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Office of Inspector General

Report: Quick Reaction Report: EPA Oversight Needed to Ensure Beach Safety in U.S. Virgin Islands

Report #14-P-0155March 31, 2014

What We Found

The lapse in sampling of USVI beaches created risk that the public was exposed to unsafe levels of bacteria and the environment may have been endangered.

Report Materials​​

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