Open Recommendations

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Strategy and Communications Officer, Commercial Energy Solutions, consider establishing a negative net present value threshold, that upon reaching, the TVA Board of Directors must be consulted prior to entering into solar power purchase agreements.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Strategy and Communications Officer, Commercial Energy Solutions, update Commercial Energy Solutions Standard Programs and Processes 21.704 to require utility scale solar power purchase agreements have a second economic analysis if the project has a proposed price change to the price from the original contract amount.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Strategy and Communications Officer, Commercial Energy Solutions, consider taking a measured approach with new developers by limiting the number of contracts with the developers until a performance history has been established.

The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network chief medical officers and facility senior leaders, ensures an external practitioner with equivalent specialized training and similar privileges completes Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations of chiefs of staff in each facility in a timely manner.

The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors, reviews state licensing board reporting processes at the network level to ensure compliance with Veterans Health Administration policy.

Remedy the $11,012 in unallowable personnel costs.

Ensure that Tennessee Voices adheres to established policies and procedures and requests approvals for future budget modifications.

CMS should engage Medicare Administrative Contractors regarding opportunities and barriers to improving security measures for EFTs that were reported in response to OIG's survey.

CMS should share information with State Medicaid agencies to help address challenges implementing security measures to protect against EFT fraud.

CMS should support periodic information sharing among Medicare and Medicaid payors and expert groups to mitigate evolving threats of EFT fraud schemes.

1. We recommend that the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and the Director of NIST recover $1,578,816.73 from the California Center as stated in NIST’s notice of material noncompliance and demand for repayment.

2. We recommend that the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and the Director of NIST determine and recover any additional amounts owed by the California Center as a result of underreporting program income by its subrecipients.

3. We recommend that the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and the Director of NIST recover $378,052.65 from the Maryland Center as stated in NIST’s notice of material noncompliance and demand for repayment.

4. We recommend that the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and the Director of NIST determine and recover any additional amounts owed by the Maryland Center as a result of incorrectly providing cash reimbursements to clients on other NIST awards.

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USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.

USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.

USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.

USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.

USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.

USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.

USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.

USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.

USDA OIG has determined that this recommendation contains sensitive information and will not be publicly released due to privacy concerns.

Establish GAO’s cost management procedures for its cloud systems, including addressing data egress fees and the implementation and review of alerts and reports.

Develop an oversight mechanism to ensure that all fees, including data egress fees, are quantified in the cost estimate, or the exclusion of any costs is documented.

We recommend that HUD work with Connecticut and Shelby County to fully realize the program benefits by (1) assessing whether any of the current project activities need to be replaced with more viable project activities, thereby ensuring that any modifications to the project activities will lessen the susceptibility of rain and flood events; (2) assessing whether administrative funds have been properly allocated and charged to identify any possible cost savings; (3) determining whether enough administrative funds or other available funds exist to complete the administration of t

We recommend that HUD conduct onsite or remote monitoring for the City of Minot and Tennessee, which have not had any monitoring since grant inception, to ensure that these grantees are on track to meet their program goals.

We recommend that HUD for its disaster-related program wide activities, revise the action plan and quarterly performance review checklists to a format that more specifically and directly addresses the subject program.

Develop and implement a written procedure or methodology to account for passports removed from the production line. The procedure/methodology should annotate the type of document taken, the purpose for its removal, the quantity taken, and the identity of the person responsible. An automated computer-based process is also recommended.

Develop and implement a policy detailing how passports and passport documents should be securely stored in offices including PII storage.

To address weaknesses identified in Premier Group's report, we recommend that USAID's Director, Office of Acquisition & Assistance:
Determine the allowability of $53,983.41 in questioned costs on page 21 of 25 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

To address weaknesses identified in Premier Group's report, we recommend that USAID's Director, Office of Acquisition & Assistance:
Require Chemonics to establish clear guidelines for documentation
requirements for all transactions. Ensure that all supporting documents, such as invoices, receipts, and allocation details, are complete and readily accessible.