Management Challenges at the Department of Energy – Fiscal Year 2024
November 22, 2023
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November 17, 2023
Management Challenges at the Department of Energy – Fiscal Year 2024
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is required by statute to annually identify what it considers to be the most significant management challenges facing the Department. It will come as no surprise that the attached report focuses on the unprecedented challenges raised by the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund. Preventing fraud, waste, and abuse in connection with these funds will be extremely difficult. For this reason, I am seeking your personal support for my request to Congress that the OIG be provided $264.7 million during the fiscal year 2024 budget cycle to perform its statutory mission in connection with these critical pieces of legislation. These funds may be provided via Congressional authorization for you to transfer such funds, or via a new appropriation.
These funds are in addition to the $165.2 million needed to correct the historic shortfall in the OIG’s base budget. The $165.2 million is necessary for the OIG to conduct oversight of the Department’s critical preexisting mission areas such as maintaining the safety and reliability of the nuclear stockpile, contract and grant administration, research security, intelligence and counterintelligence, and environmental matters.