U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 18-N-0174 U \ Office of Inspector General 32a £ \ Office of Inspector General Mays, 2018 At a Glance What Are Management Challenges? According to the Government Performance and Results Act Modernization Act of 2010, major management challenges are programs or management functions, within or across agencies, that have greater vulnerability to waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement, where a failure to perform well could seriously affect the ability of an agency or the federal government to achieve its mission or goals. As required by the Reports Consolidation Act of 2000, we are providing issues we consider as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) major management challenges for fiscal year 2018. EPA's Fiscal Year 2018 Management Challenges What We Found Attention to agency management challenges could result in program improvements and protection for the public, and increased confidence in management integrity and accountability. The EPA Needs to Improve Oversight of States, Territories and Tribes Authorized to Accomplish Environmental Goals: • The EPA has made important progress, but our work continues to identify challenges throughout agency programs and regions, and many of our recommendations are still not fully implemented. The EPA Needs to Improve Its Workload Analysis to Accomplish Its Mission Efficiently and Effectively: • The EPA needs to identify its workload needs so that it can more effectively prioritize and allocate limited resources to accomplish its work. The EPA Needs to Enhance Information Technology Security to Combat Cyber Threats: • Though the EPA continues to initiate actions to further strengthen or improve its information security program, the agency lacks a holistic approach to managing accountability over its contractors and lacks follow-up on corrective actions taken. The EPA Needs to Improve on Fulfilling Mandated Reporting Requirements: • The agency faces challenges in tracking and submitting reports mandated by law that contain key program information for Congress, the EPA Administrator and the public. The EPA Needs Improved Data Quality for Program Performance and Decision- Send all inquiries to our public Making* affairs office at (202) 566-2391 or visit www.epa.gov/oig. • Poor data quality negatively impacts the EPA's effectiveness in overseeing programs that directly impact public health. Listing of OIG reports. ------- |