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GAO-19-381SP 1 (2019-04-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzeo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: c rAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States April 23, 2019 The Honorable Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. Secretary of Commerce Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Commerce Dear Mr. Ross: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the U.S. Department of Commerce's (Commerce) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your continued personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.' In November 2018, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 Commerce's recommendation implementation rate was 75 percent. As of April 2019, Commerce had 110 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve Commerce's operations. Since our April 13, 2018, letter, Commerce has implemented 10 of our 26 open priority recommendations. In doing so, Commerce has taken significant steps to improve its life-cycle cost estimation and scheduling of the 2020 Decennial Census, to evaluate its testing of the census's in-office address canvassing operation, and to increase the effectiveness of its non- response follow-up operation. As a result of these efforts, Commerce has improved its management of the census by better positioning itself to make informed decisions about trade- offs among methods as it finalized its design of the census and anticipating and mitigating challenges it may face during implementation of the census. Commerce has 16 priority recommendations remaining from those we identified in our 2018 letter. We ask your continued attention on these remaining recommendations. We are adding 5 new recommendations as priorities this year related to the 2020 Decennial Census. This brings the total number of priority recommendations to 21. (See the enclosure for the list of these recommendations.) The 21 priority recommendations fall into the following six areas. 2020 Decennial Census. We have 12 priority recommendations related to the 2020 Decennial Census, one of the highest risks facing the government. For example, in November 2009, we recommended that the Census Bureau include estimates of the resources needed, such as labor, materials, and overhead costs, in its 2020 integrated schedule and conduct systematic 'Priority 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 fragmentation, overlap, or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2018, GAO-1 9-1SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov 15, 2018). GAO-1 9-381 SP Commerce Priority Open Recommendations Page 1

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