The U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General (DOI OIG) is one of the Inspector General offices created by the

Inspector General Act of 1978 The Inspector General Act of 1978 is a United States federal law () defining a standard set of Inspector General offices across several specified departments of the U.S. federal government. The Act specifically creates Inspector General positi ...

. The Inspector General for the Department of the Interior is charged with investigating and auditing department programs to combat

waste Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A by-product, by contrast is a joint product of relatively minor economic value. A waste prod ...

, fraud, and abuse.

History of Inspectors General

References

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