Open Recommendations

Define an access approach for the eventual transition of the Community Banking Organization and Regional Banking Organization portfolios into OASIS appropriate for the Community Banking Organization and Regional Banking Organization supervisory framework and based on users’ need to know.

Update existing OASIS guidance to clarify how examiners should use sensitive file folders, including expectations for the types of files that should be stored in the folders and who should have access to the folders.

Develop guidance that
a. defines the need-to-know principle and how it should be applied when granting user access to confidential supervisory information in OASIS.
b. describes the expectations for performing the Board’s annual access review process for OASIS, including designating responsibility for performing the attestation to individuals with knowledge of the user’s roles and responsibilities, such as the user’s supervisor or other possible alternatives.

The Assistant Director ensures staff maintain a consistently clean environment throughout the facility to prevent repeat environment of care findings.

Executive leaders review the change in laboratory scheduling practices and minimize its effect on clinic efficiency.

The Executive Director ensures staff consistently label reusable medical equipment to show it is clean and ready for use.

The Executive Director ensures staff consistently label reusable medical equipment to show it is clean and ready for use.

The Director ensures staff keep the environment clean and safe.

The Director ensures Healthcare Technology Management Service staff inspect, test, and properly document all medical equipment maintenance per their required schedule.

The Director ensures staff implement processes to prevent repeat environment of care findings identified in this report.

Facility leaders ensure service-level workflows include each staff members role in the communication of test results process.

Review the $22,504 in unsupported expenses for the contractual invoices and remedy any unallowable costs.

Ensure the Kentucky Small Business Development Center posts service hours including service center addresses on their website and have visible SBDC signage at service center locations in accordance with the terms and conditions of the award.

Ensure the Kentucky Small Business Development Center implements a process to ensure all personnel funded by federal grant funds are notified of their whistleblower protection rights in accordance with 41 U.S.C. §4712.

Review reported client counseling hours for fiscal year 2024 and correct any errors or discrepancies.

Reconcile capital infusion transaction submissions reported in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024 from the Kentucky Small Business Development Center’s performance data system with SBA’s data collection system to ensure capital infusion transactions are reported correctly.

We recommend the Vice President, Projects and Outages, develop a process for identifying and evaluating key assumptions of, and risks to, nonroutine projects prior to approval.

We recommend the Vice President, Projects and Outages, determine if additional steps are needed for estimates related to nuclear projects.

We recommend the Vice President, Projects and Outages, determine if the approximate $2.8 million in charges by the installation vendor were authorized.

We recommend the Vice President, Supply Chain, recover the $742,000 for unauthorized pipe fitters and any of the $2.8 million determined by Nuclear to be unauthorized.

We recommend the Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer, implement a verification process to ensure an engineering review is performed prior to placing orders for long-lead nuclear procurements.

We recommend the Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer, initiate actions to evaluate the quality of the moisture separator reheaters to determine usability.

We recommend the Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer, take steps to have quality issues and corrective actions with the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Moisture Separator Reheater Project documented in the corrective action program.

We recommend the Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer, initiate a review to determine why the issues were not documented in the corrective action program in a timely manner.

We recommend the Vice President, Projects and Outages, coach project managers on the importance of obtaining input from appropriate personnel and only taking actions they are authorized to perform when making contracting decisions.