Federal Reports

The EEOC is heavily dependent on its FSSP, IBC, for its Data Act implementation and reporting. EEOC has performed some of the recommended steps from the DATA Act Playbook and has collaborated with IBC to ensure the accuracy and completeness of data to be reported on behalf of EEOC. The four steps that EEOC performed were:Organize team, Review Elements, Inventory Data, and Design and Strategize. The EEOC needs to specifically document roles and responsibilities between the EEOC and IBC. Additionally, EEOC should develop a comprehensive implementation plan at the agency level even if it is relying on its FSSP to report DATA Act information on its behalf. Though it appears that IBC is on track in meeting DATA Act reporting requirements by May 2017, according to a report issued by the DOI’s OIG in December 2016, EEOC has the ultimate responsibility of ensuring the accuracy, quality, completeness, and timeliness of the data reported on its behalf.

Our review determined that EEOC is on track to meet the reporting requirements of theDigital Accountability and Transparency Act. We did include three suggestions formanagement’s consideration. Also we have included management’s comments in ourreport.

Over half of the Medicaid payments that Ohio's Department of Medicaid made to providers for full vials of Herceptin were incorrect. Of the 248 line items reviewed, 135 (54 percent) were incorrect and resulted in overpayments of about $142,000 ($91,000 Federal share). The 113 remaining line items were correct.

Audit Report

We audited the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) corporate card transactions from October 1, 2013, through June 30, 2016, totaling $45.2 million to determine the effectiveness of the processes TVA has in place for tax-exempt credit card transactions. We found the processes TVA has in place for tax-exempt corporate card transactions are not effective. Specifically, we identified (1) an estimated $2.48 million of taxes TVA paid on tax-exempt transactions; (2) tax information provided by TVA's credit card supplier, Comdata Network, Inc., was inaccurate; and (3) transactions were approved in TVA's Expense Reimbursement System without adequate support.

The objective of this report was to determine the Denali Commission's readiness to implement the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act requirements. This review is of the process, system and controls the Commission has implemented, or plans to implement, to report federal agency expenditures and linking federal spending information in accordance with the DATA 2014.