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GAO-11-732R 1 (2011-07-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanzk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Accourtbility * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 July 29, 2011 The Honorable Bennie G. Thompson Ranking Member Committee on Homeland Security House of Representatives The Honorable Laura Richardson Ranking Member Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications Committee on Homeland Security House of Representatives Subject: FEMA Has Made Progress in Managing Regionalization of Preparedness Grants This report formally transmits a briefing we provided to your staff on May 31, 2011, which we have revised to reflect subsequent agency comments. We developed this briefing in response to your March 2010 request related to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) efforts to delegate grants administration responsibilities to its regions. Specifically, we are reporting on (1) the extent to which FEMA has operationalized delegation of grants administration responsibilities for preparedness grants to the regions, and (2) the extent to which FEMA has assessed the regions' capacity to assume increased responsibility for administration of preparedness grants. To conduct this work, we analyzed information, such as regionalization implementation plans and grants administration protocols; reviewed reports on regionalization, workforce planning, and grants management by FEMA, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of the Inspector General, National Academy of Public Administration, and an independent auditor; compared FEMA's actions against GAO's Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government; and interviewed FEMA officials. In summary, FEMA has taken steps consistent with internal control standards to operationalize the delegation of grants administration responsibilities for preparedness grants to the regions. For example, FEMA established a task force as an oversight and evaluation mechanism and developed an implementation plan, which includes a phased approach to piloting and delegating specific grants administration functions for preparedness grants to the regions and delineates an approach, including roles and responsibilities, for key implementation activities such as training and communications. FEMA has also made progress in assessing the regions' capacity to assume increased responsibility for the administration of preparedness grants. For example, FEMA's Grant Programs Directorate is conducting an assessment of each of its 10 regions' financial management resources and capabilities, as a means to improve regionalization workforce planning. FEMA's leadership is deliberating on possible changes to the initiative given the current fiscal climate and anticipated resource constraints over the next few years, as well as efforts to achieve the right distribution of grants management responsibilities between GAO-1 1-732R FEMA's Regionalization of Preparedness Grants

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