Connecticut’s Military Department — which includes the state’s Army National Guard, Air National Guard and Organized Militia — was faulted for a variety of improper bookkeeping matters by the state Auditors of Public Accounts earlier this month.
Among the 12 recommendations – nine new recommendations and three from a prior audit — the auditors disclosed that the military did not submit a $1.3 million bill for a nuclear emergency preparedness program for nearly a year after the expenditures were incurred. As a result, the auditors estimate the delay in billing may have cost the state about $42,000 in lost interest.
The military bills the state Department of Public Utility Control for a nuclear safety emergency preparedness program, which the DPUC then bills nuclear power licensees for reimbursement.
“We are not disputing what they said, and are taking corrective action,” said Thomas Thomas, the military’s fiscal administrative manager.
In regard to the nuclear emergency preparedness program, that responsibility was transferred to Homeland Security, he said, adding, “All of those billings have been made and those grants are in the process of being shut down by us.”
