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Department of Energy Contracting: Actions Needed to Strengthen Certain Acquisition Planning Processes
GAO-25-106207
Nov 21, 2024
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12 Open Recommendations
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Department of Energy The Director for DOE's Office of Acquisition Management should ensure that for non-M&O acquisitions, the Acquisition Guide clearly specifies what information should be included in the contract file to support how acquisition officials considered prior lessons learned during acquisition planning. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Energy The Director for DOE's Office of Acquisition Management should develop a policy to ensure that DOE acquisition offices consistently document potential lessons learned identified during acquisition planning. (Recommendation 2)
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National Nuclear Security Administration The Associate Administrator for NNSA's Office of Partnership and Acquisition Services should develop a policy to ensure that NNSA acquisition offices consistently document potential lessons learned identified during acquisition planning. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Energy The Director for DOE's Office of Acquisition Management should revise the source evaluation board lessons learned process described in the Acquisition Guide to ensure that it incorporates all leading practices. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Energy The Director of DOE's Office of Acquisition Management should develop guidance to ensure the accurate tracking of information on canceled solicitations in agency procurement systems. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Energy The Senior Advisor for the Office of Environmental Management should implement procedures to consistently record information on canceled solicitations so that the information is reliable and comprehensive. (Recommendation 6)
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Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Should Use Available Information to Measure the Effectiveness of Its Groundwater Efforts
GAO-25-106938
Nov 19, 2024
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Office of Environmental Management The Senior Advisor for the Office of Environmental Management should ensure that EM headquarters collects and uses comprehensive information on groundwater cleanup scope, cost, and schedule for all EM sites to enhance technical and policy support provided to sites and inform resource allocation decisions. (Recommendation 1)
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Office of Environmental Management The Senior Advisor for the Office of Environmental Management should establish groundwater cleanup strategic objectives and near-term performance goals for groundwater cleanup that cover all sites and more specifically guide sites' progress in meeting the groundwater cleanup requirements. (Recommendation 2)
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Office of Environmental Management The Senior Advisor for the Office of Environmental Management should develop and use performance metrics to regularly inform groundwater cleanup decisions and document progress toward cleanup goals. (Recommendation 3)
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Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Adopting Leading Practices Could Strengthen DOE's Engagement with Stakeholders and Governments
GAO-24-106014
Sep 09, 2024
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3 Open Recommendations
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Office of Environmental Management The Senior Advisor for the Office of Environmental Management should conduct and document an objective evaluation of the operation and effectiveness of EM's SSABs, including evaluating challenges related to the recruitment and appointment of board members, representation, and board attendance and member turnover. (Recommendation 1)
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Office of Environmental Management The Senior Advisor for the Office of Environmental Management should develop and use a national framework that defines EM's strategy for engagement with stakeholders and governments across the EM complex and that incorporates elements of leading practices for engagement. (Recommendation 2)
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Office of Environmental Management The Senior Advisor for the Office of Environmental Management, in coordination with EM site leadership, should develop engagement plans at the site or regional level that institutionalize expectations for how to engage stakeholders and governments with a cohesive voice and incorporate elements of leading practices for engagement. (Recommendation 3)
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Federal Oil and Gas Royalties: Opportunities Exist to Improve Interior's Compliance Program
GAO-24-103676
Sep 06, 2024
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14 Open Recommendations
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Office of Natural Resources Revenue The Director of ONRR should assess the benefits of incorporating randomly selected compliance activities into its workplans, including the resources necessary to conduct the appropriate number of random compliance activities, to validate its risk models. (Recommendation 1)
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Office of Natural Resources Revenue The Director of ONRR should consider adding related violation data to already closed cases in OMT to better assure ONRR has complete data on violations in its current compliance data system. (Recommendation 2)
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Office of Natural Resources Revenue The Director of ONRR should consider examining how to better link compliance royalty collections with the associated violation. (Recommendation 3)
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Office of Natural Resources Revenue The Director of ONRR should assess the need to develop a consistent and complete dataset from ONRR's multiple compliance data systems to better analyze historical compliance performance and inform its compliance strategy. (Recommendation 4)
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Office of Natural Resources Revenue The Director of ONRR should consider how to better assure that it will have a consistent and complete compliance dataset should OMT be replaced, including an assessment of migrating key compliance data to its future compliance data system. (Recommendation 5)
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Office of Natural Resources Revenue The Director of ONRR should reiterate its existing policy for using PAD numbers—for example, through additional training—to ONRR staff about how payments resulting from compliance activities are to be recorded in accordance with existing policies (i.e., PAD number). (Recommendation 6)
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