Open Recommendations

Put $417,113 in unspent NSP1 funds associated with three activities to better use by reprogramming the funds to other subrecipients using an appropriate method or return the funds to HUD.

Support or reimburse its NSP1 grant $1,300,000 from non-Federal funds for the unsupported reallocation of grant funds.

Support or reimburse the appropriate NSP grant $1,186,105 from non-Federal funds for the unsupported subrecipient and administrative expenditures.

Update the NSP program income information in HUD's grant tracking system and quarterly performance reports and reconcile with the Department's records.

Establish and implement written procedures and provide adequate training to staff associated with administering the NSP grant to help ensure accurate reporting of program income.

We recommend that the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office direct the Chief Information Officer to ensure PIV card technology compatibility with on-going and future system development for USPTO next-generation applications, and switch PIV enforcement to a per-user basis, when technically feasible.

Implement methods to accurately and completely track all foreign national sponsorship information for individual foreign nationals, including expiration dates.

Rec. A.1: The DoD OIG recommended that the Secretary of the Navy modify Marine Corps orders and policies, and memorandums of understanding between the Marine Corps and the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, to be consistent with Department of Defense Instruction 1010.04, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Instruction 6010.30, and Department of Defense Instruction 6040.45, to reflect that substance Abuse Counseling Center counselors may not independently make substance use disorder diagnoses without clinical privileges, and all substance use disorder diagnoses must be documented in the DoD Health Record.

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(U) Rec. 1.a: Recommendation is Classified. (2020, 2021, and 2022 High Priority)

(U) Rec. 2.b: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 2.c: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 3: Recommendation is Classified.

Resolve the questioned costs described in this report and ensure that appropriate incurred cost audits are conducted prior to official contract closeout.

Resolve the questioned costs described in this report and ensure that appropriate incurred cost audits are conducted prior to official contract closeout.

We recommend that CMS instruct the MACs to recover the portion of the $56,668 in identified net overpayments that are within the 4-year reopening period.

FDA should further communicate to hospitals the importance of obtaining NPS compounded drugs from outsourcing facilities

FDA should take appropriate followup action with the unregistered compounding facilities on the list that we provided

We recommend that Retirement Services develop and implement additional cost effective corrective actions, aimed at the root cause(s) of improper payments, in order to further reduce the improper payments rate.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education require the Commissioner Nominee of the Virgin Islands DOE to finalize its monitoring and internal control plan and implement fiscal and programmatic monitoring processes for the Restart program that provide reasonable assurance that the Virgin Islands DOE will spend Restart program funds within the required 24 months and conduct effective programmatic monitoring of the Restart program.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education require the Commissioner Nominee of the Virgin Islands DOE to update its monitoring and internal control plan once an external evaluator is contracted to include the role the external evaluator will ultimately have in assisting the Virgin Islands DOE in monitoring the Restart program and information about how the Virgin Islands DOE will oversee the contractor to ensure contract deliverables are met.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education require the Commissioner Nominee of the Virgin Islands DOE to staff its Internal Audit Division at planned levels and develop and implement standard operating procedures to provide reasonable assurance that it will fulfill its responsibilities.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education require the Commissioner Nominee of the Virgin Islands DOE to assess the risk of fraud in the Restart program and develop and implement control activities to prevent, detect, and respond to potential fraud.