The Department agrees with the recommendation. The Department will review, assess, and, where necessary, update existing procedures for FFATA reporting relating to the requirement that state subawards for $30,000+ be submitted within 30 days of committed budget. This will include ensuring that the c...
The Department agrees with the recommendation. The Department will review, assess, and, where necessary, update existing procedures for FFATA reporting relating to the requirement that state subawards for $30,000+ be submitted within 30 days of committed budget. This will include ensuring that the confirmation date is documented. This process will be a coordinated effort between the Office Transportation Safety (OTS) and the Center for Accounting. This will include updating our reconciliation process to include additional data, reviewing and updating reconciliation and review procedures as needed, and reconciling Grants awarded in prior fiscal years that are still active and ensuring they have been appropriately reported. The findings related to this recommendation are in part the result of a federal reporting system limitation, and a federal system conversion. The legacy reporting system, FSRS, had a system limitation, which prevented the full amount of the award being reported in the case of three awards. Additionally, this conversion resulted in some data conversion issues impacting one additional award.