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We summarized what we have determined to be the most significant management and performance challenges facing the DOI for FY 2023.
Today, the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) honored 23 individuals from the Department of the Interior (DOI) Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the 26th Annual CIGIE Awards Ceremony. Each year, the annual awards honor exceptional work across the Federal inspector general community from the prior year.
“I am so proud of our office’s work that CIGIE is honoring today,” said Inspector General Mark Lee Greenblatt. ...
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act authorizes $1.36 billion in appropriations for ecosystem restoration and resilience programs.
XTO Energy Inc. has agreed to pay $16 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it knowingly underpaid royalties owed on natural gas produced from federal and Native American lands. The settlement resolves allegations that the company improperly deducted costs necessary to put the gas in marketable condition, deducted costs of transporting carbon dioxide and failed to pay royalties on carbon dioxide. ...
We investigated allegations that a coal operator failed to pay mineral royalties on coal produced from Federal leases in Wyoming and Kentucky.
We found that a company bypassed safety valves and falsified safety tests associated with an oil and gas production platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
We investigated allegations that a Bureau Director did not comply with ethics obligations. We did not substantiate these allegations.
We found that the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Civil Rights applied an incorrect legal standard and backdated final agency decisions.
We cannot determine if BIA and OIA grant activities met DOI climate change goals due to a lack of performance measures and grant monitoring.
We describe aging infrastructure and dam safety risks, identify how the DOI plans to use IIJA funding, and discuss the BOR’s oversight strategy.