Open Recommendations

Ensure Nye staff forward all detainee grievances containing allegations of staff misconduct to ICE.

Provide responses to detainee requests within 5 days.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Commercial, Communications, and Customer Affairs, in conjunction with the Senior Vice President, Economic Development, develop a plan for future business arrangements with industrial customer to mitigate the risk of TVA not fully recovering infrastructure costs for the additional capacity.

We recommend the Vice President, Transmission Planning and Projects, ensure outstanding actions to mitigate the risk of future transmission cost overruns are completed and process changes documented.

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Recommendation 1: EXIM’s Office of External Engagement, in coordination with the Office
of the Chairman, should establish consistent nomination processes for all award categories
that delineate roles and responsibilities.

Recommendation 2: EXIM’s Office of External Engagement, in coordination with the Office
of the Chairman, should establish criteria for selecting awardee(s) for each award category,
including special award categories.

Recommendation 3: EXIM’s Office of External Engagement, in coordination with the Chief
Risk Officer, should complete a risk profile, or assessment, to identify all potential risks to
the awards program.

Recommendation 4: EXIM’s Office of External Engagement should identify and implement
due diligence activities, as needed, to mitigate the potential risks based upon its risk profile,
such as determining when character, reputational, and transaction integrity (CRTI) reviews
or other ethical, legal, law enforcement, Office of Inspector General, or non-public source
reviews are needed.

We recommend that the Washington Office issue guidance to its regions to strengthen the LRT project selection process to formally document the information reviewed and decisions made when determining LRT project eligibility and scoring in a manner that allows for independent review.

We recommend that the Washington Office establish a plan to monitor the regions’ implementation of its April 3, 2024, guidance, which clarified that regions should solicit and consistently consider public input regionally in the ranking of IIJA projects for funding.

We recommend that the Washington Office establish a process to confirm that all tasks within an LRT project are eligible before approving the project and funding allocation.

Define in policy
a. the process that examiners should use to request access to files in the Supervision Examination System.
b. the criteria that managers and regional analysts should use to assess whether a need to know exists in accordance with the least privilege principle.
c. the requirement that regional analysts document an examiner’s need to know before granting access to supervision files in the Supervision Examination System.
d. consequences for accessing confidential supervisory information without a need to know or providing access to confidential supervisory information when a need to know does not exist.

Update the document handling directive to require supervision staff to share files by emailing Supervision Examination System links.