EPA Agrees To OIG’s Calls For Improved Verification Of Land-Use Controls

EPA is agreeing with recommendations from its Office of Inspector General (OIG) to tighten how it verifies land-use controls at Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) corrective action facilities, after the watchdog found that the agency lacks standard methods for long-term oversight of such controls. OIG issued a Sept. 23 report concluding that EPA’s lack of a national process to track or verify the status of land-use controls at RCRA corrective action facilities threatens to impair the implementation of such...