Open Recommendations

The Office of Programs should track creditable compensation related to injury settlements and the effect on benefit eligibility.

The Office of Programs should implement controls to ensure compliance with agency regulations related to service months credited from an injury settlement. At a minimum, the agency should require railroad employers to submit supporting documentation for any service and compensation reported as part of an injury settlement. The documentation should include both the legal settlement and an allocation worksheet. This documentation should be readily available for examination and periodically reviewed.

(U) Rec. B: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, coordinate with the appropriate Department of State office to update the 2003 Memorandum of Understanding to reflect DoD policy and requirements with the Force Protection Detachment program and the Embassy's Country Team environment.

(U) Rec. 1: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics establish DoD dam safety inspection policy that is in accordance with the Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety, which define inspection frequency, scope, and inspector qualifications and outline the need to develop and maintain inspection support documentation.

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Submit a plan for how it will proceed with respect to the Municipality of San Lorenzo activity center project, including a schedule that HUD can track to ensure its completion. HUD must reevaluate the feasibility of the activity and determine the eligibility of the $7,010,276 already invested.

Submit a plan for how it will proceed with respect to the Municipality of Dorado hotel project, including a schedule that HUD can track to ensure its completion. HUD must reevaluate the feasibility of the activity and determine the eligibility of the $7,369,000 already invested. If HUD determines that the activity has been canceled or is not feasible, Municipal Affairs must mitigate activity losses by committing any unused loan proceeds for future loan repayments.

Submit a plan for how it will proceed with respect to the Municipality of Camuy hotel project, including a schedule that HUD can track to ensure its completion. HUD must reevaluate the feasibility of the activity and determine the eligibility of the $5,474,376 already invested.

Conduct monitoring of the Section 108 activities with signs of slow progress to ensure that program objectives are met and provide the intended benefits.

Recover from the borrowers and reimburse $1,080,242 to the applicable loan guarantee account from non-Federal funds for ineligible disbursements that were not related to the approved projects and used to finance local government operations.

Obtain and submit supporting documentation showing the eligibility and propriety of $367,840 in disbursements or reimburse the loan guarantee account from non-Federal funds.

Ensure that the borrowers either transfer the unexpended Section 108 loan proceeds to the repayment account or submit a request for extension to HUD.

Ensure that the borrowers provide HUD the additional security requirements according to the loan agreement.

Ensure that borrowers develop and implement a financial management system in accordance with HUD requirements to ensure that program funds can be traced to a level that ensures that such funds have not been used in violation of the restrictions and prohibitions of applicable statutes.

Ensure that all Section 108 loan proceeds deposited at commercial banks are properly collateralized with Government obligations.

Conduct monitoring reviews of all Section 108 projects and ensure that borrowers comply with all loan agreement provisions and HUD regulations.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's New York Office of Public and Indian Housing require Authority officials to provide supporting documents for the proper use of $1,250,417 in sale proceeds from the scattered-site properties. Any amounts not supported or found to be improperly used should be repaid to the homeownership program from non-Federal funds.

We recommend that HUD's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs instruct City officials to provide documentation to justify the $183 million in unsupported salary and fringe benefits and associated expenses charged to the CDBG-DR program. If documentation provided does not support the costs, this amount should be repaid from non-Federal funds.

Rec. 2.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness publish guidance requiring suicide event boards to establish a multidisciplinary approach for obtaining the data necessary to make comprehensive Department of Defense Suicide Event Report submissions. For each suicide death, this board should: 1) be a locally (command or installation level) chartered board with defined task, purpose, and outcome for each suicide death review; 2) include participation by unit leadership, medical/mental health organizations, and Military Criminal Investigative organizations; and 3) articulate the requirement to appropriately share information (for example, medical and law enforcement reports)…

Rec. 3.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in accordance with Recommendation 2.a, publish guidance requiring a suicide event board to enable a multidisciplinary approach for obtaining the data required to make a comprehensive Department of Defense Suicide Event Report submission.

Rec. 4.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness authorize senior commanders to produce unit/installation reports to better understand suicide trends, make informed local suicide prevention policy, and relate their trends to Service and DoD trends.

We recommend that Coast Guard: Continue to implement controls over the transfer of completed construction in progress assets to in-use and accurately recording leasehold improvements, asset impairments, and construction in progress activity.

We recommend that Coast Guard: Continue to implement controls over the transfer of completed construction in progress assets to in-use and accurately recording leasehold improvements, asset impairments, and construction in progress activity.