The Commerce Department didn't always adhere to its process for scoring applications seeking $99 million in COVID-relief funds, leading to concerns that some projects could have benefited or been hurt by the disparities, a new audit found.
Further, legislative auditors said they couldn't review the commerce secretary's final decision awarding the grants because the process wasn't documented, which they said limited the program's transparency. The agency disputed that finding.
Those were two key findings of a new . . .
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