Washington ? A bill for busing evacuees from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was $32 million more than it should have been, and the government paid it without question, the Transportation Department inspector general said Friday.

Landstar Express America was given 570 specific tasks to supply enough vehicles to haul thousands of truckloads of goods and thousands of busloads of people after the hurricane struck.

The inspector general’s office reviewed six of the tasks that have been paid for by the Federal Aviation Administration, which was the contracting agency.

The report said the FAA overpaid Landstar for two of those six tasks; for one, the agency paid a $59,082,000 partial payment “with no documentation showing the actual amount of services provided to that date,” the report said.