interior department inspector general

• Ramah Navajo Chapter, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Manuel Lujan, Individually and as Secretary of the Interior; Eddie Brown, Individually and as Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Marvin Pierce, Individually and as Chief of Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior; United States of America, Defendants-Appellees, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Amicus Curiae., 112 F.3d 1455 (10th Cir. 1997)

Michael P. Gross, of Roth, VanAmberg, Gross, Rogers & Ortiz, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, for appellant. Jeffrica Jenkins Lee (Barbara C. Biddle with her...

• Federal Circuits

• 48 USC 1422 - Sec. 1422d. Transfer of functions from government comptroller for Guam to Inspector General, Department of the Interior

• US Code - Title 48: Territories and Insular Possessions

• Marin County's Drakes Bay Oyster Co. Abused by Government Agency, According to U.S. Department of Interior Inspector General Report.

Report Shows National Park Service Used False Information, Bureaucratic Red Tape in Attempt to Ruin Marin County Business SAN FRANCISCO -- A report ...

• Business Wire
• July 23, 2008

• 48 USC 1599 - Sec. 1599. Transfer of functions from government comptroller for Virgin Islands to Inspector General, Department of the Interior

• US Code - Title 48: Territories and Insular Possessions

• Sex and the Servers

Interior Department Inspector General (IG) Earl Devaney knows how to draw attention to his work. Any IG can issue a report on employees' use of the Internet. What Devaney's report contained was mostly standard bureaucratese revealing that Devaney was shocked that Interior workers were using their computers for something other than official business. Employees continue to access sexually explicit and gambling Web sites despite being specifically prohibited from doing so by federal regulation and department policy. But Devaney's report also said there have been 177 disciplinary actions for improper or inappropriate Internet use at Interior since 1999. That is a "low number," he argues, given that the probe uncovered thousands of hits at prohibited sites. But it is large enough to assume t...

• Government Executive
• August 12, 2009

• 48 USC 1681 - Sec. 1681b. Transfer of functions from government comptroller for Guam to Inspector General, Department of the Interior

• US Code - Title 48: Territories and Insular Possessions

• Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands, Appellant, v. James R. Richards, in His Capacity as Inspector General, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Interior, and Neal Littlefield, in His Capacity as Regional Audit Manager, Caribbean Region, St. Thomas, V.I., Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Interior., 847 F.2d 108 (3rd Cir. 1988)

Brenda J. Hollar (argued), Leon Kendall, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, for appellant. Robert L. Ashbaugh (argued), Michael F. He...

• Federal Circuits

• O Force Politicizes Science ; Administration Kills Gulf Jobs On Spurious Grounds

Gulf Coast residents have plenty of reasons to be furious at the Obama administration's ham-handed, job-killing responses to last spring's BP oil spill. A new report by the Interior Department's inspector general further roils the waters. Interior IG Mary L. Kendall reported last week that the staff of White House energy czar Carol M. Browner improperly edited a report on how to improve safety in deep-sea drilling. The effect was to indicate falsely that there was scientific support for President Obama's decision to impose a six-month moratorium on such energy production. The truth was that seven scientists and industry experts peer-reviewed a number of new safety measures but didn't sign off on the moratorium. Five of the seven favored targeted inspections rather than an outright ban.

• The Washington Times
• November 16, 2010

• Report Blasts U.S. Agency for Minerals

The Interior Department's inspector general also found that the Minerals Management Service has conflicting relationships with the energy industry, a working environment in which poor or no communication compounded existing distrust, and a malfunctioning $150 million computer system that accountants said is worse than the one it replaced. The findings came in an investigation begun at the request of Kempthorne and members of Congress to examine multiple lawsuits by MMS auditors who claimed that the agency tried to prevent their efforts to collect millions of dollars in payments from energy companies.

• Billings Gazette, The
• August 21, 2009

• 48 USC 1668 - Sec. 1668. Reporting duties of Governor and transfer of functions from government comptroller for American Samoa to Inspector General, Department of the Interior

• US Code - Title 48: Territories and Insular Possessions