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GAO-23-106459 1 (2023-05-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaooss0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States May 25, 2023 The Honorable Jennifer M. Granholm Secretary U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Ave., SW Washington, DC 20585 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Energy Dear Secretary Granholm, 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 2022, 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 59 percent. As of April 2023, DOE had 216 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our June 2022 letter, DOE has implemented six of our 26 open priority recommendations, and we removed the priority status from one recommendation. DOE completed its analysis of options for handling excess space at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after congressionally mandated sales are complete. These options included decommissioning, selling, and increasing commercial activity at idled sites. This analysis meets the intent of our May 2018 recommendation.3 DOE's Office of Environmental Management (EM) has developed a program-wide strategy across the EM complex to enable EM to better direct available resources where necessary. In 2022, EM published a Program Plan outlining a roadmap for the cleanup program. EM has also developed and updated a Strategic Vision over the last 3 years, 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 operations, 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 2022, GAO-23-900398 (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2022). 3GAO, Strategic Petroleum Reserve: DOE Needs to Strengthen Its Approach to Planning the Future of the Emergency Stockpile, GAO-18-477 (Washington, D.C.: May 30, 2018). GAO-23-106459 DOE Priority Recommendations Page 1

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