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Reports

Recommendations for the Report Titled Stronger Internal Controls Needed Over Indian Affairs Loan Guarantee Program (Report No. 2016-CR-036)

Report Number
2020-CR-031

We reviewed the 13 recommendations from our 2017 report titled Stronger Internal Controls Needed Over Indian Affairs Loan Guarantee Program to verify whether the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development implemented them. We confirmed that the 13 recommendations have been resolved and implemented.

Review
Bureau of Indian Affairs

Recommendations for the Report Titled U.S. Department of the Interior’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program Not Yet Capable of Providing Complete Information for Enterprise Risk Determinations (Report No. ISD-IN-MOA-0004-2014-I)

Report Number
2020-ER-048

We reviewed Recommendations 1, 2, 5, and 6 from our 2016 report titled U.S. Department of the Interior’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program Not Yet Capable of Providing Complete Information for Enterprise Risk Determinations to verify whether the OCIO implemented them. We consider Recommendations 1, 2, 5, and 6 resolved and implemented.

Review
Departmentwide

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s Safety Inspection Program COVID-19 Response

Report Number
2020-CR-047

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) continued to fulfill its mission by performing safety and environmental inspections for offshore oil and gas operations. We reviewed the actions BSEE’s three regions—the Gulf of Mexico Region, Pacific Region, and Alaska Region—have taken to protect inspectors and offshore employees from COVID-19 and evaluated any impacts the virus had on inspections BSEE conducted since March 2020.

Disaster Recovery Report
Pandemic
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Needs To Improve Oversight of Its Friends Program

Report Number
2019-CR-011

We audited the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to determine whether it ensured that donations and revenues collected by friends organizations were accounted for and spent in accordance with governing laws. We found that the FWS did not ensure its friends organizations fully accounted for and spent donations and revenues in accordance with governing laws and its own friends program policy. Specifically, we found that the FWS did not maintain the information necessary to manage the friends program.

Audit
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Review of Recommendations for the Evaluation Report Titled Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Southern Ute Agency’s Management of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s Energy Resources (CR-EV-BIA-0011-2014)

Report Number
2020-CR-025

We reviewed the seven recommendations from our 2016 evaluation report titled Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Southern Ute Agency’s Management of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s Energy Resources to verify whether the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Southern Ute Agency implemented them. We confirmed that the recommendations have been resolved and implemented.

Review
Bureau of Indian Affairs