USDA OIG determined whether National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) designed and implemented adequate internal controls to properly select Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) grant recipients and monitor AFRI projects’ compliance.
Open Recommendations
Recommendation Number | Significant Recommendation | Recommended Questioned Costs | Recommended Funds for Better Use | Additional Details | |
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4 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
Establish a process to document the monitoring of all grantees’ Federal Financial Reports to ensure they are submitted and reviewed within the required timeframes. | |||||
5 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
Establish a process to periodically review all ended grants to ensure they were timely closed out and unused funds are deobligated. |