Open Recommendations

Establish policy and controls for the use of maintenance data terminals to reduce the incidence of malware on these terminals.

Require OAs to provide their network maps to the Cyber Security Management Center.

Reimburse its program $28,199 ($19,771 $7,793 $635) from non-Federal funds for the overpayment of housing assistance and ineligible administrative fees it received for the deficiencies cited in this report.

Acknowledge that the attached settlement agreement for $510,000 represents an amount due HUD.

Acknowledge that the attached settlement agreement for $510,000 represents an amount due HUD.

We recommend that the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs require the State to develop and implement policies and procedures to document and perform detailed review and testing to establish eligibility, existence, disaster event qualifications, reasonableness of cost estimates, prioritization, and fund allocation, both retroactively and prospectively, which would put $81,982,712 to better use.

We recommend that the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs require the State to support or properly obligate $11,717,288 in unsupported obligations.

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.

Develop training on the proper use of Religious Compensatory Time and require all managers approving, and employees using, Religious Compensatory Time to complete the course.

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.

Require New Mexico HSD verify enrollment and/or exemption, as applicable, for the four student cases identified, and if it is determined the students were ineligible, require HSD to determine if payments were improper and warrant establishment of a claim.

Require HSD to review the four cases identified to determine if payments were improper and warrant establishment of a claim.

The five cases identified above be reconciled with other State/Territory eDRS queries performed during the coverage gap period to identify disqualified individuals who may have attempted to receive benefits in another State/Territory.

Require New Mexico HSD review the two identified cases and verify income to determine if payments were improper and warrant establishment of a claim.

Require HSD to review the case identified to determine if payments were improper and warrant establishment of a claim.

Require HSD review the two cases identified to determine if payments were improper and warrant establishment of a claim.

Require HSD review the case identified to determine if payments were improper and warrant establishment of a claim.

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.

We recommend that FWS require the Division to certify that grant-funded land is being used for its intended purposes.

We recommend that the Director of the Public Housing Financial Management Division determine whether any of the overpayment of $3,630,286 was ineligible and take appropriate actions to recoup the ineligible payments.

We recommend that the Director of the Public Housing Financial Management Division validate the $1,191,767 in underpayments and determine if any corrections should be made.

We recommend that the Director of the Public Housing Financial Management Division recapture the overpayment of $116,218 disbursed for the units, which exceeded the PHAs' Faircloth limit.

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 determine, adjust, and correct any erroneous reimbursement of Medicare management costs beginning with fiscal year 2010 to current.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should submit a detailed indirect cost rate proposal in support of its allowable and allocable indirect labor costs to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for approval prior to reimbursement.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to determine, adjust, and correct any erroneous reimbursements resulting from the allocation of all of the Railroad Retirement Board’s indirect labor and non-labor costs beginning with fiscal year 2010 to current.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should determine the correct Medicare direct labor reimbursement amount using the compliant employee profiles.

The Executive Committee should perform a time study of Medicare work performed by all agency staff.

The Executive Committee should establish an Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87 compliant and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved personnel activity report based system that will ensure the capture and reporting of actual Medicare work performed.

The Executive Committee should update the Railroad Retirement Board employee direct labor profiles to represent actual work performed based on an Office of Management and Bduget Circular A-87 compliant system methodology.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should adopt and implement Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87 as an agency requirement.