Open Recommendations

We recommend that the Executive Committee establish policies and procedures for ensuring agency compliance with indirect laws, regulations, and contracts.

We recommend that the Executive Committee establish policies and procedures for identifying treaties and international agreements impacting the Railroad Retirement Board or its component, the National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust.

We recommend that the Bureau of Fiscal Operations acquire additional staff and funding to increase the Audit and Compliance Section’s coverage of railroad employer compensation reporting to ensure that a sufficient quantity of railroad audits, including Class 1 railroads, are conducted to establish and maintain a level of control effectiveness.

Calculate and recover the questioned Federal costs, match costs, and related administrative costs. Also, determine the impact on Federal costs due to questioned match costs.

Correct identified safety-critical technical issues before the crewed test flights, including parachute and propulsion systems testing, to ensure sufficient safety margins exist.

We recommend that the BOR determine the cost and benefit of continued operation of the Demo-Plant.

We recommend that the BOR establish specific goals or outcomes if it determines that there is a benefit to continued operation of the Demo-Plant at the conclusion of the cooperative agreement.

We recommend that the BOR establish firm criteria for evaluating the Demo-Plant's future operational performance if the BOR continues Demo-Plant operation.

We recommend that the DOI and its bureaus work with the vendor bank to develop an online review and approval system for cardholders and approving officials and develop policies and procedures that require cardholders and approving officials to use the bank's online system to review and approve transactions.

We recommend that the California Department of Public Health conduct more frequent site surveys at nursing homes to follow up on deficiencies.

(U) Rec. 1.a: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 1.b: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 1.c: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 2.a: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 3.a: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 3.b: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 3.c: Recommendation is Classified.

(U) Rec. 4.e: Recommendation is Classified.

The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, in coordination with Embassy N'Djamena and the Bureau of African Affairs, should develop and implement a strategy that prioritizes the disposal of Embassy N'Djamena's excess real property, in order to put funds estimated at $7.1 million to better use.

The random moment sampling methodology used by the State agency to claim Medicaid school-based administrative costs did not meet Federal requirements. Specifically, the State agency did not correctly design, conduct, and document the timestudies and disregarded CMS’s efforts to ensure that the timestudies would produce valid results.

The random moment sampling methodology used by the State agency to claim Medicaid school-based administrative costs did not meet Federal requirements. Specifically, the State agency did not correctly design, conduct, and document the timestudies and disregarded CMS’s efforts to ensure that the timestudies would produce valid results. The State agency’s failure to meet Federal requirements for statistical sampling and follow its cost allocation plan requirements resulted in $63,786,406 in improper Federal Medicaid payments.