The EPA’s internal watchdog has added the agency’s management of grants and contracts to its list of top oversight areas, calling 2024 the “Year of Fighting Fraud.”
The plan to closely monitor grants and contracts fits with Environmental Protection Agency Inspector General Sean O’Donnell’s frequent comments that he’s concerned about the agency’s management of $100 billion under the infrastructure and climate laws.
Specifically, the agency is “challenged by issues that limit the usefulness of its grant data, including a high volume of disparate grant-management systems and unstructured grant data formats, as well as a limited collection of grant subrecipient data,” ...
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