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                  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                  Office of Inspector General

                  At   a  Glance
                                                           09-P-0085
                                                      January 21, 2009
                                                               Catalyst for Improving the Environment
Why We Did This Review

We performed this follow-up
review to determine whether
the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
Region 10 implemented
corrective actions it agreed to
take in response to the Fiscal
Years (FYs) 2003 and 2004
single audit reports and 2006
Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) Program
Assessment Rating Tool
(PART) review. We also
determined whether the
actions addressed,  or will
address, the issues in the
reports.
Background
On July 26, 2006, the EPA
Office of Inspector General
(OIG) issued two single audit
reports to EPA Region 10
regarding the State of Alaska
Department of Environmental
Conservation Village Safe
Water Program. The reports
supported the single audit
findings and recommended
various corrective actions.
The most recent PART review
noted various deficiencies.
EPA Region 10 Took Adequate Corrective
Actions for Alaska Village Safe Water Program
For further information,
contact our Office of
Congressional, Public Affairs
and Management at
(202)566-2391.
To view the full report,
click on the following link:
www.epa.qov/oiq/reports/2009/
20090121-09-P-0085.pdf

 What We Found
We found that Region 10 had adequately followed up on each of the findings and
recommendations from the single audit reports. The Region has implemented
corrective actions for the most recent OMB PART review findings. The
corrective actions taken by the Region should address the issues identified in the
single audit reports and PART review.

One corrective action is not complete. To address concerns with the State of
Alaska's monitoring subrecipients, the State performed an independent review of
reconciling project costs by the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (the
Consortium).  As part of its corrective action plan, the Region agreed to follow up
on the findings from the independent review. The Region had planned on doing
the follow-up as part of the next annual review in November 2008.  However, the
follow-up review was delayed and is now expected to be completed by October 1,
2009. Region 10 concurred with the OIG findings and will continue to follow  up
on implementing the State's review findings.
 What We Recommend
We recommended that the EPA Region 10 Regional Administrator track the
corrective action for follow-up on the independent review of the Alaska Native
Tribal Health Consortium by re-entering it in the Management Audit Tracking
System. The Region subsequently reopened the Management Audit Tracking
System to track the corrective action. EPA's response to our recommendation is
adequate and should address our report finding.

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