management
- EPA Region 3's oversight of Maryland's air enforcement data
- EPA Region 6 needs to improve oversight of Louisiana's environmental programs
- EPA Region 9 data quality oversight at the Aerojet Superfund site
- EPA Region III's management of Tranguch Gasoline Site, Hazleton, Pennsylvania
- EPA Regional Superfund Ombudsmen Program needs structure
- EPA can do more to help minimize hardrock mining liabilities
- EPA can improve its oversight of audit followup
- EPA can improve use of federal supply schedules when procuring services
- EPA controls over RCRA permit renewals
- EPA could improve controls over mainframe system software
- EPA could improve its redistribution of Superfund payments to specific sites
- EPA could improve processes for managing contractor systems and reporting incidents
- EPA could increase savings and improve quality through greater use of performance-based service contracts
- EPA does not always receive adjustment vouchers from contractors
- EPA grants awarded to the Crow Tribe
- EPA grants awarded to the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe
- EPA grants awarded to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe
- EPA grants awarded to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe
- EPA has improved five-year review process for Superfund remedies, but further steps needed
- EPA implementation of Government Performance and Results Act
- EPA maximized competition for Recovery Act grants under the National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program : cancellation memorandum
- EPA must emphasize importance of pre-award reviews for assistance agreements
- EPA need to accelerate adoption of numeric nutrient water quality standards
- EPA needs a better strategy to measure changes in the security of the nation's water infrastructure
- EPA needs a cohesive plan to clean up the Great Lakes areas of concern
- EPA needs a comprehensive research plan and policies for fulfill its emerging climate change role
- EPA needs an oversight program for protocol gases
- EPA needs better integration of the National Environmental Performance Partnership System
- EPA needs to assess the quality of vulnerability assessments related to the security of the nation's water supply
- EPA needs to improve continuity of operations planning
- EPA needs to improve its efforts to reduce air emissions at U.S. ports : evaluation report
- EPA needs to imrpove cost controls for equipment used during emergencies
- EPA needs to more actively promote state self assessment of environmental programs
- EPA needs to respond more timely to reports of investigation
- EPA needs to strengthen oversight of government furnished property : audit report
- EPA needs to take more action in implementing alternative approaches to Superfund cleanups
- EPA procedures to ensure drinking water data integrity
- EPA should continue to improve its national emergency response planning
- EPA should revise its grant accrual methodology to address impact of Recovery Act funds : quick reaction report
- EPA should strengthen internal controls over interagency agreement unliquidated obligations
- EPA should take further steps to address funding shortfalls and time slippages in permit compliance system modernization effort
- EPA should use FMFIA to improve programmatic operation
- EPA travel program lacks necessary controls : interim report
- EPA's Office of Research and Development could better use the Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act to improve operations
- EPA's actions concerning asbestos-contaminated vermiculite in Libby, Montana
- EPA's advisory committees' costs increase
- EPA's air state implementation plan program consolidated report
- EPA's and Louisiana's efforts to access and restore public drinking water systems after Hurricane Katrina : evaluation report
- EPA's and Mississippi's efforts to assess and restore public drinking water supplies after Hurricane Katrina : evaluation report
- EPA's changing budget process : opportunity for improved financial management
- EPA's competitive practices for assistance awards
- EPA's computer security self-assessment process needs improvement
- EPA's controls over assistance agreements
- EPA's key management challenges
- EPA's progress in using the government performance and results act to manage for results
- EPA's response to the World Trade Center collapse : challenges, successes, and areas for improvement
- EPA's selection of peer reviewers
- EPA's training assistance agreements
- EPA's use of the government purchase card
- Emission factor development
- Enforcement : EPA's multimedia enforcement program
- Enforcement : compliance with enforcement instruments
- Environmental data quality at DOD Superfund sites in Region 9
- Environmental justice concerns and communication problems complicated cleaning up Ringwood Mines/Landfill site
- Environmental, safety, and health issues at EPA laboratories
- Evaluation of Superfund Environmental Indicators
- Existing contracts enabled EPA to quickly respond to Hurricane Katrina : future improvement opportunities exist
- Federal facility cleanups : EPA Region 10 needs to improve oversight of remediation activities at the Hanford Superfund 100-K area
- Federal facility cleanups : EPA review of contaminants and increased funding levels needed to ensure continued compliance with Superfund at Oak Ridge
- Federal facility cleanups : improvement needed in EPA oversight of cleanup actions at the Savannah River Nuclear Facility
- Final audit report of grant numbers EQ-993391-01 and EQ-824225-01 awarded to Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy
- Final report of audit on the Maryland Department of the Environment leaking underground storage tank program
- Final report on Region III's Children's Health Initiative on the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA)
- Final status of preliminary research results on improper contract payments
- Financial management : EPA's fiscal 1998 Working Capital Fund financial statements
- Financial management : audit of EPA's fiscal 1998 financial statements
- Financial management : audit of EPA's fiscal 1999 financial statements
- Financial management : audit of EPA's fiscal 2000 financial statements
- Financial management : audit of EPA's fiscal 2001 and 2000 financial statements
- Fiscal year 2006 and 2005 financial statements for the pesticide registration fund
- Follow-up audit : environmental, safety, and health issues at EPA laboratories
- Further improvements needed in the administration of RCRA civil penalties
- GMPO's planning, organizing, and funding the 1995 Gulf of Mexico symposium
- Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium, Inc. costs claimed under EPA Assistance Agreement Nos. X828299-01 and X828802-01
- Government Information Security Reform Act : status of EPA's computer security program
- Government Information Security Reform Act : status of EPA's computer security program
- Grant management : Region 2's management of Children's Health Risk Initiative and related projects
- Grant no. X-824519-01 awarded to the National Association of Minority Contractors
- Grants : Region 4's implementation and oversight of performance partnership grants
- Grants : improving Region 5's EnPPA/PPG program
- Idaho's state revolving fund
- Identification and enforcement of RCRA significant non-compliers by EPA Region III and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
- Impact of EPA and state drinking water capacity development efforts uncertain
- Implementation, information, and statutory obstacles impede achievement of environmental results from EPA's National Hardrock Mining Framework
- Improvements are needed for information technology controls at the Las Vegas Finance Center
- Improving nationwide effectiveness of pump-and-treat remedies requires sustained and focused action to realize benefits
- Increased Region 8 involvement would improve tribal program results
- Information resources management : Office of Water data integration efforts
- Information security series--security practices : clean air markets division business system
- Information technology : Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) data quality
- Information technology : EPA management of information technology resources under the Clinger-Cohen Act
- Information technology : review of off-site consequence analysis information management
- Information technology : unreliable data affects usability of DOCKET information
- Interagency agreements : follow-up audit on headquarters interagency agreements
- Internal control weaknesses under EPA grant nos. 1004802070 and BG96483308, awarded to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee, North Carolina
- Issues, standards, successes, approaches, problems : summary conference proceedings, survey results, conclusions and follow-up actions
- Laboratory data quality at federal facility Superfund sites
- Laboratory fraud : deterrence and detection
- Lack of project plan resulted in transition and contractor performance problems for the institutional controls tracking system : quick reaction report
- Land application of biosolids
- Lessons learned : EPA's response to hurricane Katrina-evaluation report
- Management assistance report : review of Region 10's Maxiflex program
- Manifesting requirements on hazardous waste generators
- Measuring and reporting performance results for the Pollution Prevention Program need improvement : audit report
- Memorandum of review on EPA's management of the Abex Superfund site
- Minimizing risk for the physically challenged at Waterside Mall
- Monitoring needed to assess impact of EPA's clean air mercury rule on potential hotspots : evaluation report
- Much effort and resources needed to help small drinking water systems overcome challenges : evaluation report
- Nevada Drinking Water State Revolving Fund : financial statements with independent auditor's report
- New Hampshire Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program : financial statements with independent auditor's report, June 30, 2002
- New Hampshire Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program : financial statements with independent auditor's report, June 30, 2002
- Number of and cost to award and manage EPA earmark grants, and the grants' impact on the agency's mission
- Office of Inspector General scientific analysis of perchlorate : science review
- Office of Inspector General's (OIG) FY 2000 audit plan
- Office of Research and Development : audit of extramural and property management at the Atlantic Ecology Division
- Pennsylvania's reporting of safe drinking water violations
- Performance partnership grants : Region 6 oversight of performance partnership grants
- Performance partnership grants : Region 8 needs to improve its performance partnership grant program to ensure accountability and improved environmental results
- Plans to migrate data to the new EPA acquisition system need improvement
- Pollution prevention : effectiveness of EPA's efforts to encourage purchase of recycled goods has not been demonstrated
- Potential Misuse of the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, State of Missouri, Department of Natural Resources
- President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency review of application software maintenance in federal agencies
- Procurement practices under grant no. X825532-01 awarded to MBI International
- Procurements made by assistance agreement recipients should be competitive
- Progress report on EPA's nonroad mobile source emissions reduction strategies
- Project delays prevent EPA from implementing an agency-wide information security vulnerability management program : audit report
- Projected emission reductions overstated and buy American requirements not met under EPA award to the Tennessee Department of Transportation
- Promising techniques identified to improve drinking water laboratory integrity and reduce public health risks : evaluation report
- Promoting tribal success in EPA programs
- Proposed streamlining will result in increased costs
- Public participation in Louisiana's air permitting program and EPA oversight
- RCRA : RCRA financial assurance for closure and post-closure
- RCRA corrective action : RCRA corrective action focuses on interim priorities--better integration with final goals needed
- RCRA enforcement : RCRA significant non-complier identification and enforcement by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
- RCRA enforcement : Region 2's enforcement of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
- RCRA enforcement : Resource Conservation and Recovery Act significant non-complier enforcement
- RCRA financial assurance for closure and post-closure : audit report
- Region 3's oversight of Safe Drinking Water Act activities
- Region 5 section 106 tribal water grants
- Region 5's air enforcement and compliance assistance program
- Region 5's billing and collection of accounts receivable
- Region 6's enforcement and compliance assurance program
- Region 6's oversight of Arkansas air enforcement data
- Region 8 needed to further improve interagency agreement oversight to ensure efficient Summitville Superfund site cleanup
- Region III water quality standards, monitoring, and reporting
- Region III's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Program
- Regional Laboratories
- Regional public liaison program needs greater focus on results and customer awareness
- Replacement housing at the Austin Avenue radiation site
- Report of EPA's oversight of state stack testing programs
- Report of audit on Region 3's billing of Superfund oversight costs
- Report of audit on the Center for Chesapeake Communities
- Report of interim audit of Superfund cooperative agreement number CR818689 Clark Atlanta University
- Report of investigation concerning Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Report of review : major EPA information systems are vulnerable to failure due to the upcoming century change
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act : report on the tank waste remediation system (TWRS) program for the Hanford federal facility
- Resources Management Division Superfund Division : Audit of Superfund ConsolidatedCooperative Agreement Awarded to Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Under EPA Agreement No. V985687-01 October 1, 1997 through June 30, 2001
- Response to EPA administrator's request for investigation into allegations of a cover-up in the risk assessment for the coal ash rulemaking
- Results of hotline complaint review for California superfund site : hotline report
- Results of hotline complaint review of EPA's antimicrobial testing program : hotline report
- Review of ORD's extramural management specialist position
- Review of Region 5 laboratory operations
- Review of barriers to Superfund site cleanups : case studies
- Review of hotline complaint on employee granted full-time work-at-home privilege
- Risk reduction through voluntary programs
- Saving the Chesapeake Bay watershed requires better coordination of environmental and agricultural resources
- Science to Achieve Results (STAR) fellowship program needs to place emphasis on measuring results
- Science to support rulemaking
- Security of Region IV local area networks (LANs)
- Security of Science and Ecosystems Support Division (SESD) local area network (LAN)
- Security of Small Purchase Electronic Data Interchange (SPEDI) local area networks (LANs)
- Selected children's health annual performance measures for Goal 8, Sound Science
- South Carolina Clean Water State Revolving Fund : financial statements with independent auditor's report, June 30, 2002
- South Carolina Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program : financial statements with independent auditor's report, June 30, 2002
- State of Nevada Division of Environmental Protection Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund : financial statements with independent auditor's report, June 30, 2001
- State of New Hampshire Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2005
- State of Utah Drinking Water State Revolving Fund : financial statements with independent auditor's report, June 30, 2002
- Statement of Nikki L. Tinsley Inspector General U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before the Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, Risk, and Waste Management Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Statement of Nikki L. Tinsley, Inspector General, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
- Strategic plan through 2005
- Superfund : EPA had not effectively implemented its Superfund quality assurance program
- Superfund : RD/RA negotiation time frames
- Superfund : Region 1's implementation of Superfund administrative reforms
- Superfund : Region 2's billing of Superfund oversight costs
- Superfund : Region 5 oversight of PRP-lead remedial design and remedial action
- Superfund : Superfund interagency agreements
- Superfund : Update on brownfields initiative to revitalize urban areas
- Superfund : backlog of five-year review reports increased nearly threefold
- Superfund : brownfields--potential for urban revitalization
- Superfund : environmental data quality at Superfund removal actions in Region 9
- Superfund : remedial project manager turnover at Superfund sites
- Superfund : state deferrals--some progress, but concerns for long-term protectiveness remain
- Superfund sites deferred to RCRA
- Survey of air quality information related to the World Trade Center collapse
- Survey report on the cross-connection control program
- Surveys, studies, investigations, and special purpose grants
- Testimony of Melissa Heist Assistant Inspector General for Audit U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before the Subcommittee on Water Resources and the Environment Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure United States House of Representatives
- Testimony of Nikki L. Tinsley Inspector General U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before the Subcommittee on Water Resources and the Environment Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure United States House of Representatives
- Testimony of the Honorable Nikki Tinsley, Inspector General, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs Committee on Government Reform United States House of Representatives
- The Clean Water Act after 37 years : recommitting to the protection of the nation's waters, statement of Wade T. Najjum, Assistant Inspector General for Program Evaluation before the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, U.S. House of Representatives
- The effectiveness and efficiency of EPA's Air Program
- The establishment of the National Environmental Supercomputing Facility in Bay City, Michigan
- Tribal successes : protecting the environment and natural resources
- U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board did not adhere to its Merit Promotion Plan
- Validation of air enforcement data reported to EPA by Massachusetts
- Validation of air enforcement data reported to EPA by Pennsylvania
- Washington Drinking Water State Revolving Fund : financial statements with independent auditor's report, June 30, 2001
- Wastewater management : controlling and abating combined sewer overflows
- Water : Colorado water quality standards, monitoring, and reporting program
- Water : EPA's Great Lakes program
- Water : Kansas National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program
- Water : Mississippi's water quality standards, monitoring and reporting
- Water : Missouri's water quality standards and monitoring
- Water : New Jersey's water quality monitoring program
- Water : North Carolina NPDES enforcement and EPA Region 4 oversight
- Water : Ohio's water quality program
- Water : Oregon's water quality program
- Water : Region 10's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program
- Water : Region 8 nonpoint source grant oversight needs improvement
- Water : improvements to Louisiana's water quality standards, monitoring, and reporting program would better protect state waters
- Water : proactive approach would improve EPA's water quality standards program
- Water enforcement : state enforcement of Clean Water Act dischargers can be more effective
- Whistleblower protection review
- [Letter, 2002 June 24] Washington, D.C. [to] the honorable John D. Dingell, Ranking Member, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515
- [Letter, 2002 Oct. 24] Washington, D.C. [to] the honorable Wayne Allard, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510-0606
- [Letter, 2002 Oct. 25] Washington, D.C. [to] the honorable James Jeffords, Chairman, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C
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Author of
- Air quality objectives for the Baton Rouge ozone nonattainment area not met under EPA Agreement 2A-96694301 awarded to the Railroad Research Foundation
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site visit of Yauco - La Jurada community distribution system, Yauco, Puerto Rico
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site visit of combined sewer overflow detention facility city of Goshen, Indiana
- Audit follow-up process needed for the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
- Audit of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act cooperative agreement 2A-00E85701 awarded to the Greater Lansing Area Clean Cities
- Audit of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-Funded Cooperative Agreement 2S-96099601 awarded to the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
- Audit of financial statements for EPA's Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Fund from inception (October 5, 2012) to September 30, 2014
- Audit of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's Fiscal Years 2014 and 2013 financial statements
- Audits on EPA Recovery Act-funded Diesel Emission Reduction Act assistance agreements reported programmatic and management challenges
- Benefits of EPA initiative to promote renewable energy on contaminated lands have not been established
- Better planning, execution and communication could have reduced the delays in completing a toxicity assessment of the Libby, Montana, superfund site
- Briefing report : improvements needed in EPA's Information Security Program
- CSB complied with reporting requirements of the improper payments elimination and Recovery Act for Fiscal Year 2014
- CSB needs to improve its acquisition approvals and other processes to ensure best value for taxpayers
- CSB's fiscal year 2014 purchase card program assessed as high risk
- Call center : contract management needs improvement to reduce the risk of overbilling
- Chemical fume hood testing improvements needed to reduce health and safety risk to EPA employees
- Chemical import data may help EPA identify facilities that need to file or update risk management plans
- Chemical safety : EPA needs to improve outreach and communication about the National Pesticide Information Center's role and services
- Complaints regarding debris management at the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion have been addressed
- Conditions in the U.S. Virgin Islands warrant EPA withdrawing approval and taking over management of some environmental programs and improving oversight of others
- Congressionally requested information on EPA utilization of integrated Risk Information System
- Congressionally requested inquiry into the EPA's use of private and alias email accounts
- Controls and oversight needed to improve administration of EPA's customer service lines
- Controls over EPA's compass financial system need to be improved
- Corrective action plan needed in order to fully comply with the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act
- Costs of $1.2 million for Brownfields Cooperative Agreement to Pioneer Valley Planning Commission in Massachusetts questioned
- Development growth outpacing progress in watershed efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay
- EPA OIG compliance with managing vehicles within EPA's Fleet Management Program
- EPA OIG not fully compliant with OIG policy on time and attendance reporting
- EPA OIG not fully compliant with overtime policies
- EPA Region 6 mismanaged Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act funds
- EPA can better address risks to the security of the nation's drinking water through new authorities, plans, and information
- EPA can better assure continued operations at National Computer Center through complete and up-to-date documentation for contingency planning
- EPA can better document resolution of ethics and partiality concerns in managing Clean Air Federal Advisory Committees
- EPA can further reduce space in under-utilized facilities
- EPA can help consumers identify household and other products with safer chemicals by strengthening its "Design for the Environment" Program
- EPA complied with improper payment legislation, but opportunities for improvement exist
- EPA could improve contingency planning for oil and hazardous substance response
- EPA does not adequately follow national security information classification standards
- EPA does not effectively control or monitor imports of hazardous waste
- EPA has developed guidance for disaster debris but has limited knowledge of state preparedness
- EPA improved controls over billing reimbursable interagency agreement expenditures to other agencies
- EPA is not recovering all its costs of the Lead-Based Paint Fees Program
- EPA needs better management of personal property in warehouses
- EPA needs to clarify its claim of "no net loss" of wetlands
- EPA needs to continue to improve controls for improper payment identification
- EPA needs to demonstrate public health benefits of drinking water state revolving fund projects
- EPA needs to demonstrate whether it has achieved the goals it set under the National Petroleum Refinery Initiative
- EPA needs to improve Contract Management Assessment Program implementation to mitigate contracting vulnerabilities
- EPA needs to improve STAR grant oversight
- EPA needs to improve its process for accurately designating land as clean and protective for reuse
- EPA needs to improve management of the Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Regulation program in order to strengthen protection of human health and the environment
- EPA needs to improve safeguards for personally identifiable information
- EPA needs to improve timeliness and documentation of workforce and workload management corrective actions
- EPA needs to justify how it is using Title 42 hiring authority
- EPA needs to update its pesticide and chemical enforcement penalty policies and practices