I
105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2883
To amend provisions of law enacted by the Government Performance and
Results Act of 1993 to improve Federal agency strategic plans and
performance reports.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 7, 1997
Mr. BURTON of Indiana (for himself, Mr. ARMEY, Mr. HORN, and Mr. SES-
SIONS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Government Reform and Oversight
A BILL
To amend provisions of law enacted by the Government
Performance and Results Act of 1993 to improve Federal
agency strategic plans and performance reports.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Government Perform-
ance and Results Act Technical Amendments of 1997’’.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS RELATING TO STRATEGIC PLANS.
(a) CONTENT
OF
STRATEGIC
PLANS.—Section
306(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting before the
semicolon ‘‘, that is explicitly linked to the statutory
authorities’’;
(2) in paragraph (2), by inserting before the
semicolon ‘‘, that are explicitly linked to the statu-
tory authorities of the agency’’; and
(3) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(5), by striking the period at the end of paragraph
(6) and inserting a semicolon, and by adding at the
end the following new paragraphs:
‘‘(7) a specific identification of any agency
functions and programs that are similar to those of
more than one component of the agency or those of
other agencies, and an explanation of coordination
and other efforts the agency has undertaken within
the agency or with other agencies to ensure that
such similar functions and programs are subject to
complementary goals, strategies, and performance
measures;
‘‘(8) a description of any major management
problems (including but not limited to programs and
activities at high risk for waste, abuse, or mis-
management) affecting the agency that have been
documented by the inspector general of the agency
(or a comparable official, if the agency has no in-
spector general), the General Accounting Office, and
others, and specific goals, strategies, and perform-
ance measures to resolve those problems; and
‘‘(9) an assessment by the head of the agency,
together with a separate assessment by the agency’s
inspector general of the agency (or a comparable of-
ficial, if the agency has no inspector general), of the
adequacy and reliability of the data sources and in-
formation and accounting systems of the agency to
support its strategic plans under this section and
performance plans and reports under sections 1115
and 1116 (respectively) of title 31, and, to the ex-
tent that material data or system inadequacies exist,
an explanation of how the agency will resolve
them.’’.
(b) RESUBMISSION OF AGENCY STRATEGIC PLANS.—
Section 306 of title 5, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘submitted,’’
and all that follows through the end of the sub-
section and inserting the following: ‘‘submitted. The
strategic plan shall be updated, revised, and resub-
mitted to the Director of the Office of Management
and Budget and the Congress by not later than Sep-
tember 30 of 1998 and of every third year there-
after.’’; and
(2) in subsection (d), by inserting ‘‘and updat-
ing’’ after ‘‘developing’’, and by adding at the end
thereof: ‘‘The agency head shall provide promptly to
any committee or subcommittee of the Congress any
draft versions of a plan or other information perti-
nent to a plan that the committee or subcommittee
requests.’’.
(c) FORMAT FOR STRATEGIC PLANS.—Section 306 of
title 5, United States Code, is amended by redesignating
subsection (f) as subsection (g), and by inserting after
subsection (e) the following new subsection:
‘‘(f)(1) The strategic plan shall be a single document
that covers the agency as a whole and addresses each of
the elements required by this section on an agencywide
basis. The head of an agency shall format the strategic
plans of the agency in a manner that clearly demonstrates
the linkages among the elements of the plan.
‘‘(2)(A) The head of each executive department shall
submit with the departmentwide strategic plan a separate
component strategic plan for each of the major mission-
related components of the department. Such a component
strategic plan shall address each of the elements required
by this section.
‘‘(B) The head of an agency that is not an executive
department shall submit separate component plans in ac-
cordance with subparagraph (A) to the extent that doing
so would, in the judgment of the head of the agency, mate-
rially enhance the usefulness of the strategic plan of the
agency.’’.
SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS RELATING TO PERFORMANCE RE-
PORTS.
(a) INSPECTOR GENERAL AUDITS OF PERFORMANCE
REPORTS.—Section 1116(b) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(3) The inspector general of the agency (or a com-
parable official, if the agency has no inspector general)
shall audit each program performance report under this
section, and shall report to the Congress on the results
of each such audit no later than 45 days after submission
of the performance report.’’.
(b) GOVERNMENTWIDE
PROGRAM
PERFORMANCE
REPORTS.—Section 1116 of title 31, United States Code,
is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (f) as sub-
section (g); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (e) the follow-
ing new subsection:
‘‘(f)(1) No later than March 31, 2000, and no later
than March 31 of each year thereafter, the Director of