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HRD-82-44 1 (1982-02-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabcyy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~W4 UNITED STATfS'GINERAL ACCOUNTING OFFI7 WASHINGTON, D.C. Z0548 HUMAN RESOURCES Nojt to be February 25, 1982 ecount ing O ffice except on the b :,-: 7 Of speci f a ,,o vl B-206510 by the Office of Congressiop ,& House of Representatives Dear Mr. Rosenthal: 117706 Subject: Poor Management by the Office of Refugee Resettlement in Awarding a Grant to Human Resources Development Associates ( HRD-82-44 ) Your August 13, 1981, letter asked us to examine grant review and award procedures used by the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS') Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in resettling Cuban entrants. You expressed particular interest in a July 28, 1981, grant award to Human Resources Development Associates (HRDA) of New York. The $189,585 grant was for relocating 20 antisocial Cuban entrants from Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, to the Corona Heights section of Queens, New York. Because we were already examining ORR's overall grants manage- ment and refugee resettlement activities, we limited this review to the procedures followed in making the HRDA grant award. Ques- tions concerning the adequacy of HHS'/ORR's overall grant review procedures are being addressed more fully in our ongoing work. We will send you copies of the reports on this work when they become available. To assess the adequacy of the review process associated with the HRDA award, we reviewed documents pertaining to the grant award and discussed the grant review and award process with the HHS/ORR grants management and program staffs. We interviewed eight of the nine panelists who reviewed the HRDA grant proposal in a July 1, 1981, HHS/ORR review panel meeting to obtain their insights con- cerning the review process. The panel included a New York State Department of Social Services employee who is also the State refugee coordinator. Finally, to obtain the grantee's perspective, we interviewed the HMDA director, who submitted the grant proposal to HES. Our review was performed in accordance with GAO's current Standards for Audit of Governmental Organizations, Programs, Ac- tivities, and Functions. (104138)

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