(CNN) The Environmental Protection Agency inspector general's office announced Friday that it will review the "extent and type of employee concerns, if any, with scientific integrity."

The review is part of an audit intended "to determine whether the EPA's Scientific Integrity Policy is being implemented as intended to assure scientific integrity throughout the EPA," the inspector general's office wrote in a memo

The review is significant because of the Trump administration's focus on how the EPA and other federal government offices conduct and use science.

The EPA declined to comment on the review, referring questions to the inspector general.

Then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt proposed controversial new guidelines in April that would allow the agency to consider outside studies only if the underlying data is made public.

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