The Commerce Department Office of Inspector General told NTIA that...
The Commerce Department Office of Inspector General told NTIA that it’s begun its audit of the closeout process of the federal government’s more than 200 broadband stimulus grantees. NTIA awarded these three-year Broadband Technology Opportunities Program grants in 2009 and…
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2010 and has already started closing some grants. The office sent NTIA officials the notification letter Feb. 7 and posted it Thursday (http://1.usa.gov/Ybg3qa). The goals of the audit include determining “whether adequate closeout policies and procedures have been established to effectively close out” the grantees and to “assess if closeout procedures are being followed,” the letter said. “Our fieldwork will be conducted at NTIA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., grant offices at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and other locations as needed,” OIG said. “We plan to begin work immediately."