Federal Reports

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) must improve its oversight of the National Board’s (Board) administration of the Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) to ensure individuals receive aid in a timely manner and that program funding is used in accordance with Federal requirements.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did not implement controls that may have prevented the 21 state workforce agencies (SWA) in our review from distributing more than $3.7 billion in improper payments through its Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) program.

EAC OIG, through the independent public accounting firm of McBride, Lock & Associates, LLC, audited funds received by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the Help America Vote Act, including state matching funds and interest earned, totaling $53.4 million. This included Election Security, reissued Section 251, and Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act grants.

For our final report on our audit of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (the Department’s) collection, production, acquisition, maintenance, distribution, use, and preservation of geospatial data, our objective was to assess the Department’s progress toward compliance with Geospatial Data Act requirements under 43 U.S.C. § 2808(a). We found the Department has generally made progress toward complying with 10 of the 13 requirements under this section. However: I. The Department’s geospatial metadata is inconsistent with best practices from FGDC Technical Guidance: Data.gov and The GeoPlatform Metadata Recommendations Including Guidelines for National Geospatial Data Assets (NGDA); and II. Technical challenges on GeoPlatform are still causing metadata harvesting issues.

For our final report on our audit of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (theDepartment’s) working capital funds (WCFs) operated by the Office of the Secretary(Departmental) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), our auditobjectives were to determine whether (1) the Departmental and NIST WCF billing methodsused to allocate costs for internal Department support services are valid, reasonable, andconsistently applied in accordance with applicable Department policies and (2) the internalDepartment support services costs billed through the WCFs are reasonable, allowable, andsupported with documentation in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies. We contracted with KPMG LLP—an independent certified public accounting firm—to perform this audit in accordance with Government Auditing Standards and contract terms. Our officeoversaw the progress of this audit; however, KPMG is solely responsible for the attachedreport and conclusions expressed in it.

DFC OIG contracted with RMA Associates, LLC (RMA) to audit DFC’s compliance with the BUILD Act. Our audit objectives were to: (1) assess DFC’s actions to implement 118 BUILD Act provisions; (2) assess the status of planned actions for those provisions DFC has not yet implemented; and (3) identify challenges that could affect DFC’s timely implementation of those planned actions. In addition, to evaluate steps DFC has taken to prioritize investments in LICs and LMICs, we compared OPIC investments to DFC investments. We also created scorecards for each BUILD Act provision.

The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which also provides oversight for the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, or CSB, contracted with the independent accounting firm SB & Company LLC to initiate an evaluation of the CSB’s compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, or FISMA.