Open Recommendations

We recommend that Indian Affairs identify BIA-owned school facilities that are not on the BIE school listings, including the Todd County School District schools, and ensure facility responsibilities are clearly delineated and upheld.

We recommend Indian Affairs take immediate action to correct the health and safety issues identified in this report or ensure that the students and staff are adequately protected until these problems are resolved.

We recommend that DOI's Chief Information Officer incorporate and enforce the following items into its newly evolving vulnerability management program- a. enterprise-level monitoring and reporting of all devices and software packages; b. enterprise-level enforcement of consistent assessment, detection, prioritization and remediation techniques; c. required elevated account credential usage for testing; d. enterprise-level monitoring and bureau accountability for patch deployment; and e. enterprise-level quarantining for critically vulnerable systems that are not patched in a pre-defined timeframe.

Continue to pursue ways to make the business records process more efficient, particularly for applications related to cyber cases.

We recommend that USBR promptly notify the Klamath Irrigation District of its obligation to repay the cost to design, construct, and operate and maintain the A-Canal head gates and fish screens and the total amount that must be repaid, as determined by USBR in Recommendations 1 and 2.

We recommend that USBR negotiate and establish a repayment contract with the Klamath Irrigation District to secure timely repayment of USBR's cost to design, construct, and operate and maintain the A-Canal head gates and fish screens, as determined by USBR in Recommendations 1 and 2.

Collect data on the Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS) program participation, costs, and outcomes.

Evaluate the PASS program’s impact on disability rolls periodically.

Promptly design and implement a plan that ensures that its law enforcement and detention components comply with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

(U) Rec. B.1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commander of Air Force Space Command ensure that all scheduled Integrated Threat Warning/Attack Assessment Electromagnetic Pulse projects, to include final verification testing, are completed.

Establish a standardized list of courses, covering at least the Release Preparation Program's core categories, as designated by the BOP, to enhance the consistency of Release Preparation Program curricula across BOP institutions.

Explore the use of incentives and other methods to increase inmate participation and completion rates for the Institution Release Preparation Programs.

Provide documentation to support program accomplishment data related to disbursements totaling $292,611 or repay HUD from non-Federal funds for any amount that it cannot support.

Complete the implementation of the new accounting system and ensure it tracks program funds to a level that supports compliance with HUD requirements.

Provide support that $944,687 (Footnote 2: Emergency funds of more than $1.1 million drawn between July 1, 2011, and December 31, 2015, were adjusted to consider $158,800 questioned in recommendation 1C and $38,164 questioned in recommendation 1D.) in Emergency funds drawn from HUD is reconciled with the accounting records and that such funds have not been used in violation of the restrictions and prohibitions of applicable statutes or reimburse the Emergency programs from non-Federal funds.

Reimburse $189,227 to the Emergency programs from non-Federal funds for ineligible charges made to the programs.

Submit supporting documentation showing the eligibility, reasonableness, and allocability of $38,164 charged to the Emergency programs for unsupported drawdowns and equipment cost allocations or reimburse the programs from non-Federal funds.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to update the Medicare interagency agreement and establish procedures for maintaining and updating the agreement.

Comply with and enforce HSPD-12 multifactor authentication supported by the Personal Identity Verification Card.

Rec. 1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commander of U.S. Army Materiel Command review and correct moving average cost valuation for all Inventory, Available and Purchased for Resale.

Direct the New Orleans, LA, field office to enforce its monitoring findings and require the grantee to provide documentation to support costs totaling $4,959,911 or the grantee must reimburse its program from non-Federal funds for any costs that it cannot support.

Direct the Washington, DC, field office to require the grantee to provide documentation to support the $1,766,778 in unsupported payments identified or the grantee must reimburse its program from non-Federal funds for any costs that it cannot support.

Direct the Washington, DC, field office to require the grantee to repay its program $4,214 from non-Federal funds for the ineligible costs associated with activity 1515.

Direct field offices to include property acquisition and disposition activities as an area of special emphasis when assessing grantee risk and establishing their monitoring plans and grantee monitoring strategies.

(U) Rec. A.1: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy update DoD Directive 5230.20, "Visits and Assignments of Foreign Nationals," June 22, 2005, to include the establishment of criteria for granting exceptions to policy and clarification of guidance on the use of extended visit requests.

Improve the collection and analysis of utilization data for inmate medical care to better understand the services that inmates need and the impact it has on the BOP's medical spending.

Clarify guidance to further define “legitimate decommissioning activities” by developing objective criteria for this term.

Develop and issue clarifying guidance to NRC staff and licensees specifying the instances when an exemption is not needed.