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Reports

Quality Control Review of Northern Virginia Regional Commission’s Single Audit

Report Number
2017-FIN-028

On behalf of the National Park Service (NPS), we conducted a quality control review (QCR) of an independent public accountant’s (IPA) fiscal year 2016 single audit of the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, an NPS grantee. The purpose of our QCR was to determine whether the IPA performed the single audit in accordance with all applicable auditing standards and the Code of Federal Regulations. Auditors may receive an overall QCR rating of pass, pass with deficiencies, or fail.

Other
Other

United States

Report of Prohibited Communications by Former National Indian Gaming Commission Employee Unfounded

Report Number
18-0148

The OIG investigated allegations that a former Government employee of the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) violated Federal post-employment restrictions by communicating with current NIGC employees regarding a management agreement that the Government employee was involved in while working for NIGC. We did not substantiate the allegation against the former Government employee.

Investigation
Other

United States

Investigation of Falsified Blowout Preventer Test Chart

Report Number
14-0051

The OIG investigated allegations that employees of Energy Resource Technology, Inc. (ERT) falsified Blowout Preventer (BOP) pressure test charts and engaged in unsafe welding operations while conducting oil and gas activities aboard an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico. We found that the ERT manager on the platform, Race Addington, concealed a failed pressure test from Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) officials and directed offshore worker Kenneth Johns and another ERT employee to fabricate a false BOP pressure test chart.

Investigation
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

United States

Summary of Hurricane Sandy Audit and Inspection Reports and Management Advisories

Report Number
2017-FIN-057

For this inspection, we summarized the common themes and problems in award acquisition and management across 19 products—9 contract audits, 3 grant audits, 1 inspection, and 6 management advisories—that we issued to bureau officials over 4 years, ending July 31, 2017, related to awards made for Hurricane Sandy recovery. Across the 12 audit reports, we audited $70.9 million in claimed costs and identified $14 million in questioned costs (19.75 percent of the total).

Inspection / Evaluation
Departmentwide

United States

Verification Review of Recommendations 58 - 64 from the Report Titled “A New Horizon: Looking to the Future of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement” (CR-EV-MMS-0015-2010)

Report Number
2018-EAU-021

We completed a verification review of Recommendations 58 to 64, presented in our evaluation report, A New Horizon: Looking to the Future of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (CR-EV-MMS-0015-2010), issued December 2010. Our objective for this review was to determine whether the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement had implemented Recommendations 58 to 64, as reported to the Office of Financial Management, Office of Policy, Management and Budget. We concur that these recommendations have been resolved and implemented.

Review
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

United States

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