Reports - Other

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) completed a final action verification (FAV) of all 16 recommendations in our September 24, 2014 report, Plant Protection and Quarantine Preclearance Offshore Program (Audit Report 33601-0001-23). In a memorandum dated September 13, 2016, OCFO reported to APHIS that it closed all of the recommendations, and we concur with this decision.

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) completed a final action verification of all eight recommendations in our July 2015 report on the Audit 24601-0004-31, Food Safety and Inspection Service Ground Turkey Inspection and Safety Protocols. Final action verification (FAV) determines whether the final action documentation the agency provides to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) supports the agency’s management decision reached with OIG.

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) completed a final action verification (FAV) of all four recommendations in our September 28, 2015 report, Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010— Controls over Food Service Account Revenue (Audit Report 27601-0001-22).

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) completed a final action verification of all 21 recommendations in Audit Report 88501-0002-12, Management and Security Over USDA's Universal Telecommunications Network. The purpose of our final action verification was to determine if the Office of the Cheif Information Officer (OCIO) and the Office of Pprocurement and Property Management (OPPM) provided the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) sufficient documentation that supported the management decision reached with OIG and was satisfactory for closing the audit report recommendations.

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) completed a final action verification of the two recommendations in our January 19, 2017, report on the NRCS: Wetland Conservation Provisions in the Prairie Pothole Region. Final action verification determines whether the final action documentation the agency provides to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) supports the agency’s management decision reached with OIG.1,2 Our objective was to determine whether the documentation NRCS provided OCFO was sufficient to close the recommendations made in Audit Report 10601-0003-31.