… Complicating BOR’s mission, the Western States have experienced ongoing historic drought over the last two decades. Our work has identified multiple challenges in this area. For example, we audited BOR’s cost allocation and ratesetting processes for the Central Valley Project and determined that BOR did not have internal controls sufficient to ensure the accuracy of those processes, which is necessary to ensure that costs are accurately allocated and that construction and operations costs are recouped by the Federal Government as appropriate.

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