OIG Presses EPA To Develop Pandemic Guidance For Waste Cleanups

EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is renewing its call for the agency’s waste office to develop guidance on how to conduct oversight for Superfund sites when travel or site access is limited, as they were in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, after the agency rejected that advice, saying it would limit regions’ flexibility. In a new report , OIG said EPA’s plan to conduct a lessons-learned review as an alternative to new guidance “may not sufficiently prepare...