Federal Reports

OIG assessed whether the USDA Climate Hubs developed performance measures to achieve the goal of enhancing working lands’ resilience and productivity.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s financial account validation process led to accurate Supplemental Security Income determinations for applicants and recipients who alleged having less than $400 in financial accounts.

Objective: To determine whether Social Security Administration timely recovered unclaimed assets held by states and the District of Columbia.

The U.S. Postal Service’s mission is to provide timely, reliable, secure, and affordable mail and package delivery to more than 160 million residential and business addresses across the country. The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviews delivery operations at facilities across the country and provides management with timely feedback in furtherance of this mission.This interim report presents the results of our selfinitiated audit of delivery operations and property conditions at the Brighton Main Post Office in Brighton, CO (Project Number 24-137-1). The Brighton Main Post Office is in the Colorado-Wyoming (CO-WY) District of the WestPac Area and services ZIP Codes 80601, 80602 and 80603 (see Figure 1). These ZIP Codes serve 100,196 people in a predominantly urban area. Specifically, 90,021 (90 percent) live in urban communities and 10,175 (10 percent) live in rural communities.

The U.S. Postal Service needs effective and productive operations to fulfill its mission of providing prompt, reliable, and affordable mail service to the American public. It has a vast transportation network that moves mail and equipment among about 330 processing facilities and 31,100 post offices, stations, and branches. The Postal Service is transforming its processing and logistics networks to become more scalable, reliable, visible, efficient, automated, and digitally integrated. This includes modernizing operating plans and aligning the workforce; leveraging emerging technologies to provide world-class visibility and tracking of mail and packages in near real time; and optimizing the surface and air transportation network. The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviews the efficiency of mail processing operations at facilities across the country and provides management with timely feedback to further the Postal Service’s mission.This report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of the efficiency of operations at the Denver Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) in Denver, CO. We judgmentally selected the Denver, CO, P&DC based on a review of first and last mile failures; workhours; scanning compliance; and late, canceled, and extra trips. The Denver P&DC is in the Western Division and processes letters, flats, and parcels. The Denver P&DC services multiple 3-digit ZIP Codes in urban and rural communities.

We found that the EPA's Brownfields Projects Program, a subset of the overall Brownfields Program, met the Executive Office of the President's Justice40 Initiative reporting requirements for fiscal year 2022 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act-funded projects. The program is also projected to meet the EPA's internal goal of ensuring that at least 40 percent of program benefits go to disadvantaged communities. However, the Agency overestimated the percentage of benefits going to disadvantaged communities for fiscal year 2022.