Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials failed to disclose as much as $7 billion in spending to the main federal internet website to inform the public about where their tax dollars are going, according to a government watchdog.
“The EPA’s initial reporting of its fiscal year 2022 spending in USAspending.gov was not complete or accurate. This occurred because the EPA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) did not follow its information technology configuration management procedures,” the EPA inspector-general said in a report made public Jan. 9, 2024.
“As a result, the EPA’s fiscal year 2022 award-level obligations were underreported by $1.2 billion, and its fiscal year 2022 award-level outlays were underreported by $5.8 billion. This means that 12.9 percent of the EPA’s total award-level obligations and 99.9 percent of the EPA’s total award-level outlays were not reported in fiscal year 2022. The EPA also did not report any of its Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act outlays and underreported its coronavirus pandemic-related outlays,” the report explained….
