Report: Audit Follow-up: Missing Federal Financial Reports for IIJA-Funded Awards in the EPA’s Grant Files System
January 21, 2026, Report No. 26-N-0011
Why We Did This Report
This report describes an issue that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General identified during its audit of the U.S. Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act-funded IRL Council for the Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program grant program.
Summary of Findings
The EPA OIG found that the IRL Council did not complete or submit any of the required Federal Financial Reports, or FFRs, for the first two years of its award and stated the reason was that the EPA did not request annual FFRs. This raised concerns that the EPA was not requiring any National Estuary Program, or NEP, award recipients to submit FFRs annually as mandated by 2 C.F.R. § 200.328.
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