Several interested parties requested that we investigate whether U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) officials disclosed sensitive or confidential tribal information to entities outside the U.S. Government. Some of these individuals also alleged that DOI or U.S. Department of the Treasury employees intentionally released confidential tribal information to Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs).

We audited the costs claimed by the State of Alabama, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (Division), under grants awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) through the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program. The audit included claims totaling $89.3 million on 70 grants that were open during the State fiscal years that ended September 30, 2017, and September 30, 2018.

We evaluated the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) and the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS’) implementation of Phase 1 of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program for a USGS system. Our evaluation revealed control deficiencies for hardware and software asset management and configuration management. Specifically, the DOI did not require bureaus and offices to maintain accurate hardware asset inventories for information systems, which prevented them from monitoring key security metrics through the DOI’s CDM dashboard.

This report presents the results of our audit of Agreement Nos. A17AV00656, A16AV00812, and A15AV00702 between the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) and St. Stephens Indian School Educational Association, Inc., which provided St. Stephens a total of $12.5 million to operate elementary and high school facilities owned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) between July 2015 and June 2018. We conducted this audit to determine whether agreement expenses were allowable and St. Stephens complied with applicable laws and regulations, BIE and BIA guidelines, and agreement terms and conditions.