Verification Review – Recommendations for the Report, “BIA Needs Sweeping Changes to Manage the Osage Nation’s Energy Resources” (CR-EV-BIA-0003-2013)

OIG completed a verification review of 9 of the 33 recommendations presented in our October 2014 evaluation report, “BIA Needs Sweeping Changes to Manage the Osage Nation’s Energy Resources” (CR-EV-BIA-0003-2013). Our evaluation report found that the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ (BIA) Osage Agency’s oil and gas management program is fundamentally flawed, thereby preventing the Agency from effectively managing the Osage Nation’s mineral estate. BIA can only reform the program through sweeping changes in how the Agency conducts its oil and gas activities.