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As of July 15, 2024, there are 5191 open recommendations that still need to be addressed. 494 of these are priority recommendations, those that we believe warrant priority attention. Learn more about our priority designation on our Recommendations page.

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Rental Housing: Opportunities Exist to Improve Oversight of Assistance to Survivors of Domestic Violence or Sexual Assault

GAO-24-106481
Jill Naamane
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7 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure the Director on Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Equity finalizes a revised model emergency transfer plan that meets all VAWA regulatory requirements. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure the Assistant Secretary for PIH provides written instructions to PHAs, such as through notices or frequently asked questions, on how to implement emergency transfers, including information related to external transfers and coordination. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing provides written instructions to PBRA providers, such as through notices or frequently asked questions, on how to implement emergency transfers, including information related to external transfers and coordination. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing revises the management and occupancy review form (HUD-9834) to incorporate specific questions on PBRA properties' compliance with VAWA emergency transfer requirements. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure the Director on Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Equity finalizes a regulation implementing the compliance review requirements of VAWA 2022, including defining standards of compliance and standards for corrective action plans. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure the Assistant Secretary for PIH develops and implements a plan, including a timeline, for PIH to collect the required data on emergency transfers from PHAs. (Recommendation 6)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing develops and implements a plan, including a timeline, for Multifamily to collect the required data on emergency transfers from PBRAs. (Recommendation 7)
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IT Systems Annual Assessment: DOD Needs to Strengthen Software Metrics and Address Continued Cybersecurity and Reporting Gaps

GAO-24-106912
Vijay A. D'Souza
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Defense We are making one recommendation to the Department of Defense that the Secretary direct the Chief Information Officer and Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment to ensure that IT business programs developing software use the metrics and management tools required by DOD and consistent with those identified in GAO's Agile Assessment Guide.
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Disaster Relief Fund: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Could Improve FEMA's Estimates

GAO-24-106676
Christopher P. Currie
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Federal Emergency Management Agency The FEMA Administrator should identify and document lessons learned related to estimating obligations for declared catastrophic disasters based on its experience with COVID-19. (Recommendation 1)
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National Nuclear Security Administration: Actions Needed to Improve Integration of Production Modernization Programs and Projects

GAO-24-106342
Allison Bawden
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4 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
National Nuclear Security Administration The NNSA Administrator should ensure that the NNSA schedule requirements applicable to Production Modernization programs are revised to fully incorporate the 10 best practices for developing reliable program schedules from GAO's Schedule Assessment Guide. (Recommendation 1)
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National Nuclear Security Administration The NNSA Administrator should ensure that the other Production Modernization programs, as statutorily required for the Plutonium Modernization program, are managed in accordance with GAO's best practices for schedule development by developing and maintaining reliable, resource-loaded integrated master schedules, or otherwise documenting with senior leadership approval their rationale for not doing so. (Recommendation 2)
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National Nuclear Security Administration The NNSA Administrator should ensure that the NNSA cost estimating requirements applicable to Production Modernization programs are revised to fully incorporate the 12 steps for developing reliable program cost estimates from GAO's Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide. (Recommendation 3)
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National Nuclear Security Administration The NNSA Administrator should ensure that the other Production Modernization programs, as statutorily required for the Plutonium Modernization program, are managed in accordance with GAO's best practices for cost estimating by developing and maintaining reliable life cycle cost estimates, or otherwise documenting with senior leadership approval their rationale for not doing so. (Recommendation 4)
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K-12 Education: Differences in Student Arrest Rates Widen when Race, Gender, and Disability Status Overlap

GAO-24-106294
Jacqueline M. Nowicki
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3 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of the Office for Civil Rights revise the Civil Rights Data Collection to collect arrest and referral data, by race, for students with disabilities served under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Education The Secretary of Education should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of the Office for Civil Rights take necessary steps to disclose the known limitation in its arrest data for the 2021–2022 school year Civil Rights Data Collection. This could include, for example, confirming and disclosing which definitions school districts used or noting that arrest data for that year is not comparable among districts. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Education The Secretary of Education should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of the Office for Civil Rights clearly communicate any future changes to data on arrests and referrals to law enforcement in the Civil Rights Data Collection before the start of the school year for which districts are to collect data. (Recommendation 3)
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Defense Health Care: DOD Should Improve Accuracy of Behavioral Health Provider Information in TRICARE Directories

GAO-24-106588
Sharon M. Silas
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Director of DHA

  • assesses the accuracy of behavioral health provider listings, specifically, in the TRICARE directories;
  • determines and addresses the causes of any significant differences identified in the accuracy rate for behavioral health provider listings compared to the accuracy rates for the overall directories; and
  • ensures accuracy rates for behavioral health provider directory information are comparable to the accuracy rates for the overall directory, to the extent practicable.

    • (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Director of DHA periodically monitors the accuracy of behavioral health provider listings in relation to the overall provider directory. (Recommendation 2)
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Substance Misuse Treatment and Recovery: Federal Guidance Needs to Address Work Arrangements for Those Living in Residential Facilities

GAO-24-106101
Thomas Costa
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Health and Human Services The Assistant Secretary of SAMHSA should incorporate single state agencies (SSA) into existing guidance development processes or develop a formal process to proactively consult SSAs about the information they need regarding how work should be incorporated into substance misuse treatment and recovery, and use the SSA feedback from such processes to inform the development of publicly available guidance. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Assistant Secretary of SAMHSA should explicitly state in SUPTRS Block Grant application materials (1) that incorporating work into a treatment facility resident's treatment plan should involve an individualized assessment to determine if and when work is appropriate, and that requiring work as a condition for accessing treatment services is not acceptable, and (2) if and when requiring work as a condition of accessing services is acceptable at recovery housing. (Recommendation 2)
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