Develop departmental policy that outlines the open obligation review process, to include (1) internal controls, (2) timeframes, and (3) roles and responsibilities of OCFO, OCPO, and program offices. These policies must outline sufficient internal controls in place to ensure that the Secretary can Read More

Update standard operating procedures on the departmentwide unliquidated obligations review to conduct a routine review of justifications provided by the program offices for retained obligations, while ensuring that they are for a bonafide need and to support the annual certification made by the Read More

As part of the OOR process, conduct monitoring activities of obligations sent to OCPO for deobligation by developing a mechanism to routinely track the status, to include key information, such as but not limited to the owner (program), date transmitted to OCPO, point of contact, last contact date Read More

Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR, including as much as $7,517,486 in 187 program obligations and $62,183 in 9 administrative obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2018.

Review the 473 identified inactive retained obligations with remaining balances totaling $43,005,703 and close out and deobligate amounts tied to obligations that are no longer needed.

Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR, including as much as $51,396,319 in 735 administrative obligations and $5,350,112 in 68 program obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2018.

Review the 65 identified inactive retained obligations with remaining balances totaling $4,310,534 and close out and deobligate amounts tied to obligations that are no longer valid or needed

Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR, including as much as $588,694 in 12 administrative obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2018.

Review the three identified retained inactive obligations with remaining balances totaling $78,069 and close out and deobligate amounts tied to obligations that are no longer valid or needed.

Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR, including as much as $168,198 in 29 obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2018.

Review the five identified retained inactive obligations with remaining balances totaling $110,224 and close out and deobligate amounts tied to obligations that are no longer valid or needed.

Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR, including as much as $574,511 in 79 administrative obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2018.

Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR, including as much as $106,962 in 30 administrative obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2018.

Review the one identified retained inactive obligation with a remaining balance totaling $60,395 and deobligate amounts that are no longer valid or needed.

Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR, including as much as $54,909 in 13 administrative obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2018

Develop technical reestimates for the EHLP direct loan portfolio annually in accordance with the requirements in OMB Circular A-11, section 185, and submit the reestimates to OCFO and ARC for recording.

Implement a process to ensure that ongoing ADA violation investigations are properly documented as the investigation progresses to enable timely review of open cases.

Ensure that all of the sampled amounts used for extrapolation in OCFO grant accrual validation estimates are properly supported with documentation that substantiates the amounts certified in the surveys.

Implement a refined accrual validation methodology, to include more comprehensive review procedures to substantiate the amounts certified by the grantee.

Review CPD’s grant accrual estimation methodology to ensure that all assumptions and variables used are properly supported and verifiable with the validation procedure.