Reports

We reviewed recommendations 10, 18, and 21 presented in our September 30, 2014 report, titled Management of the Coastal Impact Assistance Program in the State of Louisiana, to verify that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has implemented them. We confirmed that the FWS met the requirements of these recommendations, and we consider all three recommendations resolved and implemented.

Verification Review – Recommendations for the Report, Evaluation of Security Features of the Stewart Lee Udall U.S. Department of the Interior Building (Report No. ER-EV-PMB-0005-2014)

We investigated allegations that a BIE official, when he was the principal of a BIE boarding school, had attempted to increase the school’s Federal funding by: • Allowing or directing the enrollment of students in the school’s gifted and talented (GT) program without properly assessing them • Submitting inaccurate student attendance records We found that enrollment in the school’s GT program went up dramatically while the official was principal and that this increased the school’s Federal funding, but we did not find evidence that the official had directed school staff to identify GT

BIE Official Allegedly Inflated GT Program Enrollment and Student Attendance Numbers at Former School

The OIG investigated allegations that a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) official intimidated and verbally abused a subordinate employee and that the official twice directed the employee to provide false information—once about an FWS event and once about an FWS investigation.