Open Recommendations

Recovers $24,080,771 from the City and County, if applicable.

Ensures that the City complies with reporting requirements.

Ensures that the City complies with subrecipient monitoring requirements.

Ensures that the Tribe complies with the cash management requirements.

Recovers $3,077,574 from the Tribe, if applicable.

Ensures that the Tribe complies with the activities allowed/allowable costs and cost principles requirements.

Recovers $22,691 from the Tribe, if applicable.

Ensures that the Tribe complies with the equipment and real property requirements.

Ensures that the Tribe complies with the period of performance requirements.

Ensures that the Tribe complies with the special tests and provisions requirements.

Develop and implement internal policies and procedures to ensure that approved underwriters are accurately maintained and kept current in the origination systems for the Section 184 program.

Develop a comprehensive plan to continue to seek indemnification statutory authority, including consideration to include indemnification authority language in draft regulations currently being considered. Until statutory authority is obtained, develop and implement internal policies and procedures for the voluntary indemnification process, to include a voluntary indemnification agreement, followup procedures, and resolution procedures. Procedures should be revised once statutory authority is obtained.

Support line item expenditures for the administrative contract expense fund for fiscal years 2015 to 2018. OLG should repay the U.S. Department of the Treasury for any expenditures that cannot be supported.

We recommend FTA recovers $99,226 from the State, if applicable.

We recommend that the Fort Peck Tribes develop and implement controls to verify that all applicants for LIHEAP assistance report all royalty income in their applications.

We recommend that the Fort Peck Tribe develop and implement policies and procedures to track credit balances in beneficiaries’ accounts held by energy suppliers to ensure that all unused LIHEAP funds are returned to the tribe so that excess funds can be used to provide assistance for additional benefits and for other purposes, such as crisis situations and residential weatherization, as described in the Manual.

We recommend that the Fort Peck Tribes develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that FFRs, Carryover Reports, and Household Reports are properly completed and timely submitted to ACF.

We recommend that the Fort Peck Tribes develop and implement controls to verify that FFRs and Carryover Reports accurately report the amount of unobligated funds in the current year and to ensure that the tribes repay to the Federal Government amounts that can no longer be obligated because those amounts exceeded the 2-year grant period

We recommend that the Fort Peck Tribes refund to the Federal Government $436,765 for grant funds that remained unobligated after the 2-year grant period.

Disallow and, if already used, recover education awards made to members who did not serve the minimum required service hours.

We recommend the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security: Develop and implement a method to track the use of settlement agreements throughout the Department and its components.

We recommend that the Director of the Peace Corps provide country directors with additional support to resolve allegations of drug involvement under manual section 204, 3.5.1 and specifically consider the efficacy of reasonable suspicion drug testing as a means of doing so.