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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Inspector General
At a Glance
21-N-0191
August 4, 2021
Why We Published This
Compendium
Section 5 of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended
(5 U.S.C. App. 3), requires each
inspector general to prepare
semiannual reports for Congress,
which must include "an
identification of each significant
recommendation described in
previous semi-annual reports on
which corrective action has not
been completed."
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's Office of
Inspector General is publishing
this compendium to analyze the
open and unresolved
recommendations listed in the
semiannual report covering our
work from October 1, 2020,
through March 31, 2021. Our
intention is to update this
compendium annually.
Open recommendations are
those that the EPA and the OIG
agree on but that have not yet
been completed. This includes
recommendations with corrective
actions past due or due in the
future. Unresolved
recommendations are those that
the Agency and the OIG do not
agree on. This includes
disagreement on either the
recommendation itself or the
proposed corrective action.
Compendium of Open and Unresolved
Recommendations: Data as of March 31, 2021
What We Found
From March 2017 through March 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency's Office of Inspector General issued nine semiannual reports to
Congress that identified an average of 99 open recommendations and
18 unresolved recommendations issued by the OIG to the EPA. The total
potential monetary benefit was, on average, $167 million for the open
recommendations and $7.5 million for the unresolved recommendations.
This compendium focuses on the 111 open and 25 unresolved
recommendations identified in OIG Report No. EPA-350-R-21-001. Semiannual
Report to Congress: October 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021, issued May 29, 2021.
In this compendium, we also discuss:
•	The relationship of the open and unresolved recommendations to the
EPA's top management challenges, which we detail in OIG Report
No. 20-N-0231. EPA's FYs 2020-2021 Management Challenges, issued
July 21, 2020.
•	Fourteen high-priority open or unresolved recommendations presented to
the EPA in April 2021.
•	The breakdown of open recommendations by program office and region.
•	The human health, environmental, administrative, and business benefits of
the open recommendations. As of March 31, 2021, there were 48 open
recommendations to improve human health and the environment and
63 recommendations to improve administrative and business functions.
•	Open recommendations that are at least three years old, as well as
corrective actions that are not scheduled to be completed within
three years of their issuance.
Address inquiries to our public
affairs office at (202) 566-2391 or
OIG WEBCOMMENTS@epa.gov.
List of OIG reports.

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