EPA Can Improve Its Oversight of Audit Followup, 2007-P-00025, May 24, 2007

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL Catalyst for Improving the Environment Evaluation Report EPA Can Improve Its Oversight of Audit Followup Report No. 2007-P-00025 May 24, 2007Report Contributors: Susan Barvenik Laura Tam IrBs Dan Engelberg inda Fuler Renee McGhee-Lenart Dan Cox Tim Rach Abbreviations AFC Audit Followup Coordinator AFO Audit Followup Official AMO Audit Management Official AO Action Official CFO Chief Financial Officer EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency IGOR Inspector General Operations and Reporting System MATS Management Audit Tracking System OCFO Office of the Chief Financial Officer OECA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance OIG Office of Inspector General OMB Office of Management and Budget OW Office of Water WET Whole Effluent Toxicity 2007-P-00025 May 24, 2007 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General At a GlanceCatalyst for Improving the Environment Why We Did This Review EPA Can Improve Its Oversight of Audit Followup The Office of Inspector General (OIG) undertook this What We Found review to determine (1) the status of corrective actions EPA is generally undertaking actions for the nine water-related reports in our responding to OIG report review— seven directed to the Office of Water (OW) and two directed to the recommendations for selected Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA). However, several water reports, and (2) ...