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Federal Real Property: Agencies Should Provide More Information About Increases in Deferred Maintenance and Repair
GAO-24-105485
Nov 16, 2023
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12 Open Recommendations
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Department of Energy The Secretary of Energy 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, the proportion of DM&R estimates needed to support the mission. (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 Energy The Secretary of Energy 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 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 Energy The Secretary of Energy 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 3)
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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'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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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.

Federal Spending Transparency: Opportunities Exist to Improve COVID-19 and Other Grant Subaward Data on USAspending.gov
GAO-24-106237
Nov 16, 2023
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4 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
General Services Administration The Administrator of GSA should incorporate automated data validations or other controls that will address known FSRS data quality limitations, such as incorrect award amount entries, into the design and development plan for modernizing FSRS or for a successor system (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.
General Services Administration The Administrator of GSA should provide additional guidance to help prime recipients improve the quality of their subaward data submissions, such as actions to prevent duplicative reporting (Recommendation 2).
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Department of the Treasury The Secretary of the Treasury should disclose additional subaward data quality limitations on the USAspending.gov pages where users search for or view subaward data (Recommendation 3).
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Office of Management and Budget The Director of OMB should clarify its expectations for agencies to support the quality of subaward data reported by prime recipients (Recommendation 4).
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Army Corps of Engineers: Data Needed to Monitor Implementation of Revised Policy for Selecting Architecture and Engineering Contractors
GAO-24-106730
Nov 08, 2023
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1 Open Recommendations
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Department of the Army We recommend the Secretary of the Army ensure that the Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers develop a mechanism to track data on USACE's selection process for task orders under multiple award contracts for A-E services, including the type of notice issued to contract holders and the date the notice is sent. (Recommendation 1)
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Tribal Issues: Bureau of Indian Affairs Should Take Additional Steps to Improve Timely Delivery of Real Estate Services [Reissued with revisions on Nov. 6, 2023]
GAO-24-105875
Nov 06, 2023
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6 Open Recommendations
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Bureau of Indian Affairs The Director of BIA should provide additional training and guidance to staff on TAAMS data field definitions and data entry requirements to ensure that staff are entering all information necessary to measure processing times and whether regulatory and internal deadlines are being met for new lease and right-of-way applications. BIA should also provide similar training and guidance to accompany the forthcoming TAAMS mortgage module that will replace the Mortgage Tracker. (Recommendation 1)
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Bureau of Indian Affairs The Director of BIA should enhance TAAMS to include additional data edit checks that require staff to enter all information necessary for measuring processing times and whether regulatory and internal deadlines are being met for new lease and right-of-way applications. (Recommendation 2)
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Bureau of Indian Affairs The Director of BIA should conduct regular oversight and review of data entered into TAAMS to assess the degree to which new lease and right-of-way applications contain all information necessary to measure processing times and whether regulatory and internal deadlines are being met. BIA should also conduct this regular oversight and review of mortgage applications following implementation of the forthcoming TAAMS mortgage module that will replace the Mortgage Tracker. (Recommendation 3)
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Bureau of Indian Affairs The Director of BIA should, using available data, conduct an initial assessment of its processing times and compliance with regulatory and internal deadlines in delivering real estate services (mortgages, leases, rights-of-way, and TSR requests). As a part of that assessment, BIA should identify and develop a plan to address any areas for improvement, factors affecting processing times (including staff shortages), and additional data needs for future analysis. (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.
Bureau of Indian Affairs The Director of BIA should develop performance goals and accompanying measures for the agency to monitor its processing times and compliance with regulatory and internal deadlines for delivering real estate services (mortgages, leases, rights-of-way, and TSR requests) on an ongoing basis and inform its plans to improve processing times, as appropriate. (Recommendation 5)
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Bureau of Indian Affairs The Director of BIA should assess the quality of its communication with Tribes and stakeholders regarding real estate services and, based on that assessment, identify any areas for improvement. This could include the development of policy or guidance specifying procedures and time frames for responding to inquiries, such as those concerning the status of applications and TSR requests. (Recommendation 6)
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