Open Recommendations

The Board should seek legislative changes to disallow service months credited as pay for time lost through an injury settlement when determining service eligibility for an occupational disability.

The Board should seek legislative changes to tax all creditable compensation.

Based on the outcome of the State's investigation and criminal trial, make a referral to HUD recommending administrative sanctions, as appropriate, up to and including debarment of the Authority's former rehabilitation specialist, the Planning District Commission's former deputy director, and the involved contractors.

Require controllers to maintain their own time-on-position records by signing in and out in Cru-X/ART.

Rec. 1.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller) verify that the General Fund Enterprise Business System posting logic documentation is accurate and complete, and use it to validate General Fund Enterprise Business System general ledger account postings.

Rec. 1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller) direct the General Fund Enterprise Business System Program Management Office to reconfigure the General Fund Enterprise Business System to properly record Budget-to-Report transactions, including implementing system controls to address items identified in this report.

Rec. 1.d: The DoD OIG recommended that the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller) use the General Fund Enterprise Business System to execute all Army General Fund appropriations.

Revise HUD's asset management fee policy to refederalize the Operating Fund program's management and bookkeeping fees and the Capital Fund program's management fees.

HUD should remove the provision that allows public housing authorities to charge asset management fees, which would ensure that at least $81.6 million in operating funds could be put to better use in meeting HUD program objectives.

Establish and implement procedures to reassess the management and bookkeeping fees periodically to ensure that they are reasonable. HUD should retain the documentation justifying the calculation of the rates.

Develop, document, and implement written procedures to ensure that fees charged to the asset management projects and Capital Fund program and expenses from the central office cost center are used to support HUD's mission.

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Rec. F: The DoD OIG recommended that the Defense Contract Management Agency Director take the following actions in a timely manner to ensure that (i) the cost accounting practice used by Pratt includes the actual cost of collaboration parts in the allocation base used to allocate material overhead costs to U.S. Government contracts in accordance with the rules and regulations established by the Cost Accounting Standards Board, and (ii) the U.S. Government recovers any increased costs paid to Pratt since 2005 resulting from the contractor's use of a cost accounting practice determined by the DCMA to be noncompliant with CAS…

Reimburse $1,183,642 in HOME and CHDO funds to the HOME Investment Trust Fund treasury account from non-Federal funds.

Discontinue using its low-rent public housing fund as a general fund to pay costs associated with its business activities until it has established appropriate controls.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's Buffalo Office of Community Planning and Development instruct City officials to provide documentation to support the reasonableness and eligibility of the administrative program delivery costs charged to the CDBG program, including $597,048 in program delivery costs that could have been allocated to the State program, and repay the CDBG program from non-Federal funds any amounts determined to be unreasonable or ineligible.

We recommend that NARA incorporate the wireless network into its RMF process by performing the following SA&A tasks: authorize network operation based on a determination of the risk to organizational operations and assets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation resulting from the operation of the information system and the decision that this risk is acceptable.

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The OIG has determined that the contents of this recommendation would not be appropriate for public disclosure and has therefore limited its distribution to selected officials.

We recommend NARA’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) ensure NARA IT investments do not bypass NARA’s CPIC process.