Why We Did This Report
The Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, requires each inspector general to prepare semiannual reports for Congress. As part of that reporting, the inspector general must identify all recommendations from the prior reporting period for which corrective actions have not been completed by the agency, as well as any management decisions with respect to audit, inspection, or evaluation reports issued during that prior reporting period.
Summary of Findings
This compendium focuses on a total of 90 recommendations to the EPA that remained unimplemented—79 open and 11 unresolved—as of May 31, 2024. The 90 recommendations we address in this compendium represent $74.5 million in potential cost savings. The compendium includes 17 open or unresolved recommendations that the OIG deemed high priority, as well as 53 open recommendations that are at least three years old or will be by their scheduled completion date. This year we provide a separate analysis of the five unresolved OIG recommendations made to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board as of May 31, 2024.