IG IDENTIFIES EPA STIMULUS FUNDS MANAGEMENT AS KEY CHALLENGE IN FY09

摘要

EPA's Office of Inspector General (IG) is warning that EPA faces significant new financial and programmatic challenges as it awards and oversees economic stimulus funding in the ongoing fiscal year 2009, especially in ensuring the agency has properly trained staff to prevent the fraud, waste and abuse of federal funds.rnThe economic stimulus package created several new responsibilities for EPA in addition to the agency's ongoing environmental program, which is why the IG "will be designating EPA management of stimulus funds as a new top management challenge for FY 2009," Assistant IG for Audit Melissa Heist said in April 29 testimony to the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee.