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GAO-01-36R 1 (2000-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaalmj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I AmA Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 October 20, 2000 The Honorable Susan M. Collins Chairman Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Subject: Training at the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Inspector General Dear Ms. Chairman: Your letter of February 4, 2000, asked us to provide information about certain activities of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Inspector General (EPA IG). As agreed with your staff we focused on the training provided to the IG staff during fiscal years 1998 and 1999. Specifically, we agreed to provide information regarding (1) EPA IG's compliance with professional standards for continuing professional education, (2) the cost of the training, (3) EPA IG's reasons for providing four new training courses, and (4) EPA IG's plans for future training. Scope and Methodology To review EPA IG's compliance with standards we obtained the results of the recently completed peer review' of the IG's audit activities performed by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (HHS IG). We also obtained data regarding the cost of training for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, as reported by EPA IG's budget office. As a benchmark, we compared the fiscal year 1998 EPA IG costs to those in the American Society for Training and Development's (ASTD) report entitled The 2000 ASTD State of the Industry Report, which provided information on the training activities of 1,200 organizations for fiscal year 1998. ASTD had not yet developed comparable data for fiscal year 1999. The cost information reported by EPA IG and ASTD included the costs for contractors, tuition, and travel and did not include the salaries of employees taking the training. Because the organizations surveyed by ASTD vary widely in purpose and in the size of their budgets, their training costs are compared as a percentage of their payrolls. In order 'Peer review, as required by Government Auditing Standards, is an external quality control review performed at least once every 3 years by an organization not affiliated with the organization being reviewed. The peer review should determine whether the organization's internal quality control system is in place and operating effectively to provide reasonable assurance that established policies and procedures and applicable auditing standards are being followed. GAO-01-36R EPA IG Training

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