After the OIG issues a recommendation to a DOE component, the OIG continuously engages with and monitors the relevant DOE component’s progress toward implementing the OIG recommendation. The OIG may close a recommendation when the OIG determines sufficient actions have been taken by the relevant DOE component to fully implement the recommendation.
Recommendations that DOE determined contain information that is limited official use or classified will be indicated as follows: “[Description omitted; DOE has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]” DOE may identify a recommendation as containing limited official use or classified information if it determines, for example, that its disclosure to unauthorized individuals could negatively impact law enforcement operations, sources, or methods; expose operational vulnerabilities; or harm national security.
The status of each recommendation is subject to change due to DOE’s ongoing efforts to implement them, and the OIG’s independent review of information about those efforts. Although DOE may have taken steps to implement the recommendations listed on our website, including by partially remedying the questioned costs associated with a recommendation, a recommendation is not considered closed until it has been fully implemented. Please note the OIG sometimes issues recommendations with multiple subparts in order to better track their implementation. Therefore, the recommendations on our website list subparts as separate items. The website also includes recommendations to a non-DOE federal agency that contracted with the OIG to audit its information technology systems pursuant to the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA). As a result, the non-DOE federal agency is responsible for implementing its recommendations, which are included in the statistics described below.