Targeted Evaluation of the Board's Emergency Preparedness Initiatives

On this project, we evaluated key emergency preparedness and security enhancement initiatives that were part of the Board's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. The objectives of our work were to evaluate the

• Board's program to implement federal law enforcement authority grant under Section 364 of the USA Patriot Act of 2001, with a focus on the processes for selecting, deploying, and training Federal Reserve Law Enforcement Officers (FRLEO);


• Adequacy of physical access controls for the Eccles, Martin, and New York Avenue buildings and FRLEO's use of screening tools and equipment; and


• policies, procedures, and practices used to screen the Board's visitors.

Evaluation results were presented to the Staff Director for Management and the director of the Management Division (MGT) on March 30, 2004, and both concurred with each of our recommendations. Our final report will not be made available to the public because it contains security-related information.