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GAO-20-285PR 1 (2020-04-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebal0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States April 22, 2020 The Honorable Dan Brouillette Secretary U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Ave., SW Washington, D.C. 20585 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Energy Dear Mr. Secretary: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Department of Energy's (DOE) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your continued personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2019, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 DOE's recommendation implementation rate was 78 percent. As of March 2020, DOE had 188 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our April 2019 letter, DOE has implemented four of our 18 open priority recommendations. * Specifically, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) issued two directives in February 2019 that establish policies for conducting program management activities and independent cost estimates and reviews within NNSA. We believe that these agency actions satisfy the intent of our two November 2014 recommendations to improve N NSA's development of programmatic cost estimates and to improve N NSA's programmatic reviews of cost estimates. * Further, in September 2019, DOE completed implementation of our April 2018 recommendation that DOE revise the Office of River Protection's organizational structure on the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant project and assess the quality assurance functional reporting lines, responsibilities, and processes. Having done so, we believe DOE has better assurance that the quality assurance function is independent of the office's upper management and that it may better enhance the independence of the quality function from cost and schedule influences. 1Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operation, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2019 GAO-20-1 SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 19, 2019). GAO-20-285PR DOE Priority Recommendations Page 1

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