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Brought to you by the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency
Federal Reports
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Internal Revenue Service
Processes Do Not Adequately Reduce the Risk That Outside Employment Activities Will Conflict With Employees' Official Duties
The Board Can Enhance Its Internal Enforcement Action Issuance and Termination Processes by Clarifying the Processes, Addressing Inefficiencies, and Improving Transparency
In two of the four areas – training and collaboration – Washington’s Emergency Management Division (EMD) and FEMA complied with applicable policies, procedures, and regulations. In the third functional area – project execution, monitoring and oversight – we did not identify any significant deficiencies. We found, however, EMD lacked position-specific guidance for all personnel with programmatic responsibilities. In the last functional area – project and grant closeout – neither EMD nor its subrecipients submitted timely project closeout requests. In addition, FEMA did not enforce compliance with its own guidance for processing closeouts. We recommended FEMA ensure EMD complies with its State Administrative Plan by issuing and regularly updating desk manuals. In addition, we recommended FEMA coordinate with EMD to initiate closeout on behalf of subrecipients for all open, large projects whose period of performance end dates exceed the 90-day regulatory requirement, and submit closeout requests to FEMA for projects exceeding the 180-day requirement. We made five recommendations to strengthen EMD’s internal controls to improve its oversight of FEMA’s Public Assistance grant program. FEMA concurred with all five of our recommendations.
This report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of package delivery scanning issues at Gardena Post Office, Gardena, CA. The Gardena Post Office is in the Los Angeles District of the Pacific Area. This audit was designed to provide U.S. Postal Service management with timely information on potential delivery scanning risks at the Gardena Post Office. The Gardena Post Office has 56 city delivery routes and one combination route delivered by 91 city carriers. We used geolocation data to identify units with stop-the-clock (STC) scans that occurred at the delivery unit property instead of the intended delivery address. The unit had 29,602 STC scans at the delivery unit between April and June 2019. These scans occurred on multiple routes and were intended for multiple delivery addresses throughout the timeframe.
