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GAO-22-105582 1 (2022-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaonjw0001 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 July 15, 2022 The Honorable Shalanda Young Director Office of Management and Budget 725 17th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20503 Priority Open Recommendations: Office of Management and Budget Dear Ms. Young: I appreciate my ongoing meetings with Deputy Director Jason Miller and look forward to continuing a constructive working relationship between our two institutions. As you know, the purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your continued personal attention to critical open recommendations that should be given high priority.1 In November 2021, we reported that, on a government-wide basis, 76 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 OMB's recommendation implementation rate was 77 percent. As of June 2022, OMB had 150 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agencyoperations. Since our June 2021 letter, OMB has implemented six of our 44 open priority recommendations and we have removed the priority status from one other recommendation.3 OMB issued a plan in November 2021 to test and implement a federal program inventory by 2025 consistent with the systematic approach we outlined in our September 2017 report on information architecture. OMB issued new guidance on improper payments that implements the requirements from the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019. It also further clarified the platform's questions-and-answer section regarding payment integrity risks. This new guidance implements two priority recommendations from our May 2018 and November 2020 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 2021, GAO-22-4SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2021). 3We have removed the priority recommendation for OMB related to establishing an interagency forum on sexual violence statistics that was included in the 2021 OMB Priority Recommendation letter. Recently-enacted legislation tasks a separate executive branch department with establishing an interagency working group to study federal efforts to collect data on sexual violence. We believe the new legislation will address the intent of our recommendation once fully implemented. GAO-22-105582 OMB Priority Recommendations Page 1

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