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IIJA - Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program for At-Risk Communities

Report Information

Date Issued
Report Number:
08801-0002-24
Report Type
Inspection / Evaluation
Component
Forest Service
Description
We conducted integrated oversight of Forest Service’s (FS) implementation of the Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CWDG) Program.
Joint Report
Yes
Participating OIG
Department of Agriculture OIG
Agency Wide
Yes (agency-wide)
Questioned Costs
$32,640,000
Funds for Better Use
$0
View report on Oversight.gov

Recommendations

We recommend FS establish and implement a control activity in its accounting structure, to track the IIJA – State and Private Forestry funds expended in the FS Operations account, that would ensure funds were expended on allowable IIJA provisions.

FS should implement control activities in its application awarding process to improve the timeliness of grant agreements being executed after the application closing date.