A daily roundup of just-released investigative reports, drawn from oversight agencies, congressional committees, and government offices across Washington.

ENVIRONMENT: “Congressionally Requested Inquiry into EPA’s Response to a Report of a Leaking Well in North Carolina and the National Response Center Hotline” (Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General). Reports that from October 2006 through April 2009, the EPA and other agencies may have failed to respond to more than a dozen calls reporting discharges of pollutants into the environment. After-hours calls were forwarded to the National Response Center, operated by the U.S. Coast Guard and open at all times. These particular calls went into a voice-mail system at the NRC and were not discovered until September 2009.

ENVIRONMENT: “EPA Needs to Comply with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and Improve Its Oversight of Exported Never-Registered Pesticides” (Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General).

HOUSING: “HUD Did Not Maintain Documentation to Determine if Public Housing Agencies Took Corrective Action on its January 7, 2008 Memorandum and Public Housing Agencies Paid an Estimated $7 Million for Deceased Tenants” (Housing and Urban Development Department’s Inspector General).

“INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND: Lending Programs Allow for Negotiations and Are Consistent with Economic Literature” (Government Accountability Office).

“2010 CENSUS: Census Bureau Has Made Progress on Schedule and Operational Control Tools, but Needs to Prioritize Remaining System Requirements” (Government Accountability Office).

MILITARY PROCUREMENT: “Strategic Airlift Gap Has Been Addressed, but Tactical Airlift Plans Are Evolving as Key Issues Have Not Been Resolved” (Government Accountability Office).

“MILITARY AND VETERANS’ BENEFITS: Analysis of VA Compensation Levels for Survivors of Veterans and Servicemembers” (Government Accountability Office).

MILITARY: “Defense Infrastructure: Guam Needs Timely Information from DOD to Meet Challenges in Planning and Financing Off-Base Projects and Programs to Support a Larger Military Presence” (Government Accountability Office).

MILITARY: “Military Base Realignments and Closures: Estimated Costs Have Increased While Savings Estimates Have Decreased Since Fiscal Year 2009” (Government Accountability Office).

MILITARY: “DOD Civil Support During the 2007 and 2008 California Wildland Fires” (Defense Department’s Inspector General).

POVERTY: “Poverty Determination in U.S. Insular Areas” (Government Accountability Office).

LAW ENFORCEMENT: “A Review of the Department’s Anti-Gang Intelligence and Coordination Centers” (Justice Department’s Inspector General).

GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL: “U.S. Marshals: Qualifications and Comparison of Demographic Characteristics to Their Counterparts in Selected Federal Law Enforcement Agencies” (Government Accountability Office).

GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT: “Employment Verification at Savannah River Site” (Energy Department’s Inspector General).

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: “Sentinel Audit V: Status of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Case Management System” (Justice Department’s Inspector General).

INFORMATION SECURITY: “Review of Medicare Contractor Information Security Program Evaluations for Fiscal Year 2006” (Health and Human Services Department’s Inspector General).

“INFORMATION SECURITY: Actions Needed to Manage, Protect, and Sustain Improvements to Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Classified Computer Network” (Government Accountability Office).

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