American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers Program
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Recommendations
If the TAAF Program is funded after FY 2013, include TAAF Program operations, including spot checks of applicants’ production records, as part of the agency’s annual process for performing compliance reviews.
If the TAAF Program is funded after FY 2013, establish and implement controls that would require the producers to submit production records at the time of application.
If the TAAF Program is funded after FY 2013, develop and implement controls to prevent the use of the manual override feature within the TAAF Program Application system in the absence of the training update.
Immediately notify USDA’s Chief Information Officer of the existence of the TAAF Program database and work with its security personnel to complete the certification and accreditation process.
Work with the Center for Farm Financial Management (CFFM) to implement interim procedures to protect the TAAF Program data until the certification and accreditation process is complete.