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Immigration and Naturalization Service Expenditures Charged to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces Program for Fiscal Years 1997 - 2002

Report No. 04-03
November 2003
Office of the Inspector General

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Appendix IX
Office of the Inspector General, Audit Division
Analysis and Summary of Actions Needed To
Close The Report

 

The Executive Office (EO) for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) was provided a draft of the report and its comments on the findings and recommendations were considered in preparing this Analysis and Summary of Actions Needed to Close the Report. Since the EO concurred with all of the recommendations, this report is being issued as resolved. We will continue to review the actions taken in order to assess whether the findings have been adequately addressed and recommendations implemented. Once the following requested action has been completed, the recommendations will be closed.

Recommendation No.

  1. Resolved. This recommendation can be closed when we receive a copy of the results of the EO's review and its determination of the appropriate remedy for the approximately $6.7 million of questioned costs.
  1. Closed. This recommendation is closed based on your response and the revised FY 2004 Reimbursement Agreement form OCDETF intends to use with all OCDETF agency participants.
  1. Closed. This recommendation is closed based on your response and the revised FY 2004 Reimbursement Agreement form OCDETF intends to use with all OCDETF agency participants.
  1. Closed. This recommendation is closed based on your response and the revised FY 2004 Reimbursement Agreement form OCDETF intends to use with all OCDETF agency participants.
  1. Resolved. This recommendation can be closed when we receive a copy of a BICE quarterly obligation report including a comparison of costs incurred during the quarter, by object classification, to budgeted amounts.
  1. Closed. This recommendation is closed based on your response and the revised FY 2004 Reimbursement Agreement form OCDETF intends to use with all OCDETF agency participants.
  1. Resolved. This recommendation can be closed when we receive:
    • a copy of a bill submitted by the BCIE that includes the new billing methodology that aggregates agent work hours on OCDETF work; and
    • a sample of time sheets used by the BICE to track and to monitor the OCDETF-related hours of BICE agents who were formerly from the INS.