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GAO-21-549PR 1 (2021-06-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaolvr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O 0 U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States June 16, 2021 The Honorable Janet Yellen Secretary of the Treasury U.S. Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20220 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of the Treasury Dear Madame Secretary: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2020, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 Treasury's implementation rate was 80 percent. As of June 2021, Treasury had 103 open recommendations, not including recommendations to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which are addressed in a separate letter to the Commissioner. We have sent a copy of that letter to your office. As operations return to normal from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve Treasury's operations. Since our April 2020 letter, Treasury has implemented 14 of our 31 open priority recommendations. Specifically, Treasury has: Made significant progress implementing the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act), closing all four of our priority recommendations in this area.3 For example, Treasury implemented a system to improve the completeness of agency data submissions and took multiple steps to provide the users of USAspending.gov with a fuller understanding of existing data limitations. 1Priority open 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 2020, GAO-21-4SP (Washington, D.C.: November 2020). 3Pub. L. No. 113-101, 128 Stat. 1146 (May 9, 2014). The DATA Act amended the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (FFATA). Pub. L. No. 109-282, 120 Stat. 1186 (Sept. 26, 2006), codified at 31 U.S.C. § 6101 note. GAO-21-549PR Treasury Priority Recommendations Page 1

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