Federal Reports

The Office of Inspector General released its annual report identifying what it sees as the top management and performance challenges facing NASA.

The OIG completed an investigation to determine if Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody) submitted false statements to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) to obtain self-bonds for coal mines on Federal leases in Wyoming and to determine if the WDEQ acted appropriately in the review of those applications.We did not find any false statements submitted by Peabody. Further, we found the WDEQ acted appropriately in the review of Peabody’s self-bonding applications.We issued this report of investigation to the Director for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.

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The Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Inspections & Evaluations Division reviewed FOIA programs of the CIA, DIA, NGA, NRO, NSA, and ODNI. The Office also reviewed the ODNI’s role as an integrator. ICIG examined the effectiveness of the elements’ efforts to manage FOIA requests, with a focus on how programs prioritize, coordinate, and process requests to meet statutory requirements, including response timeliness and communications with requestors.

This work product summarizes an OIG review of allegations of VA waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement. The results of the OIG’s oversight efforts are typically published in a formal report. However, the OIG has issued alternative work products, such as this one, in lieu of a full report in certain circumstances. These included instances in which the OIG could not substantiate an allegation or substantiated an allegation without issuing recommendations, when actions were taken by VA during the course of an ongoing project to remediate errors, or when the subject of an allegation retired or resigned from service prior to the completion of OIG's work. In addition, the OIG has issued work products when investigating allegations involving its own personnel when not in the exclusive purview of other agencies.

In keeping with its responsibilities under the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, the OIG monitored the audit of TVA's fiscal year 2018 financial statements performed by Ernst and Young LLP (EY) to assure their work complied with Government Auditing Standards. Our review of EY's work disclosed no instance in which the firm did not comply in all material respects with Government Auditing Standards.