---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 115.404"
title: "28"
number: "115.404"
heading: "Audit corrective action plan."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/115.404"
---

# §115.404. Audit corrective action plan.

- (a) A finding of “Does Not Meet Standard” with one or more standards shall trigger a 180-day corrective action period.
- (b) The auditor and the agency shall jointly develop a corrective action plan to achieve compliance.
- (c) The auditor shall take necessary and appropriate steps to verify implementation of the corrective action plan, such as reviewing updated policies and procedures or re-inspecting portions of a facility.
- (d) After the 180-day corrective action period ends, the auditor shall issue a final determination as to whether the facility has achieved compliance with those standards requiring corrective action.
- (e) If the agency does not achieve compliance with each standard, it may (at its discretion and cost) request a subsequent audit once it believes that is has achieved compliance.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510; 42 U.S.C. 15601-15609.

### Source

Source: AG Order No. 3331-2012, 77 FR 37197, June 20, 2012, unless otherwise noted.