# Presentation: 448779

## Rob Leach
Regional Coordinator
Office of Budget & Performance
September 10, 2008

*Rob Leach*
*Regional Coordinator*
*Office of Budget & Performance*
*September 10, 2008*

**Notes:**
Good morning – 

Hi, I am  Rob Leach
and today, I will be providing an overview of the 

Key Players with which  the USGS interacts
 in the Federal Budget Process. 

## Must be 35 yrs old

- Must be a U.S.  citizen by birth
- Must be a U.S. resident for 14 yrs
- Has power to approve/veto laws
- Makes treaties w/foreign govs
- Nominates judges to Supreme Court

- Serve for life
- Can declare laws unconstitutional
- Can settle disputes involving the United States
- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides over the impeachment of the President

**Notes:**
Of course, the Federal Govt is made up of 3 branches:
Legislative Branch—
headed by the Congress—is where the laws are made.

Executive Branch
headed by the President—is where the laws are administered or carried out.

Judicial Branch
he Supreme Court being the highest court—is where the law is interpreted based on the Constitution.

Within these three branches of the Federal Government, 
the 2 that we interact with on a regular basis are: 
the Executive Branch and 
the Legislative Branch. 

## U.S. Geological Survey

**Notes:**
And, let’s begin with the Executive Branch and USGS

## U.S. Geological Survey

**Notes:**
Here we have a matrix of the USGS... as currently configured..

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Dir: Mark Myers
Dep Dir: Bob Doyle
Carla Burzyk - Office of Budget and Performance (OBP)
Barbara Wainman - Office of Communications (OC)

Karen Baker – Office of Administrative Policy & Services (APS)
Kaye Cook - Office of Human Resources (HR)
AD/BRD: Sue Haseltine (Associate Director for Biology)
AD/GR: Barb Ryan (Associate Director for Geography)
AD/GD:   Suzette Kimball (Associate Director for Geology)
AD/WRD: Matt Larsen (Associate Director for Water)
AD/EI:  Karen Siderelis – (Associate Director for Geospatial Information (GIO)

Regional Offices: 
RD/WR: Anne Kinsinger (Acting Regional Director, Western Region)
RD/CR: David Applegate (Acting Regional Director, Central Region)
RD/ER: Linda Gunderson (Acting Regional Director, Eastern Region

## Office of Budget and Performance

**RAPHAEL**

- Planning & Performance
-              Officer

**HILL**

- Budget Data Mgr
-    Scorekeeper

**HAVERLAND**

- Budget Officer

**DATTILO**

- Coordinator

*Geology*

**KWAN**

- Coordinator

*Biology/Glob. Ch.*

**  ****SPEARS**

-          FTE/ABC

**SMITH**
- Coordinator
*Water*

**BARTLEWITZ**

- PART

**GILLESPIE**

- Economist/
- Surveys Lead

**NEWMAN**

- ABC
- Lead

**MOORE, G.**

**ROBIC**

- Coordinator
*Facilities*

**LEACH**

- Coordinator

*  **Regions*

**KINDER**

- Budget Execution

**MOORE, D.**

- Coordinator
*Geog/EI/Sci.Spt.*

- Coordinator
*A-123/WCF*

**HOUSER**

- ABC

**COX**
- PMA/FAIR Act

**BAGEANT**

-    GPRA/IG/

-    GAO Lead

**COPELAND**

- Surveys/FAIR Act

**Notes:**
This chart depicts the current matrix of the Office of Budget and Performance along with assigned responsibilities. 

## USGS Offices Often Confused

- Office of Budget & Performance (OBP)

- Administrative Policy & Services (APS)
- Office of Financial Management
- Office of Fiscal Services

**Notes:**
There are a couple of USGS offices that are often confused.

The Office of Budget and Performance—OBP—and 
the Office of Administrative Policy and Services – APS

OBP primary functions include performance, formulation, and allocations; 
principally dealing with current year and outyears.  

APS primary functions include financial accountability
once we have received our appropriation. 

We will talk more about how the two offices interact in a later presentation.

## U.S. Department of the Interior

**Notes:**
Now, we will move onto the Department of the Interior

##  U.S. Department of the Interior

-  U.S. Department of the Interior

**USGS**
- Mark Myers

**ASSISTANT SECRETARY**
**Policy, Mgmt & Budget /CFO **
- Jim Cason, Acting

**ASSISTANT SECRETARY**
**Water and Science **
- Kameran Onley, Acting

**DEPUTY SECRETARY**
- Lynn Scarlett

**SECRETARY**
**Dirk Kempthorne**

**Notes:**
Here is an organization chart for the Department 
Dirk Kempthorne, of course, is the Secretary of the Interior

Lynn Scarlett is the Deputy Secretary.

There has been lots of movement at the Interior recently:

Jim Cason is Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy, Mgt and Budget.  We often just call this office PMB.  OBP works closely with this office.  

Kameran Onley is Acting Assistant Secretary of Water and Science 

USGS reports to this office. 

So let’s take a look at the configuration of the  PMB

## U.S. Department of the Interior – PMB 

**Deputy Asst Secretary****Performance, Accountability****& Human Resources**

**Deputy Asst Secretary****Law Enforcement****& Security**

**Deputy Asst Secretary****Insular Affairs**

**Deputy Chief****Human Capital Officer**

**Office of****Human Resources Policy**

**Office of ****Civil Rights**

**Office of Occupational****Health & Safety**

**Office of Collaborative****Action & Dispute Resolution**

**Office of Law****Enforcement & Security**

**Office of****Insular Affairs**

**Office of Budget**Pam Haze

**Office of Planning**** & Performance Mgt**Rich Beck

***U.S. Department of the Interior – PMB ***

**Deputy Asst Secretary****Business Management ****& Wildland Fire**

**Deputy Asst Secretary****Policy & International ****Affairs**

**Notes:**
Here we have an organization chart for Policy Management and Budget (PMB)

The 2 key offices that we work closely with in PMB are:
The Office of Budget—you may hear it referred to as POB—and Office of Planning and Performance Management.  

Within POB, headed by Pam Haze, there are 2 divisions: 
We work primarily with the Division of Budget and Program Review. Dave Roberts is the Budget Analyst for the Survey. 
 (The other is the Division of Budget Administration). 

Office of Planning & Performance Management is the other key office that we work closely with in PMB.  Rich Beck is our primary POC.  This group oversees the Department’s Strategic Plan, Scorecard, ABC, and the performance metrics. 

Our Planning and Performance Management Team will delve deeper into the interaction between this office and ours later in the workshop. 

## U.S. Department of the Interior – Water & Science

**Kameran Onley****	****Acting Assistant Secretary (AS/WS)**
**Tim Petty****	****	****Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS/WS-USGS)**
**Kris Polly****	****	****Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS/WS-BoR)**
- Carter Brown		Counselor to the Assistant Secretary
**Amy Holley****	****	****Chief of Staff**
**Mark Myers****	****	****Director, USGS**
- Robert Johnson	Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation
**Tara Conrad****	****	****Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary****	**
**Suzanne Weedman****	****USGS Liaison and Science Advisor to the AS/WS**
- Barb Schuelke	Reclamation Liaison
- Brenda Barnes	Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary
- Cheryl Stewart	Program Assistant to the DAS/WS
- Cathy Callaway	Program Support Assistant
- Reed Murray		Program Director, Central Utah Project Completion Act

**Notes:**
This is a snapshot of the Water & Science staff directory—I won’t go through the entire list, however, I would like to point out some of the key people who we work with on a regular basis, in bold here. 
 
Kameran Onley is the Acting Assistant Sec.
Tim Petty is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for W&S
Kris Polly is Acting Dep Asst Secretary
Mark Myers, Director of the USGS 
Amy Holley, Chief of Staff 
Tara Conrad, Special Asst to the Asst Secretary 
Suzanne Weedman, who currently functions as both Science Advisor for Water and Science and USGS Liaison.  

## Office of Management and Budget

**Notes:**
Another organization that we work closely with, in regards to our budget, is the Office of Management and Budget, or OMB. 

## OMB — Organization

**Natural Resources Programs**
**Energy Science & Water Division**
** **Energy
-  Science & Space
-  Water & Power
**Natural Resources Division**
** **Agriculture
-  Environment
** ****Interior**

**Notes:**
OMB is the link to the President.  According to its mission statement, OMB oversees the preparation of the Federal budget, supervises its administration, evaluates effectiveness of agency programs (our PART program), policy and procedures, and sets funding priorities.  (source: OMB.gov)

OMB is arranged into Branches similar to our own disciplines.

The Survey falls under the Natural Resources Programs, shown in green box- bottom left.  
There’s an Interior Branch for DOI programs. 

Within this Branch, there is a Budget Examiner for approximately each Bureau; our examiner is Charlie Stern.  

OMB examiners usually cycle thru quickly and are typically in this position 2 – 4 years.  

## OMB — Interior Branch - USGS

- Craig Crutchfield
- Charlie Stern

- Chief
***USGS***

**Notes:**
This slide lists examiners within the OMB Interior Branch. 
 Again, 
Charlie Stern is our examiner  

## Legislative Branch

**Notes:**
Now, let’s move on to the Legislative Branch

As you know, the Legislative Branch is broken up into
 the House and Senate
 with lots of committees on both side.  

however, I am only going to talk about the ones we primarily deal with. 

## House Committees of Interest to USGS

**Appropriations**
**	****  **Interior, Environment and Related Agencies
**Natural Resources****	**
**	****  **Energy and Mineral Resources
- 	  Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans
- 	  Water and Power
**Science and Technology**
**	****  **Energy and Environment
- 	  Research and Science Education
- 	  Space and Aeronautics
- 	  Technology and Innovation
**Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming**
**Oversight and Government Reform**
- 	   Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia
- 	   Government Management, Organization, and Procurement
- 	   Information Technology

**Notes:**
There are 20 Full Committees in the House (and 1 Select Committee).
Of the 20, 4 are of immediate interest to us – having received recent presentations by our director:
  Appropriations

  Resources  our authorizing committees are here  (under Energy & Minerals and Water & Power)

  Science      only in case someone asks (Landsat issues fall under Space & Aeronautics)

  Govt Reform   only in case someone asks (mostly for GIO, and FGDC under Info Tech)


## Senate Committees of Interest to USGS

**Appropriations**
**	****  **Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
**Energy and Natural Resources****	****  **
**Environment and Public Works**
- 	   Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife    Protections
- 	   Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, and Children’s Health Protections
** ****Commerce, Science, and Transportation**
**	****  **Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard
- 	  Science, Technology, and Innovation
- 	  Space, Aeronautics, and Related Sciences
** **
** **

**Notes:**
In the Senate, there are 16 Full Committees   (and 3 Select Committees).

Of that, 4 are of interest to us:
  Appropriations (which is, of course, the one with greatest interest to us) 
  Energy & Natural Resources - Energy is the authorizing cmte   
Commerce, Science & Transportation – no oversight of USGS but does include 
	the brand new Disaster Prevention & Prediction subcommittee (which ties into our Director’s FY 07 and FY 08 focus on Hazards
[pause briefly] 

## House Appropriations

*Staff:  Chris Topik***                                                   **

- Todd Tiahrt, Ranking Member
- John E. Peterson, PA
- Jo Ann Emerson, MO
- Virgil H. Goode, Jr., VA
- Ken Calvert, CA

- Norman Dicks, WA, Chairman
- James P. Moran, VAMaurice D. Hinchey, NYJohn W. Olver, MA
- Alan B. Mollohan, WVTom Udall, NM
- Ben Chandler, KY
- Ed Pastor, AZ

_**Republicans**_

**           **_**Democrats**_

**Interior, Environment, & Related Agencies Subcommittee Members**

**Notes:**
These are the Congressional members of the Interior Subcommittee within the Appropriations Committee. 
Chris Topik is our Key Staffer.

Staffers tend to stay longer than OMB examiners. There isn’t really a pattern of change depending on which party is the majority. 
[pause briefly]

## Senate Appropriations

*Staff:  Ginny James*

- Wayne Allard, CO, Ranking Member
- Larry Craig, ID
- Ted Stevens, AK
- Thad Cochran, MS
- Pete Domenici, NM
- Bob Bennett, UT
- Judd Gregg, NH
- Lamar Alexander, TN

- Dianne Feinstein, CA, ChairmanRobert C. Byrd, WV
- Patrick Leahy, VTByron L. Dorgan, ND
- Barbara Mikulski, MD
- Herb Kohl, WI
- Tim Johnson, SD
- Jack Reed, RI
- Ben Nelson, NE

_**Republicans**_

**        **_**Democrats**_

**	****Interior and Related Agencies Subcommittee Members**

**Notes:**
And, these are the members of the Interior and Related Subcommittee within the Senate Appropriations Committee. 

Ginny James is our Key Staffer for the Senate [pause briefly]

## The Art of Balancing Priorities

**Notes:**
Of course at the end of the day

 it all comes down to the Art of Balancing Priorities

For USGS, our priority is adhering to the directives of the Executive Branch, Department of Interior and OMB as we formulate our budgets
and then responding to Congress, thru DOI and OMB, when they have questions.. - 

In closing, thank you for your time and attention today.  
if there are no questions, next up is the Budget Process timeline,
with Linda Jacobsen.