(A) The efficiency with which the program
operates.
(B) An identification of the objectives in-
tended for the program and the problem or
need that the program was intended to address,
the extent to which the objectives have been
achieved, and any activities of the program in
addition to those granted by statute and the au-
thority for these activities.
(C) The extent to which the program is
needed and is used.
(D) The extent to which the jurisdiction of
the program and the other programs adminis-
tered with the program overlap or duplicate
others and the extent to which the program can
be consolidated with the other programs.
(E) Whether the agency administering the
program has recommended to the Congress
statutory changes calculated to be of benefit to
the public at large rather than only those
served directly by the program.
(F) The promptness and effectiveness with
which the program disposes of complaints con-
cerning persons affected by the program.
(G) The extent to which the program has
encouraged participation by the public in mak-
ing its rules and decisions and the extent to
which the public participation has resulted in
rules compatible with the objectives of the pro-
gram.
(H) The extent to which the program has
complied with applicable requirements regard-
ing equality of employment opportunity.
(I) The extent to which changes are nec-
essary in the enabling statutes of the program
so that the program can adequately comply
with the criteria listed in this paragraph.
(J) The effect on State and local govern-
ments if the program is terminated.
(3) RECOMMENDATION.—Upon completion of
its review of a program, the Joint Committee shall
submit to the appropriate legislative committees of
the House of Representatives and the Senate a rec-
ommendation for the extension, including extension
with change, or termination of the program. Each
such recommendation shall be voted on by the Joint
Committee and shall be published.
SEC. 302. EXECUTIVE BRANCH.
Each department or agency of the executive branch
which is responsible for the administration of a program
subject to reexamination pursuant to section 301 shall, by
the first Monday of June of an odd-numbered year, submit
to the Office of Management and Budget and to the Joint
Committee a report of its findings, recommendations, and
justifications with respect to each of the matters set forth
in section 301(b)(3), and the Office of Management and
Budget shall submit to the Joint Committee such com-
ments as it deems appropriate.
TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS
SEC. 401. APPROPRIATION REQUESTS.
Section 1108(e) of title 31, United States Code, is
amended by inserting before the period ‘‘or at the request
of a committee of either House of Congress or of the Joint
Committee on Sunset Review presented after the day on
which the President transmits the budget to the Congress
under section 1105 of this title for the fiscal year’’.
SEC. 402. DISCLOSURE.
Nothing in this Act shall require the public disclosure
of matters that are specifically authorized under criteria
established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the
interest of national defense or foreign policy and are in
fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order,
or which are otherwise specifically protected by law.
SEC. 403. RULEMAKING.
The provisions of this section, section 204, and titles
I and III are enacted by the Congress—
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of
the Senate and the House of Representatives respec-
tively, and as such they shall be considered as part
of the rules of each House, respectively, or of that
House to which they specifically apply, and such
rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent
that they are inconsistent therewith; and
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional
right of either House to change such rules (so far
as relating to such House) at any time, in the same
manner, and to the same extent as in the case of
any other rule of such House.
SEC. 404. EXECUTIVE BRANCH ASSISTANCE.
To assist in the review or reexamination of a pro-
gram, the head of an agency which administers such pro-
gram and the head of any other agency, when requested,
shall provide to each committee of the Senate and the
House of Representatives which has legislative jurisdiction
over such program, or to the Joint Committee on Sunset
Review, such studies, information, analyses, reports, and
assistance as the committee may request.
SEC. 405. CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW.
The Committee on Rules and Administration of the
Senate and the Committee on Rules of the House of Rep-
resentatives shall review the operation of the procedures
established by this Act, and shall submit a report not later
than December 31, 2002, and each five years thereafter,
setting forth their findings and recommendations. Such
reviews and reports may be conducted jointly.
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