Open Recommendations

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

We recommend that the Director of HUD's Newark Office of Public Housing require the Authority to provide documentation to show that $172,538 paid for goods and services was reasonable 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.

Provide documentation to support $671,838 in code enforcement costs or repay the program from non-Federal funds for any amount that it cannot support.

Provide documentation to support $1 million in community policing salary costs or repay the program from non-Federal funds for any amount that it cannot support.

(U) Rec. 2: Recommendation is Classified.

We recommend the Under Secretary for Management assign responsibility for the management and oversight of all misconduct allegations across support components and evaluate the best method to ensure that items a through g are completed: a) establish and implement a centralized oversight process for misconduct allegations; b) determine which support components identify or receive misconduct allegations; c) provide written guidance and training on the handling of misconduct allegations; d) develop a formal mechanism to communicate and collaborate regularly about misconduct allegations; e) establish a comprehensive system of record or database to manage and track allegations of misconduct; f) develop and…

FHFA should develop, document, and implement control activities to ensure that (a) only currentFHFA employees are receiving transportation benefits, (b) no employee is improperlyparticipating in both transportation benefit programs, (c) TBS has arecord/certification for each employee who receives a transportation benefit, and(d) SmarTrip® cards are physically controlled. Such control activities include periodicreconciliation of approved transit subsidy recipients in TBS to FHFA transit subsidyrecipients listed on WMATA Monthly Activity Reports, periodic reconciliation ofapproved transit subsidy recipients to active parking permit recipients, and periodicinventory counts of SmarTrip® cards registered to FHFA and undistributed parkingpermits.