The Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) uses a system of internal management controls over its FGIS field-based operations, including Federal offices, State agencies, and private agencies (compliance reviews). It also occasionally evaluates nationwide or specific headquarters programs (management evaluations). These management controls are established through independent third-party reviews. The compliance reviews and management evaluations are conducted by the Compliance Division, Review Branch, and include:
- compliance reviews of FGIS field office circuits to evaluate the performance of the FGIS field offices providing services under the U.S. Grain Standards Act (USGSA) and Agricultural Marketing Act (AMA) to determine whether the field office is correctly and uniformly carrying out FGIS programs and efficiently managing its resources;
- compliance reviews of the delegated / designated States which provide official services under the USGSA/AMA, and private agencies which provide them under the USGSA to determine whether they are correctly and uniformly carrying out official procedures, and meeting the criteria for designation; and
- management evaluations of specific areas of program operations for which FGIS is responsible. Past management evaluations have included programs such as miscellaneous processed commodities, protein, rice, the operations of the Board of Appeals and Review, and the Commodity Testing Laboratory.
Reports of review findings are reviewed by GIPSA and follow-up activities are taken by field offices or official agencies until noncompliances have been satisfactorily resolved.
GIPSA also conducts assistance trips to field offices to provide onsite help in strengthening specific program areas, as requested by the various offices.
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