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GAO-21-377PR 1 (2021-08-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaombv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo 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 August 13, 2021 The Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas Secretary of Homeland Security Washington, D.C. 20528 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Homeland Security Dear Secretary Mayorkas: I appreciated our recent meeting and look forward to a constructive working relationship between our two institutions. As we discussed, the purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) 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 DHS's recommendation implementation rate was 84 percent. As of March 2021, DHS had 464 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our April 2020 letter, DHS has implemented 12 of our 29 open priority recommendations. FEMA Implemented two recommendations for a more accurate methodology for determining premium rates for properties insured by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). These actions will allow FEMA and property owners to better understand the flood risk associated with individual properties and will better inform Congress of the cost of any subsidization of premium rates. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' (USCIS) strengthened efforts to assess and address fraud risks within the asylum process. This should help USCIS target its fraud prevention efforts to those areas that are of highest risk. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) developed several statistical models to assess the risk of importer nonpayment of antidumping and countervailing (AD/CV) duties, taxes and fees. The model should enable CBP to better predict the importers' likelihood of nonpayment. The model could also assist CBP in its decision on whether an additional 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 2020, GAO-21-4SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 16, 2020). GAO-21-377PR DHS Priority Recommendations Page 1

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