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Cybersecurity: Federal Agencies Made Progress, but Need to Fully Implement Incident Response Requirements

GAO-24-105658
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should ensure that the agency fully implements all event logging requirements as directed by OMB guidance. (Recommendation 8)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Federal Real Property: Agencies Should Provide More Information About Increases in Deferred Maintenance and Repair

GAO-24-105485
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should ensure that the department's budget materials or other documents provide more information to Congress and the public regarding the agency's deferred maintenance and repair backlog, including at a minimum, explanations for major changes from year to year, categories of assets included in DM&R estimates, and the proportion of DM&R estimates needed to support the mission. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Federal Real Property: Agencies Should Provide More Information About Increases in Deferred Maintenance and Repair

GAO-24-105485
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Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should ensure that the department works with its component agencies to develop plans to address their DM&R backlogs and identify the funding and time frames needed to reduce them in congressional budget requests, related reports to decision makers, or both. (Recommendation 5)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should ensure that the department works with its component agencies to evaluate the costs and benefits of increasing the use of models for predicting the outcome of investments, analyzing tradeoffs, and optimizing among competing investments, and employ models when the benefits outweigh the costs. (Recommendation 6)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Freely Associated States: Agencies Should Enhance Procedures to Address Millions of Dollars in Questionable Spending

GAO-23-106160
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should notify the auditor responsible for the RMI 2019 single audit about any inaccuracies in the RMI's single audit report, as federal regulation requires. (Recommendation 5)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Freely Associated States: Agencies Should Enhance Procedures to Address Millions of Dollars in Questionable Spending

GAO-23-106160
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3 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should take appropriate action, such as dedicating adequate staffing resources, to ensure that management decisions for questioned costs identified in single audits for FSM, RMI, and Palau are issued within the required timeframe. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should document its procedures for resolving single audit findings, including questioned costs, for FSM, RMI, and Palau. (Recommendation 6)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should establish a mechanism to track over time the results of efforts to resolve questioned costs identified in single audits for FSM, RMI, and Palau. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Southwest Border: Additional Actions Needed to Address Cultural and Natural Resource Impacts from Barrier Construction

GAO-23-105443
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should document, jointly with CBP, a strategy to mitigate cultural and natural resource impacts from border barrier construction that defines agency roles and responsibilities for undertaking specific mitigation actions; identifies the costs, associated funding sources, and time frames necessary to implement them; and specifies when agencies are to consult with Tribes. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Alaska Land Management: Resolving Ownership of Submerged Lands

GAO-23-106235
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should ensure that the Directors of BLM, FWS, and NPS coordinate with the Chief of the Forest Service to secure an independent third-party facilitator to help agencies within the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture and the State of Alaska work toward agreement on a collaborative approach for the management of submerged lands in Alaska while ownership is being resolved. (Recommendation 1)
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As of November 2023, we are following up with the agency and will update the response to this recommendation in the future.
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