Open Recommendations

We recommend that the Director of HUD's Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to provide documents, such as pay stubs and bank statements, to support the eligibility of the two home buyers. If documentation cannot be provided, reimburse $260,736 from non-Federal sources to the County's HOME program line of credit.

Develop airspace divestment plans for oceanic airspace, and develop and implement the technical requirements needed to support all new plans.

Rec. B.1: The DoD OIG recommended that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Warrior Care Policy) establish guidance for writing Recovery Coordination Program oversight reports that include the requirement to specifically assign a person or organization to take action on each recommendation.

Rec. B.2: The DoD OIG recommended that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Warrior Care Policy) establish policy that ensures followup of all Recovery Coordination Program oversight report recommendations until corrective actions are complete.

We recommend that HUD's Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs instruct City officials to reimburse the Program from non-Federal funds $18,274,054 in exempt State sales tax on repairs and maintenance services.

We recommend that HUD's Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs instruct City officials to strengthen controls over disbursements to ensure that all costs charged to the Program are allowable, reasonable, and necessary in compliance with the HUD-approved action plan and Federal and State regulations.

Provide support showing that $17,414 in management fees charged to the projects using a budgeted amount represented actual amounts or repay the difference to each affected project.

Provide documentation to support that it paid itself $447,345 for eligible purposes or reimburse the appropriate projects for the balance.

Verify all management fees charged to the projects from 2013 through 2015 were appropriate.

Require Majestic Management to reimburse the appropriate projects their portion of $231,091 for work not completed or overbilled.

Require Majestic Management to provide support that $462,281 paid for procurements was reasonable or reimburse the appropriate projects for the balance.

Reimburse the appropriate projects their portion of $11,184 that it charged for ineligible items.

Provide documentation to support that $48,891 was spent for eligible purposes or reimburse the appropriate projects for the balance.

CMS should analyze the potential impacts of counting time spent as an outpatient toward the 3-night requirement for SNF services so that beneficiaries receiving similar hospital care have similar access to these services

Conduct an assessment of clearance devices to validate their effectiveness in detecting required clearance levels, as part of the Office of Pesticide Programs ongoing reevaluation of structural fumigants.