FISCAL YEAR 

2004 

PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL ON 

INTEGRITY AND EFFICIENCY 

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL ON 

INTEGRITY AND EFFICIENCY 

TO THE 

A Progress Report 

Pre sident 
Results in Brief

FEDERAL INSPECTOR GENERAL COMMUNITY

FY 2004

INPUTS

Over 11,400 Audit,

Investigation, Inspection and 

Other Professionals at 57 Federal 

Offices of Inspector General

OUTPUTS

• 4,200 Audit Reports

• 25,600 Closed Investivative Cases

• 189,500 Complaints Processed

• 70 Congressional Testimonies

OUTCOMES

• $18 Billion in Potential Savings from Audit 

Recommendations and Investigative Recoveries

• 6,200 Indictments and Criminal Informations

• 6,500 Successful Prosecutions

• 600 Civil Actions Successfully Concluded

• 5,000 Suspensions and Debarments

• 2,000 Personnel Actions

This report was prepared jointly through the efforts of the Offices of Inspector General of the Department of Energy, 

the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and the Railroad 

Retirement Board. Copies of this publication may be obtained by contacting (202) 606-1200. It is also available in 

electronic form on the Inspectors General website, www.ignet.gov.
On behalf of the Members of the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency and the Executive Council on 

Integrity and Efficiency, we are pleased to present “A Progress Report to the President,” our annual report for Fiscal Year 

2004 which provides the results of our work on behalf of the American taxpayers. 

Collectively, the community’s continuing efforts to improve the performance and accountability of Federal 

Government programs and operations resulted in $18 billion in potential savings; 6,500 successful criminal 

prosecutions; 600 civil actions; and 5,000 suspensions and debarments of businesses and persons for inappropriate 

dealings with the Federal Government. Detailed information on the activities of individual offices may be found 

through the websites maintained by each office, or through the Inspectors General shared website at www.ignet.gov. 

We encourage readers to avail themselves of this information. 

The over 11,400 people of the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency and the Executive Council on Integrity 

and Efficiency are committed to ensuring that Federal Government operations are conducted efficiently, effectively 

and in the best interest of the American people. 

Gregory Friedman

Vice Chair

President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency

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Barry Snyder

Vice Chair 

Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency

THE INSPECTOR GENERAL COMMUNITY 1

ADDRESSING GOVERNMENT CHALLENGES 5

AN OVERVIEW OF THE PCIE AND ECIE 11

 ACTIVITIES OF PCIE COMMITTEES, WORKING GROUPS, AND ROUNDTABLES 13

RESULTS RELATED TO THE PCIE AND ECIE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK 23

OIG STATISTICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS 29

Audit-Related Accomplishments 29 

Recommendations that Funds be Put to Better Use 30 

Management Decisions on Recommendations that Funds be Put to Better Use 31

Questioned Costs 32

Management Decisions on Questioned Costs 33

Investigations-Related Accomplishments 34 

Successful Criminal Prosecutions 34

Indictments and Criminal Informations 35

Successful Civil Actions 35

Suspensions and Debarments 36

Personnel Actions 36

Investigative Receivables and Recoveries 37

Joint Investigations 38

OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENTS 39

APPENDIX: PCIE AND ECIE MEMBERSHIP 43

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THE INSPECTOR GENERAL

COMMUNITY

INSPECTOR GENERAL ACT

The Inspector General Act of 1978 (IG Act) created 

Offices of Inspector General (OIGs) in 12 Cabinetlevel departments and agencies, consolidating the 

respective agencies’ audit and criminal investigative 

functions under the OIGs. Prior to the Act, these 

activities had been fragmented across the very offices 

they audited or investigated. The OIGs also received a 

unique dual-reporting responsibility to both the heads 

of their agencies and to Congress. Further, the IG Act 

contained provisions that effectively afforded the OIGs 

operational and administrative independence within 

their agencies. Thus, each Inspector General became 

an independent force for promoting integrity and 

efficiency while combating fraud, waste, and abuse 

in government programs. 

Despite the initial objections of most of the agencies 

covered by the original IG Act, the OIGs established 

a record of effectiveness as contributors to improved 

economy, accountability, and oversight of government 

management. As a reflection of this success, 

Congress has amended the Act several times since 

1978, progressively broadening the authorities of 

the Inspectors General and expanding the statute’s 

coverage into many more Federal agencies. The 

largest single expansion was in the 1988 IG Act 

Amendments which, in addition to creating six 

new Presidentially-appointed IGs, established OIGs 

in certain independent regulatory agencies and 

government corporations (termed “designated Federal 

entities” by the Act). Today, there are 57 agencies that 

have statutorily-authorized IGs providing audit and 

investigative oversight for their programs.

MISSION AND ROLES OF THE

INSPECTORS GENERAL

In the broadest sense, the Inspectors General have

two principal roles. First, they identify fraud, waste, 

abuse, and inefficiency in their agencies’ programs,

and recommend actions to address it—both on a 

case-by-case basis and systemically. Second, they 

report their findings and accomplishments to their 

agencies, Congress, and the public, not only through 

specific written reports, but also by fostering initiatives 

to improve integrity, accountability, and excellence 

in government as a means of reducing or eliminating 

future problems. 

Consistent with their overall mission, OIGs carry out 

their responsibilities by:

■ Conducting or overseeing audits, investigations, 

inspections, and evaluations of their respective 

agencies’ programs.

■ Reviewing existing or proposed laws and 

regulations relating to agency programs and 

operations. 

■ Providing leadership for initiatives that promote 

economy, efficiency, and integrity and reduce the 

vulnerability of Federal programs to fraud, waste, 

and abuse.

■ Informing their agency heads and Congress of 

program-related problems and the progress of 

corrective actions.

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COMMUNITY

THE INSPECTOR GENERAL COMMUNITY
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THE INSPECTOR GENERAL COMMUNITY

IG APPOINTMENTS

IGs are selected on the basis of personal integrity and 

expertise in accounting, auditing, financial analysis, 

law, management analysis, public administration, 

or investigations. The IGs serving at Cabinet-level 

departments and sub-Cabinet agencies are nominated 

by the President and confirmed by the Senate. These 

IGs can be removed only by the President, who must 

communicate the reasons for any such removal to 

both Houses of the Congress. IGs in designated 

Federal entities are appointed by the heads of those 

entities. These IGs can be removed by the entity head, 

who must also notify the Congress of the reasons 

for removal.

AUDITS 

The IG Act mandates each OIG to be responsible for 

auditing all programs and activities of its agency, and 

to oversee and review program-related audit work 

performed by outside parties (for example, audits of 

agency grantees and contractors that are carried out 

by independent public accounting firms). The statute 

requires all such audits to conform to the Government 

Auditing Standards (often referred to as the “Yellow 

Book”) issued by the Government Accountability Office 

(GAO). These standards provide guidance to ensure 

that auditors have the necessary competence, integrity, 

objectivity, and independence to effectively plan, 

conduct, and report upon their work. The most recent 

Yellow Book revisions incorporate new independence 

requirements, expand their coverage to include 

prospective analyses and studies, and add guidance to 

ensure consistency in fieldwork and reporting methods 

across all types of audits. 

INVESTIGATIONS

IGs are authorized to investigate both criminal 

matters and civil or administrative wrongdoing 

against their agencies’ programs and operations. 

Their jurisdiction extends to any person or entity that 

may have committed a program-related violation. The 

most frequent subjects of IG investigations include 

benefit recipients, contractors, grantees, and Federal 

employees. In 2003, the Homeland Security Act 

provided Presidentially-appointed OIGs with law 

enforcement powers that are equivalent, within their 

respective jurisdictions, to those of other Federal law 

enforcement agencies. Exercise of those authorities 

in criminal investigations is subject to Department of 

Justice (DOJ) guidelines, and is coordinated with the 

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other law 

enforcement bodies.

The President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency and 

the Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE 

and ECIE, respectively) have developed guidelines 

for IG investigations that, in a manner similar to the 

Yellow Book standards for audits, seek to assure the 

professional quality and integrity of investigative 

processes and the resulting work products.

INSPECTION AND EVALUATIONS

Although the IG Act does not require that OIGs 

establish inspection and evaluation components, it 

does provide authority for them to conduct analytical 

reviews or studies that may be methodologically 

distinct from audits or investigations. Many OIGs have 

created inspection and evaluations units to conduct 

program evaluations, broad reviews of selected issues, 

and inspections that analyze the effectiveness of agency 

activities. The PCIE and ECIE have issued quality 

standards, similar to their investigations standards, 

for the conduct and reporting of inspections and 

evaluations by IG offices.
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OIG HOTLINES

Most OIGs operate hotline services that receive 

complaints of fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement 

in their agencies’ programs and operations. (The 

appendix to this report provides the numbers of the 

hotline services operated by PCIE and ECIE members.)

The scope of hotline activities varies with the mission 

of the individual OIGs, but most involve dedicated, 

toll-free telephone lines that are publicized among 

agency employees, private-sector participants in the 

agency’s programs, and the general public. Criminal 

cases and civil or administrative actions often are 

generated on the basis of complaints received through 

hotline reports. 

INSPECTOR GENERAL 

SEMIANNUAL REPORTS

The IG Act requires that each OIG report to 

Congress semiannually regarding its activities and 

accomplishments. The semiannual reports have 

become a centerpiece of the IG community, and 

exemplify the multiplicity of reporting responsibilities 

incumbent on IG offices. The report is prepared by the 

OIG for Congress, but the IG Act specifies that it be 

submitted initially to the agency head, who transmits 

it with a “management response,” stating the agency’s 

position on the matters reported by the IG. By law, the 

reports also become publicly available once they are 

sent to Congress. 

The statute establishes an array of categories in which 

information regarding the results of audit activities 

must be reported. Although the form and content 

are not outlined precisely by the law, the OIGs also 

report on their investigative results. The information 

contained in the “Statistical Accomplishments” section 

of this report (pages 29 – 38) reflects many of the types 

of data appearing in the IG semiannual reports. 

THE INSPECTOR GENERAL COMMUNITY

Many of the most significant management challenges identified by the IG community over the 

last several years closely parallel the President’s Management Agenda initiatives. While IG 

reports confirm that there is a great deal yet to be done, Federal agencies do take high risk 

problems seriously and are making long-needed progress toward correcting them. These efforts, 

along with actions implementing the President’s Management Agenda, will enable the Federal 

government to better focus its operations on results and accountability. The IG community 

continues to contribute to these efforts through its ongoing responsibilities to assess program 

performance, recommend actions to improve economy and efficiency, and identify cost savings, 

for the benefit of our ultimate customers, the citizens of the United States. 

Over the next several pages, this report summarizes the IG community’s work to address 

needed management improvements. The semiannual reports of each OIG contain additional 

information, including a summary of work performed to address the management challenges of 

their agency, as well as other statistical information on their audit and investigative activities.

ADDRESSING GOVERNMENT

CHALLENGES

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The overarching goal of the Inspector General 

community is to improve the performance and 

accountability of the Federal government’s programs 

and operations. Throughout the year, the OIGs, 

through audits, investigations, inspections and 

evaluations, conduct reviews of their respective 

agencies that focus on management challenges. As a 

result, they are able to provide agency managers with 

recommendations on how to overcome risks, improve 

program performance, and achieve results.

This section discusses management challenges facing 

Federal agencies that OIGs most frequently identify 

as critical, because of their potential to impede 

the Federal sector’s ability to carry out program 

responsibilities and ensure the integrity of operations. 

For the most part, they are not amenable to simple, 

short-term resolution and are best addressed by a 

concerted, persistent effort, resulting in progress over 

an extended period of time. 

Overall, government agencies continue to take these 

challenges seriously and are making long-needed 

progress toward correcting them. Because of their 

potential impact, these challenges require, both on 

an agency-by-agency basis and collectively, the direct 

attention at senior management levels to ensure 

that the Federal government functions in the most 

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economical, efficient, and effective manner. These 

challenges include:

■ Information Technology Management and Security

■ Financial Management and Performance

■ Human Capital Management

■ Performance Management and Accountability

■ Procurement and Grant Management

■ Protection of Environment, Resources, and 

Infrastructure

■ National Security.

Based on the results of FY 2004 reviews by the IG 

community (see table on page 9), the first four of these 

challenges—Information Technology Management 

and Security, Financial Management and Performance, 

Human Capital Management, and Performance 

Management and Accountability—rank as the most 

significant, widespread challenges facing Federal 

agencies. Highlights of these four challenges are 

as follows:

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY

Securing the nation’s critical computer systems 

and networks from data tampering, disruptions in 

operations, fraud, and inappropriate disclosure of 

sensitive information is essential. These complex 

and often-interrelated systems play a vital role in 

consolidating and maintaining sensitive information. 

Additionally, the costs associated with managing the 

approximately 8,000 Federal government information 

systems are very large—about $60 billion in FY 2005. 

Approximately $4 billion of this amount is devoted to 

information security-related work. 

Information security has been a long-standing 

and widely acknowledged concern among Federal 

agencies. Since 1997, significant internal control 

weaknesses related to information technology security, 

including untested contingency plans and inadequate 

implementation of host network security, system risk 

assessments, system certification and vulnerability 

testing have been identified. Government agencies 

have reported a number of actions to initiate positive 

change; however, problems persist and more needs to 

be done.

For example, a recent review found that the reported 

percentage of systems certified and accredited for 

operation as of the first half of 2004 was 63 percent 

for 24 major Federal agencies. Another review found 

that agencies were not implementing to the fullest 

extent available cybersecurity technologies to protect 

critical infrastructures from cyber attack. These 

technologies, including access control technologies, 

system integrity technologies, cryptography, audit 

and monitoring tools, configuration management, 

and assurance technologies, can help to protect 

information that is being processed, stored, and 

transmitted in the networked computer systems that 

are prevalent in critical infrastructures. Actions that 

the Federal government can take to increase the use of 

cybersecurity technologies include determining their 

security needs, protecting their own systems, 

and undertaking long-term activities to increase the 

quality and availability of cybersecurity technologies 

in the marketplace.

Agencies must also take additional steps to establish 

effective information security programs, including 

allocating sufficient agency resources and monitoring 

policy and control efficiencies. To assist agency 

managers in addressing the challenge of information 

technology security, the IG community continues 

to conduct annual independent evaluations of their 

agencies’ information security programs and practices, 

as required by the Federal Information Security 

Management Act of 2002. 

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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

AND PERFORMANCE

Federal financial managers have the responsibility to 

provide timely and accurate financial information in 

support of programmatic decision-making processes, 

to ensure that the taxpayers’ funds are used effectively 

and efficiently. For many years, financial management 

has been a leading concern in the Federal sector. 

Many agencies have not given adequate attention 

to standardizing and integrating financial processes 

and systems to more efficiently support accounting 

operations, facilitate preparation of financial 

statements, and streamline audit processes. Some 

agencies’ systems do not produce timely, accurate, and 

reliable information and, as a consequence, have been 

unable to provide auditable financial statements. These 

problems adversely affect the ability of Federal agencies 

to control costs, ensure basic accountability, anticipate 

future costs and claims on the budget, measure 

performance, maintain funds control, prevent fraud, 

and address pressing management issues. 

Senior leaders throughout government have 

demonstrated a commitment to reforming financial 

management operations. One agency has, for example, 

identified success factors, best practices, and outcomes 

associated with world-class financial management 

institutions and has made financial management a 

department-wide priority. Another major Federal 

agency reported that it is using a single modern 

accounting system. It was able to meet the accelerated 

date to submit audited financial statements and 

received a clean financial statement opinion. 

Improvements are still needed at some agencies, 

including sustained leadership and resource control; 

clear lines of responsibility and accountability; plans 

and related results-oriented performance measures; 

and appropriate individual and organizational 

incentives and consequences. The IGs continue to 

devote substantial resources to assist their agencies 

in developing sound financial management practices, 

ensuring timely audit opinions, producing useful 

financial information, and improving financial systems. 

As a result of these efforts, agencies are now sharing 

possible solutions and best practices that can minimize 

costly problems associated with poor financial 

management. 

HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

The success of Federal programs and activities is largely 

dependent upon agencies hiring the right people with 

the right skills to meet their critical missions. Since the 

mid-1990’s, many Federal agencies have experienced 

an overall reduction in their workforce. Combined with 

factors such as moratoria on hiring, the relative aging 

of the workforce, and a variety of incentives to leave 

Federal service, the decline in staffing has generated 

significant challenges for many agencies. However, the 

Federal government has not demonstrated a consistent 

strategic approach to attracting, managing, and 

maintaining the human capital needed to maximize 

government performance and ensure accountability. 

Reviews by the IG audit community indicate that 

agencies are making improvements in addressing key 

human capital issues. Some agencies have begun to 

assess their future workforce needs and implement 

actions to meet those needs. For example, one agency 

reported that it had implemented a comprehensive 

human capital management strategy, an improved 

senior executive performance management system, 

a guide to developing and retaining a highly-skilled 

workforce, and business visions and workforce plans 

for all major offices. The Executive Branch and the 

Congress have also taken a number of steps to address 

human capital shortfalls, including the creation of 

Chief Human Capital Officer positions and a separate 

high-level council to advise and assist agency leaders in 

their human capital efforts. 

While these are positive steps, the Federal government 

must also commit to rebuilding a “skills pipeline” 

for the future and take other actions to ensure 

that agencies have an adequate workforce to carry 

out critical missions. These include (1) sustaining 

leadership to provide the focused attention essential to 

completing multiyear transformations; (2) developing 

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Title ADDRESSING GOVERNMENT CHALLENGES

effective strategic workforce plans to identify and focus 

their human capital investments on the long-term 

issues that best contribute to results; (3) continuing 

to create effective hiring processes and use flexibilities 

and incentives to retain critical talent and reshape 

their workforces; and (4) reforming performance 

management systems so that pay and awards are linked 

to performance and organizational results.

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Various management reform initiatives, including 

the Government Performance and Results Act of 

1993, hold Federal agencies accountable for using 

resources wisely and achieving program results. Most 

importantly, the President’s Management Agenda has 

sought to refocus government operations using a 

performance or results model. Agencies are required 

to set and measure results-oriented goals and provide 

Legislative and Executive Branch decision makers 

with objective and reliable information about Federal 

programs. In addition to providing the tools to make 

agencies more accountable to the public, performance 

measures also provide the means to reinforce 

organizational accountability, with results tied to 

annual performance agreements of senior executives.

OIG reviews have found that performance measures 

were frequently not clear or quantifiable; some 

departmental activities lacked performance measures; 

and reported performance results were not always 

accurate and valid. To better manage performance, 

agencies have issued new policies to provide consistent 

application of performance measurement principles; 

established formal training programs to facilitate 

development and reporting of quantifiable performance 

goals and measures; and integrated performance 

plans with budgets. To further enhance their efforts to 

manage performance, agencies must more aggressively 

apply performance management principles; work 

toward long-term strategic goals; and make tactical and 

strategic corrections based on performance feedback 

and program evaluations.

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MOST FREQUENTLY IDENTIFIED AGENCY MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES

Sources: OIG reports, memoranda, or semiannual report chapters identifying most significant 

management challenges in their respective agencies, end of FY 2004

Agency

IT 

Management

& Security

Financial 

Management 

& 

Performance 

Human 

Capital

Management

Procurement 

& Grant 

Management

Performance 

Management

Environmental 

Resources, 

Infrastructure

National 

Security

CNCS X X X X X

USDA X X X X

DOC X X X X

DOD X X X X X X

ED X X X X X

Energy X X X X X

HHS X X X X X

DHS X X X X X X

HUD X X

Interior X X X X

Justice X X X X X

Labor X X X

State X X X X

DOT X X X X

Treasury X X X

TIGTA X X X X X

VA X X X

EPA X X X X X X X

FDIC X X X X X X

GSA X X X X

NASA X X X

NRC X X X X X

OPM X X X X X X

RRB X X

SBA X X X X

SSA X X

FCC X X

ITC X X X

NSF X X X

SEC X X X

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AN OVERVIEW OF THE PCIE AND ECIE

MISSION

The mission of the PCIE and ECIE is to promote 

collaboration on integrity, economy, and efficiency 

issues that transcend individual Federal agencies and 

to enhance the professionalism and effectiveness of 

OIG personnel throughout the government.

The Presidentially-appointed IGs work together 

and coordinate their professional activities 

through the PCIE, which was created by 

Executive Order 12301, dated March 26, 

1981, and later updated in 1988 by Executive 

Order 12625 and in 1992 by Executive Order 

12805. The IGs of designated Federal entities 

work together and coordinate their professional 

activities through the ECIE, which was created 

by Executive Order 12805 on May 11, 1992.

LEADERSHIP

The PCIE and ECIE provide leadership to the 

IG community, reaching across boundaries to 

promote professionalism and coordination among the 

Councils’ membership and provide a forum to speak 

out on shared concerns. The Deputy Director for 

Management of the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) chairs both the PCIE and ECIE. During FY 

2004, Clay Johnson, III served in this capacity.

The Vice Chairs of the Councils are chosen by the 

Chair from among the respective memberships. The 

Vice Chairs provide on-going executive direction to 

their Councils and manage their day-to-day activities. 

During FY 2004, Gaston L. Gianni, Jr., former Inspector 

General, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, served 

as Vice Chair of the PCIE. Barry R. Snyder, Inspector 

General, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, served as Vice Chair of the ECIE. Upon 

Mr. Gianni’s retirement, Gregory H. Friedman, Inspector 

General, Department of Energy, assumed the Vice 

Chairmanship of the PCIE, effective January 11, 2005.

An Executive Council comprised of the Vice Chairs 

of the PCIE and ECIE, the Chairs of the IG-led 

committees, and an at-large member, functions as a 

corporate leadership body for the PCIE and ECIE, with 

responsibility for:

■ External relationships and communications on 

behalf of the IG community

■ Long-term planning and continuity of leadership

■ Compiling and distributing information on 

common priorities of the Councils’ membership.

AN OVERVIEW OF THE

PCIE AND ECIE

From Left: Messrs. Gianni, Johnson and Snyder

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MEMBERSHIP

Inspectors General who are appointed by the President 

subject to Senate confirmation are members of the 

PCIE. IGs of the designated Federal entities are 

members of the ECIE. To facilitate policy coordination 

and collaboration between the two Councils, the PCIE 

Vice Chair serves as a member of the ECIE, and the 

ECIE Vice Chair is a member of the PCIE.

The following are members of both Councils: the 

Controller of OMB’s Office of Federal Financial 

Management; the Special Counsel of the Office of 

Special Counsel; the Director, Office of Government 

Ethics; the Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel 

Management; and the Assistant Director of the FBI’s 

Criminal Investigative Division. 

The appendix to this report provides a current list of all 

PCIE and ECIE members.

ROLES AND ACTIVITIES

The PCIE and ECIE reach across agency boundaries to 

provide governmentwide coordination and focus to the 

activities of the Offices of Inspector General. Among 

the functions they perform are: 

■ Providing a forum in which the IG community 

may discuss governmentwide issues and address 

shared concerns.

■ Improving professionalism through development 

and implementation of uniform standards for the 

conduct of audit, investigative, and inspection 

and evaluation activities by Offices of Inspector 

General.

■ Sponsoring and operating training programs 

to support the professional and management 

development of OIG auditors, investigators, 

and evaluators.

■ Conducting or advocating projects that address 

issues of common concern or interests among the 

OIGs governmentwide. 

The PCIE and ECIE are the IG community’s 

counterparts to similar councils and coordinating 

groups representing other Federal communities, such 

as the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Information 

Officer, and Federal Acquisition Councils. Designated 

PCIE members regularly attend the meetings of these 

councils as observers and inform the PCIE and ECIE 

membership of relevant issues and initiatives.

AN OVERVIEW OF THE PCIE AND ECIE

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP

Gregory H. Friedman Vice Chair, PCIE

Barry R. Snyder Vice Chair, ECIE

Christine C. Boesz ECIE At-Large Member

Kenneth M. Donohue Chair, Investigations Committee

Johnnie E. Frazier Chair, Inspection and Evaluation Committee

J. Russell George Chair, Legislation Committee

John P. Higgins, Jr. Chair, Audit Committee

Nikki L. Tinsley Chair, Human Resources Committee

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The PCIE and ECIE maintain six standing committees 

that provide leadership for the Councils’ activities in 

their respective areas and carry out or oversee much of 

the project-related work conducted under the Councils’ 

auspices. Their membership is comprised of IGs, with 

at least one ECIE member sitting on each committee. 

Committee chairs are selected by the PCIE membership 

through periodic elections.

Several of the standing committees have established 

working groups with a broader membership to advise 

them on policy matters and to conduct specific projects 

under the committee’s leadership. In addition, there are 

several working groups and roundtables affiliated with 

the PCIE and ECIE that address specialized issues of 

widespread interest within the IG community. 

The following discussion highlights the FY 2004 

activities of the committees and other groups. 

Some of these activities represent the continuation 

or completion of work initiated in prior years, and 

may have also been discussed in previous editions of 

this report.

AUDIT COMMITTEE

As the coordinating body representing the largest 

profession in the IG community, the Audit Committee 

pursues the following objectives:

■ Planning and overseeing professional training 

curricula and programs for OIG auditors 

■ Sponsoring audits that address multiagency or 

governmentwide issues

■ Developing and maintaining professional standards 

for OIG audit activities, and, with the Federal 

Audit Executive Council and other professional 

groups, contributing to the GAO’s Government 

Auditing Standards

■ Providing information to Congress, OMB, 

professional groups, and the public on IG 

communitywide audit issues.

The Committee is chaired by John P. Higgins, Jr., 

Inspector General, Department of Education. Among 

its principal activities in FY 2004 were the following:

■ Single Audit Quality Project. The Committee 

initiated a national project to assess the 

quality of previously-completed single audits 

governnmentwide and to establish a baseline for 

monitoring single audit quality in the future. 

(A single audit is an audit performed by a nonFederal auditor of all funding to a specific grantee. 

This normally involves programs of multiple 

Federal agencies.) For the project, auditors from 

Federal OIGs, state government agencies, and 

private sector independent public accounting 

firms are reviewing a statistical sample of the more 

than 38,000 single audits that were filed with 

the Federal Audit Clearinghouse in a recent oneyear period. The Department of Education OIG 

continues to administer the project.

■ Human Resources Development. The Audit 

Committee oversees the operations of the Inspector 

General Auditor Training Institute (IGATI), now 

headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. IGATI 

provides professional training for auditors within 

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the IG community and is entirely self-funded, with 

its revenue being derived from tuition fees for its 

courses. Its curriculum offers 40 courses (17 of 

which were entirely new for FY 2004; nine others 

were substantially revised) which focus on areas of 

direct applicability to IG auditors, including:

• Performance auditing

• Financial statement auditing

• Information systems audits

• Management analysis

• Communications. 

 In FY 2004, IGATI conducted 110 training sessions 

attended by approximately 1,700 students. 

These levels of activity represent increases of 

approximately 10 percent over the corresponding 

totals for 2003.

■ Peer Review Guidance. The 1988 IG Act 

Amendments require each OIG to undergo a peer 

review of its auditing activities every three years to 

determine whether they meet generally accepted 

auditing standards. These reviews are performed 

by other OIGs under the coordination and policy 

guidance of the Audit Committee. In FY 2004, 

an Audit Committee working group comprised of 

representatives from both PCIE and ECIE agencies 

produced a comprehensive revision of the peer 

review policy document and guide, which was 

subsequently circulated to all OIGs for comment. 

The major revisions to the guidance included:

• Incorporating the 2003 GAO Yellow Book 

revisions 

• Defining more precisely the characteristics 

of an internal quality control system, and 

restructuring the approach of the peer review 

to emphasize evaluation of the reviewed 

OIG’s system

• Establishing detailed guidance on several 

technical aspects of peer review activities, such 

as formulating opinions through merger of 

analytical tests and determining design and 

operational deficiencies in internal quality 

control systems 

• Reformatting the guidelines to integrate 

reference materials that will facilitate the 

conduct of peer reviews. 

■ Communications. The Committee conducts a 

diverse information program that promotes the 

accomplishments of PCIE/ECIE auditing activities 

and advocates legislative initiatives to improve 

their effectiveness. For example, its members 

contribute articles to the Journal of Public Inquiry to 

highlight current issues facing Federal auditors. In 

addition, the Committee uses the IGNet website 

as a central clearinghouse for legislation, critical 

documents, and other informational material that 

can be made available to the community. As is also 

the case with the other PCIE committees, the Audit 

Committee seeks to maintain ties with relevant 

professional organizations and governmental 

auditing entities both in the United States and 

overseas.

FEDERAL AUDIT

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

The Federal Audit Executive Council (FAEC) is 

comprised of senior audit officials from the Federal 

OIGs. During FY 2004, Bruce Crandlemire, who is 

currently the Acting Inspector General, Agency for 

International Development, served as the FAEC chair. 

Reflecting the professional interests of its broader 

membership base, the FAEC focuses more of its 

activities outside the Federal IG community and targets 

a somewhat wider range of subject matter. Like the 

Audit Committee, FAEC has a subcommittee structure, 

and carries out much of its work through conferences, 

roundtables, and task groups. Among the FAEC’s 

activities in FY 2004 were the following:

■ Joint Committee with PCIE and the Chief 

Financial Officer (CFO) Council. This body 

contributed to the revision of OMB Circular A123 (“Management Accountability and Control”), 

with the objective of making it consistent with the 

GAO Green Book (Standards for Internal Control 

in the Federal Government) and the private sector 

publication Internal Control—Integrated Framework, 

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 published by the Committee of Sponsoring 

Organizations of the Treadway Commission. 

In addition, the joint committee formulated 

procedural guidance for management assessment 

of internal control over financial reporting and 

considered revisions to existing guidance for 

conducting internal control assessments.

■ Coordination on IT Security Standards. The 

FAEC’s Information Security Subcommittee 

began planning for a project to develop guidance 

for OIGs performing the information security 

reviews required by the Federal Information 

Security Management Act (FISMA). The ultimate 

objective is to identify approaches that will 

achieve consistency in form and content of FISMA 

reviews throughout the IG community. Through 

contacts with congressional staff, the subcommittee 

also addressed the need for IG feedback to be 

considered by the National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, which holds responsibility for 

governmentwide policies and guidance on 

IT security.

■ Financial Statement Audit Network. The 

Financial Statement Audit Network (FSAN) is 

the FAEC subcommittee which provides the 

Federal audit community with a forum to explore 

issues concerning the preparation and auditing of 

financial statements. The FSAN has almost 110 

members representing the PCIE and ECIE, the 

smaller agencies, and the GAO. In FY 2004, FSAN 

working groups comprised of both IG and GAO 

personnel conducted the following projects:

• The Financial Audit Manual (FAM) Working 

Group assisted in drafting updates to the 

GAO Statement on Auditing Standard 99, 

“Consideration of Fraud in a Financial 

Statement Audit” and the “CFO Act Checklist.” 

The FAM, a joint product of GAO and the PCIE, 

is a key tool for enhancing accountability for 

taxpayer-provided resources, and the CFO Act 

checklist is similarly critical in assisting agencies 

to prepare their annual financial statements and 

auditors to audit them.

• The Statement of Work for Financial Statement 

Audit Contracts Working Group issued for 

comment a draft statement of work that can be 

used as a guide by OIGs when contracting with 

private sector accounting firms for financial 

statement audits under the CFO Act.

• The Audit Program Working Group issued a 

draft audit program that OIGs may use as a 

guide for monitoring contractor performance 

under financial statement audit contracts.

INVESTIGATIONS

COMMITTEE

The Investigations Committee advises the IG 

community on issues involving criminal investigations, 

investigative personnel, and investigative guidelines 

and standards. It also oversees the IG Criminal 

Investigator Academy (IGCIA), which is headquartered 

at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in 

Glynco, Georgia, with an auxiliary training facility in 

Arlington, VA. The Committee’s working group, the 

Investigations Advisory Subcommittee, is comprised 

of Assistant Inspectors General for Investigations. 

During FY 2004, Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector 

General, Office of Personnel Management, was 

succeeded as chair of the Committee by Kenneth M. 

Donohue, Inspector General, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development.

■ Statutory Law Enforcement Authority. During 

FY 2004, the Committee was heavily involved 

with issues related to responsible and appropriate 

management of the law enforcement powers 

that had been conferred on most Presidentiallyappointed OIGs in 2003. Among the concerns 

arising from the enabling legislation and 

Department of Justice requirements on exercise 

of law enforcement authority were:

• The ability of the IG community to effectively 

oversee its own use of law enforcement 

powers, through mechanisms internal to each 

office or community-wide bodies such as 

the PCIE Integrity Committee, and the peer 

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review system sponsored by the Investigations 

Committee. The peer review system provides 

for periodic inspection and review of the 

operational and management aspects of each 

OIG Office of Investigations by another OIG. 

Its goal is to assure that the IG community 

achieves and maintains a high degree of 

professional performance and integrity. The 

inspectors verify and document adherence to 

professional standards and, as necessary, identify 

corrective measures for the inspected office. 

• Development of guidelines for OIGs to conduct 

undercover investigative operations and 

review of specific proposals made by OIGs 

for undercover activities.

• The statutory requirement for law enforcement 

officers to undergo standardized training every 

three years. For example, training curricula for 

OIG agents now includes specific instruction 

on legal concepts and interviewing and 

interrogation. Agents must also be prepared to 

deal with encounters requiring calmness and 

control in potentially lethal, as well as nonlethal situations. Further, the exercise of law 

enforcement powers necessitates that agents be 

trained in, and aware of, legal liability issues 

that may arise from their activities.

■ Training Facilities and Curricula. Other 

training-related activities of the Committee and the 

Investigative Advisory Subcommittee include:

• Oversight of the IGCIA. The Academy is directly 

operated by a “cognizant OIG” (currently, 

the OIG of the United States Postal Service) 

under a memorandum of understanding with 

the Committee. The Advisory Subcommittee, 

serving in the capacity of a board of directors, 

coordinates policy with the cognizant OIG, 

reviews curricula, and examines budget and 

personnel needs at the training facilities. In 

FY 2004, the Subcommittee brokered an 

agreement for IGCIA and the IG Management 

Institute to merge their metro Washington, 

DC, space requirements into a single building, 

thus realizing savings, better availability of 

instructors, and greater flexibility in scheduling 

classes. 

• Development of an initiative to foster closer 

liaison and coordination between the FBI and 

OIGs, to include joint sponsorship of training 

courses, joint conferences on white collar crime, 

and enhanced coordination between the FBI 

Office of Training and the IGCIA. 

■ Legislative Interpretation. Public Law 108-277, 

the Law Enforcement Officers’ Safety Act (enacted 

on July 20, 2004), gives retired Federal law 

enforcement agents the right to carry weapons. 

The applicability of the legislation to IG agents, as 

well as issues regarding its implementation, were 

discussed in some detail by the Committee, and 

were researched by the Department of Justice OIG. 

Based on these analytical efforts, the Justice OIG 

furnished the Committee with guidelines regarding 

the differing application of the legislation to IG 

agents who retired before or after OIGs received 

statutory law enforcement authority. While the 

guidelines themselves apply only to Justice OIG 

retirees, they are serving as a model for other OIGs 

facing the same issue.

INSPECTION AND

EVALUATION COMMITTEE

The Inspection and Evaluation (I&E) Committee 

fosters information sharing, innovative methodologies, 

and effective professional practices among the I&E 

components of OIGs. Its working group, the I&E 

Roundtable, is comprised of the Assistant Inspectors 

General responsible for inspection and evaluation in 

their respective agencies. The Committee is chaired 

by Johnnie E. Frazier, Inspector General, Department 

of Commerce.

During FY 2004, the Committee completed major 

projects in the following areas:

■ Revised Standards for Inspections and 

Evaluations. The Committee and the Roundtable, 

assisted by the Department of Energy OIG, 

completed a comprehensive update of the PCIE 

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reference guide for conducting inspections and 

evaluations, which was first published in 1993. 

The revised edition included an expanded 

discussion of impairments to the independence 

of evaluators and inspectors; new standards 

for performance measurements and working 

relationships; and recommendations for increased 

professional training of I&E personnel. 

■ Survey of I&E Units in IG Offices. The I&E 

Roundtable, assisted by the Department of Health 

and Human Services OIG, surveyed the 26 I&E 

units operating within the IG community. Based on 

the survey results, the Committee issued a report 

profiling these organizations on their authorities, 

budget, and staffing, as well as highlighting some 

of their recent work. Information from the survey 

can be used to identify issues of concern to I&E 

units governmentwide, generate proposals for 

future I&E projects, and increase the awareness 

within the PCIE and ECIE about the role that I&E 

organizations play in fulfilling the mandate of the 

IG Act.

■ Travel and Purchase Cards. In FY 2004, the 

Committee sponsored two projects that addressed 

governmentwide concerns regarding abuses of 

official travel and purchase cards. A multiagency 

working group, led by the Department of Labor 

OIG, developed a best practices guide (Common 

Problems and Uncommon Solutions: How OIGs Are 

Helping Improve Federal Travel Card Programs), that 

synthesizes the results of program reviews that had 

been conducted by 25 OIGs. The guide highlights 

some of the most frequently identified problems 

with these cards and identifies solutions that 

agencies have used successfully to resolve or avoid 

such problems. It also contains reference material 

pertaining to the travel card program that has been 

produced by the General Services Administration. 

 The other card-related project, led by the 

Department of Commerce OIG, developed a 

searchable, regularly-updated online database of 

125 OIG reports on agencies’ purchase and travel 

card programs. This is available at http://www.

ignet.gov/randp/cards/cards.html for use as a 

resource by OIGs and agencies seeking to review 

or improve such programs.

■ Outreach in the PCIE and ECIE Communities.

As noted in the summary of the Human Resources 

Committee’s activities (below), the I&E Committee 

contributed to developing the inventory of core 

competencies for inspectors and evaluators, and 

to identifying a curriculum within the PCIE and 

ECIE-affiliated institutes and academies that 

would provide training in these competencies. 

In addition, the I&E Committee membership 

continued its efforts to educate and inform the 

IG community about the value of inspections and 

evaluations as a means of addressing efficiency and 

integrity issues in government programs.

HUMAN RESOURCES

COMMITTEE

The Human Resources Committee advocates effective 

human resource management programs within the 

PCIE and ECIE communities and sponsors activities to 

develop the professional and management skills of OIG 

personnel. The Committee is chaired by Nikki Tinsley, 

Inspector General, Environmental Protection Agency.

■ Core Competencies. During FY 2004, the 

Committee completed work on identifying core 

competencies for criminal investigators, auditors, 

and evaluators and inspectors. The competencies 

provide essential information regarding the skills 

and abilities needed for individuals to perform 

successfully in these positions. Such information is 

critical to most human resources-related functions, 

such as recruitment, training, classification, and 

management. 

 The Committee is currently using the core 

competencies to construct a revised skills 

development curriculum, including leadership, 

management, and team building. In addition, it is 

re-examining the previously developed technical 

skills training curriculum for these occupations. 

The Committee’s overall objectives in these 

projects are (1) to identify emerging human 

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resources issues and challenges facing the PCIE 

and ECIE community and its members, and (2) to 

assess the quality and viability of the current PCIE 

training organizations.

■ Executive Development Program. The Committee 

has established the PCIE/ECIE Leadership 

Academy, which operates in affiliation with the 

Center for Executive Leadership of the Federal 

Executive Institute. As is the case governmentwide, 

a significant percentage of senior employees 

in the IG community are or will be eligible to 

retire within the next five years. The Leadership 

Academy targets executive succession planning 

issues in the PCIE and ECIE by preparing future 

leaders through a focus on topics such as building 

high performance organizations, expanding 

creativity, increasing awareness of globalization, 

and coaching for results. To expand awareness 

and support for this program, the Committee has 

started an IG seminar series which addresses the 

leadership development curriculum and offers 

instruction on the most significant emerging issues 

now facing the OIGs.

LEGISLATION COMMITTEE

The Legislation Committee serves as the central 

coordinating point for legislative issues affecting the 

PCIE and ECIE community. Using its Legislative 

Alert system, the Committee keeps IGs and their 

staffs currently informed on a continuing basis of 

significant policy issues within the Executive Branch 

and legislative developments in Congress. During 

FY 2004, J. Russell George, the Treasury Inspector 

General for Tax Administration, replaced Kenneth M. 

Mead as chair.

The individual IGs who comprise the PCIE and 

ECIE membership typically perform most of the 

representation of the IG community before Congress 

and the public, and often appear in the print and 

electronic media to discuss issues related to their 

respective agencies. However, on matters of concern 

to the IGs governmentwide, the PCIE and ECIE are 

normally called upon to speak for the community. 

For example, in July 2004, the Vice Chairs of 

both Councils and Mr. George testified before the 

Government Efficiency and Financial Management 

Subcommittee of the House Government Reform 

Committee, in support of legislative changes to the 

IG Act. 

The PCIE and ECIE reached a broad consensus 

regarding these changes and prepared a written 

proposal to assist Congress in considering them. The 

proposal recommended amendments to the IG Act 

to strengthen the independence of IGs and improve 

the quality, effectiveness, and impact of IG work. It 

would provide protection for the IGs by establishing 

a specific term of office, with removal authorized for 

cause. It would also combine the PCIE and ECIE into 

a single council and strengthen the ability of ECIE 

offices to recover losses resulting from program 

fraud. In addition, the IGs would receive enhanced 

authority to use personnel management flexibilities 

independently of their agencies. The Legislation 

Committee will continue to work with Congress on 

issues affecting the IG community. 

INTEGRITY COMMITTEE

The Integrity Committee was established by 

Executive Order 12993 (March 21, 1996) to provide 

a mechanism through which the PCIE and ECIE can 

systematically address administrative misconduct issues 

involving senior OIG officials. The Executive Order 

specifies that the Committee is to be chaired by the 

official serving as the FBI’s representative to the PCIE. 

The Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel 

and the Director of the Office of Government Ethics 

were also identified as ex officio Committee members. 

At least three inspectors general, nominated by the 

PCIE and ECIE Vice Chairs, complete the Committee’s 

membership.

The Committee is charged with receiving, 

reviewing, and referring for appropriate inquiry and 

investigation, allegations of noncriminal misconduct 

on the part of IGs of PCIE and ECIE agencies and, 

in limited cases, senior members of an IG’s staff. If 

the Committee determines that an allegation falling 

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within its jurisdiction is credible, it may call upon the 

investigative resources of the FBI and OIGs not affected 

by the matter at issue. The Committee recommends 

disposition of allegations to the PCIE and ECIE 

leadership, based on results of its investigations. 

During FY 2004, the Integrity Committee opened 34 

new allegations and closed a total of 38 cases, some 

of which had been received during prior years. Of 

the closed cases, 26 were deemed to be outside the 

Committee’s purview and were referred elsewhere for 

consideration, while nine others were determined to 

be unsubstantiated. Three cases resulted in findings 

that substantiated the allegations of misconduct against 

OIG personnel. The cases remaining at the end of the 

reporting period were in various stages of the Integrity 

Committee’s process. 

COMPETITIVE SOURCING

ROUNDTABLE

The Competitive Sourcing Roundtable was established 

in 2003 as a focal point for the PCIE and ECIE 

community’s roles and responsibilities concerning 

the competitive sourcing initiative of the President’s 

Management Agenda. Earl E. Devaney, Inspector 

General, Department of the Interior, chaired the 

Roundtable during FY 2004.

The Roundtable has promoted consistency across the 

IG community in interpreting and implementing the 

competitive sourcing initiative. Among the issues it 

addresses are:

■ Compliance with legislative and OMB 

requirements 

■ Categorizing activities performed by OIG 

personnel as inherently governmental or 

commercial in nature

■ Identifying potential IG oversight roles with 

respect to agencies’ implementation of the 

initiative. 

The Roundtable held several meetings in FY 2004 

during which these issues were highlighted, including 

a presentation to the full PCIE on competitive sourcing. 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

ROUNDTABLE

The Information Technology (IT) Roundtable provides 

a forum in which PCIE and ECIE members can share 

knowledge, methods, and techniques to improve 

the effectiveness of their audit, investigative, and 

inspection/evaluation activities, and develop a common 

perspective on the IGs’ role in governmentwide IT 

operations. During FY 2004, John P. Higgins, Jr., 

Inspector General, Department of Education, assumed 

sponsorship of the Roundtable, taking over from the 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration IG.

Reflecting the interests of its membership throughout 

the IG community, the Roundtable generally concentrates its efforts on two principal issue areas—IT 

audits and computer crime investigations. The 

Roundtable’s FY 2004 presentations addressed the 

following topics:

■ Electronic Government (E-gov) and Federal 

Lines of Business Initiatives. Audit oversight 

of these governmentwide programs represents 

an archetypical situation for a uniform or shared 

approach by the IG community. The Roundtable 

presentation provided information on the impact 

these initiatives will have on agency systems that 

are the focus of recurring IG audits, such as grants 

administration, financial management, and human 

resources. In addition, it explained the timelines 

for implementing the related changes, in terms of 

both budget cycles and IT systems transitions.

■ Federal Information Security Management Act.

Information security has become a critical focus 

throughout government. FISMA emphasizes 

security planning as part of the normal life cycle 

planning of IT systems, and requires annual 

program security reviews, to be conducted or 

overseen by each agency’s OIG. The Roundtable 

focused several different presentations on ways that 

OIGs can meet their FISMA responsibilities. These 

included:

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• A technical presentation addressing methods 

of evaluating IT security controls, including 

discussions on the use of a range of hardware 

and software tools. 

• A presentation on working group coordination, 

addressing the cooperative efforts between the 

Roundtable and the Information Technology 

Security Committee of the FAEC to assure that 

the IG community’s approaches to FISMA were 

mutually supportive, but without duplication 

or overlap. 

• A review of governmentwide FISMA reporting 

for FY 2004, identifying communitywide 

reservations about its orientation, and 

communicating these concerns to OMB officials 

responsible for the reporting systems.

■ Forensics Support. The demand for IT forensics 

support for investigations continues to be high, 

and OIGs cannot always meet these needs with 

their own staff. The Roundtable organized a 

presentation about supplementing in-house 

computer forensics capabilities from commercial 

sources, outlining the types of support available in 

the market and possible sources of funding. 

■ Identity Theft. The law enforcement community 

nationwide is becoming attuned to increasing 

threats posed by this crime. The Roundtable 

organized a presentation that addressed ways 

of investigating and countering identity theft, 

including detailed information about means and 

methods of committing and detecting it, and 

describing the impact it has had in both Federal 

programs and in the private sector.

■ Data Mining. This presentation explored the 

emerging methodology of data mining as a 

means of supporting ongoing investigations 

and generating information on which proactive 

investigations can be initiated. 

■ Coordination with Department of Homeland 

Security (DHS). This presentation highlighted 

the IG community’s role in the DHS’ national 

cybersecurity efforts. DHS operates a reporting 

system that is designed to notify OIG cyber 

investigators of information regarding threats 

or hostile activities from sources external to 

their agency. There are similar mutual reporting 

agreements between the OIGs and the FBI as well. 

GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE

AND RESULTS ACT

ROUNDTABLE

The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) 

Roundtable educates the IG community on issues of 

management performance and accountability. It is led 

by Nikki Tinsley, Inspector General, Environmental 

Protection Agency. 

During FY 2004, the Roundtable delivered 10 

significant program events that brought national 

experts in a variety of fields together with 

representatives of virtually all OIG’s and the GAO. 

The events addressed such topics as designing and 

implementing customer surveys, current human 

capital issues facing Federal organizations, evaluating 

the progress and challenges of GPRA 10 years after its 

passage, implications of proposed GPRA amendments, 

and implementing cost accounting within the OIGs. 

The Roundtable partnered with other governmentbased professional organizations, including the 

Intergovernmental Audit Forum, to present a series of 

regional forums, and the Government Results Center, 

to present case studies on the implementation of the 

President’s Management Agenda in selected agencies.

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MISCONDUCT IN RESEARCH

WORKING GROUP

The Misconduct in Research (MIR) Working Group 

develops standards for the oversight or conduct of 

investigations of misconduct in research and educates 

the IG community regarding MIR issues. The Working 

Group is sponsored by Dr. Christine C. Boesz, 

Inspector General, National Science Foundation (NSF).

During FY 2004, the MIR Working Group continued 

the close coordination of its activities with Federal 

agencies sponsoring or supporting scientific 

research and the White House’s Office of Science 

and Technology Policy (OSTP). Representatives of 

the Working Group and OSTP met with the I&E 

Roundtable about the respective roles of agency 

officials and OIGs in conducting investigations of 

misconduct in research. Almost half of the agencies 

which sponsor and support research have adopted 

policies that include an active role for their OIGs in 

such investigations. Agencies that choose not to rely 

on OIG investigative capabilities require OIG oversight 

to assure that agency-conducted investigations follow 

accepted, professional investigative practices. 

Other matters addressed by the Working Group 

were case studies of MIR investigations conducted by 

OIGs, discussions of whether or how MIR allegations 

may lead to fraud charges, and plans to develop a 

comprehensive review of agency MIR investigative 

efforts. In addition, the NSF OIG sponsored the 

following activities in areas related to the Working 

Group’s mission:

■ An International Symposium on Accountability 

in Science Funding, which enables Federal OIGs 

to communicate with their foreign counterparts 

on common issues associated with governmental 

funding of science and research. 

■ A training program in investigating grant 

fraud, which shares information about effective 

management of investigations of grant funding. 

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RESULTS RELATED TO THE PCIE AND ECIE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

In 2001, the members of PCIE and ECIE adopted A 

Strategic Framework to guide their collective efforts 

as a community to address common challenges on a 

governmentwide basis and to carry out their statutory 

roles within their own agencies. We are providing 

a brief summary of FY 2004 achievements for each 

goal, as well as a reference to the reports of committee 

activities, which are the principal means by which the 

Councils’ vision and strategic activities are carried out. 

This year represented the final year of the three-year 

period covered by the original Framework. Building 

upon the success of their strategic concepts to date, in 

December 2004, the two Councils adopted an updated 

version and extended the Framework to cover the 

period 2005 – 2010. 

I. 

IMPROVE FEDERAL PROGRAMS

AND OPERATIONS.

Objective: Provide information on crosscutting management challenges in need of 

attention from the Congress, the Administration, and others.

■ PCIE and ECIE have continued to compile an 

annual summary of reports prepared by OIGs 

that identify the principal management challenges 

facing their respective agencies. Collectively, this 

information provides a governmentwide picture 

of the issues deemed most worthy of being 

addressed by both the Executive Branch agencies 

and Congress. The challenges most frequently 

identified by OIGs include:

• Information Technology Management 

and Security

• Financial Management and Performance

• Human Capital Management

• Procurement and Grant Management

• Performance Management and Accountability

• Protection of Environment, Resources, 

and Infrastructure

• National Security.

Additional information regarding the most significant 

and critical challenges identified by the OIGs appears 

on pages 5 – 9 of this report. 

■ An interagency IG team that conducted a review 

of “Federal Agencies’ Implementation Activities 

for Critical, Cyber-based Infrastructure Assets” 

found that most agencies have made only slow 

progress in securing their information technology 

infrastructure. Among the specific areas which 

most agencies have not fully addressed are 

mitigation of known risks, emergency management 

planning, interagency coordination on security 

matters, and establishing information technology 

security organizations and staffing them with 

qualified personnel.

■ An interagency working group of OIGs in 

agencies with responsibility for regulating 

financial institutions organized a symposium on 

banking issues, including the Bank Secrecy Act, 

consumer protection, compliance with Treasury 

foreign sanctions programs, and responsibilities 

of corporate governance. Under the primary 

RESULTS RELATED TO THE PCIE 

AND ECIE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

Goal

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leadership of the Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation OIG, the symposium brought Federal 

regulatory agencies and congressional staff together 

with OIG personnel to exchange information 

regarding emerging issues in the financial services 

industry.

■ The Environmental Consortium, led by Nikki 

Tinsley, Inspector General, Environmental 

Protection Agency, revised and updated the 

Compendium of Federal Environmental Programs. 

The Compendium is an interactive database 

designed to assist Federal, state, and local policy 

officials and planners to realize economies of 

scale and achieve greater impact by sharing 

resources. Its revised form permits greater ease of 

use across the 29 Federal agencies which conduct 

environmental programs. Further, it can serve as 

a foundation for programs in other subject-matter 

areas, such as health care, scientific research, or 

benefits, for which responsibility is spread broadly 

among many agencies. 

Objective: Work together to effectively address 

common vulnerable management challenges.

■ During FY 2004, the PCIE and ECIE standing 

committees and working groups continued to 

bring the IG community together to work on 

issues of widespread concern. Among the many 

examples noted in the “Activities of Committees, 

Working Groups and Roundtables” section of this 

report, are the following:

• The Audit Committee initiated a national 

project, involving Federal OIGs, state 

government agencies, and private-sector 

accounting firms, to study the quality of single 

audits.

• The FAEC participated in a joint project with 

the CFO Council to improve internal controls 

over financial reporting, and with GAO to 

improve audit guidance for detecting fraud.

• The Investigations Committee began 

development of an initiative to improve liaison 

and cooperation on law enforcement training 

between the IG community and the FBI.

• The Inspection and Evaluation Committee 

continued sponsorship of projects addressing 

governmentwide concerns regarding abuse of 

official travel and purchase cards. 

• The Information Technology Roundtable 

sponsored informational programs that 

addressed the needs of auditors and 

investigators regarding information security and 

computer crime governmentwide.

• The Misconduct in Research Working Group 

brought together IG officials, representatives 

of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, 

and Federal agencies sponsoring research to 

discuss their respective roles in investigations of 

research-related misconduct.

• An E-government Working Group was founded 

to study investigative issues related to electronic 

processes and records systems used by agencies. 

The group is generating a guide for agencies 

and OIGs on the investigative implications in 

the design and implementation of electronic 

information systems.

Objective: Provide information annually on 

the OIGs’ efforts to address operational and 

program improvements.

■ A Progress Report to the President, FY 2003 was 

published during FY 2004, containing detailed 

information about the accomplishments of OIGs 

in protecting and improving Federal programs 

and activities. In addition, it provided extensive 

narrative and tabular material regarding the 

governmentwide activities of the PCIE and ECIE.

24 A PROGRESS REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT ■ FISCAL YEAR 2004
RESULTS RELATED TO THE PCIE AND ECIE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

II. 

COMMUNICATE RELIABLE AND

TIMELY INFORMATION TO

MAINTAIN PUBLIC CONFIDENCE

IN THE IG COMMUNITY.

Objective: Create a PCIE and ECIE public 

information function to give voice to the 

Councils and the IG community. 

■ The periodical magazine, Journal of Public Inquiry, 

has been published semiannually by the PCIE and 

ECIE community since 1995. Its articles, authored 

principally by members of the IG community, 

address topical professional issues, the history 

and development of the community and its 

concepts, and innovative proposals to improve IG 

operations in the future. Daniel Levinson, who 

was then the Inspector General, General Services 

Administration, and is currently the Inspector 

General, Department of Health and Human 

Services, served as the Journal’s editor-in-chief 

during FY 2004, assisted by an editorial board of 

senior officials from other OIGs. 

■ The PCIE and ECIE website, www.ignet.gov, 

provides a comprehensive online source of current, 

background, and historical information regarding 

the two Councils and the Federal OIGs. Updated 

continuously, IGNet contains reports, testimonies, 

technical manuals, guidelines and standards, 

committee publications, information regarding IGs 

past and present, and an extensive range of other 

documents that reflect the structure and activities 

of the PCIE and ECIE community.

Objective: Create a voice for informing and 

educating the Congress, Administration, and 

the public about the PCIE and ECIE and OIG 

roles and responsibilities, initiatives, projects, 

accomplishments, and results. 

■ The Legislation Committee is the central policy 

coordinating point for all legislative issues affecting 

the PCIE and ECIE community. Information 

regarding its activities during FY 2004, including 

a continuing initiative to enact changes to the IG 

Act, appears on page 18 of this report.

■ Under the auspices of the Legislation Committee, 

the PCIE and ECIE community wrote, produced, 

and distributed a public service announcement 

that featured former Senator John Glenn speaking 

about the role of IGs in the Federal government. 

The announcement, which is featured on 

www.ignet.gov, has also been distributed to 

the PCIE and ECIE membership and is 

appropriate for general information purposes 

or as a recruiting tool. 

■ Members of the two Councils are normally 

responsible for testifying before Congress on 

matters relating to their own agencies. The Vice 

Chairs will testify in their PCIE and ECIE 

capacity on issues where they are representing 

the community’s position. Collectively during 

FY 2004, PCIE and ECIE members delivered 

68 testimonies before congressional committees 

or subcommittees. 

■ The PCIE received a request from the House of 

Representatives for information on OIG oversight 

activities of homeland security grants. The 

response, based on a survey of the community 

members, described the grant oversight functions 

and discussed them in the context of the budget 

authority requested for homeland security work by 

five PCIE members with significant responsibilities 

in this area.

■ The standing committees and working groups 

serve as representatives of the PCIE and ECIE 

with outside groups in their respective areas of 

responsibility. Thus, as noted in the committee 

activities section of this report, there is an ongoing flow of information from the committees to 

Executive Branch groups and agencies, Congress, 

professional groups in both government and the 

private sector, and the public regarding their 

initiatives, projects, and interests.

Goal

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RESULTS RELATED TO THE PCIE AND ECIE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

Objective: Establish a centralized clearinghouse for legislation, key documents, and 

commentaries of concern to the IG community. 

■ In addition to its public function, IGNet also serves 

as the principal clearinghouse and repository 

of information to be shared throughout the IG 

community as a basis for decisionmaking on 

matters of common concern. All PCIE and ECIE 

members have timely access to legislative material 

or policy information posted on IGNet. 

■ The Legislation Committee operates a Legislative 

Alert system that furnishes up-to-date information 

to the IG community on significant policy and 

legislative developments. 

 III. 

ADVOCATE AND IMPLEMENT

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS THAT WILL

AID IN THE RECRUITMENT AND

RETENTION OF A CORPS OF

WELL-TRAINED AND HIGHLY

SKILLED OIG STAFF MEMBERS.

Objective: The PCIE and ECIE will 

establish and improve professional staff 

development programs.

■ The Human Resources Committee has 

primary responsibility for developing and 

administering policies supporting the full range 

of communitywide human resources management 

responsibilities. As noted in the committee 

activities section of this report, during FY 2004, 

the Committee completed a core competency

 study which identified the skills and abilities 

needed to work successfully as auditors, 

investigators, and evaluators and inspectors. 

This knowledge will support the improvement 

of all career development programs sponsored by 

the PCIE and ECIE.

■ The committees are involved in human resource 

development through their sponsorship of training 

facilities designed to produce highly competent 

employees in their respective professions. The 

Audit Committee sponsors the IG Auditor 

Training Institute in Arlington, Virginia, and 

the Investigations Committee oversees the IG 

Criminal Investigator Academy in Glynco, Georgia 

and Arlington, Virginia. During FY 2004, both 

of these facilities introduced new courses and 

curricula, and attendance at their courses increased 

significantly over 2003 levels.

■ Many of the other standing committees and 

roundtables sponsor or conduct job-relevant 

informational programs for IG personnel. In 

particular, the committee activities section 

highlights the educational activities of the 

Competitive Sourcing Roundtable and the 

Information Technology Roundtable, as well as 

the Inspection and Evaluation Committee.

Objective: Develop a model for management 

development and succession planning programs. 

■ The Human Resources Committee is responding 

to the potential consequences of the high rates of 

executive retirements forecast over the next 5 – 10 

years by preparing a new generation of managers 

through its Leadership Academy. The Academy’s 

program approaches management development 

through a focus on critical skills such as building 

high performance organizations, expanding 

creativity, increasing awareness of the effects of 

globalization, and coaching for results.

■ The IG Management Institute in Arlington, 

Virginia, began operations in FY 2004. It trains 

potential supervisors and managers through 

instruction in skills that are immediately and 

specifically applicable to job-related situations 

involving issues faced daily by managers in the 

IG community. 

Goal

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RESULTS RELATED TO THE PCIE AND ECIE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

IV. 

FOSTER AND ADVANCE

THE PROFESSIONAL IMAGE

AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE

IG COMMUNITY.

Objective: Enhance the management system 

for the Councils to allow the IG community to 

perform in an effective and timely manner.

■ As noted in the introduction to this chapter, the 

PCIE and ECIE developed a revised Strategic 

Framework during FY 2004, and formally adopted 

it in December 2004. The new Framework 

improves many of the management systems used 

by the two Councils and assigns a stronger role to 

the Executive Council in integrating the activities 

of the OIGs into a cohesive voice for improving 

government programs and operations. Further, 

the Councils will explore providing operational 

systems, including cross-servicing arrangements, to 

their members, as a means of achieving improved 

efficiency and greater results for resources 

expended.

■ The Human Resources Committee planned and 

conducted the 2004 Annual PCIE and ECIE 

Awards Ceremony, which was held on October 

27, 2004. This event honors employees who have 

rendered exceptional service to the community. 

Pages 39 - 41 of this report contain information 

regarding the principal awards conferred at the 

ceremony.

■ The Integrity Committee provides a structured and 

objective forum through which the community 

can receive, review, and, if warranted, act upon 

allegations of administrative misconduct against 

IGs and certain senior members of their staffs. 

The ability to address potential wrongdoing 

objectively and professionally is critical to 

maintaining appropriate standards of conduct and 

accountability. Information regarding the Integrity 

Committee’s activities in FY 2004 appears on pages 

18 and 19 of this report. 

Objective: Develop and keep current PCIE 

and ECIE orientation programs for new 

and current IGs on issues facing the 

IG community. 

■ In prior years, the IG Criminal Investigator 

Academy held a one-day orientation seminar for 

new Inspectors General to provide them a working 

knowledge of the significant issues and challenges 

they may face in their new positions. These 

seminars have been led by executives from OIGs, 

the Office of Government Ethics, and the Office 

of Special Counsel who are conversant with the 

expectations and requirements facing new IGs. The 

seminar was not held during FY 2004 because of 

the relatively small number of new IGs appointed 

during the year. However, the two Councils plan to 

hold this event again during 2005.

■ The PCIE and ECIE Annual Conference took place 

in Annapolis, Maryland on March 22 – 24, 2004. 

Its theme was “Returning America’s Investment 

in the IGs.” Presentations at the conference 

focused on the varying contexts in which groups 

and persons affected by IG activities—such as 

Congress, GAO, and the public—may perceive 

the PCIE and ECIE community’s efficiency and 

effectiveness, and on means of achieving greater 

efficiency and impact from OIG operations. 

In addition, a series of discussions and panels 

allowed the IGs to exchange information and 

offer their viewpoints on initiatives of the two 

Councils. The 2004 conference was hosted jointly 

by the Inspectors General of the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development and the National 

Endowment for the Humanities.

Goal

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RESULTS RELATED TO THE PCIE AND ECIE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

Objective: Establish and maintain 

professional standards for OIG operations 

where needed.

■ The PCIE committees were actively involved in 

developing professional standards and guidelines 

during FY 2004. Among the examples noted in the 

committee activities section of this report are:

• The Audit Committee established a working 

group of representatives of PCIE and ECIE 

audit offices that revised the existing guidance 

on conducting peer reviews of the OIG audit 

components. The revisions should strengthen 

the guide and should foster more meaningful 

and supportive peer review results.

• The Investigations Committee continued to 

address the heightened need for improved 

internal review capabilities within the OIG 

investigations community that has been 

generated by the OIGs’ receipt of full law 

enforcement authority during 2003. 

• The FAEC began planning for development of 

guidance on performing information security 

reviews required by the FISMA. 

• The Inspection and Evaluation Committee 

completed a comprehensive revision of its 

reference guide, Quality Standards for Inspections, 

which had originally been issued in 1993. 

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OIG STATISTICAL

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

OIG STATISTICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

The information on the following pages has been compiled from data reported by the 

members of the IG community. Taken together, these statistics offer an objective measure 

of the collective governmentwide impact of the PCIE and ECIE membership. We have 

placed these productivity indicators in an overall context by providing a multi-year 

running total for each reporting category.

Beginning with this year’s report, we are discontinuing our prior practice of listing 

performance data on an agency-by-agency basis. Instead, we are reporting a single, 

combined PCIE and ECIE community number for each reporting category. Full 

information regarding the statistical performance of individual IG offices is published 

in their semiannual reports. The online versions of these reports are available on the 

respective OIG websites, links to which are provided in the appendix beginning on 

page 43.

We have provided an explanation of each of the reporting categories, as applied in the 

context of this report. Especially for audit-related categories, the data published in this 

section generally corresponds to equivalent categories presented in the IG semiannual 

reports. However, because of data limitations, subsequent adjustments, the reporting 

practices that various OIGs have established, and the way that this governmentwide report 

accounts for results generated by joint, cooperative or interagency projects, some variation 

exists between the summary data presented herein and the collective totals of the IG 

semiannual reports. 

AUDIT-RELATED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Section 5 of the IG Act establishes a uniform set of statistical categories under which OIGs 

must report the results of their audit activities in their semiannual reports. The auditrelated categories displayed in this report correspond directly to the IG Act definitions. 

The total accomplishments as shown on the following pages include the results of audits 

performed by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) under agreements with OIGs 

and agencies. Due to reporting processes, the results of audits performed by DCAA, and 

the corresponding management decisions, may be reported by more than one OIG.

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OIG STATISTICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

RECOMMENDATIONS THAT FUNDS 

BE PUT TO BETTER USE

The IG Act defines a recommendation that funds be put to better use as follows:

a recommendation by the Office [of Inspector General] that funds could be 

used more efficiently if management of an establishment took actions to 

implement and complete the recommendation, including (1) reductions 

in outlays; (2) de-obligation of funds from programs or operations; 

(3) withdrawal of interest subsidy costs on loans or loan guarantees, 

insurance, or bonds; (4) costs not incurred by implementing recommended 

improvements related to the operations of the establishment, a contractor, 

or grantee; (5) avoidance of unnecessary expenditures noted in pre-award 

reviews of contractor or grant agreements; or (6) any other savings which are 

specifically identified.

The totals reported in this category represent the calculations of the potential monetary 

impact of such recommendations, as determined by the OIGs which reported them. The 

recommendations for each year reflect the amounts appearing in audit reports issued by 

OIGs and DCAA during that year. 

In FY 2004, the OIGs recommended that $14.9 billion be put to better use. Cumulatively 

over the past five fiscal years (FYs 2000 through 2004), OIG recommendations for better 

use of funds have totaled approximately $161.4 billion.

Reporting Year

Amount of Recommendations

for Better Use of Funds

FY 2000 $15,615,571,720

FY 2001 89,226,582,927

FY 2002 15,153,564,400

FY 2003 26,458,286,927

FY 2004 14,938,468,879

5-YEAR TOTAL $161,392,474,853

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OIG STATISTICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

MANAGEMENT DECISIONS ON RECOMMENDATIONS 

THAT FUNDS BE PUT TO BETTER USE

This category reflects the amounts agreed to by agencies as the result of the actions they 

took to resolve IG and DCAA recommendations. The totals shown for each year include 

agency decisions made during that year, regardless of when the reports containing such 

recommendations were actually issued. Because of the timeframes associated with audit 

resolution processes, a substantial portion of each year’s management decisions may relate 

to recommendations made in OIG reports issued during prior reporting periods.

Recommendations that funds be put to better use can be resolved without an actual 

monetary recovery or reduction in outlays. In many cases, management may take other 

corrective action to remedy or remove the condition that led to the IG’s recommendation, 

and may assign a fiscal impact different from the OIG’s valuation of the corresponding 

recommendation. Therefore, the monetary totals shown for this reporting category will not 

necessarily represent actual monetary savings to the Treasury in a corresponding amount.

Management decisions in FY 2004 agreeing to recommendations that funds be put to 

better use were $12.5 billion. This was about 10 percent greater than the FY 2003 total of 

approximately $11.3 billion. During the past five fiscal years, management decisions have 

agreed to a cumulative total of $120.4 billion in OIG and DCAA recommendations for 

better use of funds. 

Year Management 

Decision Issued

Amount of Recommendations

Agreed To

FY 2000 $9,524,264,728

FY 2001 22,178,783,933

FY 2002 64,899,592,469

FY 2003 11,334,893,561

FY 2004 12,503,502,362

5-YEAR TOTAL $120,441,037,053

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QUESTIONED COSTS

The IG Act defines a questioned cost as:

a cost that is questioned by the Office [of Inspector General] because of 

(1) an alleged violation or provision of law, regulation, contract, grant, 

or cooperative agreement, or other agreement or document governing the 

expenditure of funds; (2) a finding that, at the time of the audit, such cost 

is not supported by adequate documentation; or (3) a finding that the 

expenditure of funds for the intended purpose is unnecessary or unreasonable. 

The totals of questioned costs reported in this document represent the amount of findings 

stated in audit reports issued by the OIGs and DCAA during the year. Because of data 

adjustments made in the current and prior periods, the IG community-wide statistics cited 

in this section may differ slightly from the collective totals for the “Questioned Costs” 

reporting category in the IG semiannual reports issued during the corresponding years.

During FY 2004, the OIGs questioned costs of $4.4 billion. This reflected an increase of 

approximately 42 percent over the FY 2003 total of $3.1 billion. Cumulatively over the 

past five fiscal years (FYs 2000 through 2004), costs questioned by OIG reports have 

totaled approximately $19.9 billion.

Reporting Year Amount of Questioned Costs

FY 2000 $5,207,002,648

FY 2001 4,125,882,715

FY 2002 3,007,702,351

FY 2003 3,112,677,749

FY 2004 4,429,644,538

5-YEAR TOTAL $19,882,910,001

OIG STATISTICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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OIG STATISTICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

MANAGEMENT DECISIONS 

ON QUESTIONED COSTS

This category reflects the amounts of questioned costs agreed to by management during 

the year. The findings themselves may relate to OIG or DCAA recommendations that 

appeared in reports issued during an earlier fiscal year. Similarly, actual implementation of 

the recommendation and recovery of funds, if any, may occur or have occurred in a different 

fiscal year than either issuance of the OIG report or the management decision agreeing to the 

questioned cost.

Management can resolve questioned costs without actually making a monetary recovery 

or reducing outlays. For example, management may “agree” to resolve a questioned cost 

by a corrective action, such as obtaining or supplying appropriate documentation for an 

unsupported cost or taking other action to remove a condition underlying the IG’s finding, 

which does not generate a direct fiscal result. Thus, the totals reflected in these two reporting 

categories will not necessarily represent actual monetary savings to the Treasury in the precise 

amounts presented in this document.

Management decisions in FY 2004 agreed to $2.06 billion in questioned costs, an increase 

of four percent over the FY 2003 total of $1.98 billion. During the past five fiscal years, 

management decisions have agreed to a cumulative total of $10.8 billion in questioned costs.

Year Management 

Decision Issued

Amount of Questioned Costs 

Agreed To

FY 2000 $2,188,429,374

FY 2001 2,341,932,048

FY 2002 2,419,882,927

FY 2003 1,989,689,586

FY 2004 2,063,504,412

5-YEAR TOTAL $11,003,438,347

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OIG STATISTICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

INVESTIGATIONS-RELATED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

In contrast to its extensive identification of specific reporting categories for the findings 

of audit reports, the IG Act did not create a uniform system for recording the results of 

investigative activities. However, OIGs have developed a widely-used set of performance 

indicators for their semiannual reports that include most of the data presented in 

the following pages. The categories used in this report reflect the broad range of 

accomplishments generated by the OIG investigative components. 

Investigations work often involves the collaborative efforts of several law enforcement 

agencies on the same case. OIG investigations offices typically will conduct cases jointly 

with each other, the “traditional” Federal law enforcement agencies such as the FBI, U.S. 

Secret Service, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and state or local law enforcement 

entities. Consistent with the practices used in this report since FY 2001, these investigative 

statistics have been formulated through a methodology that eliminates duplicate reporting 

of cases by multiple OIGs. Therefore, these consolidated statistics differ from the collective 

totals for the equivalent categories in the IG semiannual reports, where each 

IG participating in a case will normally report the results in full.

For each category in which numerical results are reported, we have provided a subtotal 

for “joint investigations,” identifying the results of cases in which multiple OIGs were 

involved.

SUCCESSFUL CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS

A prosecution is considered successful when, as the result of OIG activities, its subject is 

convicted in Federal, state, local, or foreign government venues, under the Uniform Code 

of Military Justice, or is accepted for a pretrial diversion agreement by the Department 

of Justice. 

During FY 2004, the OIGs produced 6,478 successful prosecutions, of which 552 were 

attributable to joint investigations. Cumulatively over the past four fiscal years (FYs 2001 

through 2004), the OIGs were responsible for 31,385 successful prosecutions, of which 

1,448 related to joint investigations.

From IG 

Investigations

From Joint 

Investigations Total

FY 2001 7,501 108 7,609

FY 2002 10,459 231 10,690

FY 2003 6,051 557 6,608

FY 2004 5,926 552 6,478

4-YEAR TOTAL 29,937 1,448 31,385

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OIG STATISTICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

INDICTMENTS AND CRIMINAL INFORMATIONS

The totals reported in this category comprise criminal indictments and informations filed 

in Federal, state, local, or foreign courts or under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 

resulting from cases in which an OIG has had an active investigative role.

During FY 2004, the OIGs produced 6,231 indictments and criminal informations, of 

which 648 were attributable to joint investigations. Cumulatively over the past four fiscal 

years, the OIGs were responsible for 23,806 indictments and criminal informations, of 

which 2,084 were produced through joint investigations.

From IG 

Investigations

From Joint 

Investigations Total

FY 2001 4,867 113 4,980

FY 2002 5,262 507 5,769

FY 2003 6,010 816 6,826

FY 2004 5,583 648 6,231

4-YEAR TOTAL 21,722 2,084 23,806

SUCCESSFUL CIVIL ACTIONS

Civil actions reflect the successful resolution of matters arising from OIG investigations, 

audits, and inspections and evaluations through legal or legal-related action other than 

criminal prosecution. They include:

■ Civil judgments or forfeitures in favor of the United States in Federal, state, local, or 

foreign government legal systems.

■ Settlements negotiated by a governmental authority prior to or following the filing of a 

formal civil complaint.

■ Settlements or agreements in cases governed by the Program Fraud Civil Remedies 

Act, or other agency-specific civil litigation authority.

During FY 2004, the OIGs generated 594 successful civil actions, of which 45 were 

attributable to joint cases. Cumulatively over the past four fiscal years, the OIGs were 

responsible for 2,725 successful civil actions, of which 110 were produced through 

joint investigations. 

From IG 

Investigations

From Joint 

Investigations Total

FY 2001 901 4 905

FY 2002 567 6 573

FY 2003 598 55 653

FY 2004 549 45 594

4-YEAR TOTAL 2,615 110 2,725

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OIG STATISTICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

SUSPENSIONS AND DEBARMENTS

This reporting category includes actions by Federal agencies to suspend, debar, or 

exclude parties from contracts, grants, loans, and other forms of financial or non-financial 

transactions with the government, based on findings produced by the OIGs. 

During FY 2004, agencies issued 5,045 suspensions and debarments as the result of OIG 

investigations, of which 154 were attributable to joint cases. Cumulatively over the past 

four fiscal years, the OIGs were responsible for 29,164 suspensions and debarments, of 

which 295 related to joint investigations. 

From IG 

Investigations

From Joint 

Investigations Total

FY 2001 8,800 28 8,828

FY 2002 7,668 16 7,684

FY 2003 7,510 97 7,607

FY 2004 4,891 154 5,045

4-YEAR TOTAL 28,869 295 29,164

PERSONNEL ACTIONS

Personnel actions include reprimands, suspensions, demotions, or terminations of the 

employees of Federal, state, or local governments, or of Federal contractors and grantees, 

as the result of OIG activities.

During FY 2004, agencies took 1,989 personnel actions on the basis of OIG cases. Joint 

cases accounted for 35 of these actions. Cumulatively over the past four fiscal years, OIG 

cases generated 6,825 personnel actions, of which 48 related to joint investigations. 

From IG 

Investigations

From Joint 

Investigations Total

FY 2001 1,213 0 1,213

FY 2002 1,622 2 1,624

FY 2003 1,988 11 1,999

FY 2004 1,954 35 1,989

4-YEAR TOTAL 6,777 48 6,825

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OIG STATISTICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

INVESTIGATIVE RECEIVABLES AND RECOVERIES

Investigative receivables and recoveries reflect the total dollar value of the following 

amounts:

1. Criminal cases: The amount of restitution, criminal fines, and special assessments 

resulting from successful criminal prosecutions in cases where an OIG had an 

active investigative role.

2. Civil cases: The amount of damages, penalties, settlements, and forfeitures 

resulting from successful civil actions during the reporting period that were based 

on OIG activities.

3. Voluntary repayments: The amounts paid voluntarily or as the result of an agency’s 

administrative processes, by the subject of an investigation in which an OIG has 

an active role, or the value of government property recovered by an OIG during 

such an investigation before prosecutorial action is taken.

Investigative receivables and recoveries occurring in FY 2004 generated by OIG cases 

amounted to approximately $3.5 billion. Joint cases accounted for $895 million of this 

total. Cumulatively over the past four fiscal years, OIG investigations accounted for more 

than $16.3 billion, with approximately $2.3 billion attributable to joint efforts. 

IG 

Investigations

Joint 

Investigations Total

FY 2001 $3,595,421,267 $152,729,630 $3,748,150,897

FY 2002 4,608,962,268 16,177,145 4,625,139,413

FY 2003 3,264,413,948 1,203,628,314 4,468,042,262

FY 2004 2,587,322,748 895,715,469 3,483,038,217

4-YEAR TOTAL $14,056,120,231 $2,268,250,558 $16,324,370,789

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OIG STATISTICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

JOINT INVESTIGATIONS

This reporting category reflects the percentage of investigations in which an OIG worked a 

case jointly with another Federal law enforcement entity (not including another OIG). 

In FY 2004, 25 of the 29 PCIE OIGs reported conducting joint investigations. Of these, 

seven agencies indicated that 10 percent or less of their cases were worked jointly; 

14 stated that joint cases comprised between 10 to 50 percent of their investigations; 

and four OIGs conducted more than 50 percent of their cases jointly. The highest portion 

of joint cases reported by an OIG was 74 percent.

Among the ECIE OIGs, seven of 28 offices reported conducting joint cases; six of these 

indicated that joint cases did not exceed 25 percent of their investigations.

The FY 2004 totals appear to indicate a substantially higher level of joint case activity 

than in FY 2003. In the latter year, out of 24 PCIE offices of inspector general reporting 

joint cases, ten indicated that joint work was less than 10 percent of their caseload, and 

13 stated that joint cases comprised from 10 to 50 percent of their total. Only one OIG 

reported that more than half of their cases were jointly worked. In the ECIE, six IGs 

reported joint cases for FY 2003, with the highest proportion of joint work at 36 percent. 

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OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENTS

ALEXANDER HAMILTON AWARD 

Recognizes achievements in improving the integrity, efficiency, or effectiveness 

of Executive Branch agency operations. 

Presented to

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Air Traffic Operations Audit Team

For significant contributions in improving the efficiency and cost effectiveness of operations of

the Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Traffic Control System.

BETTER GOVERNMENT AWARD

Recognizes contributions to the ideals of the Inspector General Act and actions that improve 

the public’s confidence in government.

Presented to

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

South Florida Fuel Fraud Investigative Team

In recognition of their contributions to the South Florida fuel fraud investigation that resulted in the apprehension 

of numerous individuals involved in theft and resale of fuel on the black market.

The PCIE and ECIE hold an annual awards program to recognize those whose 

performance and accomplishments reflect an exceptional commitment to 

fulfilling the IG mission. In 2004, awards sponsored by the Councils went to 

98 groups and individuals who collectively represented 35 member agencies. 

The following awards, conferred by the Councils jointly on recipients drawn from the 

entire IG community, recognize the very highest levels of service and achievement. 

Outstanding Accomplishments

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GLENN/ROTH EXEMPLARY SERVICE AWARD 

Recognizes achievements in furthering relations between a department or agency (or the community) 

and the Congress. Named in honor of former senators John Glenn and William Roth, who were instrumental 

in framing the Inspector General Act and the Chief Financial Officers Act.

Presented to

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

Social Security Protection Act Team 

In recognition of the efforts of the Offices of Audit, Investigations, and Chief Counsel 

of the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General, for their contributions 

to the passage of the Social Security Protection Act of 2004.

JUNE GIBBS BROWN

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Recognizes outstanding career-long accomplishment and leadership. 

Named in honor of June Gibbs Brown, former PCIE Vice Chair who retired as Inspector General 

of the Department of Health and Human Services. 

Presented to

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Thomas J. Bondurant

Assistant Inspector General for Investigations

In recognition of Mr. Bondurant’s 38 years of exceptional service 

to the Federal law enforcement community, especially his leadership throughout the past 14 years 

of the Department of Justice OIG’s Investigations Division.

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Michael G. Sullivan

Deputy Inspector General

In recognition of outstanding leadership and executive excellence, which have enhanced 

services to the nation’s veterans.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Michael D. Cesario 

(retired)

For more than 24 years of outstanding contributions to the American people, the PCIE, 

and the Office of Inspector General for HHS.
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INDIVIDUAL ACCOMPLISHMENT AWARD

Honoring an individual’s outstanding contributions to the IG community.

Presented to

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

G. Donald Hickman

Assistant Inspector General for Investigations

For outstanding individual effort and persistence in the development and implementation

 of a Federal OIG investigation peer review process, resulting in enhanced quality and credibility 

of all OIG investigation units.

JOINT PCIE/ECIE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE 

Recognizing exceptional professional work furthering the goals of the PCIE.

Presented to

QUALITY STANDARDS FOR FEDERAL OIGS 

Silver Book Update Team

In recognition of outstanding contributions to the IG community in updating the Quality Standards 

for Federal Offices of Inspector General.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Curtis Crider

Director of Financial Audits 

(Nominated by the National Science Foundation)

In recognition of Mr. Crider’s outstanding efforts, personal diligence, and professional commitment 

in representing the PCIE in developing the GAO/PCIE Financial Audit Manual 

that sets financial statement audit requirements for all of the 

Federal Offices of Inspectors General.

1. MEMBERS SITTING ON BOTH COUNCILS

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET (OMB) Clay Johnson, III 

17th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW` Chair, PCIE and ECIE

Room 350, Eisenhower Executive Office Building Deputy Director for Management

Washington, DC 20503

(202) 456-7070

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE) Gregory H. Friedman

1000 Independence Avenue, SW Vice Chair, PCIE

Washington, DC 20585 Inspector General

(202) 586-4393

Website: http://www.ig.doe.gov

Hotlines: (202) 586-4073 (800) 541-1625

Hotline E-mail: ighotline@hq.doe.gov

FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD (FRB) Barry R. Snyder

20th and C Street, NW, Mail Stop 300 Vice Chair, ECIE

Washington, DC 20551 Inspector General

(202) 973-5003

Website: http://www.federalreserve.gov/oig

Hotlines: (202) 452-6400 (800) 827-3340

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET (OMB) Linda Combs

17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Controller

Washington, DC 20503

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI) Chris Swecker

935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Assistant Director

Washington, DC 20535 Criminal Investigative Division

(202) 324-4260

OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS (OGE) Marilyn Glynn

1201 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 500 Acting Director

Washington, DC 20005

(202) 482-9292

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (OPM) Dan Blair

1900 E Street, NW Deputy Director

Washington, DC 20415

(202) 606-1000

OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL (OSC) Scott Bloch

1730 M Street, NW, Suite 300 Special Counsel

Washington, DC 20036

(202) 254-3610

Hotlines: Disclosure hotline (800) 872-9855

 Whistleblower protection (800) 572-2249

 Hatch Act information (800) 85-HATCH

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2. MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL 

ON INTEGRITY AND EFFICIENCY 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (AID) Bruce Crandlemire

The Ronald Reagan Building Acting Inspector General

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20523

(202) 712-1170

Website: http://www.usaid.gov/oig

Hotlines: (202) 712-1023 (800) 230-6539

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) John L. Helgerson

Room 2X30, New Headquarters Building Inspector General

Washington, DC 20505

CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE (CNCS) Carol Bates

1201 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 830 Acting Inspector General

Washington, DC 20525

(202) 606-5000, x390

Website: http://www.cnsig.gov

Hotline: (800) 452-8210

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) Phyllis Fong

1400 Independence Avenue, SW Inspector General

Room 117-W, Jamie L. Whitten Building

Washington, DC 20250

(202) 720-8001

Website: http://www.usda.gov/oig

Hotlines: (202) 690-1622 (800) 424-9121

Hearing impaired: (202) 690-1202 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (DOC) Johnnie E. Frazier

14TH and Constitution Avenue, NW Inspector General

HCHB 7898-C

Washington, DC 20230

(202) 482-4661

Website: http://www.oig.doc.gov/oig

Hotlines: (202) 482-2495 (800) 424-5197

Hearing impaired: (800) 854-8407

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD) Joseph E. Schmitz

400 Army Navy Drive Inspector General

Arlington, VA 22202

(703) 604-8300

Website: http://www.dodig.mil

Hotlines: (703) 604-8569 (800) 424-9098

Hotline website: www.dodig.mil/HOTLINE/fwacompl.htm

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (ED) John P. Higgins, Jr.

400 Maryland Avenue, SW Inspector General

Washington, DC 20024

(202) 245-6900

Website: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oig

Hotline: 800-MIS-USED

Hotline E-mail: oighotline@ed.gov

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS) Daniel Levinson

330 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 5250 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20201

(202) 619-3148

Website: http://oig.hhs.gov

Hotline: (800) 447-8477

Hotline E-mail: Hotline@oig.hhs.gov

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS) Rick Skinner

245 Murray Drive, Building 410 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20528

(202) 254-4100

Website: http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/editorial/editorial 0330.xml

Hotline: (800) 323-8603

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD) Kenneth M. Donohue

451 Seventh Street, SW Inspector General

Washington, DC 20410

(202) 708-0430

Website: http://www.hud.gov/offices/oig

Hotline: (800) 347-3735

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Interior) Earl E. Devaney

1849 C Street, NW Inspector General

Washington, DC 20240

(202) 208-5745

Website: http://www.oig.doi.gov

Hotline: (800) 424-5081

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (Justice) Glenn A. Fine

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 4706 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20530

(202) 514-3435

Website: http://www.usdoj.gov/oig 

Hotline: (800) 869-4499

Hotline E-mail: oig.hotline@usdoj.gov

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR (Labor) Gordon S. Heddell

200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room S5502 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20210

(202) 693-5100

Website: http://www.oig.dol.gov

Hotlines: (202) 693-6999 (800) 347-3756

DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND THE BROADCASTING Howard J. Krongard

BOARD OF GOVERNORS (State) Inspector General

2121 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 8100

Washington, DC 20522-0308

(202) 663-0361

Website: http://www.oig.state.gov

Hotlines: (202) 647-3320 (800) 409-9926

Hotline E-mail: oighotline@state.gov 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT) Kenneth M. Mead

400 7TH Street, SW, Room 9210 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20590

(202) 366-1959

Website: http://www.oig.dot.gov

Hotlines: (202) 366-1461 (800) 424-9071

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (Treasury) Harold Damelin

1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Inspector General

Room 4436, Main Treasury Building

Washington, DC 20220

(202) 622-1090

Website: http://www.ustreas.gov/inspector-general

Hotline: (800) 359-3898

TRESAURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX ADMINISTRATION (TIGTA) J. Russell George

1125 15th Street, NW Inspector General

Washington, DC 20005

(202) 622-6500

Website: http://www.treas.gov/tigta

Hotline: (800) 366-4484

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (VA) Jon A. Wooditch

810 Vermont Avenue, NW Acting Inspector General

Washington, DC 20420

(202) 565-8620

Website: http://www.va.gov/oig

Hotline: (800) 488-8244

Hotline E-mail: VAOIGHOTLINE@VA.GOV

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) Nikki L. Tinsley

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Inspector General

Mailcode 2410T

Washington, DC 20460

(202) 566-0847

Website: http://www.epa.gov/oig

Hotlines: (202) 566-2476 (888) 546-8740

Hotline E-mail: OIG_hotline@epa.gov

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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) Patricia M. Black

801 17TH Street, NW Acting Inspector General

Washington, DC 20434

(202) 416-2026

Website: http://www.fdicig.gov

Hotline: (800) 964-3342

Hotline E-mail: ighotline@fdic.gov 

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (GSA) Brian D. Miller

18th and F Streets, NW Inspector General

Washington, DC 20405

(202) 501-0450

Website: http://oig.gsa.gov

Hotlines: (202) 501-1780 (800) 424-5210

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) Robert W. Cobb

300 E Street, NW, Room 8U70 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20546

(202) 358-1220

Website: http://oig.nasa.gov

Hotline: (800) 424-9183 

Hotline Website: http://oig.nasa.gov/cyberhotline.html

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC) Hubert T. Bell

Mail Stop T5 D28 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20555

(301) 415-5930

Website: http://www.nrc.gov/insp-gen.html

Hotline: (800) 233-3497

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (OPM) Patrick E. McFarland

1900 E Street, NW Inspector General

Washington, DC 20415

(202) 606-1200

Website: http://www.opm.gov/oig

Hotlines: Fraud/waste/abuse (202) 606-2423

 Healthcare fraud (202) 418-3300

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RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD (RRB) Martin J. Dickman

844 North Rush Street, Room 450 Inspector General

Chicago, IL 60611

(312) 751-4690

Website: www.rrb.gov/oig/Rrboig.htm 

Hotline: (800) 772-4258

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (SBA) Peter L. McClintock

409 Third Street, SW Acting Inspector General

Washington, DC 20416

(202) 205-6586

Website: http://www.sba.gov/IG

Hotlines: (202) 205-7151 (800) 767-0385

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (SSA) Patrick P. O’Carroll, Jr.

Room 300, Altmeyer Building Inspector General

6401 Security Boulevard

Baltimore, MD 21235

(410) 966-8385

Website: http://www.ssa.gov/oig

Hotline: (800) 269-0271

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (TVA) Richard Moore

400 West Summit Hill Drive Inspector General

Knoxville, TN 37902

(865) 632-4120

Website: http://oig.tva.gov

Hotlines: (865) 632-3550 (800) 323-3835 

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3. MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 

ON INTEGRITY AND EFFICIENCY 

AMTRAK Fred E. Weiderhold, Jr.

10 G Street, NE, Suite 3W-300 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20002

(202) 906-4600

Website: http://www.amtrakoig.com

Hotline: (800) 468-5469

APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION (ARC) Clifford H. Jennings

1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 215 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20009-1068

(202) 884-7675

Website: http://www.arc.gov/index.do?nodeId=2060

Hotlines: (202) 884-7667 (800) 532-4611

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION (CFTC) A. Roy Lavik

Three Lafayette Centre Inspector General

1155 21st Street, NW

Washington, DC 20581

(202) 418-5110

Website: http://www.ignet.gov/internal/cftc/cftc.html

Hotline: (202) 418-5510

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION (CPSC) Christopher W. Dentel

4330 East West Highway Inspector General

Bethesda, MD 20814-4408

(301) 504-7644

CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (CPB) Kenneth Konz

401 Ninth Street, NW Inspector General

Washington, DC 20004-2129

(202) 879-9660

Website: http://www.cpb.org/oig

Hotlines: (202) 783-5408 (800) 599-2170

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION (EEOC) Aletha L. Brown

1801 L Street, NW, Suite 3001 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20507

(202) 663-4379

Website: http://www.ignet.gov/internal/eeoc/eeoc.html

Hotline: (202) 663-7020

FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION (FCA) Carl A. Clinefelter

1501 Farm Credit Drive Inspector General

McLean, VA 22101

(703) 883-4030

Website: http://www.fca.gov/oig.htm

Hotlines: (703) 883-4316 (800) 437-7322

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC) H. Walker Feaster, III

445 12th Street, SW, Room 2-C762 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20554

(202) 418-0470

Website: http://www.fcc.gov/oig

Hotline: (202) 418-0473

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION (FEC) Lynne A. McFarland

999 E Street, NW, Room 940 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20463

(202) 694-1015

Website: http://www.fec.gov/fecig/mission.htm

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE BOARD (FHFB) Edward Kelley

1625 Eye Street, NW, Room 3095 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20006

(202) 408-2544

Website: http://www.fhfb.gov/AboutUs/aboutus_OIG.htm

Hotlines: (202) 408-2900 (800) 276-8329

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FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY (FLRA) Francine C. Eichler

1400 K Street, NW, Room 250 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20424

(202) 218-7744

Website: http://www.flra.gov/ig/ig.html

Hotline: (800) 331-3572

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION (FMC) Bridgette S. Hicks

800 North Capitol Street, NW, Room 1054 Acting Inspector General

Washington, DC 20573

(202) 523-5863

Hotline: (202) 523-5865

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (FTC) Howard Sribnick

600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Inspector General

Washington, DC 20580

(202) 326-2800

Website: http://www.ftc.gov/oig/

Hotline: (202) 326-2618

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE (GPO) Gregory Brower

North Capitol and H Streets, NW, Stop: IG Inspector General

Washington, DC 20401

(202) 512-0039

Website: http://www.gpo.gov.oig

Hotline: (800) 743-7574

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION (LSC) Richard West

3333 K Street, NW Inspector General

Washington, DC 20007

(202) 295-1650

Website: http://www.oig.lsc.gov

Hotlines: (202) 295-1670 (800) 678-8868

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION (NARA) Paul Brachfeld

8601 Adelphi Road Inspector General

College Park, MD 20740-6001

(301) 837-1532

Website: http://www.archives.gov/about_us/office_of_the_inspector_general/index.html

Hotlines: (301) 713-7305 (800) 786-2551

NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION (NCUA) William A. DeSarno

1775 Duke Street Inspector General

Alexandria, VA 22314-3428

(703) 518-6351

Website: http://www.ncua.gov/oig

Hotlines: (703) 518-6357 (800) 778-4806

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS (NEA) Daniel L. Shaw

1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 601 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20506

(202) 682-5402

Website: http://www.nea.gov/about/OIG/Contents.html

Hotline: (202) 682-5402

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES (NEH) Sheldon L. Bernstein

1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 419 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20506

(202) 606-8350

Website: http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/oig.html

Hotline: (202) 606-8423

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD (NLRB) Jane E. Altenhofen

1099 14TH Street, NW, Room 9820 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20570

(202) 273-1960

Website: http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/about/ig/

Hotline: (800) 736-2983

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF) Christine C. Boesz

4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 1135 Inspector General

Arlington, VA 22230

(703) 292-7100

Website: http://www.nsf.gov/oig

Hotline: (800) 428-2189

PEACE CORPS Allan Gall

1111 20th Street, NW Acting Inspector General

Washington, DC 20526

(202) 692-2900

Website: http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn.whatispc.management.inspgen

Hotline: (800) 233-5874

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION (PBGC) Robert Emmons

1200 K Street, NW, Suite 470 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20005

(202) 326-4030, x3437

Hotline: (800) 303-9737

Website: http://www.oig.pbgc.gov

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (SEC) Walter Stachnik

100 F Street, NE Inspector General

Stop 1107

Washington, DC 20549

(202) 551-6060

Website: http://www.sec.gov/about/oig.shtml

Hotline: (202) 551-6060

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Debra Ritt

Victor Building, Suite 4200 Inspector General

750 Ninth Street, NW

Washington, DC 20560-0905

(202) 275-2244

Website: http://www.si.edu/oig/

Hotline: (202) 275-1671

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U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION (USITC) Kenneth F. Clarke

500 E Street, SW, Room 515 Inspector General

Washington, DC 20436

(202) 205-2210

Website: http://www.usitc.gov/oig

Hotline: Ethics Line: (800) 500-0333

UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (USPS) David C. Williams

1735 North Lynn Street Inspector General

10th Floor

Arlington, VA 22209-2020

(703) 248-2300

Website: http://www.uspsoig.gov

Hotline: (888) 877-7644

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Retirement  

Gaston L. Gianni, Jr.

Gaston L. Gianni, Jr., who had served since May 1999 as Vice Chair of the PCIE, retired at the end of 

2004, after a distinguished Federal career of over 40 years. Gaston was the Inspector General of the 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from April 1996 until his retirement. Before his appointment at 

FDIC, he held several senior management positions with the (then) General Accounting Office.

Gaston effectively and eloquently advocated the interests of the PCIE and the Inspectors General within 

the Executive Branch, before Congress, and with private-sector organizations representing the accounting 

and financial management professions. He encouraged community-based activities and community-wide 

approaches to addressing issues of efficiency and accountability throughout government. As Vice Chair, 

Gaston oversaw development of the PCIE community’s first strategic plan, and championed the 

interests of our most important resource—the highly skilled professional employees of the Inspector 

General offices—by strengthening PCIE-sponsored training, professional development, and human 

resources management programs. Before being named as PCIE Vice Chair, he served as Chair of the 

PCIE Audit Committee. 

In recognition of his contributions to the Inspector General community and his lifelong commitment to 

efficient and effective government, the PCIE has renamed one of its most prestigious awards in his honor. 

The Gaston L. Gianni, Jr. Better Government Award will be given annually to recognize persons 

who contribute to attaining the ideals of the Inspector General Act and work to improve the public’s 

confidence in government.
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