Open Recommendations

We recommend the Director of USCIS develop and implement a plan, including cost estimates, to automate security checks for asylum applicants.

(U) Rec. 1.a: This recommendation is Controlled Unclassified Information

(U) Rec. 1.a: This recommendation is Controlled Unclassified Information

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We recommend the Senior Vice President, Resource Management and Operations Services, work with the Tennessee Valley Authority Office of General Counsel and the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors to update the Tennessee Valley Authority Board Practice “Use of TVA Aircraft” to explicitly state the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Director’s intent regarding whether all travel by Tier 1 passengers should be considered required use. If the Tennessee Valley Authority Board’s intent was not that all travel by Tier 1 passengers be considered required use travel, require all requests for use of the fixed wing aircraft to identify the travel…

Work with Montana BCC to enhance its existing policies and procedures to include clearly defined, measurable, and VOCA-compliant subrecipient monitoring requirements for the timing and frequency of desk reviews and on-site visits.

Work with Montana BCC to enhance its existing policies and procedures to provide substantive guidance on the nature and scope of activities monitoring personnel are expected to perform and to ensure desk reviews and on-site visits are adequately documented and the records maintained.

Work with Montana BCC to reassess its existing policies and practices for reviewing subrecipient expenditures to ensure Montana BCC has adequate controls in place for the review of subrecipient expenditures to ensure they are properly approved, allowable, and adequately supported.

Work with Montana BCC to enhance its existing policies and procedures to address the issuance of management decision letters and ensure corrective action is taken on related subrecipient single audit report findings.

Work with Montana BCC to enhance its existing policies and procedures to ensure subrecipient Performance Measurement Tool (PMT) data is verified as complete and accurate.

Reassess NASA’s role in, and contribution to, the commercial lunar delivery market

Finalize a management plan with clear leadership authority and responsibility that would delineate CLPS initiative performance goals and metrics that are measurable and targeted, criteria for augmented insight, a formal lessons-learned process, and any other relevant guidelines for the management plan’s implementation

Prepare and formalize a CLPS Manifest Selection Board charter and processes

Strengthen procedures to ensure science payload interfaces and requirements are mature enough to write an RFTP that would minimize future requirement changes

We recommend that the Division of Operations-Management establish a system of internal controls exclusive to the mail ballot process.

Implement electrical grounding equipment in all communication closets.

We recommend that USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance Cost, Audit and Support Division/Contract Audit Management Branch verify that NCA corrects the two instances of material noncompliance detailed on pages 111-2 and 111-3 of the audit report.

Review each of the 1,614 loans and 2,029 grants found to be potential improper payments made to COVID-19 EIDL recipients we identified in the finding as also being on the Treasury’s DNP List and determine if the applicants can rectify the disqualifying information; if not, recover the funds.

Direct USAC to perform a cost-benefit analysis to identify additional approaches forfurther reducing the IPR below the reporting threshold. Additional approaches couldinclude, but are not limited to, evaluating the appropriateness of the volume ofapplications assigned per reviewer, increasing the effectiveness of employee training,providing program requirement reminders and updates, adding additional layers ofreview, creating a documentation checklist to determine program eligibility, andproviding ongoing coaching to educate staff on the Lifeline Program requirements,including documentation requirements relating to eligibility. [New]

Develop and implement policies and procedures to identify, quantify, and report in theOMB Annual Data Call any downward revisions that are submitted by providers resultingfrom provider non-compliant conduct. [New]