Special Report: EPA’s Unliquidated Obligations for Grants May 2009


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                             Catalyst for Improving the Environment
Special Report
        EPA's Unliquidated Obligations

        for Grants
       Report No. 09-N-0150


       May 1,2009

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Report Contributors:             Paul Curtis
                                 Meg Hiatt
                                 Javier Negron
                                 Alfred Falciani

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\ UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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OFFICE OF
INSPECTOR GENERAL
May 1, 2009

The Honorable Norman D. Dicks
Chairman
Subcommittee on Interior, Environment
and Related Agencies
Committee on Appropriations
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Mr. Chairman:

On March 4, 2009,1 briefed you and Ranking Member Simpson on some of the financial
and programmatic challenges facing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) based on
prior Office of Inspector General work. During this briefing, you requested that I provide
information regarding outstanding unliquidated obligations for the EPA.

Enclosed is the information we obtained from EPA's records. It is listed in alphabetical
order, summarized by the program name, and includes outstanding unliquidated obligations
associated with that program as of March 31, 2009. The amounts are grouped by year beginning
with Fiscal Years 1980-1999 and 2000-2005; and by individual fiscal year for 2006, 2007, 2008,
and 2009. We also grouped those programs that had amounts outstanding under $100,000 on
one line.

We appreciate your interest in our work. Should you or your staff have any questions on
this report, please contact Melissa Heist, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, at
(202) 566-0824.

Sincerely,
Bill A. Roderick
Acting Inspector General
Enclosure

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                                                                   09-N-0150
                                                                 Enclosure 1
Alphabetical Listing of EPA Unliquidated Obligations by Program-Alpha
Program
Office of Acquisition Management
Agency Data Against Risks;
Information Technology
Air Toxics
Alaska Native Villages
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Analysis of Society Impacts Risks
Audits, Evaluations, & Investigations
Beach / Fish Programs
Beaches Protection
Brownfields
Categorical Grant
Central Planning, Budgeting, Finance
Chemical Risk Review & Reduction
Chesapeake Bay
Children's Health
Civil Enforcement
Civil Rights / Title VI Compliance
Clean Air Allowance Trading
Clean School Bus Initiative
Climate Change Initiative
Climate Protection Program
Compliance Act Product
Reregestration; Office of Prevention,
Pesticides, and Toxic Substances
Compliance Programs For
Environmental Impact
Congressionally Mandated Projects
Construction Grants
Construction Grants/State Revolving
Fund Title 6
Create Information Network Data;
Information Technology
1999 & Prior
0.00
0.00
629.00
0.00
0.00
17,971.80
0.00
0.00
0.00
1,777,137.66
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
15,801.20
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
6,707,746.00
0.00
0.00
2000 to 2005
89,597.41
825,182.61
206,524.91
39,257,346.66
47,875.45
118,857.76
39,382.11
26,933.72
547,200.50
72,214,883.93
3,329,372.81
556,168.95
104,107.09
358,885.19
138,664.34
100,897.69
73,568.88
191,694.16
432,718.44
741,494.42
1,134,089.99
227,473.25
209,815.89
149,421,247.57
0.00
13,849,520.14
193,532.59
2006
89,941.15


19,333,963.27
79,070.06

25,286.96
7,877.95
194,888.08
50,930,258.73
4,393,412.76
417,694.47
105,043.47
1,052,563.48
678,364.60
118,815.01
46,829.13
145,438.58


1,260,453.93

778,474.00
162,116,368.88



2007
333,465.41


26,468,812.85
262,653.07

288,989.17
9,136.43
2,045,838.29
62,011,745.41
11,657,163.90
1,130,691.09
257,820.80
7,273,952.82
1,020,296.92
716,867.03
32,131.76
1,104,635.58
1,069,500.08

6,867,961.25

1,761,659.94
66,294,277.97



2008
4,407,345.57


20,046,691.97
646,718.41
80,502.41
4,958,315.44
796,396.06
8,211,570.35
96,714,509.32
47,078,282.09
16,681,781.56
4,179,366.97
19,593,707.74
1,963,566.97
4,614,764.78
409,157.42
5,394,095.81
4,632,582.66

18,078,245.73

5,426,636.63
64,051,591.18



2009
1,399,636.20


1,865,163.84
166,408.18
22,237.24
652,207.65
429,307.92
285,363.73
11,863,960.40
4,241,168.10
6,995,537.30
2,181,589.87
3,479,098.38
366,152.24
2,374,845.82
359,425.57
3,191,948.94


26,361,956.85

3,545,288.00
39,871,766.57

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Program
Criminal Enforcement
Decibal Support Tools & Weather
Control; Office of Research and
Development
Device Tools to Query Data; IT,
Database Development
Diesel Emissions Grants
Drinking Water Programs
Ecosystems Research; Office of
Research and Development
Emerging Risks Research; Office of
Research and Development
Endocrine Disrupters Research
Program; Office of Research and
Development
Enforcement Training
Environmental Data Multiple Formats;
OA
Environmental Cooperation
Environmental Education
Environmental Information
Environmental Justice
Exchange Network
Existing Chemicals; Office of
Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic
Substances
Facilities Information and Operations
Federal Stationary Source
Regulations
Federal Support For Air Quality
Federal Support For Air Toxics
Federal Vehicle & Fuels Standards
Financial Assistance Grants /
Interagency Agreement Management
Forensics Support
Geographic Program: Other
Great Lakes
1999 & Prior
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
300,000.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2000 to 2005
51,359.34
1,700,530.06
435,079.80
0.00
485,952.86
645,451.44
616,476.81
101,672.04
0.00
176,792.47
0.00
48,751.46
5,576,388.14
171,521.65
351,642.84
130,722.46
3,158,305.97
229,542.54
346,075.42
444,461.49
185,224.06
88,445.84
26,524.98
757,504.43
878,435.31
2006
176,791.46



335,767.25


647,238.54
232.13


175,636.97
8,259,605.38
773,706.87
159,182.41

3,981,232.31
135,447.65
4,569,276.77
12,877.72
101,616.36
276,056.47
33,616.86
2,028,996.00
10,917,095.64
2007
250,398.97



2,595,215.66


3,291,633.29
33,951.79


348,544.62
9,684,959.16
293,577.80
644,737.24

11,448,041.64
1,019,720.31
1,994,707.54
725,963.17
2,438,061.44
1,021,163.59
68,783.58
4,672,153.85
29,208,072.04
2008
2,234,178.09


22,745,194.09
9,774,131.29


2,191,335.23
599,511.75

181,759.43
4,842,861.92
13,595,949.20
1,721,564.84
4,563,105.84

52,730,172.70
3,499,715.10
5,288,525.16
3,016,388.57
9,937,531.27
1,652,849.40
1,210,288.49
16,835,690.94
12,807,045.60
2009
1,551,639.20


26,531,203.55
5,294,169.51


558,398.50
130,081.67


4,946.00
385,042.88
191,272.75
2,976,629.61

50,602,877.24
1,617,465.92
1,922,046.61
1,174,616.77
6,022,977.88
1,072,228.17
914,960.00
12,237.98
1,536,490.39

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Program
Ground Water and Ecosystems
Restoration Research
Gulf of Mexico
Hardship Grants/Rural Communities
Hazardous Spill & Site Response
Hazardous Substance Tech
Enforcement
Hazardous Waste Financial
Assistance
Headquarters Full Time Equivalents -
Office of Administration and Resource
Management Distribution Account
High Priority Resource Conservation
And Recovery Act Fac Exposure;
Office of Solid Waste and Emergency
Response
Homeland Security
Homeland Security Communication
And Information
Homeland Security Critical
Infrastructure Program
Homeland Security Preparedness,
Response, Reconstruction
Homeland Security Protection of EPA
Personnel
Human Health Risk
Human Resources Management
Implement CSI & Project XI
Increase Public Information Access
Increase System Meeting Health-Base
Requirements; Office of Water
Increase Wetlands Area; Office of
Water
Indoor Air
Indoor Environments; Office of Air and
Radiation
Information Security
Information Technology / Data
Management
Infrastructure: Puerto Rico
1999 & Prior
0.00
0.00
516,343.00
27,868,828.28
181,371.68
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
15,401.87
0.00
0.00
595.00
0.00
602.13
1,747,561.48
0.00
0.00
0.00
874.00
0.00
0.00
2000 to 2005 2006
1,067,436.55
326,614.15 405,616.68
0.00
0.00
0.00
703,826.10 548,385.23
189,614.52
291,059.30
2,424,158.53 1,250,789.89
28,125.10 144,164.80
196,705.12 204,303.63
2,074,228.19 3,909,652.36
1,005,561.27 81,530.61
1,197,065.82 1,030,483.27
78,947.69 231,151.45
158,005.89
191,034.62
85,881,263.54
3,756,775.95
95,475.72 119,409.83
270,841.00
29,028.45
1,569,147.61 1,310,617.73
0.00
2007 2008 2009

821,035.38 3,124,730.41 246,923.19



1,189,220.26 7,007,431.98 36,825,640.21


1,074,360.05 4,540,140.07 1,380,618.58
635,988.83 3,462,370.54 44,347.90
20,606,690.16 7,885,256.34 2,788,518.62
10,693,597.98 31,904,235.09 9,842,217.38
3,393,046.96 9,298,669.19 1,835,268.15
3,180,333.22 7,704,568.25 440,759.21
972,531.35 1,967,963.59 1,335,611.48




123,061.61 554,180.17 378,449.96

461,419.99 1,112,425.73 345,888.87
5,552,775.97 32,600,516.12 74,460,329.62
3,849,000.00

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Program
Internal Sources of Pollution
International Capacity Building
Lake Champlain
Lead Risk Reduction Program
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks/
Underground Storage Tanks
Legal Advice
Long Island Sound
Lust Cooperative Agreements
Management, Services & Stewardship
Marine Pollution
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards
National Environmental Policy Act
Implementation
National Estuary Program /Coastal
Waters
Nationwide Support Services
New Construction; Office of
Administration and Resources
Management
Nonpoint Source Management
Programs (Sec. 319)
Office of Administrative Law Judges
Office of Congressional and
Intergovernmental Relations
Office of International Affairs;
Environment and Trade
Office of Research and Development
Distribution Accounts
Office of Underground Storage Tanks;
Office of Solid Waste Emergency
Response
Oil Spill Prevention & Response
Oil Spills - Reimbursable
ORD Administrative Support Account,
Distribution Accounts
Ozone: Domestic Programs
Pesticide and Toxic Chemical
Implementation
1999 & Prior
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
43,705.59
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
900,000.00
160,697.39
4,810.99
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
10,873.26
137,511.12
383,429.36
0.00
0.00
0.00
2000 to 2005
0.00
618,242.02
33,028.55
23,352.84
187,909.15
9,644.03
262,971.90
872,074.11
898,210.34
133,449.81
1,520,915.07
8,416.13
1,264,086.51
0.00
1,646,592.60
92,510,979.58
348.00
84,730.88
32,945.54
131,782.34
255,461.81
1,004,794.08
0.00
751,583.60
10,744.64
182,053.73
2006

316,471.77
61,402.52
50,843.44
604,087.74
36,056.08
40,449.58
12,669,630.85

163,439.30

42,854.52
1,797,773.15


73,473,083.83
23,840.00
158,509.99
62,682.46


808,794.96


1,436.18
4,960.57
2007

1,522,183.42
324,729.79
224,482.96
1,685,478.63
87,158.85
711,183.74
6,082,654.93

243,323.88

123,417.08
3,545,197.89


108,268,723.02
7,916.73
374,945.03
886,419.35


2,619,126.35


31,065.21
222,911.02
2008

522,353.42
1,425,568.07
697,715.70
7,581,574.19
791,164.80
4,759,777.88
48,266,837.13

4,024,130.22

697,005.98
13,820,746.59


158,760,382.81
126,469.97
1,151,673.19
1,169,181.62


7,378,486.22


288,646.94
67,069.10
2009
206,833.00
346,660.80

268,625.90
400,211.79
618,252.24

318,351.00

409,916.26

30,542.12
530,610.99


21,984,902.05
13,701.02
584,071.86



4,280,940.90


383,555.35

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Program
Pesticides
Planning & Resource Managemnt;
Office of the Chief Financial Officer
Pollution Prevention & New
Technology Environment Program
Pollution Prevention Program
Prevent Releases from Hazardous
Waste Management Facilities
Program Results Code
Promote Sector Based Environmental
Management
Public Water System Supervisors
Radiation
Reduce Keypoint Source Loading
28%; Office of Water
Reduce Loadings & Air Deposition
Reduce Non-Point Source Sed&Nut
Lds; Office of Water
Reduce Risks From Indoor Air
Reduce Risks From Lead; Office of
Prevention Pesticides And Toxic
Substances
Regional Economic-Management &
Analysis
Regional Geographic Initiative
Regional Program Support
Infrastructure
Regional Science and Technology
Regulatory Innovation
Research
Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act: Corrective Action
Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act: Waste Management
Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act: Waste Minimization & Recreation
Respond to Superfund Hazardous
Waste Sites; Office of Solid Waste
and Emergency Response
Restore & Protect Watersheds Office
of Water
1999 & Prior
1,553.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
8,003,293.00
1,892.00
0.00
0.00
55,393,240.24
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
844.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.18
0.00
0.00
0.00
2,673,408.99
425.00
2000 to 2005
1,050,357.87
103,830.57
622,070.00
287,603.72
222,807.10
0.00
145,679.17
300,867.20
37,902.12
117,456,210.02
823,800.43
1,254,512.76
0.00
119,190.14
171,394.00
521,541.40
291,803.97
11,795.67
732,500.35
25,160,409.96
414,236.19
291,406.26
127,127.47
24,047,116.42
2,708,404.86
2006
1,267,876.87


330,572.93



324,377.69
125,807.62



832,804.62

740,749.15
610,796.37

12,356.10
851,073.49
30,774,006.78
333,773.41
634,677.57
252,381.30


2007 2008 2009
4,085,490.22 23,663,950.33 16,312,066.65


2,700,737.37 6,128,447.56 498,617.94



1,429,741.82 7,902,604.14 29,120,783.71
394,048.92 2,155,552.50 489,993.29



2,187,358.40 8,149,255.23 1,814,734.67

763,636.59 1,495,477.04 645,727.69
2,568,849.40 48,249.50

50,000.02 332,367.75 178,236.42
2,556,722.90 4,050,303.43 258,319.92
56,537,286.54 100,948,640.33 23,380,654.47
1,357,685.23 2,253,115.86 691,245.78
1,484,618.88 6,129,698.71 2,129,192.29
437,275.66 1,718,836.89 323,398.88

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Program
Science Advisory Board
Science Based/Safe Drinking Water
Act; Office of Research And
Development
Science Policy aad Biotech
Sector Program
Small Business Ombudsman
Small Minority Business Assist
Source Water Protection Program;
Office of Water
State & Local Air Quality Management
State And Tribal Assistance Grants-
Mexican Border Projects
State And Tribal Assistance Grants-
Special Projects/Hardship Cities
State Revolving Fund Program-Clean
Water
State Revolving Fund, Title VI, FY 93
State Revolving Fund-Drinking Water
State& Local Prevention & Preparation
Stratospheric Ozone: Multilateral
Superfund Reimbursable Cash
Advance
Superfund: Enforcement
Superfund: Remedial
Superfund: Emergency Response
Superfund: EPA Emergency
Preparedness
Superfund: Federal Facilities
Superfund: Support Other Federal
Agencies
Surface Water Protection
Targeted Watersheds
Title II Projects
Toxic Substances
Trade and Governance
Tribal
Tribal Pollution Grant Control Program
Tribal Right to Know
1999 & Prior
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2,057,167.36
13,272,616.17
26,743,822.62
1,939,303.42
4,085,801.97
0.00
0.00
114,707.31
15,707.45
0.00
59,249.55
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
7,492,069.00
88,236.84
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2000 to 2005
3,627.45
877,422.10
33,905.62
878,527.60
17,541.54
7,499.96
2,433,173.65
1,345,875.38
0.00
0.00
112,361,842.77
0.00
293,248,739.52
65,432.98
0.00
0.00
1,757,085.04
23,585,397.17
18,381,385.34
100,949.97
1,819,915.00
0.00
1,170,415.32
5,406,032.66
0.00
229,615.78
0.00
1,775,697.10
187,894.79
79,063.89
2006
2,354.13

310.84
695,635.00
2,573.67
21,719.35

2,438,740.31


108,187,735.39

277,411,486.38
228,023.01


3,417,656.35
50,209,670.01
9,289,015.78
499,184.36
2,604,869.47

1,029,188.84
6,325,049.67

119,710.89

2,091,530.35

152,289.74
2007
83,186.78

58,813.62
583,331.21
38,489.13
232,184.98

7,560,169.78


355,194,293.19

364,258,929.59
498,706.58
2,315,000.00

4,179,658.30
85,495,123.12
23,977,411.71
756,218.50
4,588,175.18
321,504.75
4,665,084.42
3,045,615.06

558,411.27

12,769,334.06

361,723.62
2008
163,174.29

215,610.53
1,430,621.13
652,182.01
363,676.29

47,305,479.00


379,490,427.46

732,498,006.58
1,883,565.02
2,341,500.00

21,765,599.69
364,131,023.07
88,692,674.17
2,088,470.87
11,011,137.11
4,888,000.00
20,141,419.30
18,104,936.93

2,492,331.86

53,064,821.75

3,357,616.90
2009
354,567.77

52,147.00
861,393.00
131,750.00
252,691.74

65,702,918.57


145,900,644.05

92,844,448.27
485,863.80


4,600,563.50
153,617,557.48
44,179,509.29
361,790.31
1,117,182.62

12,358,594.80
1,197,064.00

1,200,722.11
108,247.79
4,151,196.22

865,278.90

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Program
Underground Injection Control
Underground Storage Tanks
United States Mexico Border
Wastewater Operator Training
Water Pollution Control Program
(Sec. 106)
Water Quality Cooperative Agreement
Wetlands
Unliquidated Obligations Under
$100,000
Totals
1999 & Prior
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1,719.24
0.00
193,799.59
162,930,747.74
2000 to 2005
213,514.78
193,725.50
79,662,474.63
0.00
2,278,256.42
1,035,815.21
3,375,950.54
1,396,062.03
1,235,848,537.64
2006
26,841.76
419,961.13
9,799,009.49
51,298.79
2,496,140.43
2,142,522.79
15,878,895.37
0.00
906,544,210.92
2007
144,085.78
5,105,058.00
45,071,926.90
162,242.43
10,173,995.83
258,948.59
8,660,494.16
0.00
1,453,683,833.59
2008
2,117,854.63
1,375,119.81
66,327,845.36
291,281.50
62,586,604.04
354,510.76
57,048,139.54
0.00
2,971,245,028.16
2009
2,950,724.82
184,801.10
1,050,230.50

71,002,414.43

3,342,988.39
7,452.54
1,061,028,810.59

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                                                                      Appendix A

                                Distribution
Office of the Administrator
Agency Follow-up Official (the CFO)
Agency Follow-up Coordinator
Acting General Counsel
Acting Associate Administrator for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations
Acting Associate Administrator for Public Affairs
Acting Inspector General

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