Water Quality: An Evaluation Method for the Construction Grants Program--Methodology
PEMD-87-4A
Published: Dec 17, 1986. Publicly Released: Dec 17, 1986.
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GAO evaluated existing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data concerning the Construction Grants Program's effectiveness in upgrading sewage-treatment plants in order to develop guidelines to evaluate the upgrades.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Protection Agency | The Administrator, EPA, should perform additional evaluations of treatment plant upgrades that use available data and methods similar to those GAO developed. These evaluations should be intended to determine the feasibility of performing a broadly based and methodologically sound evaluation of the Construction Grants Program that makes optimal use of the data already in EPA possession and that identifies and remedies the gaps in its information systems. EPA should improve the reliability and accessibility of its water quality database by ensuring the internal consistency of its data collection practices, updating its data on the geographical locations of plants and stations to reflect changes in them, and expanding its use of river mile indicators for monitoring stations and point sources. |
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EPA has upgraded the quality and usability of its databases, and has examined the feasibility of broad-based GGP evaluation.
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Construction grantsEnvironmental monitoringEvaluation methodsProgram evaluationSewage treatmentWater pollution controlWater qualityPollutantsEnvironmental protectionWastewater