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As of May 13, 2024, there are 5121 open recommendations that still need to be addressed. 412 of these are priority recommendations, those that we believe warrant priority attention. Learn more about our priority designation on our Recommendations page.

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Southwest Border: CBP Could Take Additional Steps to Strengthen Its Response to Incidents Involving Its Personnel

GAO-24-106148
Rebecca S. Gambler
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4 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
U.S. Border Patrol The Chief of Border Patrol should develop and implement guidance that standardizes sector approaches to responding to noncritical incidents and documenting these response activities. (Recommendation 1)
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U.S. Border Patrol The Chief of Border Patrol should regularly monitor sector noncritical incident response activities to ensure they adhere to the guidance. (Recommendation 2)
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United States Customs and Border Protection The Commissioner of CBP should ensure that OPR develops guidance for investigators on identifying potential impairments to their investigative independence and when and how to take action regarding any such impairments. (Recommendation 3)
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United States Customs and Border Protection The Commissioner of CBP should ensure that OPR trains investigators on how to apply the guidance on the independence standard, once developed, to their investigative work. (Recommendation 4)
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Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of Inspector General: Improvements Needed in Review Procedures for Payroll Accounting

GAO-24-107430
Anne Sit-Williams
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Federal Housing Finance Agency The FHFA Inspector General should direct the appropriate FHFA OIG management officials to develop sufficiently detailed guidance for how FHFA OIG staff should review accounting information it provides to FHFA, for inclusion in FHFA's consolidated financial statements, to prevent misstatements. (Recommendation 1)
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Federal Housing Finance Agency The FHFA Inspector General should direct the appropriate FHFA OIG management officials to develop monitoring procedures to reasonably assure that FHFA OIG staff are effectively reviewing the FHFA OIG quarterly reconciliations to timely identify and resolve intragovernmental differences. (Recommendation 2)
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Federal Housing Finance Agency: Improvements Needed in Controls over Management Reviews and Information Systems Access

GAO-24-107219
Anne Sit-Williams
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3 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Federal Housing Finance Agency The Director of FHFA should direct the appropriate management officials to develop sufficiently detailed guidance for how FHFA personnel should review accounting information that FHFA OIG provides for inclusion in FHFA's consolidated financial statements, to detect and timely correct misstatements. (Recommendation 1)
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Federal Housing Finance Agency The Director of FHFA should direct the appropriate management officials to update existing policy for obtaining FPPS access to clearly describe (1) the process and procedures that staff should follow to request access, (2) the nature and extent of access rights appropriate for each employee's position, and (3) the documentation FHFA should maintain as evidence that the designated approving official granted the access. (Recommendation 2)
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Federal Housing Finance Agency The Director of FHFA should direct the appropriate management officials to develop monitoring procedures to reasonably assure that FHFA personnel follow existing procedures to timely remove information systems access for separated employees. (Recommendation 3)
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DOJ Grants Management: Further Steps Could Improve Efforts Taken to Address Early Grants IT Modernization Challenges

GAO-24-106501
Gretta L. Goodwin
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3 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Justice The Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs should establish and document an approach to ensure that future organizational change management programs related to grants management include a stakeholder engagement strategy, a key element of stakeholder engagement planning. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Justice The Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs should establish and document an approach to ensure that future organizational change management programs related to grants management include a stakeholder analysis, a key element of stakeholder engagement planning. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Justice The Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs should establish and document an approach to ensure that future organizational change management programs related to grant management develop performance goals that are objective, measurable, and quantifiable and include a mix of intermediate and ultimate performance goals. (Recommendation 3)
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U.S. Territories: Coordinated Federal Approach Needed to Better Address Data Gaps

GAO-24-106574
Yvonne Jones, Latesha Love-Grayer
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Office of Management and Budget The Director of OMB should ensure that the Chief Statistician develops a coordinated, government-wide approach for federal statistical agencies to use, in consultation with the U.S. territories and other stakeholders, to examine the costs, benefits, and feasibility of including territories in statistical products and, as appropriate, identify ways to address any data gaps.
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Medicare Hospice: CMS Needs to Fully Implement Statutory Provisions and Prioritize Certain Overdue Surveys

GAO-24-106442
Leslie V. Gordon
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4 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services The CMS Administrator should fully implement the new enforcement tools, including issuing planned internal guidance, to enable the agency to use these tools to address hospices out of compliance with Medicare quality standards. (Recommendation 1)
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services The CMS Administrator should make hospice survey results publicly available on Care Compare such that the information is prominent, easily accessible, and readily understandable. (Recommendation 2)
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services The CMS Administrator should fully implement efforts to measure and reduce inconsistency in survey results among all surveyors, including SAs and AOs. (Recommendation 3)
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services The CMS Administrator should instruct SAs and AOs to prioritize the completion of standard surveys for hospices that are overdue for a survey based on potential risk factors, which could include the amount of time overdue or evidence of past quality issues. (Recommendation 4)
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Navy Shipbuilding: Increased Use of Leading Design Practices Could Improve Timeliness of Deliveries

GAO-24-105503
Shelby S. Oakley
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3 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Congress Congress should consider updating statutory certification and production readiness review reporting requirements for Navy shipbuilding programs under section 8669c of title 10 United States Code, to require certification of the completion of basic and functional design in 3D modeling and the positioning and routing of all major distributive systems prior to the start of construction (consistent with leading industry practices in ship design). (Matter for Consideration 1)
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Congress Congress should consider requiring, as part of section 8669c of title 10, United States Code, that the Navy certify that detail design will be completed for each block of a ship's construction before beginning construction of that block. (Matter for Consideration 2)
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Congress Congress should consider requiring, as part of section 8669c of title 10, United States Code, that the Navy report on the degree of vendor-furnished information completeness supporting the overall maturity and stability of a ship's design before beginning construction. (Matter for Consideration 3)
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