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FEMA Should Recover $51.2 Million in Grant Funds Awarded to Cimarron Electric Cooperative, Kingfisher, Oklahoma

Executive Summary

Cimarron Electric Cooperative (Cimarron) received a $69.2 million Federal grant from the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management (Oklahoma), a FEMA grantee, for damages resulting from a severe winter storm in February 2013. Our audit objective was to determine whether Cimarron accounted for and expended FEMA funds according to Federal regulations and FEMA guidelines.

Report Number

OIG-16-97-D

Issue Date

06/08/2016

Document File

OIG-16-97-D-Jun16.pdf

DHS Agency

FEMA

Oversight Area

Disaster Recovery

Fiscal Year

2016