Tue, 12/22/2020 - 10:38am An Inspector General report released Dec. 18 found that a $2 million grant to the State of Alaska was improperly used on work to support repealing the “Roadless Rule.” (Photo/Courtesy/US Forest Service) U.S. Forest Service officials should not have approved a modified $2 million grant to be used for the state’s push to lift the controversial Roadless Rule from the Tongass National Forest, according to an Inspector General report published Dec. 18. The report concludes that the process used by the Forest Service to give the state the money and the ultimate use of the funds both ran afoul of federal laws and regulations.