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Climate Change: Improved Data and Performance Management Would Strengthen U.S. Support to the Indo-Pacific

GAO-25-106236
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Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should ensure that the Office of Insular Affairs establishes procedures for the officials who manage the performance of climate activities to assess performance reports from implementing partners. (Recommendation 7)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Climate Change: Improved Data and Performance Management Would Strengthen U.S. Support to the Indo-Pacific

GAO-25-106236
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Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should ensure that the Office of Insular Affairs establishes procedures for the officials who manage the performance of climate activities to develop activity plans that identify external or internal factors that could affect achieving results and associated mitigation strategies. (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.

IT Portfolio Management: OMB and Agencies Are Not Fully Addressing Selected Statutory Requirements

GAO-25-107041
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Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should direct the department CIO to ensure that its high-risk IT investment reviews document the extent to which these causes can be addressed (e.g., action items with due dates), as prescribed by FITARA. (Recommendation 31)
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IT Portfolio Management: OMB and Agencies Are Not Fully Addressing Selected Statutory Requirements

GAO-25-107041
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Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should direct the department CIO to work with OMB to ensure that annual reviews of their IT portfolio are conducted in conjunction with the Federal CIO and the Chief Operating Officer or Deputy Secretary (or equivalent), as prescribed by FITARA. (Recommendation 29)
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Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should direct the department CIO to ensure that the Federal CIO is consulted in performing high-risk IT investment reviews, as prescribed by FITARA. (Recommendation 30)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Single Audits: Interior and Treasury Need to Improve Their Oversight of COVID-19 Relief Funds Provided to Tribal Entities

GAO-25-106741
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Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should develop and implement procedures for tracking the implementation of corrective action plans, including tracking repeat single audit findings, to ensure that tribal recipients take appropriate and timely action to correct single audit findings. (Recommendation 2)
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Oil and Gas: Interior Urgently Needs Leadership and Oversight to Address IT System Development Failure

GAO-24-107223
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Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should direct Interior's CIO to ensure its new IT investment baseline management policy meets OMB requirements and strengthens internal controls to ensure baselines are approved by appropriate milestones. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Oil and Gas: Interior Urgently Needs Leadership and Oversight to Address IT System Development Failure

GAO-24-107223
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Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should direct Interior's CIO to strengthen IT leadership and oversight by implementing leading practices in executive-level IT governance for major IT investments including the AFMSS 2 replacement. (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.

Sexual Harassment: Actions Needed to Improve Prevention Training for Federal Civilian Employees

GAO-24-106589
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Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should develop and implement a plan to evaluate the department's required sexual harassment prevention training to identify needed improvements. The evaluation plan should include an assessment of training content and implementation to determine whether revisions are needed to better align with management practices to enhance the effectiveness of sexual harassment prevention training. (Recommendation 1)
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The Department of the Interior concurred with this recommendation. We have not yet received information on their efforts to address the recommendation and we will update its status once information is received.

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Greater Transparency Could Improve Worker Ratio Reports

GAO-24-106698
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Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should ensure that the Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs works with the CNMI government and, as appropriate, other U.S. agencies to determine what steps can be taken to improve transparency of the analytical approach CNMI uses to create its annual worker ratio report. Such steps could include communicating in greater detail, through CNMI's Standard Operating Procedure document and worker ratio report, the analytical approach CNMI took to categorize unknown workers as either U.S. or foreign, as well as the implications of the unknown portion for the ratio.
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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