Federal Reports

The OIG investigated allegations that a tribe removed approximately $11 million from the bank account of a tribally controlled school funded by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). We investigated whether the funds had been removed as alleged and whether the removal violated any law or regulation.We found that the tribe did remove the funds, but did not violate any law or regulation by doing so. The tribe took the funds to reimburse itself for unpaid indirect costs that had accumulated since 2001.

During an investigation of the use of self-bonds in coal operations, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) identified an issue with access to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality’s (WDEQ’s) records related to its grant from the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement (OSMRE). We found that the WDEQ may be restricting OSMRE personnel’s ability to remove records from WDEQ offices for OSMRE review and audit. This may impede OSMRE’s ability to review information submitted to the WDEQ by companies that mine on Federal lands.We made one recommendation to help enable the OSMRE to adequately review and audit grant records and clarify the requirement for Federal grantees and program administrators to cooperate with OIG investigations.

The Office of Inspector General assessed NASA’s management of the Boeing contract developing the Space Launch System’s (SLS) Core Stages and Exploration Upper Stage, key parts of the new heavy-lift rocket.

The Smithsonian Institution's Office of the Inspector General conducted this performance audit to test the Smithsonian's capabilities to prevent, detect, and respond to information security incidents.

Pennsylvania generally complied with MIECHV program requirements and terms and conditions of the With Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program’s grants. However, we found that 2 of Pennsylvania’s 10 grant subrecipients did not properly account for MIECHV program funds. One subrecipient incorrectly claimed and received $131,591 in unallowable MIECHV program funds because it based its claim on a budgeted employee fringe benefit rate and not the actual rate. Pennsylvania repaid to the Federal Government $34,786 of that amount for FYs 2012 and 2013, and HRSA determined that the remaining $96,805 should be made available for use for Pennsylvania's MIECHV program provided that the funds were obligated by September 30, 2016, and liquidated by December 30, 2016. The second subrecipient claimed at least $252,399 of MIECHV program funds for expenditures that may not have been related to the program because it did not properly record MIECHV program expenditures in its general ledger.