November 21, 1996
                                   DO-96-049


MEMORANDUM

TO:       Designated Agency Ethics Officials, General Counsels
          and Inspectors General

FROM:     Stephen D. Potts
          Director

SUBJECT:  Program Plan of Agency Reviews for Calendar Year 1997


     Attached for your information is the program plan of agency
ethics reviews scheduled by the Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
for calendar year 1997.  This is to inform you of our schedule for
the year and the opportunity for you to meet with OGE staff to
discuss our program review objectives and procedures.  It also
allows you time to make revisions to your program prior to our
review.  The program plan may be of some assistance as you address
budget issues within your agency.

     We will attempt as much as possible to follow the schedule set
forth in the attachment.  However, as past experience has shown,
the schedule may change due to complex issues that occur during
reviews, staffing problems, or higher priority work within OGE.  If
reviews from the first quarter are cancelled, we will pull up
agencies from later quarters and review them earlier than
anticipated.

     To assist those of you who wish to become more familiar with
our program review procedures, our analysts will hold two brown-bag
luncheons to discuss procedures and answer any of your questions.
If you are interested in attending one of these luncheons on either 
January 15 or 23, 1997, please call Phyllis Hoffer on 202-208-8000,
extension 1184, by January 8, 1997.  Attendance is open to all
agencies, whether or not the agency is scheduled for review in
1997.

     One item that we will be checking this year is to determine
whether agencies have developed a written training plan for the
current year and are implementing it.  While it is no longer
required that such training plans be sent to OGE, agencies are
required to develop a written training plan annually.  Training
plans are to be completed by January 1 of the calendar year covered
by the plan.

One issue that we make recommendations on very frequently 
involves the collection of new entrant financial disclosure
reports.  Please be sure that adequate systems have been
established to collect public and confidential financial disclosure
reports from new entrants within 30 days of their entering on duty.

     Our usual practice once a review has been completed is to send
a report to the Designated Agency Ethics Official (DAEO) with
recommendations for improving the program.  We ask that the DAEO
respond to our recommendations within 60 days as to the actions
he/she has taken or plans to take.  We do not send our reports to
the Congress, although about twice a year a Congressional committee
will ask for a copy of a report for an agency under its
jurisdiction.   These requests are granted and the agency DAEO is
informed that we have received such a request.  Past experience has
shown that these requests normally are made a year or more after
the review has been finished.

     We do not send copies of our reports to the news media, nor
issue press releases concerning the reports.  Periodically we do
release reports to the news media in response to Freedom of
Information Act requests.

     The agency DAEO will be contacted by phone approximately one
month prior to our entrance into the agency.  Should there be a
serious reason as to why you cannot receive us at that time, please
call Ed Pratt, Chief, Program Review Division, at 202-208-8000,
ext. 1115, to discuss rescheduling.

     We hope that this answers some of your questions concerning
our program review process.  Should you have any other questions,
please call Jack Covaleski,  Associate Director for Agency
Programs, at 202-208-8000, ext. 1120.


Attachment

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                   OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS

               
               1997 PROGRAM PLAN OF AGENCY REVIEWS

                     PROGRAM REVIEW SCHEDULE
                       JANUARY - MARCH 1997



1.  Council of Economic Advisors

2.  Nuclear Regulatory Commission

3.  Corporation for National and Community Service

4.  Offutt Air Force Base (Bellevue, NE)
     --Headquarters, U.S. Strategic Air Command
     --55th Air Wing

5.  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

6.  Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

7.  Fort Bliss (El Paso, TX)
     --U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center and School
     --U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy
     --3rd Armored Calvary Regiment 

8.  International Boundary and Water Commission (El Paso, TX) 

9.  Presidio of Monterey, CA
     --Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
     --U.S. Army Research Institute
    Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA  

10. Naval Supply Systems Command

11. American Battle Monuments Commission

12. Department of Health and Human Services
     --Office of the Secretary
     --Health Resources Services Administration

13. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

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                   PROGRAM REVIEW SCHEDULE
                     APRIL - JUNE 1997


1.  Fort Leonard Wood (Jefferson City, MO)
     --U.S. Army Engineer Training School
     --1st Engineer Brigade
     --3rd Basic Training Brigade

2.  National Security Council 

3.  Farm Credit Administration

4.  Marine Corps Air Station, Camp Pendleton (Oceanside, CA)
     --Marine Corps Air Station
     --Marine Corps Logistics Base
     --Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton

5.  Federal Labor Relations Authority

6.  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
     --Headquarters, Washington, DC
     --Lewis Research Center (Cleveland, OH)
     --Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA)

7.  National Capital Planning Commission

8.  General Services Administration
  
9.  National Science Foundation

10. U.S. Marshals Service (Justice)

11. Fort Sam Houston (San Antonio, TX)
     --U.S. Army Medical Command 

12. Defense Logistics Agency

    

Single Issue Review:

1.   Review of alternative financial disclosure systems approved by
OGE for departments and agencies under 5 C.F.R. &#167; 2634.905(c)

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                      PROGRAM REVIEW SCHEDULE
                      JULY - SEPTEMBER 1997


1.  Department of Energy

2.  U.S. International Trade Commission

3.  Langley Air Force Base
     --Headquarters, Air Combat Command
     --1st Fighter Wing
     --Air Force Doctrine Center

4.  Food and Drug Administration

5.  Elmendorf Air Force Base (Anchorage, AK)
     --Headquarters, Alaskan Air Command
     --Headquarters, 11th Air Force
     --3rd Wing


6.  U.S. Army Materiel Command (Alexandria, VA)

7.  Fort Lewis (Tacoma, WA)
     --Headquarters, I Corps
     --Madigan Army Medical Center
     
8.  U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

9.  Lackland Air Force Base
     --U.S. Air Force Training Group
     --Headquarters, 37th Training Wing

10. U.S. Parole Commission (Justice) 

11. Environmental Protection Agency

12. Marine Corps Base - Quantico, VA
     --Marine Corps Combat Development Command
     --Marine Corps Systems Command
     --Marine Corps Institute


Single Issue Review:
1.  Survey of ethics programs in federal regional offices and     
    military installations    


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                     PROGRAM REVIEW SCHEDULE
                     OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1997



1.  Assassination Records Review Board 

2.  Overseas Private Investment Corporation

3.  International Joint Commission

4.  Federal Communications Commission

5.  Merit Systems Protection Board

6.  U.S. Naval Home (Gulfport, MS)

7.  Federal Aviation Administration

8.  Department of Commerce
     --Bureau of the Census
     --Economic Development Administration
     --International Trade Administration

9.  Fort Campbell (KY)
     --101st Airborne Division
     --5th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
     --160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment

10. Department of Education

11. U.S. Marine Corps

12. Washington Navy Yard
     --Headquarters, Military Sealift Command
     
13. Naval Air Station, Alameda (Alameda, CA)
     --Naval Air Rework Facility
     --Naval Aviation Depot
     --Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity