Open Recommendations

We recommend that Crittenton work with ORR to determine what portion of the $3,251,090 claimed was unallowable and refund to the Federal Government the unallowable amount.

We recommend that Crittenton strengthen its oversight, through additional supervisory review, of expenditures charged to grant awards to ensure that they are claimed in accordance with Federal requirements.

The Principal Executive Director, Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction and the Acting Under Secretary for Health in conjunction with the Director, Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System implement a plan that puts the West LA campus in compliance with the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016, the Draft Master Plan, and other federal laws, including reasonable time periods to correct deficiencies noted in this report.

We recommend that AS-IA direct the Office of Self Governance to work with tribes to track the components of the CTGP funding and publish these individual amounts each year in the BIA's Budget Justifications.

We recommend that AS-IA direct the Office of Self Governance to determine the actual funding levels of individual tribal programs and report them annually in the Budget Justifications.

We recommend that AS-IA direct the Office of Self Governance to develop and implement a records management policy to track the annual funding for each program.

We recommend that the USBR ensure that the Tribe completes and maintains an accurate equipment listing.

We recommend that the USBR ensure that the Tribe locates all missing equipment.

We recommend that the USBR resolve the $246,000 in questioned costs for the missing equipment.

We recommend that the USBR resolve the $7,790,434 in questioned costs for unsupported transactions.

We recommend that the USBR resolve the $4,772,000 in unallowable costs.

Work with the USDA agencies to determine what actions need to be taken against the four businesses that could not support their disadvantaged status. Consider taking suspension and debarment actions to prevent other USDA agencies and other Federal Departments from contracting with those businesses.

Develop and implement a process to review a sample of contracts at least annually to see if there is documentation to support small business and disadvantaged business status. Also, develop a process to periodically notify GSA and SBA officials regarding any businesses that USDA finds with inaccurate status information in SAM, or when information in FPDS and SAM does not match.

(U) Rec. 1.c: This recommendation is Controlled Unclassified Information

We recommend the Coast Guard's Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy take action to more clearly define the applicable facilities that have certain dangerous cargo in bulk and which must implement the use of electronic TWIC readers as an access control measure.

We recommend the Coast Guard's Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy revise and strengthen the Coast Guard TWIC Verification and Enforcement Guide. At a minimum, the policy should: - streamline guidance for oversight of the TWIC program by consolidating requirements from other interim Coast Guard policy documents; - include more specific procedures for recording the results of electronic TWIC verifications in the Marine Information for Safety and Law Enforcement system, such as updating the reference to the appropriate user guide and requiring inspectors to add a narrative explanation when card readers are not used for verifications; - define Coast Guard facility…

Implement a change to regulations at 24 CFR Part 203 to require curtailment of preforeclosure interest and other costs that are caused by lender servicing delays, resulting in $413,513,975 in funds to be put to better use. This should include updating or seeking statutory authority to update HUD's regulations as necessary and coordinating with HUD's Office of Finance and Budget, well before any changes go through departmental clearance, to ensure that planned curtailment requirements can be consistently enforced through the claims process.

We recommend that HUD's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs require the City to provide documentation to show that the $594,012 disbursed due to the use of multipliers was for eligible, reasonable, necessary, and supported costs or reimburse its program from non-Federal funds.

We recommend that HUD's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs require the City to provide documentation to show that the $2,689 disbursed due to a higher than required overtime rate was supported by documentation from the trade unions or reimburse its program from non-Federal funds.

We recommend that HUD's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs require the City to reimburse its program $1,198 from non-Federal funds for overpaid wages due to billing and payroll errors.

We recommend that HUD's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs require the City to pay $544 in unpaid wages to the subcontractors of the affected employees and submit evidence that these employees have been paid.

We recommend that HUD's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs require the City to provide training to its staff to help ensure compliance with applicable cost principle, procurement, and Davis-Bacon requirements.

We recommend that HUD's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs require the City to provide documentation showing that payments made under the Rockaway Boardwalk construction management services contract complied with Davis-Bacon and Related Acts requirements and that restitution is made to affected workers for any underpayments identified.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's Newark Office of Public Housing require the Authority to provide documentation to show that the $252,000 paid to the Long Branch Housing Authority was for eligible, reasonable, necessary, and allocable costs or reimburse its Operating and Capital Fund programs from non-Federal funds for any amount that it cannot support or that is not considered reasonable.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's Newark Office of Public Housing require the Authority to provide documentation to show that the $161,600 paid for legal, fee accounting, and auditing services was for prices that were reasonable and that the costs were properly allocated among the Authority's programs or reimburse its Operating and Capital Fund programs from non-Federal funds for any amount that it cannot support or is not considered reasonable