EPA Plans Imminent Withdrawal Of FBI MOU, But IG Voices Concerns

摘要

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy has told the agency's Inspector General (IG) she has imminent plans to withdraw a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that gave the agency's homeland security office sole investigative authority over intelligence matters at EPA, but IG Arthur Elkins Jr. voiced dissatisfaction with the move at an April 30 House oversight committee hearing. "It leaves the whole situation muddier than it was before," Elkins told the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee at a hearing on EPA mismanagement. Elkins informed the committee he received two emails April 29 from McCarthy advising him of "an imminent withdrawal of the MOU." He said, "While I sincerely appreciate the spirit of the proposal, the stated terms fall disappointedly short of addressing the OIG's concerns."