Open Recommendations

The OIG has determined that the contents of this recommendation would not be appropriate for public disclosure and has therefore limited its distribution to selected officials.

We recommend NARA’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) ensure NARA IT investments do not bypass NARA’s CPIC process.

To ensure NARA IT investments do not bypass NARA’s CPIC process we recommend NARA’s Chief Operating Officer ensure the training guide for purchase card holders is updated to include a discussion of the requirements of NARA’s CPIC process.

Require the Authority to support or repay its various program accounts $109,861 from nonfederal funds for unsupported payroll, other compensation, bonuses, travel, supplies, contractor payments and petty cash disbursements.

We recommend that BLM work with the Office of the Solicitor to revise 43 C.F.R. 3602.11 to collect cost-recovery fees on existing exclusive-sale contracts in community pits and common-use areas.

The Office of Programs should take action to correct the amount of the spouse annuities for the five error cases cited, and to establish overpayments as appropriate.

Provide all supporting documentation associated with the $10,838,880 (Footnote 13) Total disbursements of $10,876,095 were adjusted to consider $37,215 questioned in recommendation 1D. in State CDBG, Section 108, and program income proceeds disbursed for the development of the sports complex, if HUD determines the plan to be feasible (recommendation 1A). HUD must determine the eligibility, reasonableness, and allocability of the funds disbursed. OCMA must reimburse its State CDBG program from non-Federal funds any amount determined ineligible.

We recommend that the Director, Office of Multifamily Asset Management, require that each Hub or field office review its refinanced Section 202/223(f) projects for debt service savings amounts, utilizing data provided from this audit for possible additional debt service savings. Where legally possible each Hub or field office should identify, account for by project, and use these amounts for current and future opportunities benefiting tenants or to fund reductions in housing assistance payments.

We recommend the Executive for Business Support Services establish formal assessment criteria and future savings analysis for use in determining whether to cancel Energy Savings Performance Contracts.

Implement a cost-effective method for automating the cash management process to include an electronic interface of transactions to the standard general ledger.

Review the cash management process to identify all financial events to be recognized in accordance with GAAP. Establish procedures to account for the cash management activity in a timely manner in compliance with GAAP.

Ensure that PIH's automation of its cash management process complies with Federal financial management 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.

USAID/Southern Africa determine the allowability of $1,109,459 in questioned costs for excess compensation and collect, as appropriate, any disallowed amounts from the Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund.

USAID/Southern Africa's mission director determine the reasonableness of $1.3 million in management fees SAEDF paid ICP and collect any amount determined to be unreasonable.

We recommend that FWS work with the Department to reconcile their respective records of lands purchased with Program funds.

Collect TAAF Program payments, totaling $84,000, from those producers whose self-certification was not supported by their records.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's Detroit Office of Multifamily Housing Programs require the Authority to ensure that $31,148,477 in residual receipts for the 15 projects as of May 31, 2013, is used to reduce or offset housing assistance payments in accordance with HUD's requirements.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's Detroit Office of Multifamily Housing Programs require the Authority to reimburse the U.S. Treasury $608,337 ($77,856 436,759 $93,722) for the three projects with terminated program contracts.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's Detroit Office of Multifamily Housing Programs require the Authority to reimburse the U.S. Treasury $12,830 from non-Federal funds for the lost interest.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's Buffalo Office of Community Planning and Development instruct City officials to expend or reprogram to other eligible program activities the $2,451,645 in CDBG program income maintained in the City's community development bank accounts as of June 30, 2013, so the City can assure HUD that these funds have been put to better use.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's Buffalo Office of Community Planning and Development instruct City officials to Provide documentation to justify the $177,923 unsupported difference between the City's CDBG program income balance in IDIS and its bank account balances as of June 30, 2013. Any portion of the unsupported difference determined to be ineligible should be reimbursed from non-Federal funds.

The Bureau of Information Services should work with the Office of Administration, Division of Acquisition Management, and the agency’s contracting officer’s representatives to maintain the Contractor Security Control Log, ensure that it is continually updated to reflect all contractors and their staff that work at the RRB, and indicate whether the contractor staff will have access to personally identifiable information or a system of records.

The Bureau of Information Services should develop a strategic organizational privacy plan that is multi-organizational and represents the Railroad Retirement Board as a whole.

The Bureau of Information Services should develop a policy on communication between bureaus regarding changes in personally identifiable information.

The Bureau of Information Services should develop a policy on the use and protection of personally identifiable information in testing, training, and research.

Provide adequate supporting documentation for the $1,628,130 in unsupported salary and benefit costs or repay the CDBG program from non-Federal funds.

The Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should Work with the Performance and Accountability Office to develop a performance measure for tracking the processing of electronic presidential records.

The Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should determine the true backlog of electronic presidential records and determine if additional resources are needed and can be obtained to handle the increased workload.

Reimburse its HOME program $1,595,113 from non-Federal funds for HOME funds that were inappropriately used on Section 8 housing assistance payments.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's Detroit Office of Public Housing require the Commission to support or reimburse its program $425,193 ($19,924 $384,755 in housing assistance payments $46 in utility allowances $20,468 in associated administrative fees) from non-Federal funds for the unsupported overpayment of housing assistance and utility allowances due to unsupported calculations, missing eligibility documentations, and discrepancies in the housing assistance payments register.

The Chief Operating Officer should ensure a plan is developed, including a timeline, for when the archival storage facility reviews will be completed.  As a part of the reviews, identify facilities with (1) areas of non­-compliance, associated costs, risk if the actions are not completed, and an action plan, (2) structural, environmental control, fire safety, preservation, and security deficiencies that could be severe enough to permanently damage records.

The Chief Operating Officer should ensure an accurate listing of facilities currently non-compliant with the Standards, along with the area of deficiencies is identified and communicated.

The Chief Operating Officer should ensure resources needed to make all archival storage facilities compliant by 2016 are identified.  If the facility cannot be brought into conformance with the Standards, determine and document what mitigating actions have been or will be taken to minimize threats to the holdings.

The Chief Operating Officer should ensure PMRS is updated to accurately reflect percentage of archival holdings in appropriate space.

USAID/Philippines determine the allowability and recover, as appropriate, questioned costs of $1,412,114 ($271,581 ineligible and $1,140,533 unsupported) detailed on pages 2-3 of this memorandum.

USAID/Philippines determine the allowability and recover, as appropriate, questioned cost-sharing contributions of $671,298 (unsupported) and a shortfall in cost-sharing contributions of $38,468 (ineligible) detailed in Finding No. 2 on pages 82-84 of the report.

The Chief Innovation Officer and Executives for Research Services and Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries and Museum Services should ensure comprehensive preservation policies and procedures for each of their organizations are developed and/or updated.

We recommend the Executive for Research Services should ensure An analysis is performed to determine if additional risk assessments for the Washington Area Archives and Presidential Libraries, including older holdings, should be completed.  Identify the risks for not completing the assessments.

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 $189,322 in unsupported administrative and planning costs that was disbursed for employee salaries and fringe benefits. 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 reimburse from non-Federal funds $78,530 for ineligible home-buyer rehabilitation and demolition costs charged to the HOME program.

We recommend that the Director of HUD's New York Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to terminate the contract between the County and the Village of Freeport to rehabilitate and construct single-family public housing units to be sold to low-income residents. The remaining contract balance of $31,470 should be put to better use by reprogramming it for other eligible purposes.

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.