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U.S. Agency for International Development
Closeout Audit of the Schedule of Expenditures of Caritas, Building Alliance for Local Advancement, Development and Investment Program in Lebanon, Cooperative Agreement AID-268-A-12-00005, January 1, 2021, to June 10, 2022
Medicare Part D Plan Sponsors and CMS Did Not Ensure That Transmucosal Immediate-Release Fentanyl Drugs Were Dispensed Only to Beneficiaries Who Had a Cancer Diagnosis
The SEC Supported Federal Small Business Contracting Objectives, Yet Could Make Better Use of Data and Take Other Actions To Further Promote Small Business Contracting, Report No. 577
The SEC Supported Federal Small Business Contracting Objectives, Yet Could Make Better Use of Data and Take Other Actions To Further Promote Small Business Contracting, Report No. 577
The SEC Supported Federal Small Business Contracting Objectives, Yet Could Make Better Use of Data and Take Other Actions To Further Promote Small Business Contracting, Report No. 577
The SEC Supported Federal Small Business Contracting Objectives, Yet Could Make Better Use of Data and Take Other Actions To Further Promote Small Business Contracting, Report No. 577
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Grants Awarded to the State of Michigan, Department of Natural Resources, From October 1, 2018, Through September 30, 2020, Under the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program
Audit of the Office of Justice Programs Victim Assistance Funds Subawarded by the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice to TESSA, Colorado Springs, Colorado
What We Looked AtThe Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP) provides grants to airport sponsors for land acquisition. Airport sponsors that choose to reduce the impact of airport noise on nearby communities may acquire land, known as noise land, with these grants. Given FAA's large investment in these acquisitions and ongoing concerns over aviation noise, we initiated this audit. Our audit objectives were to assess FAA's (1) oversight of land that airport sponsors acquire with AIP grants for noise compatibility, (2) processes for determining whether airport sponsors identify land they no longer need for noise compatibility, and (3) oversight of airport sponsors' disposal of noise land.What We FoundFAA did not always comply with Federal standards for internal control which direct agencies to design measures to support accurate and timely recording of transactions. FAA's record on grants awarded for noise compatibility between 2005 and 2020 was incomplete and grants for noise land valued at approximately $32 million were erroneously omitted. FAA also did not follow policy when it reimbursed two of five sample airports' noise land purchases, totaling approximately $2.1 million, prior to receipt of evidence of the sponsors' good land title. Furthermore, FAA's processes for monitoring noise land status are insufficient and processes for overseeing sponsors' disposal of noise land are inadequate. FAA policy requires sponsors to promptly dispose of noise land they no longer need but does not establish a time standard for FAA follow-up on disposal status. Two sample airports retained noise land parcels for over 10 years and 15 years, without FAA-approved plans for final disposition.RecommendationsWe are making nine recommendations to help FAA strengthen its oversight of AIP grants for noise compatibility and sponsors' disposal of noise land. FAA concurred with recommendations 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. FAA partially concurred with recommendations 2 and 4. We consider recommendations 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 resolved but open pending completion of planned actions. We consider recommendation 4 open and unresolved and request that FAA reconsider its position.
