Why We Did This Report
We are alerting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to a concern regarding the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, or CWSRF, American Iron and Steel, or AIS, requirement for funding recipients.
Summary
The Office of Investigations initiated an investigation in June 2021 based on concerns from the EPA Office of Wastewater Management that Grandview, Washington, acquired construction materials for a CWSRF project that may have been falsely advertised on a Canadian manufacturing company’s website as following AIS requirements. We determined that Grandview made every effort to comply with the AIS requirements; however, there is a question as to whether the Canadian company’s manhole products complied with AIS requirements. We identified a concern regarding the ambiguity of AIS requirements for PVC components being used in CWSRF projects.