Open Recommendations

We recommend that the Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary require the Office of Policy to develop and implement a plan to collect, analyze, and report data on the Department's use of prosecutorial discretion to assess immigration enforcement activities and improve future policy. The plan should include steps taken to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the prosecutorial discretion data.

Corrected identified design and operating effectiveness weaknesses in its anti-fraud measures.

The Board should establish an independent committee that will work to identify a functional solution that will enable communication between the Office of Inspector General and the National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust’s component auditor and achieve compliance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants standards.

We recommend that FWS work with the Department to ensure that real property records easily identify Program-funded land transactions.

We recommend that FWS work with the Department to develop processes and procedures to ensure timely and accurate recording of Program-funded additions, deletions, and changes to land records.

We recommend that FWS work with the Department to reconcile its respective land records.

We recommend that FWS require the Department to certify that Program-funded real property is being used for its intended purposes.

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The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure SPHs inventory listings are completed at the item level.  Establish a timeframe for when the listings must be completed.  Additionally, communicate with other offices to identify best practices used in documenting their inventories.

The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure Inventory listings are reviewed to determine their accuracy and update as necessary.

The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure a finding aid is created for the agency’s entire SPHs collection at the item level.

The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure locked hard copies of the inventory listings are maintained.

The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure SPHs inventory listings are maintained in HMS. Until HMS is implemented by all offices, all electronic versions of the listings are password protected and access limited to authorized employees.

The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure initial inspections of SPHs inventory are completed.

The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure custodial units are in compliance with NARA 1572, including randomly inspecting at least 3% of SPHs inventory annually on a rotating basis and using one individual that does not work for the individual responsible for the inspection.

The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure annual inspection reports include at a minimum date of inspection, individuals that complete the inspections, and a listing of items inspected, including their location and physical condition.

The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure annual inspection results are adequately documented and communicated to Security Management and office heads.

The Office of Programs should track creditable compensation related to injury settlements and the effect on benefit eligibility.

The Office of Programs should implement controls to ensure compliance with agency regulations related to service months credited from an injury settlement. At a minimum, the agency should require railroad employers to submit supporting documentation for any service and compensation reported as part of an injury settlement. The documentation should include both the legal settlement and an allocation worksheet. This documentation should be readily available for examination and periodically reviewed.

We recommend that Coast Guard: Continue to implement controls over the transfer of completed construction in progress assets to in-use and accurately recording leasehold improvements, asset impairments, and construction in progress activity.

We recommend that Coast Guard: Continue to implement controls over the transfer of completed construction in progress assets to in-use and accurately recording leasehold improvements, asset impairments, and construction in progress activity.

We recommend that Coast Guard: Establish new, or improve existing, processes to identify and evaluate lease agreements to ensure they are appropriately classified as operating or capital, and are properly reported in the financial statements and related disclosures