Opportunities to Improve FEMA's Disaster Closeout Process

Book excerpt: Addresses opportunities to improve FEMA¿s process for closing out declared disasters and reporting on the status of recovery efforts. It assessed aspects of the process incl. the agency¿s policies, internal controls, and practices, focusing on determining whether the agency was closing disasters in a timely manner. Improvements are needed to close disasters in a timely manner and to reduce admin. costs associated with disasters that should have been closed sooner. The report notes several opportunities which exist to improve the closeout process and expedite the release of unneeded obligations resulting in timely disaster closures. It makes recommend. to strengthen the internal control environment. Illustrations. This is a print on demand report.