Series: Audits of Tribal Controls Over Indian Health Service Sanitation Facilities Construction Program Costs

OBJECTIVE

Under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Congress allocated $3.5 billion to the Indian Health Service (IHS) Sanitation Facilities Construction (SFC) Program to provide American Indian and Alaska Native homes and communities with essential water supply, sewage disposal, and solid waste disposal facilities. We plan to perform a series of audits that will examine internal controls in place over SFC program construction projects that are managed by an agreement between IHS and a Tribe, or managed by a Tribe that has assumed sole responsibility for a project. For each audit, our objective will be to determine whether IHS Area Offices or Tribes implemented internal controls for awarding, monitoring, and reporting SFC program projects according to applicable Federal and Tribal requirements.

There are 4 projects in this series.

Project titles will remain unpublished until projects are complete and reports are posted.

ACTIVE PROJECTS IN THIS SERIES (4)

TIMELINE

• November 30, 2023
  Series Number SRS-A-25-011 Assigned
• November 30, 2023
  Projects Announced

  Project A-07-24-07015

• Project OAS-25-07-073

• Project OAS-25-07-075

• April 15, 2025
  Project Announced

  Project OAS-25-05-078

• Today
  4 Audits In-Progress
• Est FY2026
  Estimated Fiscal Year for Series Completion

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