This page contains information about recommendations that remain open because the OIG determined that the the Department had not fully implemented corrective actions. The OIG reports the funds put to better use, questioned costs, restitution, funds returned to the Department, and penalties and court costs associated with all recommendations in its Semiannual Reports to Congress.
Open Recommendations
Update Department Order 360.1C to include the training restrictions in Federal Budget, General Provisions Government-Wide, Section 714(a).
Establish pre-incident plans at Los Alamos National Laboratory that support a timely and effective firefighting response by: b. Resolving the longstanding dispute between Los Alamos and the Fire Department regarding how much information is necessary within pre-incident plans and then formally documenting the resolution.
Establish pre-incident plans at Los Alamos National Laboratory that support a timely and effective firefighting response by: c. Effectively implementing subject matter expert participation in the pre-incident plan review process, as appropriate.
OIG recommends that the Associate Under Secretary for Environment, Health, Safety & Security: make a determination on the criticality of UAS threats and ensure that the Department uses the appropriate process to update security controls based on the most recent information available concerning UAS capabilities.
Formalize Southwestern’s policies and procedures by clearly outlining the Power Marketing Division’s contractual authorities and limitations, as well as the review processes for its Power Marketing agreements
To address the concerns identified in this report, we recommend that the Manager of the Bay Area Site Office develop and implement a corrective action plan to ensure that Berkeley Laboratory maintains an accurate CMS database for tracking changes in hazardous material inventories, that is sufficient for the Emergency Management Program to execute the hazardous material screening process.
To address the concerns identified in this report, we recommend that the Manager of the Bay Area Site Office ensure that Berkeley Laboratory develops a plan to incrementally complete building emergency plans for all occupied buildings at Berkeley Laboratory and develops a process to periodically review/update building emergency plans for accuracy and completeness.
Resolve the questioned costs described in this report and ensure that appropriate incurred cost audits are conducted prior to official contract closeout.
Resolve the questioned costs described in this report and ensure that appropriate incurred cost audits are conducted prior to official contract closeout.
Determine the allowability of the $324,498 in questioned costs in this report and seek recovery of those costs deemed unallowable