Open Recommendations

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director, in conjunction with facility directors, ensures facility community care staff incorporate requests for additional services and supporting medical documentation in patients’ electronic health records.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director, in conjunction with facility directors, ensures facility community care staff send letters to community providers when they deny requests for additional services.

We recommend the Vice President, Power Operations, Gas, Hydro, and Integration, conduct a business case analysis to determine if hiring additional employees would be less costly than paying overtime.

We recommend the Director, Safety, evaluate Tennessee Valley Authority -Safety Procedure 18.018, Fatigue Management, and Tennessee Valley Authority Standard Programs and Processes 18.001, Safety Program, to determine if fatigue is being effectively identified and mitigated at gas plants.

We recommend the Vice President, Gas, Hydro, and Integration, Power Operations, continue efforts to reach approved Hydro Operations headcount.

We recommend the Vice President, Gas, Hydro, and Integration, Power Operations, evaluate opportunities to mitigate overtime at Hydro Life Extension projects.

We recommend the Director, Safety, evaluate Tennessee Valley Authority Safety Procedure 18.018, Fatigue Management, and Tennessee Valley Authority Standard Programs and Processes 18.001, Safety Program, to determine if fatigue is being effectively identified and mitigated at hydro facilities.

The National Taxpayer Advocate should add an attestation on forms where data about taxpayers whose income exceeds the 250 percent of the poverty level limitation is reported, affirming accuracy, and acknowledging the penalty for making a false statement.

The National Taxpayer Advocate should coordinate with the Treasury Department to request that LITC grant requirements be included within the Treasury Department’s Compliance Supplement to ensure that grant recipients are abiding by the rules in I.R.C. § 7526.

The National Taxpayer Advocate should develop a centralized system to administer the Program Office’s LITC grant management processes and procedures.

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To ensure the required anti-gag provision is included in all nondisclosure forms, agreements, and related documents and to rectify the fact that the anti-gag provision has not consistently been included in NDAs, the OIG recommends the Acting Secretary direct OASAM, in coordination with SOL, to send an updated memorandum to all DOL Agency Heads reminding them of the requirement to include the anti-gag provision in all nondisclosure forms, agreements, and related documents.

To ensure the required anti-gag provision is included in all nondisclosure forms, agreements, and related documents and to rectify the fact that the anti-gag provision has not consistently been included in NDAs, the OIG recommends the Acting Secretary Direct OASAM, in coordination with SOL, to send an email to all DOL employees providing the required anti-gag language and informing all DOL employees that such language should be read as incorporated into any nondisclosure agreement (an agreement requiring an employee not to disclose certain governmental information) they may have signed since November 27, 2012, that did not include the required language.

To ensure the required anti-gag provision is included in all nondisclosure forms, agreements, and related documents and to rectify the fact that the anti-gag provision has not consistently been included in NDAs, the OIG recommends the Acting Secretary revise all existing nondisclosure agreement forms or templates to include the required anti-gag language.

We recommend the Director, Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Site Projects, ensure project managers include Supply Chain in the solicitation process.

We recommend the Director, Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Site Projects, ensure project managers include Supply Chain in the bid evaluation process.

Remedy $18,804 in unapproved salary and fringe benefit costs charged to the subaward.

Remedy $24,810 in unallowable gift card purchases charged to the VOCA subaward.

Remedy $24,810 in unsupported gift card purchases for which the YWCA of Seattle could not produce adequate documentation.

Work with the Washington COM to ensure its policies and procedures for collecting and reporting subrecipient performance data align with the OVC's guidance, to include communicating clear instructions to subrecipients on how to report VOCA grant-funded performance data into the Washington COM's victim tracking database.

We recommend that USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance Cost, Audit and Support Division/Contract Audit Management Branch verify that Kenya Red Cross Society corrects the one instance of material noncompliance detailed on pages 25 and 27 of the audit report.

Rec. 2.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program Management Office Director direct the contracting officer to modify the contract with the Cyber Accreditation Body to require the Cyber Accreditation Body (Cyber AB) to verify that the Cyber AB has signed Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Third?Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO) Agreements and Codes of Professional Conduct for every authorized C3PAO within 30 days of the date of this report or revoke the C3PAOs authorization to perform CMMC Level 2 assessments until the documents are received.

Rec. 2.c: The DoD OIG recommend that the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program Management Office Director direct the contracting officer to modify the contract with the Cyber Accreditation Body to require the Cyber Accreditation Body (Cyber AB) to verify that the quality control leads (QCL) for every authorized Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Third?Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO) meet the certification requirement within 30 days of the date of this report, and, for any of the C3PAOs QCLs who are not certified, revoke the authorization for those C3PAOs to perform CMMC Level 2 assessments until the C3PAOs provide support the QCLs…