Procedures need strengthening in the US Synthetic Fuels Corporation's conflict of interest program
GAO reviewed the appropriateness of the US Synthetic Fuels Corporation's criteria for identifying confidential information and, by using one case study, the consistency by which these criteria have been applied. Also, GAO reviewed the Corporation's program to assist its directors, officers, and employees in avoiding conflicts of interest. GAO found that the Corporation's criteria for identifying confidential information are consistent with the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act in protecting certain information from public release and that the Corporation, for the most part, consistently applied its criteria for identifying confidential information on the First Colony project. GAO did, however, identify weaknesses in the Corporation's conflict of interest program, including key employees and contractors not filing reports of their financial interests, insufficient monitoring of officers' and employees' financial interests, and conflict of interest determinations being inconsistently made or inadequately documented in the Corporation files. GAO makes recommendations to correct these weaknesses.
- Research Organization:
- General Accounting Office, Washington, DC (USA). Resources, Community and Economic Development Div.
- OSTI ID:
- 6059486
- Report Number(s):
- GAO/RCED-84-98; ON: TI85900502
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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