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Recommendation B.1 (page 49 of joint State/Defense report) is reissued and redirected. Although closed by DOS OIG on October 25, 2010, additional actions are required, and we are reissuing the recommendation. The Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, should ensure that the contracting officer's representative for task orders 4305 and 5375, in coordination with the contractor, resolve the approximately $9 million of unverified inventory in accordance with FAR 45.105, "Records of Government property, " by granting the contractor relief of responsibility for lost, damaged, destroyed, or stolen Government property or forwarding a recommendation requesting the contracting officer to hold the contractor liable.