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GGD-00-156R 1 (2000-06-30)

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United States General Accounting Office                       General Govermnent Division
Washington, DC 20548



         B-285569


         June 30, 2000

         The Honorable Fred Thompson
         Chairman
         The Honorable Joseph I. Lieberman
         Ranking Member
         Committee on Governmental Affairs
         United States Senate

         Subject: Observations on the Office of Personnel Management's Fiscal Year 1999
         Performance Report and Fiscal Year 2001 Performance Plan

         As you requested, we have reviewed the 24 Chief Financial Officers (CFO) 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 Office of Personnel
         Management (OPM). Enclosure I to this letter provides our observations on OPM'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 as follows: (1) the federal government has an appropriately constituted
         workforce with the proper skills to carry out its missions; (2) federal employees are
         evaluated, rewarded, and otherwise held accountable for their performance; (3)
         federal agencies adhere to merit system principles; and (4) there is less fraud and
         error in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Enclosure II lists the major
         management challenges facing the agency that we and OPM's Inspector General
         identified, how its 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.


GAO/GGD-OO-156R OPM's FY 1999 Performance and FY 2001 Performance Plan


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