Assess whether emergency allocation criteria are equitable and documented

SITUATION The working file is emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet after an IG draft that will go public Thursday. Regulatory-impact analyst in a pass-through grantor after a subrecipient audit has to name Pay or continue or Recoup for this Government Budget and Performance file.

DECISION Regulatory-impact analyst in a pass-through grantor after a subrecipient audit must choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold using emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet after an IG draft that will go public Thursday.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Authorize Pay or continue now; emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet already has the discriminator after an IG draft that will go public Thursday. 2. Keep Recoup in force until emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet is completed after an IG draft that will go public Thursday for regulatory-impact analyst. 3. Treat emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet as Deny because both readings appear after an IG draft that will go public Thursday. 4. Refuse a Government close: regulatory-impact analyst does not have the decision emergency allocation criteria are turns on in emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Test a single-case exception versus a control gap in a pass-through grantor after a subrecipient audit. 2. Check notice and appeal timing around an IG draft that will go public Thursday. 3. Trace the audit trail regulatory-impact analyst would produce for oversight. 4. For this Government Budget and Performance file, read emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet against an IG draft that will go public Thursday and write the one fact that would move emergency allocation criteria are for regulatory-impact analyst.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold on this Government / Budget and Performance packet (emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet after an IG draft that will go public Thursday). The follow-on Budget and Performance action is what regulatory-impact analyst does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Government option on emergency allocation criteria are, then the evidence in emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet, then the action for regulatory-impact analyst - Hypothesis scorecard against emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet: supported / rejected / untestable - Regulatory or exam hook Budget and Performance would cite - Budget and Performance finding in emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet that a second reviewer can re-perform