Open Recommendations

We recommend that the Director of HUD's New York Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to provide documentation to justify the $1,264 in unsupported project delivery costs. Any unsupported costs determined to be ineligible should be reimbursed from non-Federal funds.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's New York Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to document their application review committee membership and provide evidence of the committee meetings and their evaluation and rating of subrecipients to fully support their funding recommendations.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's New York Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to develop controls to ensure that the County's recently established debarment verification procedures are implemented for all future procurement activity.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's New York Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to develop controls that will ensure that the County's decentralized record-keeping system is centralized for ready access to HOME documents.

Require the Municipality to reimburse from non-federal funds $552,658 in unallowable and unallocated costs associated with the disbursement of salaries and fringe benefits of employees who did not perform duties directly related to carrying out activities charged with the program delivery costs.

Require the Municipality to provide support showing the allocability and eligibility of $1,077,577 spent on salaries and fringe benefits for employees who performed local government duties and multiple federally funded activities without properly allocating the costs directly related to carrying out each activity. Any amounts determined ineligible must be reimbursed to the Block Grant program from non-federal funds.

BLM should review and update existing orders to: a) determine the relevancy of existing orders; b) eliminate redundant, conflicting, or outdated requirements; c) include current standards and practices commonly included in Conditions of Approval; and d) include inspection criteria and procedures.

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Procure the necessary hardware/software to fully test the data entry application needed for Disclosure by December 2013.

Ensure the disaster recovery Kofax server is updated to mirror the Kofax production server by June 2013.

The Office of Programs should modify occupational disability procedures to comply with the Code of Federal Regulations and ensure that every reasonable effort is made by the District Office staff and/or the disability staff to obtain the Job Information Form from the railroad employer during the established response period.

The Office of Programs should send or route the Job Information Forms to the applicant’s direct supervisor and require the direct supervisor to certify the information given in the space provided on the appropriate Job Information Form.

The Office of Programs should consider extending the employer response period to forward the Job Information Forms and related documentation to the Railroad Retirement Board.

The Office of Programs should perform a study to determine the reasons for the railroad employers’ failure to return the Job Information Forms and take corrective action to elicit better responses based on their findings.

We recommend that OSM establish a timeline and deadline for updating, as appropriate, OSM regulations to include FGDS requirements for the non-primacy and primacy States.

We recommend that OSM enforce and revise, as appropriate, the TSR-15 requirements so that the directive aligns with the actions resulting from OSM's review and update of its regulations conducted under Recommendation 1.

We recommend that OSM require the preparation and issuance of an AAR after each incident or exercise and require the inclusion of a planned course of action to implement and track the recommended corrective actions in the AAR.

We recommend that BOR revise the "Departmental Manual" to include a uniform approach to monitoring and emergency action planning for non-DOI dams located on DOI lands.

Implement control policies or procedures to at least annually coordinate with HUD's Office of Public Housing to match data in the Single Family Data Warehouse to data in the Public Housing Information Center to prevent or mitigate instances of borrowers violating Program residency requirements by renting their properties to Section 8 voucher participants.

The Archivist of the United States should demonstrate a commitment to the development, implementation, and operation of NARA’s ICP by ensuring Risk management responsibilities are included in the performance plans for program and function owners.

(U) Rec. D.3: The DoD OIG recommended that the F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office develop and maintain a listing of all foreign developed software, as well as all documentation of third party testing approvals.

Develop and implement a financial management system in accordance with HUD requirements.

KPMG recommends that the OPM Director in coordination with the CIO and system owners, including the Chief Financial Officer and system owners in Program offices, ensure that resources are prioritized and assigned to address the information system control environment weaknesses.