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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.
• Emergencies involving imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury (911 emergencies) • EEO Complaints • Union Grievances
In this semiannual period, our audit, evaluation, and investigative activities identified more than $9.3 million in questioned costs, funds put to better use, recoveries, waste, and opportunities for TVA to improve its programs and operations.
Our office, through a partnership with the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, obtained data from the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) related to their Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. We scheduled this audit after...
The owner of Corrosion Monitoring Services (CMS), a TVA contractor, pleaded guilty to one felony count of Misprision of a Felony, one felony count of Obstruction of Justice and one felony count of Witness Tampering. The charges were related to an allegation that CMS purposefully damaged metal tubes...
The Office of the Inspector General conducted a review of the Allen Integrated Site (Allen) to identify factors that could impact Allen’s organizational effectiveness. During the course of our evaluation, we identified positive behavioral factors, including relationships with team members and...
The Office of the Inspector General conducted an evaluation to determine if the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was effectively managing acquisitions and disposals of real property. We determined TVA effectively managed the real property acquisitions and disposals for the sample of transactions we...
Due to an elevated number of human performance events in Gas Operations and Hydro Generation organizations in fiscal year 2020, we initiated an evaluation to determine if TVA was taking appropriate actions in response to human performance events.We determined appropriate actions were taken in...
The Office of the Inspector General included an audit of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) maintenance of its owned gas pipelines in our annual audit plan due to pipeline issues identified at other utilities and potential risks to TVA. Our audit objective was to determine if TVA’s maintenance...
The Office of the Inspector General OIG audited the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) use of remote application and desktop virtualization due to the risk of increased remote users during the COVID-19 pandemic and recent publicized remote access vulnerabilities. We found several areas where TVA was...
The Office of the Inspector General conducted a review of Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant (BFN) Chemistry to identify factors that could impact BFN Chemistry’s organizational effectiveness. During the course of our evaluation, we identified behaviors that had a positive impact on BFN Chemistry, including...
The Office of the Inspector General conducted a review of the Southaven Combined Cycle (SCC) Plant to identify factors that could impact SCC’s organizational effectiveness. During the course of our evaluation, we identified behaviors that had a positive impact on SCC. These were related to teamwork...
