The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General plans to begin an audit of the EPA’s Enhanced Air Quality Monitoring for Communities grant program. This audit is part of the OIG’s oversight plan for fiscal year 2024. This audit also addresses the following fiscal year 2024 top management challenge for the Agency: managing grants, contracts, and data systems.
Our objective is to determine whether the Enhanced Air Quality Monitoring for Communities grants will achieve their required terms and conditions within the grant agreement project period. We plan to focus our audit on community-based organization set-aside grants awarded under this grant program. We plan to conduct work at the Office of Air and Radiation and its Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, the Office of Mission Support and its Office of Grants and Debarment, and the EPA regions. We will use applicable generally accepted government auditing standards to conduct our audit. The anticipated benefits of this audit include identifying potential operational efficiencies to ensure the timely use of federal grant funds and addressing grantee challenges to complete projects designed to enhance air pollution monitoring in and near underserved communities.