Department of the Interior OIG

We audited the costs claimed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Division of Marine Fisheries, under grants awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) through the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program. We conducted this audit to determine whether the Division used grant funds and...

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...

We considered Recommendation 5 resolved and implemented and Recommendations 1 – 4 and 6 – 8 resolved but not implemented. We referred those seven recommendations to the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget to track their implementation.

The OIG investigated an allegation that a National Park Service (NPS) employee misused an assigned Government Owned-Vehicle (GOV) by taking it home overnight on multiple occasions without authorization.We found that the employee routinely used the assigned GOV as a home-to-work vehicle without prior...

The OIG investigated allegations that a company fraudulently altered a purchase order (PO) that the National Park Service (NPS) awarded for the replacement of two fuel pumps at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The company also allegedly then issued the altered PO to a second company to perform...

Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) enacted on March 27, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) received $909.7 million to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The Office of the Secretary (OS) received $158.4 million of the DOI...

KPMG LLP has its audit of the U.S. Department of the Interior's financial statements for fiscal years 2020 and 2019. KPMG found the following:• The financial statements were fairly presented, in all material respects, in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles• One material...

We audited costs claimed by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Division of Fish and Wildlife (Division), under grants awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) through the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program. We conducted this audit to determine whether the...

We reviewed four recommendations from our 2017 evaluation report titled Improvements Needed in the Bureau of Reclamation’s Oversight of Tribal Rural Water Projects to verify whether the Bureau implemented them.We confirmed that the recommendations have been resolved and implemented.