Open Recommendations

We recommend that the Manager, PPPO, direct the Deputy Manager, PPPO to:3. Refine and implement the policies and procedures of the control governing manual review of risk register data prior to submission of the change requests to allow for more precise and reasonable estimates of the environmental liability at PPPO.

We recommend that the Manager, PPPO:4. Refine and implement the policies and procedures of the risk register review control to properly review, identify, and discuss inaccurate information and inputs to specific risks as part of risk register updates.

We recommend that the Manager, Berkeley Site Office, direct the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to refine the policies and procedures of the control governing manual review of census data prior to submission to allow for a narrower degree of precision required to detect and correct errors or discrepancies between LBNL and Redwood in a timely manner.

Enhance and implement existing polices and procedures to specifically assess the risk of misstatements presented by stale UCOs left uncosted as of the year-end financial reporting date.

We recommend that the Director, Office of Finance and Accounting, and the Office of Science’s Designated Financial Officer enhance and implement existing policies and procedures to specifically assess the risk of misstatement presented by stale UCOs left uncosted as of the year-end financial reporting date.

We recommend that the Manager, PPPO:7. Enhance communication down and across the entity's reporting line to readily obtain and provide evidence necessary to support the internal controls systems and demonstrate that "stale" undelivered order balances are still valid as of the year-end financial reporting date.

Enhance and implement review controls to ensure calculations are properly performed, data is appropriately captured, and errors are appropriately considered so that changes to the baseline are appropriately recorded.

Refine and implement risk register procedures used in the Monte Carlo simulations to reduce the risk of administrative errors.

We recommend that the Manager, PPPO, direct the Deputy Manager, PPPO to:3. Refine and implement the policies and procedures of the control governing manual review of risk register data prior to submission of the change requests to allow for more precise and reasonable estimates of the environmental liability at PPPO.

We recommend that the Manager, PPPO:4. Refine and implement the policies and procedures of the risk register review control to properly review, identify, and discuss inaccurate information and inputs to specific risks as part of risk register updates.

Refine the policies and procedures of the control governing manual review of census data prior to submissions to allow for a narrower degree of precision required to detect and correct errors or discrepancies between LBNL and Redwood in a timely manner

Enhance and implement existing polices and procedures to specifically assess the risk of misstatements presented by stale UCOs left uncosted as of the year-end financial reporting date.

We recommend that the Director, Office of Finance and Accounting, and the Office of Science’s Designated Financial Officer enhance and implement existing policies and procedures to specifically assess the risk of misstatement presented by stale UCOs left uncosted as of the year-end financial reporting date.

We recommend that the Manager, PPPO:7. Enhance communication down and across the entity's reporting line to readily obtain and provide evidence necessary to support the internal controls systems and demonstrate that "stale" undelivered order balances are still valid as of the year-end financial reporting date.

The Central Texas VA Health Care System Director reviews the privileging and professional practice evaluation processes and performance indicators for nurse practitioners granted full practice authority in specialty care clinics to ensure compliance with current Veterans Health Administration policy and quality of care.

The Central Texas VA Health Care System Director ensures that facility leaders communicate expectations related to low-dose computed tomography scans for lung cancer screening to facility primary care providers.

(U) Rec. 1.b: The DoD OIG recommended the Commander, U.S. European Command, direct the Office of Defense Cooperation-Kyiv and the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine to ensure compliance with the DoD Leahy Law by collecting the information the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine needs to verify that Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel who arrive for DoD training belong to a Leahy-vetted unit.

(U) Rec. 1.c: The DoD OIG recommended the Commander, U.S. European Command, direct the Office of Defense Cooperation-Kyiv and the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine to develop, document, and implement internal controls to ensure that before attending training, Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel are assigned to units and commanders, at the battalion level or below, that received Leahy vetting and approval.

Embassy Baghdad should update its Leahy vetting standard operating procedure in accordance with the requirements of the Leahy Vetting Guide.

Embassy Baghdad should bring consular crisis preparedness at the Baghdad and Erbil Consular Sections into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Baghdad should expand the American Liaison Network in Baghdad and Erbil in accordance with Department standards.

The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, in coordination with Embassy Baghdad and the Bureaus of Counterterrorism; Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Economic and Business Affairs; International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; International Security and Nonproliferation; Political-Military Affairs; and Population, Refugees, and Migration, should implement a process to confirm that monitoring data for foreign assistance programs in Iraq is recorded in the official system of record as required by Department standards.

The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, in coordination with Embassy Baghdad and the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, should conduct a cost-benefit analysis and determine the feasibility of connecting the Baghdad Embassy Compound to the local power grid.

Embassy Baghdad should bring its safety, health, and environmental management program into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Baghdad should obtain authorization from the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations to use shipping containers as functional space or dismantle and remove them, in accordance with Department standards.