EPA watchdog to probe Pruitts $25,000 privacy booth
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) internal watchdog will investigate Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to spend nearly $25,000 on a privacy booth for his office.
EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins told Democrats in the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a letter made public Tuesday that his office will look into whether the agency’s purchase complies with congressional spending legislation, in response to a letter the committee sent.
“Your letter does raise issues about whether those agency decisions comply with appropriations law, that is, are appropriated funds available for the purchase of ‘construct[ing] a secure, soundproof communications booth in the offices of Administrator Scott Pruitt’ ” Elkins wrote to Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (N.J.), the panel’s top Democrat, in the Deb. 8 letter.
“That is within the authority of the [inspector general] to review, and we will do so,” Elkins wrote.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/364465-epa-watchdog-to-probe-pruitts-25000-privacy-booth
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