GAO's Review of Selected Operations of the Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General

Gao ID: RCED-83-116 August 23, 1983

GAO reviewed selected operations of the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), focusing on how well the office complied with audit standards and how often its audit recommendations were implemented.

In evaluating 22 audits and reports issued in fiscal year 1982 by three OIG offices, GAO found that field work and reporting standards were generally followed. However, GAO identified instances of noncompliance with at least two standards in every audit or report reviewed. From its review of the extent to which DOT administrations have taken corrective actions based on OIG audit findings, GAO determined that DOT agencies frequently did not take the corrective actions promised. This determination was made from an analysis of 60 randomly selected OIG reports issued between October 1979 and 1982. In a followup study on DOT agency implementation of corrective actions, OIG obtained results similar to those obtained by GAO.

Recommendations

Our recommendations from this work are listed below with a Contact for more information. Status will change from "In process" to "Open," "Closed - implemented," or "Closed - not implemented" based on our follow up work.

Director: Oliver W. Krueger Team: General Accounting Office: Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division Phone: (202) 275-5514


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