# FTA’s Oversight of Its Region 9 Recipients Is Insufficient To Confirm Compliance With CARES Act Funding Requirements
> **Audit** by Department of Transportation OIG · 2024-05-21
> *About: Department of Transportation*
## Report
- **Title:** FTA’s Oversight of Its Region 9 Recipients Is Insufficient To Confirm Compliance With CARES Act Funding Requirements
- **Submitting OIG:** Department of Transportation OIG
- **Component agency:** Department of Transportation
- **Type:** Audit
- **Publication date:** 2024-05-21

## Summary

What We Looked At Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) received $25 billion to help the Nation’s public transit agencies mitigate the impacts of COVID-19. FTA obligated over $4.4 billion of this funding to recipients within FTA’s Region 9, which contains the 4th, 10th, and 11th highest FTA CARES Act fund recipients nationwide.


## Recommendations

- **Rec 4** (Open): For FTA funds identified at elevated risk for misuse, implement written procedures to strengthen the Agency's ability to assess expense eligibility prior to recipients receiving payments. Implementing this recommendation could put up to $446.9…
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/audit/ftas-oversight-its-region-9-recipients-insufficient-confirm-compliance-cares-act)
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