Open Recommendations

Develop an internal control process to address the findings at Appendix A and related NxGen data issues.

The Chief Ethics Officer, in coordination with other EXIM senior officials, should conduct an analysis to determine whether EXIM’s practice of soliciting sponsorship fees sufficiently mitigates the appearance of favoritism towards any potential conference sponsor.

The Chief Ethics Officer, in coordination with other EXIM senior officials, should consider developing updated criteria for reviewing sponsorship applications to mitigate potential favoritism concerns.

The Chief Ethics Officer, in coordination with other EXIM senior officials, should update its procedures to include steps for documenting the decision to accept or reject each potential sponsor.

The Chief Ethics Officer, in coordination with other EXIM senior officials, should develop and implement a process to ensure that the office’s involvement in matters pertaining to conference sponsorship is consistent with its role as described in the EXIM Charter.

We recommend that the Office of Wildland Fire develop and ensure implementation of a Departmentwide policy to standardize inspection and preparedness review requirements for wildland fire vehicles, which should include, at a minimum, inspection intervals and documentation requirements.

We recommend that the Office of Wildland Fire develop and implement a Departmentwide oversight plan, including compliance monitoring and specific corrective actions, to ensure vehicle inspections are completed in accordance with the policy created in Recommendation 1.

We recommend that the BIA conduct inspections of all active wildland fire vehicles and complete preparedness reviews in accordance with policy.

The Under Secretary for Health evaluates minimum scheduling effort requirements for mental health appointments and takes action to ensure the implementation of standardized policy and procedures in the best interest of patient care.

The Deputy Secretary ensures mitigation of the high-risk pharmacy-related patient safety issues identified during the May 2021 National Center for Patient Safety visit.

The Deputy Secretary ensures the resolution of pharmacy-related usability issues identified in this report.

Closely monitor combined sewer overflow tank construction progress at the Gowanus Canal Superfund site and take immediate action, including enforcement actions if appropriate, if New York City misses any future tank project milestones from the 2021 administrative order.

Post on the EPA's public website the milestones from the 2021 administrative order regarding the Gowanus Canal Superfund site, New York City's progress towards completing these milestones, and any actions taken to ensure the city stays on schedule.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education require MDE to update its policiesand procedures to reflect that all changes to Mississippi’s approved State plan should be submitted to the Departmentand approved by the Department before implementing changes to the accountability system.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education require MDE to provide CSI to thefour public schools that should have been identified for CSI in the fall of 2022.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education require MDE to submit anamendment explaining that it will apply double weighting to the numerator for students who took and passed certainaccelerated courses and describing how it will calculate the college and career readiness indicator score if a studenttakes both the assessment designed to measure skills that are important for success in postsecondary education andthe assessment designed to measure foundational skills required for success in the workplace.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education require MDE to provide records tothe Department showing that it corrected the coding in the MSIS to ensure that the system uses unadjusted compositescores to identify nontraditional public high schools for CSI.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education require MDE to provide records tothe Department showing that it ensured that all Title I, Part A-funded schools with 3 years of accountability data areincluded on the list that MDE uses for identifying public schools that are eligible for CSI.

As expeditiously as possible, Treasury's Office of the Assistant General Counsel for General Law, Ethics and Regulation (GLER) should develop and implement standard operating procedures, including monitoring, to ensure ethics officials fully utilize the Ethics Tracker database to track requests, substantive advice and counsel provided, as well as documentation of final resolution of issues.

As expeditiously as possible, Treasury's Office of the Assistant General Counsel for General Law, Ethics and Regulation (GLER) should consider completing a cost-benefit analysis to determine if a fully integrated and automated tracking system would benefit GLER with its ethics responsibilities.

Ensure that the OHC conducts a comprehensive annual review of the control activities for administering the agency’s vision and dental programs to ensure that they are operating effectively.

Develop and periodically provide tailored training for employees who administer the agency’s vision and dental programs.

Coordinate with the Ohio AG to ensure that the Ohio AG properly executes financial and programmatic monitoring of its subrecipients in compliance with Ohio AG policies and forms, to include that supporting documentation of each monitoring activity is collected, reviewed, and maintained.

Ensure the Ohio AG's subaward packages include all current, required grant information.

Require the Ohio AG to bring into alignment its subrecipient risk assessment policy and the tool designed to assess subrecipient risk.