Open Recommendations

Work with the Corps to enhance existing CWIP monitoring processes to ensure the timely transfer of CWIP to PP&E.

The PBS Commissioner should complete a thorough and accurate inventory of all fuel storage tanks across GSA’s facilities and ensure that the inventory is updated in the National Computerized Maintenance Management System, to include the proper asset type description in the database.

The PBS Commissioner should develop Fuel Storage Tank Management Plans in accordance with GSA policies and procedures.

The PBS Commissioner should develop a quality control system to ensure that the required actions and documentation to maintain fuel storage tanks are completed and included in the National Computerized Maintenance Management System as required by GSA policies.

The PBS Commissioner should ensure compliance with National Fire Protection Association marking standards.

1. We recommend that the NOAA Administrator direct the Office of Space Commerce Director to revise the TraCSS program timeline using agile best practices to include realistic dates, capabilities, and actual progress.

2. We recommend that the NOAA Administrator direct the Office of Space Commerce Director to develop and communicate a plan to ensure stakeholders stay informed of changes to the TraCSS timeline.

3. We recommend that the NOAA Administrator direct the Office of Space Commerce Director to modify the TraCSS staffing plan to include roles, responsibilities, and priority for each position and strategies for attrition management.

4. We recommend that the NOAA Administrator direct the Office of Space Commerce Director to define and document OSC's approach for STM-related responsibilities in the near and long terms to address current and future operational risks and include items such as guidelines, safety standards, behavioral norms, and conjunction prevention protocols.

5. We recommend that the NOAA Administrator direct the Office of Space Commerce Director to develop and regularly update a plan to implement OSC's approach to fulfiling the Department's STM-related responsibilities set in SPD-3.

We recommend the FEMA Administrator, in coordination with DHS and OMB, take action to issue final regulations implementing the State-Administered Direct Housing Grant Program authorized by Section 1211(a) of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018.

We recommend the FEMA Administrator provide quarterly briefings, consistent with House Report 117-87, to congressional Appropriations Committees on the status of the component’s DRRA implementation efforts, including the State-Administered Direct Housing Grant Program.

We recommend the FEMA Administrator continue to evaluate challenges associated with implementing the State-Administered Direct Housing Grant Program, and then develop and implement new authorities or program changes to address those challenges.

Develop and implement policies and detailed procedures that identify and describe the Millennium Challenge Corporation's required pre-award oversight activities, such as procurement file reviews, procurement performance reports, and contractor eligibility verifications, including the purpose, manner, and frequency for completing these activities.

Develop and implement a post-award oversight policy that includes requirements to document site visits and develop a central repository for site visit reports, and controls to ensure these requirements, and existing requirements to update risk registers and assign risk response dates, are met.

USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.

USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.

The Sheridan VA Medical Center Director ensures completion of warm handoffs and Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluations within 24 hours for patients on the medical unit that screen positive on the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale.

The Sheridan VA Medical Center Director ensures that psychiatry or medical officer of the day staff reassess suicidal patients prior to changing a one-to-one observation status order.

As DOJ policy does not address what information Department personnel may include in a statement that is determined to be necessary to reassure the public that the appropriate law enforcement agency is investigating a matter or to protect public safety, we recommend that the Department revise this policy to require that the information contained in a statement released pursuant to JM 1-7.400(C) be reasonably necessary either to reassure the public that the appropriate law enforcement agency is investigating a matter or to protect public safety.

We recommend that the Department make clear whether the Justice Manual's Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy, Justice Manual 1-7.000, applies to the Attorney General.

We recommend that the Department clarify its policies to address whether any of the provisions of 28 C.F.R. 50.2 remain Department policy in light of the existence of the Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy contained in the Justice Manual.

If 28 C.F.R. 50.2(b)(9) remains valid Department policy, we recommend that the Department require that requests to the Attorney General or Deputy Attorney General for approval to release information otherwise prohibited from disclosure and any approval to release such information pursuant to 50.2(b)(9) be documented.

We recommend that the Department consider revising its White House communications policy to clarify what information can be disclosed to the White House in situations where the policy permits communication about a contemplated or pending civil or criminal investigation.

USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.