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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Inspector General

At a Glance

August 2, 2022

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, 2021,
through March 31, 2022. Our
intention is to produce this
compendium twice a year
following each semiannual report
publication.

Open recommendations are

those that the EPA and the OIG
agree on but for which the
agreed-to corrective action has
not been completed. This
includes recommendations with
corrective actions past due or due
in the future. Unresolved
recommendations are those for
which the Agency and the OIG do
not agree on the corrective action,
the proposed corrective action
completion date, or the
completion of the corrective
action.

Address inquiries to our public
affairs office at (202) 566-2391 or
OIG WEBCOMMENTS@epa.gov.

Compendium of Open and Unresolved
Recommendations: Data as of March 31, 2022

What We Found

This compendium focuses on 175 recommendations (156 open and
19 unresolved) identified in Report No. EPA-350-R-22-001. Semiannual Report
to Congress: October 1, 2021-March 31, 2022, issued May 2022. These
recommendations represent $29.70 million in potential monetary benefits. In
this compendium, we also discuss:

•	The breakdown of unresolved recommendations, including
recommendations the Agency previously reported as closed.

•	The relationship of open and unresolved recommendations to the EPA's
fiscal year 2022 top management challenges, which we identify in OIG
Report No. 22-N-0004, EPA's Fiscal Year 2022 Top Management
Challenges, issued November 12, 2021.

•	17 high-priority (open or unresolved) recommendations the OIG
identified.

•	The breakdown of open recommendations by program office and
region.

•	103 open recommendations to improve human health and the
environment and 53 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 report issuance.

From March 2017 through March 2022, the OIG issued 11 semiannual
reports to Congress. These reports identified an average of 104 open
recommendations and 18 unresolved recommendations to the EPA. The
total potential monetary benefit was, on average, $147.8 million for the
recommendations.

List of OIG Reports.


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