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§162. Section 702. Review and Evaluation by the Comptroller General (Repealed) – House Budget Counsel
§162. Section 702. Review and Evaluation by the Comptroller General (Repealed)
Sec. 702. Section 204 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 [31 U.S.C. 1154[1] is amended to read as follows:
Section 702 was repealed by 97-258, An Act “To revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws, related to money and finance, as title 31, United Slates Code, ‘Money and Finance’.”
[1] The reference to “31 U.S.C. 1154” is in section 702, but it no longer exists in the U.S. Code by operation of Pub. L. 97-258, which revised and codified multiple provisions of law and concentrated them in Title 31 of the U.S. Code.
Section 702 has been repealed insofar as it was removed from the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, effectively, by Pub. L. 97-258. This law transferred many budget-related provisions, including those in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, to Title 31 of the U.S. Code. It made these transfers without substantive revision, so in this sense some sections were transferred rather than repealed. For this particular section, it amended existing law and once executed served no other purpose. See the Revision and Codification of Title 31 of the U.S. Code made by Pub. L. 97-258 to see the CBA sections affected.
Pub. L. 93–344, title VII, §702, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 326
Section 702 was included in the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, as originally enacted.
Section 702 was Codified in §§ 702, 717, 719, and 731 of Title 31, United States Code, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97-258.
Public Law 97-258 (no short title) generally revised (“without substantive change”) provisions of law related to money and finance and codified them in Title 31 of the U.S. Code. This law repealed section 702 and transferred it to the U.S. Code, most of it to 31 U.S.C. 717, which is set forth below:
Subchapter II—General Duties and Powers
§717. EVALUATING PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
(a) In this section, “agency” means a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government (except a mixed-ownership Government corporation) or the District of Columbia government.
(b) The Comptroller General shall evaluate the results of a program or activity the Government carries out under existing law—
(1) on the initiative of the Comptroller General;
(2) when either House of Congress orders an evaluation; or
(3) when a committee of Congress with jurisdiction over the program or activity requests the evaluation.
(c) The Comptroller General shall develop and recommend to Congress ways to evaluate a program or activity the Government carries out under existing law.
(d)(1) On request of a committee of Congress, the Comptroller General shall help the committee to-
(A) develop a statement of legislative goals and ways to assess and report program performance related to the goals, including recommended ways to assess performance, information to be reported, responsibility for reporting, frequency of reports, and feasibility of pilot testing; and
(2) On request of a member of Congress, the Comptroller General shall give the member a copy of the material the Comptroller General compiles in carrying out this subsection that has been released by the committee for which the material was compiled.
(b)(1) The Comptroller General shall include in the report to Congress under subsection (a) of this section—
Section 702. Review and Evaluation by Comptroller General
The Senate amendment expanded the review and evaluation functions and duties of the Comptroller General, including assistance to committees and Members.
The conference substitute is a revision of the Senate provision. It amends section 204 of the 1970 Legislative Reorganization Act to expand GAO assistance to Congress. As amended, section 204 (a) provided that the Comptroller General shall evaluate Government programs at his own initiative, when ordered by either House, or at the request of a congressional committee. Section 204(b) provides that upon request, the Comptroller General shall assist committees in developing statements of legislative objectives and methods for assessing program performance. The managers consider oversight of executive performance to be among the principal functions of congressional committees and they recognize that the usefulness of program evaluation can be enhanced by the clear expression of legislative objectives and the employment of modern analytic methods. The managers further believe that statements of intent can be most appropriately developed by the committee of jurisdiction. Members must be provided upon request with all related information after its release by the committee for which it was compiled.
Section 204(c) directs the Comptroller General to develop and recommend program evaluation methods to Congress. Section 204(d) authorizes the establishment of an office of program review and evaluation in GAO. Section 204(e) calls for the Comptroller General to review GAO’s evaluation activities in his annual report to Congress.
[BCR § 162]