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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
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B- 820873 1980
The Honorable Jack Brooks
---.Chairman, Subcommittee
on Legislation and National
Security
.. -Committee on Government Operations
-House of Representatives
Dear Mr. Chairman:
You submitted several writte questions to us during
our February 7, 1980, testimony on H.R. 6410] The Paper-
work Reduction Act of 1980. Our responses to those
-questions are provided in Enclosure I. You also requested
that we provide examples of our assessment of executive
agencies' performance in managing their information
resources and activities in relation to potential benefits
which might be achieved through implementation of H.R. 6410.
%These examples are contained in Enclosure II.
Additionally, you asked that we comment on some of
the benefits which might reasonably be expected from
'implementing H.R. 6410. Our thoughts on this matter are
- outlined below.
We believe that the most important benefit from
implementation of H.R. 6410 will be improvements in Federal
..,information management. The need for such improvement is
* 1 well documented in congressional hearings, the work of
---the Commission on Federal Paperwork, executive branch
-- -studies s t P sidentis Fccral Da P ccing
, and numerous GAO reports.
The significance of achieving improvements in Federal
information management activities in. terms of dollar
-expenditures can be readily seen by the Commission on
Federal Paperwork's estimate that Federal paperwork costs
m .ore than $100 billion a year. This estimate included
!,both internal Federal Government costs and costs levied on
all segments of our society by Federal information requir-e-
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