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Department of Homeland Security
CBP Has Not Evaluated the Security Risks of Interview-Waived Nonimmigrant U.S. Visa Holders (REDACTED)
Between March 2020 and March 2024, the Department of State (DoS) issued more than 12 million nonimmigrant U.S. visas without conducting in-person interviews or collecting fingerprints. At the time, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) frontline officers at U.S. ports of entry conducting inspections were unaware that some foreign nationals had not been fully screened by DoS, thereby missing an opportunity to conduct enhanced screening and inspection prior to admission to the United States.
As required by the Inspector General Act of 1978 (as amended), this Semiannual Report summarizes the activities of the Office of Inspector General for the preceding 6-month period.
Determine the extent of inefficiencies between GovTA and NFC payroll systems. Assess preventative and detective controls to mitigate discrepancies. Evaluate cost-reduction measures regarding leave audits.
What Office of Inspector General Found
Library lacks adequate controls to mitigate variances between GovTA and NFC systems.
One-way interface between GovTA and NFC does not provide real-time error validation.
Leave synchronization process remains inefficient and does not eliminate manual reconciliations.
What Office of Inspector General Recommends
Document the policies and procedures pertaining to preventative and detective controls, to mitigate future leave balance variances between the GovTA and National Finance Center (NFC) systems.
Implement leave synchronization every pay period, documenting the process in standard operating procedures to ensure consistency and provide corrective actions for discrepancies.
Perform an assessment to evaluate alternative methods for resolving leave balance variances, thereby providing a basis for selecting the most efficient and effective approach.
Based on the results of the risk assessment, implement the approach that aligns with the Library’s operational needs while minimizing inefficiencies caused by leave balance variances.
Implement the selected approach designed to reconcile leave balance variances efficiently, while reducing manual correction efforts.
Performance Audit of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Implementation of the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 for Fiscal Year 2025
In April 2015, the United States Environmental Protection Agency published the Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals [CCR] from Electric Utilities (commonly referred to as the CCR Rule), which set forth national regulations for the safe disposal of coal ash from coal-fired power plants. On May 8, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency finalized changes to the CCR Rule to include additional classes of regulated CCR storage facilities. The CCR Rule requires that applicable CCR units be inspected both weekly for any appearances of actual or potential structural weakness and annually to ensure that the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the CCR unit is consistent with recognized engineering standards. In addition, the CCR Rule requires monthly monitoring of all CCR unit instrumentation for surface impoundments.
We determined TVA performed required inspections and maintenance of CCR storage facilities. Additionally, inspections identified no significant deficiencies, and all deficiencies and high priority instrumentation maintenance issues identified were resolved timely or had plans in place for resolution. However, we also determined (1) TVA did not maintain a comprehensive list of instrumentation requiring monitoring, (2) some issues were not identified in inspections and some instrumentation issues were not resolved, (3) remediation of minor issues identified during annual inspections was not documented, (4) annual inspection reports did not document review of weekly inspections, and (5) some inspectors did not have required training.
