Open Recommendations

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Clarify within inspector guidance the proper use of General Correspondence letters to ensure they are not used in place of Compliance Action letters.

Reinforce through inspector training the process for identification of repeat findings and the comprehensive resolution of these findings.

Update guidance and provide training for Principal Inspectors on the proper categorization of actions used to address inspector findings in Safety Assurance System.

Establish clear procedures on how Certificate Management Offices should address significant delays in obtaining air carrier data, including defining an escalation process.

Provide formal guidance to Certificate Management Offices to aid in consistent internal communication and Compliance Action processing during periods of key personnel turnover.

Provide training or formal instruction to managers and inspectors on how to identify and resolve systemic hazards.

Reinforce a structured resolution process within the Compliance Action framework that includes documented escalation procedures, mediation steps, and clear criteria for resolving inspector disagreements to ensure consistency and improve adherence to FAA policy.

Issue best practices for Buy America materials certification, including standardized templates which detail required data fields, such as identifying project information.

Update guidance for FHWA's minimal use threshold, including the definition of "total contract cost."

For the $594,000 in questioned costs relating to Seattle Department of Transportation's West Seattle Bridge project, review materials certification documents relating to cathodic protection system and clamp straps incorporated into the project without adequate documentation at the time of our audit. Should any amount be found to be unsupported or unallowable, provide justification for accepting the costs or take appropriate corrective actions.

For the $160,336 in questioned costs related to Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT) I-10 and I-35 projects, work with TxDOT to confirm Buy America compliance for those foreign materials and determine if any amount is unsupported or unallowable under Buy America rules. Should any amount be found unsupported or unallowable, provide a justification for accepting the costs or take appropriate corrective actions.

Enhance oversight reviews to include greater focus on Buy America compliance.

Increase awareness of Buy America requirements to include documenting certification of shop and field welding consumables and processes.

Verify that Participacin Ciudadana corrects the one instance of material noncompliance detailed on page 34 of the audit report.

Verify that UWI corrects the two material weaknesses in internal control detailed on page 25 of the audit report.

Train management at all delivery units in the district on the proper procedures for reporting delayed mail.

Provide adequate staff for the Iroquois Station and Pleasure Ridge Park Branch to process and deliver all committed mail daily.

Develop and adopt, as appropriate, a process for systematically identifying key external factors and refining how they are incorporated in business cases as required by OMB Circular A-94.

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Establish an appeals process and promptly finalize recovery procedures to include updating the demand letter to provide sufficient recovery and appeals process guidance to grant recipients.

Take immediate action to review the 380 recipients who program officials identified as having a potential improper payment and recover funds.

Ensure program officials enforce the established tier-based process timeline for the 438 recipients who have not responded to SBA’s information requests.

Follow-up with 347 recipients who did not submit their required documents to initiate closeout and take action to recover funds, where necessary.

Establish and implement timeframes for each closeout activity.

Report on the limitations of survey data used to calculate the percentage of recipients that continued or reopened operations in SBA’s next update of the Congressional Budget Justification and Annual Performance Report.

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

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We recommend that USAID/Uganda determine the allowability of $61,848 in ineligible questioned costs on pages 12 and 16 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

We recommend that USAID/Uganda verify that Makerere University Joint AIDS Program corrects the one instance of material noncompliance detailed on page 27 of the audit report.

We recommend the CBP Commissioner identify and implement a long-term solution to ensure CBP can conduct familial DNA testing when needed.

We recommend the CBP Commissioner update CBP’s standard operating procedures and workflows, to include fraud, family unit indicators, and awareness training, for familial DNA testing (once a solution to familial DNA testing is in place) and distribute the
guidance to all agents and officers at CBP stations and ports of entry.

We recommend the CBP Commissioner develop and implement a mechanism for tracking the number of instances wherein agents and officers offer familial DNA testing, the number of instances wherein aliens refuse testing, and the results of administered
tests.

Ineffective Network Access Controls for Unauthorized Assets (Asset Discovery)

Inadequate Software License Management (Licensing)