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Establish GAO’s cost management procedures for its cloud systems, including addressing data egress fees and the implementation and review of alerts and reports.

Develop an oversight mechanism to ensure that all fees, including data egress fees, are quantified in the cost estimate, or the exclusion of any costs is documented.

We recommend that HUD work with Connecticut and Shelby County to fully realize the program benefits by (1) assessing whether any of the current project activities need to be replaced with more viable project activities, thereby ensuring that any modifications to the project activities will lessen the susceptibility of rain and flood events; (2) assessing whether administrative funds have been properly allocated and charged to identify any possible cost savings; (3) determining whether enough administrative funds or other available funds exist to complete the administration of t

We recommend that HUD conduct onsite or remote monitoring for the City of Minot and Tennessee, which have not had any monitoring since grant inception, to ensure that these grantees are on track to meet their program goals.

We recommend that HUD for its disaster-related program wide activities, revise the action plan and quarterly performance review checklists to a format that more specifically and directly addresses the subject program.

Develop and implement a written procedure or methodology to account for passports removed from the production line. The procedure/methodology should annotate the type of document taken, the purpose for its removal, the quantity taken, and the identity of the person responsible. An automated computer-based process is also recommended.

Develop and implement a policy detailing how passports and passport documents should be securely stored in offices including PII storage.

We recommend the Commandant of the Coast Guard develop and implement a drug interdiction contingency plan to prioritize the availability of cutters for drug interdiction missions and to mitigate the risk of cutters being unavailable.

The OIG recommended the under secretary for health make sure the Office of Integrated Veteran Care develops contract language and/or maximum allowable rates to limit reimbursements that do not have a Medicare or VA fee schedule rate for Community Care Network claims.

The OIG recommended the under secretary for health, in conjunction with the chief acquisition officer and principal executive director for the Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction, ensure the Office of Integrated Veteran Care and the Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction, collaborate to extend the contracting officers representatives designated responsibilities to include monitoring of healthcare invoices.

The OIG recommended the under secretary for health make sure the Office of Integrated Veteran Care considers including dental contract reimbursement language in the current and/or future contracts that is consistent with other contract healthcare reimbursement methodology to limit dental contract reimbursements, not to exceed the amount the third-party administrators pay the providers.

The OIG recommended the chief acquisition officer and principal executive director for the Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction make certain the Office of Procurement, Acquisition, and Logistics develops sufficient oversight and internal controls over the contract modification process to prevent program overpayments.

We recommend that USAID/Kenya and East Africa determine the allowability of $167,463 in ineligible questioned costs on page 28 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

We recommend that USAID/Kenya and East Africa verify that Mission for Essential Drugs and Supplies corrects the one material weakness in internal control detailed on page 32 of the audit report.