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Abbreviation
TVA
Agencies
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federal Agency
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What to Report to the OIG Hotline

If you know about fraud, waste, abuse, misconduct, or whistleblower reprisal relating to a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) program, contract, or employee, you may report it to the TVA OIG EMPOWERLINE. Examples of topics investigated include: contractor fraud; employee wrongdoing; workers’ compensation fraud; environmental crimes; healthcare/prescription drug fraud; partisan political activity; and conflict of interest. TVA OIG also has jurisdiction to investigate allegations of whistleblower retaliation involving employees of TVA contractors or subcontractors.

What Not to Report to the OIG Hotline

• Emergencies involving imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury (911 emergencies) • EEO Complaints • Union Grievances

Intragovernmental FY 2005 3rd Quarter Activity and Balances

2006
2005-061F
Audit
Tennessee Valley Authority OIG
Tennessee Valley Authority

Each quarter federal agencies, including TVA, submit intragovernmental balances by federal trading partner (TP) to the U.S. Treasury (UST) to assist in preparing the annual governmentwide consolidated financial report. To facilitate TVA's reconciliation with its TPs at yearend, we reviewed the FY...

TVA IG Agreed-upon Procedures for Intragovernmental Activity and Balances

2006
2006-006F
Audit
Tennessee Valley Authority OIG
Tennessee Valley Authority

We completed agreed-upon procedures and issued a report to the U.S. Treasury Financial Management Service and Government Accountability Office to assist in the preparation and audit of the fiscal year 2006 U.S. government-wide consolidated financial report. Summary Only

Subcontracted Welding Services

2006
2005-043C
Audit
Tennessee Valley Authority OIG
Tennessee Valley Authority

We reviewed $5.1 million of cost billed to TVA by a contractor for subcontracted welding services performed at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Unit 1. We determined TVA had been billed $295,067 for (1) per diem payments that exceeded contract per diem limits; (2) ineligible and unsupported per diem...

Summary of Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Process and Controls Documentation Reviews

2006
2005-059F
Audit
Tennessee Valley Authority OIG
Tennessee Valley Authority

To assist TVA in preparing for compliance in fiscal year 2007 with Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX 404), we reviewed the documentation and design of certain financial reporting controls determined by the Controller's organization to be in scope for SOX 404 compliance and reporting...

Subcontracted Engineering Services

2006
2005-045C
Audit
Tennessee Valley Authority OIG
Tennessee Valley Authority

We reviewed $64.5 million of costs billed to TVA by a contractor for subcontracted engineering services performed at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Unit 1. We determined TVA had been over billed $34,958. The overbilling included (1) $20,243 of temporary living allowance (TLA) payments that had not been...

Internal Controls Over Time Reporting

2006
2005-034F
Audit
Tennessee Valley Authority OIG
Tennessee Valley Authority

We reviewed and evaluated the control design and documentation for the time reporting process to determine whether key financial reporting risks were addressed in the control framework. In summary, we determined process control documentation was inadequate in the areas of establishing responsibility...

Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN) Tools Control Analysis

2006
2006-503I
Audit
Tennessee Valley Authority OIG
Tennessee Valley Authority

As a result of our review of the procedures and key control activities used to track and account for tools at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant (Inspection No. 2005-526I), we performed an inspection to asses the processes and key control activities used to track and account for tools at WBN. TVA Nuclear...

Bellefonte Nuclear Plant (BLN) Construction Inventory

2006
2006-510I
Audit
Tennessee Valley Authority OIG
Tennessee Valley Authority

We determined that approximately 95 percent of the items selected for review from items in BLN's construction inventory records pertaining to 213 commodities were actually warehoused at BLN. We also noted that the sales price of the inventory will likely be less than the original purchase cost due...

TVA's Continuity of Operations Plan

2006
2006-507I
Audit
Tennessee Valley Authority OIG
Tennessee Valley Authority

We determined that while TVA's June 2002 proposed COOP appears to address major COOP requirements as stated in Federal Preparedness Circular 65 and provides guidance for the preparation of site-, activity-, or business-unit specific plans, TVA's COOP lacks proper implementation and support...

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