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Opportunities Exist To Improve FHWA’s Oversight of STIPs Including Those With IIJA-Funded Projects

2024
ST2024021
Audit
Department of Transportation OIG
Department of Transportation

What We Looked AtThe Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) oversees approximately $350 billion appropriated for FHWA programs and activities by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021. To ensure proper planning and budgeting, each State Department of Transportation (State DOT) must...

Quality Control Review on a Single Audit of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, Nashville, TN

2024
QC2024022
Audit
Department of Transportation OIG
Department of Transportation

What We Looked AtIn 2023, we conducted a quality control review (QCR) of Crosslin PLLC’s single audit of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) of Nashville, TN, for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2022 (OIG Report Number QC2023046, dated September 25, 2023). In that QCR, we found that...

FAA’s Report on Air Traffic Modernization Presents an Incomplete and Out-of-Date Assessment of NextGen

2024
AV2024023
Audit
Department of Transportation OIG
Department of Transportation

What We Looked At Section 502 of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2018 mandated that FAA report on the Agency’s progress in implementing Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) programs and that Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of Inspector...

A Review of Pandemic Relief Funding and How It Was Used In Six U.S. Communities: Springfield, Massachusetts

2024
PRAC-2024-04
Other
Pandemic Response Accountability Committee
Department of the Treasury
Department of Agriculture
Department of Health & Human Services
Department of Transportation
Department of Labor
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Education
Pandemic

To learn how communities across the nation responded to the pandemic, we initiated a multi-part review of six communities—two cities, two rural counties, and two Tribal reservations. This report is the first community-specific report and focuses on our work in Springfield, Massachusetts, where we...

FRA Lacks Written Procedures and Formal Planning for Oversight of Railroad Hours of Service Compliance and the Passenger Railroad Fatigue Management Requirements

2024
ST2024020
Audit
Department of Transportation OIG
Department of Transportation

What We Looked AtThe Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) recent data show that human factors, which include fatigue, remain the leading cause of reportable non-grade crossing train accidents. In particular, the rate of human factor-caused train accidents reached a 14-year high of 1.43 per...

Quality Control Review on a Single Audit of Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, Orlando, FL

2024
QC2024017
Audit
Department of Transportation OIG
Department of Transportation

What We LookedWe performed a quality control review (QCR) on the single audit that MSL CPAs and Advisors performed for the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority’s (GOAA) fiscal year that ended September 30, 2022. During this period, GOAA expended approximately $178 million from U.S. Department of...

FAA Did Not Fully Follow Its Processes When Awarding and Administering CARES Act-Funded Airport Development Grants and Contracts

2024
ZA2024018
Audit
Department of Transportation OIG
Department of Transportation
Pandemic

What We Looked At The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act provided the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with $10 billion in funding, including about $525 million for airport development expenses. FAA distributed these funds through its Airport Improvement Program (AIP)...

FAA’s Information Technology and Telecommunications Contracting Practices Limit Best Value Outcomes

2024
ZA2024019
Audit
Department of Transportation OIG
Department of Transportation

What We Looked At Each year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) procures billions of dollars in information technologies (IT) and telecommunications (telecom) products and services in support of its mission to provide the safest and most efficient aerospace system in the world. For fiscal...

Quality Control Review of the Management Letter for the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation’s Audited Financial Statements for Fiscal Year 2023

2024
QC2024014
Audit
Department of Transportation OIG
Department of Transportation

What We Looked At This report presents the results of our quality control review of Allmond & Company LLC’s (Allmond) management letter for its audit, conducted under contract with us, of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation’s (GLS) financial statements for fiscal year 2023...

Quality Control Review of the Management Letter for the Department of Transportation’s Audited Consolidated Financial Statements for Fiscal Years 2023 and 2022

2024
QC2024016
Audit
Department of Transportation OIG
Department of Transportation

What We Looked AtThis report presents the results of our quality control review of KPMG LLP’s management letter for its audit, conducted under contract with us, of the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) consolidated financial statements for fiscal years 2023 and 2022. The management letter...

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