Federal Reports

We audited costs claimed by the New York Department of Environment Conservation, Division of Fish and Wildlife, under WSFR grants awarded by FWS.

As of January 31, 2024, the EPA and the CSB have no outstanding OIG recommendations related to their travel and purchase card programs.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prepared the Semi-Annual Report on Purchase Charge Card Violations for the period of April 1, 2023, to September 30, 2023. No additional information inconsistent with the EPA’s violation report for the reporting period came to our attention and we received no allegations of misuse of the government purchase card for the semiannual period.

We retained the services of Williams, Adley, & Co.-DC LLP (Williams Adley), an independent public accounting firm, to conduct an evaluation to assess the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) management of its cloud systems, shared services, and third-party systems, from a legal, internal control, and contractual perspective.

This audit report includes one finding and three recommendations. Williams Adley concluded that USAC had effective internal controls for ensuring that USF contributions are accurate, timely, and include all eligible service providers, however, identified internal control weaknesses in USAC’s process for referring service providers for possible rule violations related to their contribution requirements to the FCCEnforcement Bureau (EB) for potential enforcement action.

What We Looked AtThis report presents the results of our quality control review (QCR) of the management letter that KPMG issued on its audit, under contract with us, of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) consolidated financial statements for fiscal years 2023 and 2022. This management letter discusses internal control matters that KPMG was not required to include in its audit report. What We FoundOur QCR disclosed no instances in which KPMG did not comply, in all material respects, with U.S. generally accepted Government auditing standards. RecommendationsKPMG made eight recommendations to FAA in its management letter. FAA concurred with all eight recommendations.

What We Looked AtThis report presents the results of our quality control review of KPMG LLP’s management letter for its audit, conducted under contract with us, of the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) consolidated financial statements for fiscal years 2023 and 2022. The management letter discusses four internal control matters that KPMG was not required to include in its audit report. What We FoundOur quality control review of the management letter disclosed no instances in which KPMG did not comply, in all material respects, with U.S. generally accepted Government auditing standards. Our RecommendationsKPMG made seven recommendations in its management letter. DOT concurred with all seven recommendations.