Open Recommendations

Determine whether the $338 million questioned in this report as unsupported costs are supported and allowable.

Recover any of the $338 million questioned in this report as unsupported costs that are determined to be unsupported or unallowable.

Provide formal training to project managers on how to conduct risk assessments, determine risk levels, and conduct oversight in accordance with FAA's Airport Improvement Program, grant oversight, and grant payment policies.

Establish a process to provide reasonable assurance that project managers comply with FAA's Airport Improvement Program, grant oversight, and grant payment policies for the assessment of airport sponsors' risks and approval of sponsors' grant payment requests.

Develop and implement formal written procedures for OACP staff to verify airlines' refund data that reduces civil penalties before giving credits and offsets.

Rec. 1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Naval Supply Systems Command Assistant Commander for Contracting Management update post-award review checklists that includes clauses to prevent the procurement of seafood from foreign sources and forced or child labor.

Rec. 3: The DoD OIG recommended that the Principal Director, Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy, develop and implement policy for the DoD acquisition community directing contracting officers to check existing contract vehicles and document exceptions to satisfying requirements through the DoD Coordinated Acquisition Program during acquisition planning for food procurements.

Establish and implement a comprehensive case management system to track cases from intake through adjudication.

Provide system training to all IOs and Maritime Center staff who access S&R information.

Create standard operating procedures for IOs and Maritime Center staff to ensure all ALJ decisions are accurately reflected in MMLD.

Create a policy governing the process IOs must follow when deciding to not pursue a preliminary case, to include the requirement to document justification for the decision in the case file.

Ensure suspension and revocation staff at the S&R NCOE can search for suspended and revoked credentials.

Ensure ALJ staff notify both the IO and Maritime Center staff when an ALJ issues a decision.

We recommend that the FTC Executive Director, in coordination with relevant offices, designate a single point of coordination to ensure all offboarding tasks are completed accurately, consistently, and in a timely manner

We recommend that the FTC Executive Director, in coordination with relevant offices, establish overarching policies and procedures to clearly identify roles and inform officials of their responsibilities in the offboarding process.

We recommend that BLM develop and implement policies and procedures, including assigning management oversight, to ensure staff assess and document applicants' technical and financial capabilities.

We recommend that BLM develop and implement internal control policies and procedures, including assigning management oversight, to ensure ROW application files for renewable energy development are complete, data system information pertaining to ROW applications for renewable energy development is accurate, and staff are compliant with BLM's policies for renewable energy development applications.

We recommend that BLM immediately complete a screening of existing applications Sample 10 (AZA-038824), Sample 20 (CACA-059767), and Sample 24 (IDI-039522).

We recommend that BLM develop and implement policies and procedures, including assigning management oversight, to ensure staff assess and document checks for outstanding unpaid debts owed to the Federal Government.

We recommend that BLM develop and implement policies and procedures, including assigning management oversight, to ensure staff assess and document checks for trespass actions pending for activity on BLM-administered lands.

We recommend that BLM develop a plan to identify potential methods for accessing information to ensure checks for outstanding unpaid debts owed to the Federal Government are completed and documented as required by 43 C.F.R Part 2800.

We recommend that BLM train BLM staff on 43 C.F.R Part 2800 requirements and policies and procedures pertaining to processing renewable energy applications, including those for assessing and documenting applicants' technical and financial capabilities, assessing and documenting checks for outstanding unpaid debts owed to the Federal Government, and assessing and documenting checks for trespass actions pending for activity on BLM-administered lands.

We recommend that BLM verify that staff assesses and documents applicants' technical and financial capabilities, checks for outstanding unpaid debts owed to the Federal Government, and checks for trespass actions pending for activity on BLM-administered lands for all pending ROW applications identified in Appendix 4 of this report.

We recommend that BLM train BLM staff on policies and procedures that ensure ROW application files for renewable energy development are complete and data system information pertaining to ROW applications for renewable energy development is accurate.

We recommend that BLM complete an analysis to determine an appropriate timeframe for initially screening ROW applications and develop and implement policies and procedures that include the timeframe determined for initially screening applications.