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B-178205 1 (1974-03-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaafsf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ASSISTANT COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITEQ STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 0 B-178205 March 29, 1974 LMO959;56 The Honorable William E. Simon Administrator, Federal Energy Office Dear Mr. Simon: The General Accounting Office recently completed a survey of efforts being made in the Federal Government to conserve fuel in the movement of men and materials. Our work was performed at the headquar- ters level of the Office of Energy Conservation, Federal Energy Office, and several major fuel-using agencies and their subordinate offices. These agencies included the Departments of Defense, Transportation, Agriculture, Interior, and Justice; the General Services Administration; the U.S. Postal Service; the National Aeronautics and Space Administra- tion; and the Environmental Protection Agency. During fiscal year 1973, the Defense Fuel Supply Center expended $1.5 billion to purchase 333 million barrels of petroleum products for both military and civil agencies. Although the Federal Government consumes only a small percentage of the petroleum products consumed by the entire nation, it plays a major role in fuel conservation. The Government's efforts to reduce its own demand for fuel impacts on its ability to provide necessary leadership to influence other users to conserve fuel. Our survey indicated that genuine efforts are being made to conserve fuel in the movement of men and materials. We have several observations, however, on management aspects of the fuel conservation program which require attention or where improvements are possible. These aspects concern the adequacy of the data used to measure the suc- cess of the conservation actions, the information system for collecting this data, the role of the individual agencies' energy conservation officers, and the efforts to reduce motor vehicle fuel consumption. While we recognize the recency of efforts to conserve fuel, we are reporting our observations and recommendations to you at this time in the hope that they may be of some use in making early improvements in the Federal Government's total efforts to improve fuel conservation. Details of our observations follow.

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