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GAO-23-106460 1 (2020-05-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaoops0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States May 9, 2023 The Honorable Michael S. Regan Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20460 Priority Open Recommendations: Environmental Protection Agency Dear Administrator Regan: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your continued personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2022, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 EPA's recommendation implementation rate was 85 percent. As of April 2023, EPA had 85 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our July 2022 letter, EPA has implemented one of our 12 priority recommendations. Specifically, in October 2022, EPA updated the website for the agency's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) to clarify the status of chemical assessments in the development process, as we recommended in December 2020. In February 2023, EPA communicated information to EPA program offices about changes in assessment milestones. These actions will make it easier for EPA program offices and the public to track the status of EPA's chemical assessments. We ask for your continued attention to the remaining 11 priority recommendations. We are also adding four new recommendations related to managing harmful algal blooms and hypoxia. This brings the total number of our priority recommendations to 15. (See enclosure for the list of recommendations.) The 15 priority recommendations fall into the following six areas: 1Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2022, GAO-23-900398 (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2022). GAO-23-106460 Page 1

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