EPA Developed A Neighborhood Risk Tool For 8 Years But Nobody Uses It

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

dailycaller
MARK TAPSCOTT
Executive Editor, Chief of Investigative Group
3:17 PM 09/07/2017

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http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/07/epa-developed-neighborhood-risk-tool-for-eight-years-but-nobody-uses-it/

The report by the Inspector General at EPA was prompted by an anonymous complaint left on the watchdog’s hotline for reporting waste, fraud and abuse about the agency’s Community-Focused Exposure and Risk Screening Tool.

The odyssey of problems with the C-FERST tool described by the IG included:

Nobody asked that the tool be developed.
No one submitted a project proposal for the tool.
The tool didn’t match EPA’s information technology requirements.
Other EPA tools do the same thing the tool does.
The tool finally delivered was different from its original purpose.
There are no measures to determine if the tool works.
Hardly anybody uses the tool nine months after its September 2016 launch.

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Government

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I have tried C-FERST.

It's not the sort of tool that I would find useful for myself, and it was largely designed to help the sort of people who won't be bothered to help themselves.