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As of April 29, 2024, there are 5092 open recommendations that still need to be addressed. 416 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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Nuclear Power Plants: NRC Should Take Actions to Fully Consider the Potential Effects of Climate Change

GAO-24-106326
Frank Rusco
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3 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Nuclear Regulatory Commission The Chair of the NRC should direct NRC staff to assess whether its licensing and oversight processes adequately address the potential for increased risks to nuclear power plants from climate change. (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.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission The Chair of the NRC should direct NRC staff to develop, finalize, and implement a plan to address any gaps identified in its assessment of existing processes. (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.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission The Chair of the NRC should direct NRC staff to develop and finalize guidance on incorporating climate projections data into relevant processes, including what sources of climate projections data to use and when and how to use climate projections data. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Ukraine: Status of Foreign Assistance

GAO-24-106884
Latesha Love-Grayer
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Director of the Office of Foreign Assistance and the Comptroller implement improvements to financial systems of record to separately, more systematically, and comprehensively track the allocation, obligation, and disbursement of foreign assistance funding provided in response to the crisis in Ukraine, to include base funds allocated to areas outside of Ukraine and exclude supplemental funds that were not allocated in response to the Ukraine crisis. (Recommendation 1)
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State concurred with our recommendation. As of March 2024, State was considering ways to automate and improve its tracking of foreign assistance in response to the crisis in Ukraine. For example, State is actively designing a custom financial report that should provide allocation, obligation, and expenditure data.

Driver Assistance Technologies: NHTSA Should Take Action to Enhance Consumer Understanding of Capabilities and Limitations

GAO-24-106255
Andrew Von Ah
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5 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Administrator of NHTSA should communicate to the public on NHTSA's website for vehicle rating information the test conditions and performance criteria NHTSA uses to determine if a vehicle's crash avoidance technologies qualify for a checkmark on the website. (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.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Administrator of NHTSA should provide more information on NHTSA's public website about partial driving automation systems to clarify the scope of intended use and the driver's responsibility to monitor the system and the driving environment while such a system is engaged. (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.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Administrator of NHTSA should finalize NHTSA's roadmap for NCAP as soon as possible and include updated and realistic near-term and long-term time frames for changes to NCAP. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Administrator of NHTSA should communicate progress on meeting time frames established in its roadmap for recommending four additional crash avoidance technologies and provide updated milestones and reasons for delays as needed. (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.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Administrator of NHTSA should communicate progress on meeting time frames established in its roadmap for developing a system for rating the technologies and redesigning the new car sticker and provide updated milestones and reasons for delays as needed. (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.

Veterans Community Care Program: Additional Information on VA Statutory Appointment Timeliness Measurements is Needed

GAO-24-105308
Sharon M. Silas
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of VA should ensure VA engages with congressional oversight committees on its limitations in collecting data on referral acceptance dates to determine any potential refinements to the Isakson-Roe Act requirements or seek legislative relief as appropriate. (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.
Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of VA should ensure that VA disclose, to any users of its Isakson-Roe Act bi-weekly updates to the community care appointment scheduling timeliness measurements, the quantity of referrals used to generate each measurement. (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.

Economic Development: Additional Training Could Help Small Lenders Implement Technology

GAO-24-106226
Michael Clements
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of the Treasury The Secretary of the Treasury should ensure that the Director of the CDFI Fund develops training or other materials for improving CDFIs' technology capacity. These resources should address the specific capacity limitations of and challenges faced by CDFIs, particularly smaller institutions. (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.

401(k) Retirement Plans: Department of Labor Should Update Guidance on Target Date Funds

GAO-24-105364
Tranchau (Kris) T. Nguyen
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Labor The Secretary of Labor should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of the Employee Benefits Security Administration updates the 2013 guidance for plan sponsors, "Target Date Retirement Funds—Tips for ERISA Plan Fiduciaries," to provide information that reflects recent TDF developments. This should include the use of collective investment trusts and differences between "to" and "through" TDF glide paths. (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.
Department of Labor The Secretary of Labor should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of the Employee Benefits Security Administration, in consultation with the SEC and OCC as appropriate, updates the 2010 guidance for plan participants, "Investor Bulletin: Target Date Retirement Funds," to provide information that reflects recent TDF developments. This should include the use of collective investment trusts. (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.

Maternal and Infant Health: HHS Should Strengthen Processes for Measuring Program Performance

GAO-24-106605
Mary Denigan-Macauley
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Health Resources and Services Administration The Administrator of HRSA should implement a documented process to review Healthy Start performance measures (including their definitions, associated data collection forms, and data dictionary), before a grant period begins, to ensure they are clear and allow for the collection of reliable data. (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.
Health Resources and Services Administration The Administrator of HRSA should implement a documented process for program officials to coordinate the selection of performance measures across its related programs—Healthy Start; the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting; and the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant. (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.

Bureau of Indian Education: Improved Oversight of Schools' COVID-19 Spending is Needed

GAO-24-105451
Melissa Emrey-Arras
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4 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Bureau of Indian Education The Director of BIE should establish controls to ensure that staff consistently follow agency standard procedures when schools and other BIE grantees do not submit timely single audit reports. (Recommendation 1)
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BIE agreed with this recommendation. The agency plans to review controls to ensure staff consistently follow agency standard procedures when BIE grantees do not submit single audit reports in a timely way. We will monitor the agency's efforts to implement this recommendation.
Bureau of Indian Education The Director of BIE should establish controls to ensure staff document their monitoring of high-risk schools' COVID spending and consistently report whether schools followed agency requirements for using these funds. (Recommendation 2)
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BIE agreed with this recommendation and stated that it began taking steps to address it. Specifically, BIE is updating the school monitoring checklist and initiating the process to revise the monitoring handbook to reflect COVID spending. BIE officials said they plan to take additional steps-such as informing staff of these changes and reporting to schools the results of monitoring COVID spending-and they anticipate implementing this recommendation by August 2024. We are encouraged by these initial steps and will monitor the agency's progress in completing them.
Bureau of Indian Education The Director of BIE should update its strategic workforce plan to build its capacity to conduct all annual fiscal reviews of schools that are designated as high risk, as required by its policy. (Recommendation 3)
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BIE agreed with this recommendation and identified actions it has begun taking to address it. For example, BIE is undertaking efforts to research, draft and implement a comprehensive Strategic Workforce Plan that will include its fiscal workforce review. They expect to complete the Plan by September 2025. We will monitor BIE's actions to complete this effort.
Bureau of Indian Education The Director of BIE should work with BIA to establish controls to ensure that BIE staff responsible for monitoring purchase card activity at BIE-operated schools consistently use Interior's required monitoring tool and procedures. (Recommendation 4)
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BIE agreed with this recommendation and stated that BIA's Office of the Chief Financial Officer, with BIE staff input, is implementing significant revisions to the Purchase Card Program Policies. The revised policies require an online monthly statement review and approval process. The on-line system provides reports for monitoring and oversight of purchase card activity. As BIA improves these policies, BIE will ensure its continued compliance with Interior and BIA policies. We will monitor BIE's efforts to address this recommendation.
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