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Read our latest report to Congress highlighting OIG’s successful work from April 1, 2025, to September 30, 2025.
Using a risk-based, tiered approach in developing this work plan to best focus our resources, AIE will initiate work in nine risk areas in 2026, including oversight of supplemental funding provided to DOI.
We substantiated allegations that an operator placed safety systems in bypass and did not immediately notify BSEE of the subsequent oil discharge.
We found that an employee with a food service contractor stole money from an FWS training center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Kansas made progress by plugging orphaned wells with IIJA initial grant funding; however, we identified issues with its grant performance.
We completed 25 oversight projects related to $787 million in Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 funding for DOI Hurricane Sandy recovery.
We found a former employee violated ethics regulations, DOI Policy and the law through misuse of official time and property and other misconduct.
We found that nearly $40 million in IT-related purchase requests were incorrectly classified and did not receive appropriate IT approval as required.
We found that DOI may have misstated its total acres by 82 percent in its FY 2023 AFR.
DOI is not consistently reducing cybersecurity risks by remediating software vulnerabilities that have been rated as the most severe.