Fiscal year 2001 : annual departmental report on accountability

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
The Nation's Principal Conservation Agency
Established in 1849, the Department of the Interior is the Nation's principal conservation agency and is
responsible for wise stewardship of lands and natural and cultural resources, honoring trust
responsibilities to Native Americans, and conducting scientific research.
e Land - Interior manages over 500 million acres or about one-fifth of the land area of the United States
and 700 million acres of subsurface minerals. The Department has jurisdiction over an additional
1.76 million acres of the Outer Continental Shelf.
e Parks, Refuges, Public Lands - Interior manages 385 units of the national park system, 537 national
wildlife refuges, 70 national fish hatcheries, 13 national conservation areas, and 89 national
monuments.
¢ People - Interior has over 70,000 employees located in approximately 2,400 locations across the
United States, Puerto Rico, U.S. Territories, and freely associated states.
¢ Volunteers - Interior benefits from over 200,000 volunteers who provide in excess of 7 million hours
of service, valued at over $95 million per year.
¢ Youth Programs - Interior employs over 4,000 youth in youth-related programs annually. Since 1970,
the Department has used the Youth Conservation Corps to employ young adults ages 15-18.
e Revenues - Revenues collected annually vary from $6 to $11 billion, including revenues from energy,
minerals, grazing, timber, land sales, and other revenue producing activities.
e¢ Water - The Department is the largest supplier and manager of water in the 17 western states,
managing 550 dams and 348 reservoirs that deliver irrigation water to 31 million people and one of
every five western farmers.
e Energy - Interior manages lands, subsurface rights, and offshore areas that produce approximately
28 percent of the Nation's energy, including 35 percent of natural gas, 29 percent of oil, 35 percent
of coal, 17 percent of hydropower, and 47 percent of geothermal.
¢ Visitation - Annually, 52 million visits are made to Bureau of Land Management public lands,
286 million visits to national park units, and 41 million visits to national wildlife refuges and fish
hatcheries. In addition, there are 90 million visitor days of use at Bureau of Reclamation recreation
sites.
e Native Americans - The Department maintains relationships with 559 federally-recognized tribes
in the lower 48 states and Alaska, and provides support to a service population of 1.4 million people.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs provides education services to over 48,000 students in 23 states attending
185 elementary and secondary schools and supports 25 tribally controlled community colleges.
The Department also has a broad range of other responsibilities that are vital to the health and
management of our natural resources including:
e Wildfire management
e Scientific research and information to describe and understand the earth
e Management of mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf
The front cover provides examples of the broad scope of the Department's conservation and stewardship
responsibilities. The Accountability Report provides in-depth information about the Department and its
performance during Fiscal Year 2001.
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From: R. Schuyler Lesher. bey hh
Director, Office of Financial Management and
Deputy Chief Financial Officer
Subject: Department of the Interior Fiscal Year 2001 Accountability Report
I am pleased to provide you with five copies of the Fiscal Year 2001 Accountability Report for
the Department. I want to personally express my appreciation to you and your staff for the hard
work and support in preparing the 2001 report.
If you have any questions concerning this report please contract me on [phone].
Additional copies may be requested from Debbie Smith on [phone].
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CG: Bureau Deputy Chief Financial Officers
Bureau Finance Officers
Bureau 2001 Accountability Report Coordinator
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U.S. DEPARTMENT
OF THE INTERIOR
Fiscal Year 2001
Annual Departmental
Report on Accountability
http://www.doi.gov/pfm/acctrpt2001
February 27, 2002
MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY
On behalf of the Department of the Interior, I am pleased to present the
Department's fiscal year 2001 Accountability Report. The Report chronicles our
achievements during the first year of the Bush Administration and shows how
our resources were spent in pursuit of our mission. To inform the Congress and
the public, this Report also integrates results-oriented performance data, infor-
mation on the Department's stewardship responsibilities, audited financial state-
ments, and the independent auditor's report.
As a Department, we are cognizant of the huge impact our programs and services
have on the lives of Americans. Our responsibilities are vast. We manage more
than one of every five acres of land in this Nation, including some of the most
beautiful and pristine places on earth. We are entrusted with some of the most
patriotic symbols of our Nation, from the Statue of Liberty to Independence
Hall. We provide approximately one-third of the Nation’s domestic energy and
supply the water that has made the arid West bloom. We serve visitors from
around the world who take delight and find recreation through nearly half-a-
billion visits to our lands each year. Our exemplary volunteer program, totaling
over 200,000 individuals and outnumbering our own employees by nearly three
to one, provides valuable assistance in protecting our Nation’s natural and cul-
tural resources. In fiscal year 2001, we collected approximately $11 billion in revenue from the lands and waters we
manage, more than $1 billion more than we had appropriated to us. We also shared $1 billion of the revenue from the
onshore petroleum leasing program with the states.
Our vision for effective management at the Department is organized around the "Four C’s:" consultation, cooperation,
and communication, all in the service of conservation. At the heart of the “Four C’s” is the belief that for conservation to
be successful, we must involve the people who live on, work on, and love the land. To that end, we will actively solicit the
assistance of the Nation's citizens, state and local governments, and non-government and private sector organizations
as we undertake the difficult challenges of managing America's public lands and the species that reside on them. We
believe that good ideas are found in communities throughout America. Working together in collaborative partnerships,
we can leverage the resources available to carry out joint conservation and management programs. Partnerships are the
best way to invite others to join the Department as participants in the stewardship and management of resources.
We realize there is still much to do. Our blueprint for continuing to improve the management of resources entrusted
to us is our "Plan for Citizen-Centered Governance." Based on "The President's Management Agenda" for manage-
ment reform, this plan lays out our strategy to improve the delivery of programs and services; implement new practices
with appropriate use of innovative technologies; invest in human capital by expanding programs to attract, train, and
retain a diverse team of professionals committed to excellence and public service; and maintain accountability throughout
the Department to continue its tradition of stewardship.
Our responsibilities and performance are etched in America's landscape, an enduring legacy of what the Department of
the Interior protects on behalf of its citizens. I invite you to read this Report as a record of our accomplishments in
carrying out the magnificent mission that has been entrusted to us.
Viaf et
Gale A. Norton
Secretary of the Interior
MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
The fiscal year 2001 Accountability Report represents the culmination of
Interior's financial management process, which begins with mission/program
planning, continues through the formulation and justification of Interior's bud-
gets to the President and the Congress, and ends with this Report of the use of the
resources entrusted to us. The Report was prepared pursuant to the require-
ments of the Chief Financial Officers Act, as amended by the Reports Consoli-
dation Act of 2000, and covers activities from October 1, 2000 to September 30,
2001.
We are proud to report that for a fifth year in a row, the financial statements
included in this Report received an unqualified (clean) audit opinion. Further,
as part of Interior’s accountability process, all bureaus were required to prepare
audited financial statements for 2001. Of the nine entities preparing financial
statements, eight received unqualified audit opinions. This year is the first year
that the entire Department was audited by an independent Certified Public
Accounting firm under contract to the Office of Inspector General.
The Department is firmly committed to implementing the “President’s Management Agenda” through its “Plan for
Citizen-Centered Governance.” Our management reform strategy is based on four key principles:
° Customer Value - Ensuring that all of our activities add value and ensure the effective use of resources.
¢ Accountability - Establishing clear performance measures and holding our managers and employees accountable
for results.
° Modernization - Using technology to work smarter and provide single points of access to our services.
¢ Integration - Identifying opportunities to avoid duplication and achieve economies to enhance customer service
and efficiency.
As part of a continuing effort to improve management accountability, we are reinvigorating a departmentwide manage-
ment control program to correct weaknesses identified in audits or management reviews. This 2001 Accountability
Report identifies 17 departmentwide material weaknesses. We have commenced a systematic process to develop spe-
cific timelines and actions that will resolve these weaknesses.
The Department has also established a performance measure for completing corrective actions for material weaknesses
and implementing Inspector General recommendations in a timely manner and for resolving any longstanding audit
findings in a more expeditious manner. I am pleased to report that we have made some progress on both fronts, but
more remains to be done.
The Department is committed to providing the best management of the resources under its stewardship. Through the
teamwork and dedicated efforts of many Interior employees, including program, financial management, and audit
staff, we continue to be successful in achieving desired objectives and reporting on the results. The dedication and
professionalism of individuals throughout the Department is outstanding. We will call upon that talent in the coming
year to implement the Secretary’s “Four C’s” approach to environmental protection, guided by our “Plan for Citizen-
Centered Governance.”
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P, Lynn Scarlett
Chief Financial Officer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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