Inspection Report: IG-0397

General (IG) conduct a thorough examination of all Secretarial foreign travel from 1993 to December 1995 to include the purpose of each trip, the activities of each Federal participant in each trip, the funding of each trip, and claims for reimbursements for expenses by Federal trip participants. The Secretary also requested that the review
include an assessment of travel authorization, voucher, traveler reimbursement, and auditing systems employed by the Department to identify steps that could be taken to reduce errors and improve accounting oversight. Additionally, the Secretary requested that the Inspector General conduct a thorough examination of the establishment and filling of the
Department’s Ombudsman position. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) initiated a review into these matters and assigned primary responsibility for the review to the Office of Inspections. The results of the review regarding the Ombudsman position were discussed in the “Report on Inspection of the Establishment and Filling of the Department’s Ombudsman Position” (DOE/IG-0393) issued August 1, 1996. The purpose of this inspection was to conduct a thorough examination of the 16 Secretarial
foreign trips from June 1993 to December 1995.