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00437 - (A1051972]
Better Evaluations Needed to Need Out Useless Federal Advisory
Committees. GGD-76-104; B-127685. April 7, 1977. 38 pp. +
appendices (37 pp.).
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Contact: General Government Div.
Budget Function: General Government: Other General Government
(606).
Orgr.nization Concerned: Office of Management and Budget;
Department of Commerce: Department of Health, Education, and
welfare; Department or the Interior; Environmental
Protection Agency; National Science Foundaticn.
Congressional Relevance: Congress.
Authority: Federal Advisory Committee Act (P.L. 92-463). OMB
Circular A-63.
Legislation to control the growing number of advi3ory
committees, 1267 as of December 31, 1975, assigned oversight
responsibilities to Congress, the President, and the Director of
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The OrB is required
to make an annual comprehensive review of each ccmmittee to
determine whether it has carried out its purpose, needs revised
responsibilities, o7 should be merged or abolished.
Findings/Conclusions: The ORB and agencies have had a difficult
time identifying useless committees because they have not
developed objective criteria. Because of lack cf leadership by
OMB, the agencies have developed their own approaches.
Uncertainties existed within agencies about the status of
subgroups and ad hoc groups, cost analyses, reporting
procedures, and combittee missions. Recommendations: OMB should
(1) develop uniform guidelines on sub-groups and ad hoc groups;
(2) require that agency committee :harters state purposes
clearly and include a timespan; (3) issue guidelines for
consistent cost estimates; and (4) develop a standard definition
of report and provide for followup. (HTW)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaabwb0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)