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GGD-00-155R 1 (2000-06-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaalqa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~GAO __ _ _ _ __ United States General Accounting Office General Govermnent Division Washington, DC 20548 B-285432 June 30, 2000 The Honorable Fred Thompson Chairman The Honorable Joseph I. Lieberman Ranking Minority Member Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Subject: Observations on the Department of Justice's Fiscal Year 1999 Performance Report and Fiscal Year 2001 Performance Plan As you requested, we have reviewed the 24 Chief Financial Officers Act agencies' fiscal year 1999 performance reports and fiscal year 2001 performance plans required by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). In essence, under GPRA, annual performance plans are to establish performance goals and measures covering a given fiscal year and provide the direct linkage between an agency's longer-term goals and day-to-day activities. Annual performance reports are to subsequently report on the degree to which those performance goals were met. This letter contains two enclosures responding to your request concerning key program outcomes and major management challenges at the Department of Justice (DOJ). Enclosure I provides our observations on DOJ's fiscal year 1999 actual and fiscal year 2001 planned performance for the key outcomes that you identified as important mission areas for the agency. These key outcomes are (1) less drug- and gang-related violence; (2) reduced availability and/or use of illegal drugs; (3) timely, consistent, fair, and high-quality services provided by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); and (4) U.S. borders secure from illegal immigration. Enclosure II lists the major management challenges facing the agency that we and DOJ's Inspector General identified, how DOJ's fiscal year 1999 performance report discussed the progress the agency made in resolving these challenges, and the applicable goals and measures in the fiscal year 2001 performance plan. Results in Brief Overall, DOJ's progress in achieving desirable program outcomes cannot be readily determined since the agency has yet to develop performance goals and measures that GAO/GGD-OO-155R DOJ's FY 1999 Performance and FY 2001 Plan Page 1

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