Tennessee Valley Authority OIG

Marshall Miller & Associates, Inc. (Marshall Miller) was engaged by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Office of Inspector General to review the adequacy and completeness of environmental recovery plans prepared by TVA in response to the ash spill that occurred on December 22, 2008, at the...

Marshall Miller & Associates, Inc. (Marshall Miller) was engaged by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Office of Inspector General to review the Transportation and Disposal Plans prepared by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in response to the ash release that occurred on December 22, 2008 at...

As part of the Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) ongoing commitment to provide oversight in this area, we assessed Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Kingston ash spill clean-up and recovery efforts. We assessed TVA's progress in two areas: (1) the clean-up of the ash and returning the area to...

TVA OIG retained Marshall Miller & Associates, Inc. (Marshall Miller) to conduct a peer review of the Stantec Consulting Services, Inc. (Stantec) stability calculations and construction documents for the Dike C Buttress at the Kingston Fossil Plant (Kingston). Dike C refers to the remaining section...

As part of our annual audit plan, we reviewed the process for ensuring that counterparty credit analysis is performed and monitored. We identified issues related to the cultural factors affecting the credit risk monitoring process, performance of initial credit analysis, and monitoring of...

OIG reviewed the Dickson Electric System (Dickson), a distributor for TVA power based in Dickson, Tennessee. The OIG's review found (1) customer classification issues that could impact the proper reporting of electric sales and/or nondiscrimination in providing power to members of the same rate...

We reviewed the qualifications for contractor and subcontractor employees working on the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2 (WBN U2) construction project to assess the hiring process and determine if those hired met minimal qualifications for their designated labor category (grades). We determined:TVA's...

We performed four agreed-upon procedures solely to assist management in determining the validity of the Winning Performance payout awards for the year ended September 30, 2008. In summary, we found:The fiscal year 2008 Winning Performance goals were properly approved. However, during our review, we...

We reviewed TVA's efforts to implement telework as well as any planned telework initiatives. Our review determined (1) Business Practice 20, Off-site Use of Business Equipment (BP 20), provides a framework for telework; however, we found little evidence of compliance with the policy, especially as...

We audited the costs billed to TVA by a contractor for providing professional engineering and technical support services associated with the restart of Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant (BFN) Unit 1. Our audit, which included $110 million of payments TVA made to the contractor from June 2004 through...