In December 2010, the Office of Inspector General issued the evaluation report "A New Horizon: Looking to the Future ofthe Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement" ("New Horizon"). Chapter 5 of the report, "Enhanced Accident Investigations," contained six recommendations to improve incident investigations.
This verification review resulted from our work on "The Bureau of Safety Environmental Enforcement [BSEE] Incident Investigation Program" evaluation. When we started that evaluation, all six recommendations from "Enhanced Accident Investigations" had been closed and considered implemented by the Office of Financial Management (PFM). We found, however, four of the six recommendations from "Enhanced Accident Investigations" were closed but not implemented. Recommendation 49 was never referred to PFM for tracking. During our evaluation, BSEE's leadership agreed to ask PFM to reopen these recommendations.