Open Recommendations

FHFA-OIG's Chief Information Officer should establish and implement a process to make suitability adjudicative determinations and take suitability actions for covered positions in accordance with OPM’s regulation under Title 5 CFR, Part 731.103.

FHFA should disable accounts of nonprivileged users who have been inactive for over 365 days, as required by the FHFA customer controls for the cloud system.

FHFA should work with the cloud system’s vendor to implement software updates that automatically disable user accounts after 365 days of inactivity, as required by the FHFA customer controls for the cloud system.

FHFA should update the customer controls for the cloud system to include a procedure for regular reviews of non-privileged users’ access.

FHFA should complete the review and update of overdue SSPPs and Customer Control Plans in accordance with the existing related plans of action and milestones (POA&Ms).

FHFA should complete the review, update, and testing of the Capital Models (PolyPaths) ISCP in accordance with the existing related POA&M

Evaluate and document all accounting policies within the combined financial statements to ensure non-GAAP policies are identified and monitored at least annually for quantitative and qualitative impacts.

Evaluate and document the accounting implications of all unusual arrangements within the Federal Government, including alternative financing arrangements and regulatory assets and liabilities.

Enhance existing Southwestern processes to ensure that all substantially completed projects are transferred from CWIP to PP&E for financial reporting purposes.

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.

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.

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.