or contract, a cooperative agreement, or 
another form of financial award or assist-
ance) who assist in administering the pro-
gram; and 
(3) identify programs within the agency with 
duplicative or overlapping missions, services, and al-
lowable uses of funds. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than February 1 of each fis-
cal year, the head of each agency shall create a link on 
the homepage of the official public website of the agency 
to a report containing the following: 
(1) IDENTIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF PRO-
GRAMS.—The information required under subsection 
(a) with respect to the preceding fiscal year. 
(2) PERFORMANCE REVIEWS.—The latest per-
formance reviews (including the program perform-
ance reports required under section 1116 of title 31, 
United States Code) of each program of the agency 
identified under subsection (a)(1), including per-
formance indicators, performance goals, output 
measures, and other specific metrics used to review 
the program and how the program performed on 
each. 
(3) IMPROPER
PAYMENT
INFORMATION.—For 
all programs and activities that may be susceptible 
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to significant improper payments, as identified by 
the head of the agency under section 2(a) of the Im-
proper Payments Information Act of 2002 (31 
U.S.C. 321 note), the latest improper payment rate 
and the total estimated amount of improper pay-
ments during the preceding fiscal year, including 
fraudulent payments and overpayments. 
(4) EXPIRED
GRANT
FUNDING.—The total 
amount of undisbursed grant funding remaining in 
grant accounts for which the period of availability to 
the grantee has expired. 
(5) RECOMMENDATIONS.—Such recommenda-
tions as the head of the agency considers appro-
priate— 
(A) to consolidate programs within the 
agency that are duplicative or overlapping; 
(B) to eliminate waste and inefficiency; 
and 
(C) to terminate lower priority, outdated, 
and unnecessary programs and initiatives. 
(c) RELATIONSHIP TO CATALOG OF DOMESTIC FI-
NANCIAL ASSISTANCE.—With respect to the requirements 
of subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2)(B), the head of an agency 
may use the same information provided in the Catalog of 
Domestic Financial Assistance if applicable. 
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(d) FORMAT.—Each agency shall make reports re-
quired by subsection (b) available in a searchable, ma-
chine-readable format, and shall expend no funds for the 
printing of such reports, except when providing such docu-
ments to the Congress. 
SEC. 3. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET REQUIRE-
MENTS RELATING TO ANNUAL REPORT ON 
THE COST AND PERFORMANCE OF GOVERN-
MENT PROGRAMS AND AREAS OF DUPLICA-
TION AMONG PROGRAMS. 
(a) REPORT
BY OFFICE
OF MANAGEMENT
AND 
BUDGET.—Not later than February 1 of each fiscal year, 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
shall publish on the official public website of the Office 
of Management and Budget a report containing the fol-
lowing: 
(1) IDENTIFICATION
OF
DUPLICATIVE
PRO-
GRAMS.—An identification of programs across agen-
cies with duplicative or overlapping missions, serv-
ices, and allowable uses of funds. 
(2) RECOMMENDATIONS.—Such recommenda-
tions as the Director considers appropriate— 
(A) to consolidate programs across agen-
cies that are duplicative or overlapping; 
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(B) to eliminate waste and inefficiency; 
and 
(C) to terminate lower priority, outdated, 
and unnecessary programs and initiatives. 
(b) RELATIONSHIP TO PRESIDENT’S BUDGET.—With 
respect to the requirements of subsection (a)(2), the Di-
rector may use the same information provided in the 
President’s annual budget submission, if applicable. 
(c) DATABASE REQUIRED.—The Director shall main-
tain a database of information— 
(1) used to create the report required by sub-
section (a); and 
(2) obtained through meeting the requirements 
of section 21 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 
2010 (31 U.S.C. 712 note). 
SEC. 4. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE REQUIRE-
MENTS RELATING TO IDENTIFICATION, CON-
SOLIDATION, AND ELIMINATION OF DUPLICA-
TIVE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS. 
Section 21 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 
2010 (31 U.S.C. 712 note) is amended by inserting ‘‘(a)’’ 
before the first sentence and by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(b) The Comptroller General shall maintain and 
provide regular updates, on not less than an annual basis 
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to a publicly available website that tracks the status of 
responses by Departments and the Congress to suggested 
actions that the Comptroller General has previously identi-
fied in annual reports under subsection (a). The status 
of these suggested actions shall be tracked for an appro-
priate period to be determined by the Comptroller General. 
The requirements of this subsection shall apply during the 
effective period of subsection (a).’’. 
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ADMINISTRATIVE
COSTS.—The term ‘‘ad-
ministrative costs’’ has the meaning as determined 
by the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget under section 504(b)(2) of Public Law 111– 
85 (31 U.S.C. 1105 note), except the term shall also 
include, for purposes of that section and this section, 
with respect to an agency— 
(A) costs incurred by the agency as well as 
costs incurred by grantees, subgrantees, and 
other recipients of funds from a grant program 
or other program administered by the agency; 
and 
(B) expenses related to personnel salaries 
and benefits, property management, travel, pro-
gram management, promotion, reviews and au-
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