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OIG 13-88 IT Management for the CBP component of the FY 2012 DHS Financial Statement Audit

 

Summary: Issues related to information technology (IT) control deficiencies are identified at the component level during the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) annual financial statement audit. Although Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) took corrective action to address its prior year IT control deficiencies, issues continued to be identified that affect CBP's financial data. Collectively these deficiencies negatively affect the internal controls over CBP's financial reporting and its operation, and are considered to contribute to a material weakness at the Department Level.

 

We determined that, during FY 2012, CBP took corrective action to address IT control weaknesses from the prior year. However, during FY 2012, we identified IT general control weaknesses that could potentially affect CBP’s financial data. We determined that the most significant findings from a financial statement audit perspective related to controls over access to programs and data. In addition, these weaknesses negatively impacted the internal controls over CBP financial reporting and its operation, and we considered them to collectively represent a significant deficiency for CBP under standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

 

 

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DD 13-10 FEMA Region VI Should Ensure the Cost Effectiveness of Texas Hazard Mitigation Grant Projects 

 

Summary: State of Texas received $68M in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funds as a result of three (FEMA) major disasters the President declared between June 2001 and January 2006. 

 

FEMA provides HMGP grants on a cost-shared basis to eligible applicants within a  State declared eligible for Federal assistance to implement measures designed. To reduce the loss of life and property from natural disasters.  In total, we audited $68M of FEMA HMGP funds that the Texas Division Emergency Management (TDEM), a FEMA grantee, awarded to four subgrantees in the State of Texas. In these audits, we questioned $17.7M (26 percent) of the $68M. Further, a scope limitation in one of our audits precluded us from reviewing the cost effectiveness of six projects totaling $31.4M.

 

We determined that the majority of our questioned costs related to projects that were not cost-effective and ineligible costs TDEM reimbursed to its subgrantees. The reportable conditions we identified occurred because FEMA and TDEM did not always comply with Federal regulations or FEMA guidelines, and TDEM did not always fulfill its grantee responsibilities.

 

 

We made two recommendations, FEMA concurred with both.

 

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