IIJA

What this funds

OIG performed an inspection of IIJA Financial Assistance to Facilities that Purchase and Process Byproducts from Ecosystem Restoration Projects (IIJA Section 40804(b)(3) and 40804(d)). The inspection was performed to determine the extent to which Forest Service executed IIJA funding for these IIJA funded financial assistance awards in accordance with IIJA requirements and internal control best practices. Our inspection covered 2022 to 2024. We determined that the Forest Service did not provide financial assistance to facilities that purchase and process ecosystem restoration byproducts in accordance with IIJA requirements, resulting in $86 million in questioned costs and $94 million in unsupported costs. We reached management decision on each of the six recommendations identified.

Extracted from Office of Inspector General, p. 9. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

Contracts funded by this line

166 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.

Showing 8 of 166 — most confidently matched first, largest within a confidence tier. These are not necessarily the largest 8.

Confidence mix · 166 medium

Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.

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