Department of the Interior

Our ongoing review of the use of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funds has identified a significant number of transactions that appear to be impermissible split purchases and that reflect possible misuse of U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) purchase cards. We are...

The Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) requires Federal agencies to have an annual independent evaluation of their information security programs and practices. This evaluation is to be performed by the agency’s Office of Inspector General or by an independent external auditor to...

This report presents the results of our audit of Agreement Nos. A17AV00656, A16AV00812, and A15AV00702 between the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) and St. Stephens Indian School Educational Association, Inc., which provided St. Stephens a total of $12.5 million to operate elementary and high school...

We conducted this audit to determine whether the DOI and its bureaus included the required documentation for charge card transactions, properly used fiscal year (FY) 2019 disaster relief funds, and properly allocated FY 2019 disaster relief funds when using U.S. Government charge cards.We found that...

We evaluated the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) and the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS’) implementation of Phase 1 of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program for a USGS system. Our evaluation revealed control deficiencies for hardware and software asset management and...

We audited the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) Interior Business Center (IBC), which manages procurements for over 50 Federal and State client agencies, to determine whether its internal control system was sufficient to ensure that it followed the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) or...

The OIG investigated allegations that an enrolled member of a Native American tribe paid bribes or kickbacks to an elected member of a tribal business committee in exchange for preference on tribal construction contracts.We did not substantiate the allegations. A financial analysis revealed no...

The OIG investigated allegations that a GS-12 employee with the Office of the Secretary misused his Government purchase card to buy computers without authorization, made other improper purchases with his Government purchase card, and filed false time and attendance certifications.We did not find...

The OIG investigated allegations that a tribal wildland fire employee submitted false overtime claims in 2018.We found insufficient evidence to prove or disprove the allegation. The wildland fire employee denied the allegations and said any overtime claimed was fire related, and we did not find any...

On March 27, 2020, the President signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). To date the CARES Act has provided the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) with $909.7 million, which includes direct apportionments of $756 million to support the needs of DOI...