plementary goals, strategies, and performance meas-
ures;
‘‘(8) a description of any major management
problems (including but not limited to programs and
activities at high risk for waste, abuse, or mismanage-
ment) affecting the agency that have been documented
by the inspector general of the agency (or a com-
parable official, if the agency has no inspector gen-
eral), the General Accounting Office, and others, and
specific goals, strategies, and performance measures to
resolve those problems; and
‘‘(9) an assessment by the head of the agency of
the adequacy and reliability of the data sources and
information and accounting systems of the agency to
support its strategic plans under this section and per-
formance plans and reports under sections 1115 and
1116 (respectively) of title 31, and, to the extent that
material data or system inadequacies exist, an expla-
nation by the head of the agency 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 subsection
and inserting the following: ‘‘submitted. The strategic
plan shall be updated, revised, and resubmitted to the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget and
the Congress by not later than September 30 of 1998
and of every third year thereafter.’’; 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 re-
quests.’’.
(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 sub-
section (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 link-
ages 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-re-
lated 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, materi-
ally enhance the usefulness of the strategic plan of the agen-
cy.’’.
SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS RELATING TO PERFORMANCE PLANS
AND PERFORMANCE REPORTS.
(a) GOVERNMENTWIDE PROGRAM PERFORMANCE RE-
PORTS.—Section 1116 of title 31, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection
(g); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following
new subsection:
‘‘(f)(1) No later than March 31, 2000, and no later
than March 31 of each year thereafter, the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget shall prepare and submit
to the Congress an integrated Federal Government perform-
ance report for the previous fiscal year.
‘‘(2) In addition to such other content as the Director
determines to be appropriate, each report shall include ac-
tual results and accomplishments under the Federal Gov-
ernment performance plan required by section 1105(a)(29)
of this title for the fiscal year covered by the report.’’.
(b) INSPECTOR GENERAL REVIEW OF AGENCY PER-
FORMANCE PLANS AND PERFORMANCE REPORTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 11 of title 31, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing:
‘‘§ 1120. Inspector general review of agency perform-
ance plans and performance reports
‘‘(a) The inspector general of each agency (or a com-
parable official designated by the head of the agency, if the
agency has no inspector general) shall develop and imple-
ment a plan to review the implementation by the agency
of the requirements of sections 1115 and 1116 of this title
and section 306 of title 5. The plan shall include examina-
tion of the following:
‘‘(1) Agency efforts to develop and use perform-
ance measures for determining progress toward
achieving agency performance goals and program out-
comes described in performance plans prepared under
section 1115 of this title and performance reports sub-
mitted pursuant to section 1116 of this title.
‘‘(2) Verification and validation of selected data
sources and information collection and accounting
systems that support agency performance plans and
performance reports and agency strategic plans pur-
suant to section 306 of title 5.
‘‘(b)(1) In developing the review plan and selecting
specific performance indicators, supporting data sources,
and information collection and accounting systems to be ex-
amined under subsection (a), each inspector general (or des-
ignated comparable official, as applicable) shall consult
with appropriate congressional committees and the head of
the agency, including in determining the scope and course
of review pursuant to paragraph (2).
‘‘(2) In determining the scope and course of review,
consistent with available resources, each inspector general
(or designated comparable official, as applicable) shall em-
phasize those performance measures associated with pro-
grams or activities for which—
‘‘(A) there is reason to believe there exists a high
risk of waste, fraud, or mismanagement; and
‘‘(B) based on the assessment of the inspector
general, review of the controls applied in developing
the performance data is needed to ensure the accuracy
of those data.
‘‘(c) Each agency inspector general (or designated com-
parable official, as applicable) shall submit the review plan
to the Congress and the agency head at least annually, be-
ginning no later than October 31, 1998.
‘‘(d) Each agency inspector general (or designated
comparable official, as applicable) shall conduct reviews
under the plan submitted under subsection (c), and submit
findings, results, and recommendations based on those re-
views to the head of the agency and the Congress, by not
later than April 30 and October 31 of each year. In the
case of reviews by an agency inspector general, such submis-
sion shall be made as part of the semiannual reports re-
quired under section 5 of the Inspector General Act of
1978.’’.
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 1115(f)
of title 31, United States Code, is amended in the
matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘1119’’
and inserting ‘‘1120’’.
(3) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions at the beginning of chapter 11 of title 31,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end
the following new item:
‘‘1120. Inspector general review of agency performance plans and performance re-
ports.’’.
(c) REQUIREMENT TO USE FULL COSTS AS PERFORM-
ANCE INDICATOR.—Section 1115(a)(4) of title 31, United
States Code, is amended by inserting before the semicolon
at the end the following: ‘‘, which shall include determina-
tion of the full costs (as that term is used in the most recent