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Internal Revenue Service
Assessment of Fiscal Year 2024 Compliance With Improper Payment Reporting Requirements
During our unannounced inspection of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Nye CountyDetention Center (Nye) in Pahrump, Nevada, we found that Nye’s staff complied with National Detention Standards 2019 (NDS 2019) for classification, access to law library and legal services, segregation, and use of force. However, facility and ICE staff did not fully comply with standards related to medicalcare, grievances, staff-detainee communication, facility conditions, and telephone access.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducted an audit of the EPA’s reporting of fiscal year 2022 financial and award data in USAspending.gov. During that audit, we identified grant information that was inexplicably changed in the EPA’s grants management system—called the Next Generation Grants System, or NGGS—raising concerns about the overall integrity of the system.
Summary of Findings
During our audit follow-up, we could not determine a valid reason for the changes. EPA grant staff were also not able to explain why the changes were made. The NGGS does not have adequate controls, such as requiring justifications or approval for changes, to prevent or detect improper changes to grant information. If the EPA cannot rely on the information in the NGGS, its ability to effectively administer and oversee its grants portfolio—which, as of the fall of 2024, totaled 8,713 grants with a value of more than $73 billion—is hampered. Furthermore, inadequate controls within the NGGS increase the EPA’s susceptibility to fraud. Improper changes could also impact the other EPA systems that the NGGS connects with.
Audit of the Office of Justice Programs Victim Assistance Funds Subawarded by the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration to Freed Life, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee
Audit of the Office of Justice Programs Victim Assistance Funds Subawarded by the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration to the Memphis Leadership Foundation, Memphis, Tennessee
The Office of Inspector General determined risks to Tennessee Valley Authority resulting from lower-than-expected demand by a manufacturer was not considered and actions to address cost overruns were not fully implemented. Specifically, the manufacturer’s monthly demand averaged approximately 10 megawatts (MWs) of the planned 160 MWs, which could impact TVA’s ability to recover the costs incurred to support the manufacturer. In addition, analyses conducted by TVA identified causes for cost overruns and action plans were developed to mitigate the risk of cost overruns on future transmission projects. However, we determined seven of eleven actions had not been implemented through process changes and actions.
Review of the Export-Import Bank of the United States’ (EXIM’s) process when identifying and selecting EXIM annual export awards recipients. The scope of our review focused on EXIM’s annual conferences and the associated awards between fiscal years 2021 and 2024.
