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PAD-81-24 1 (1980-12-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbjd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 114014 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 December 18, 1980 PROGRAM ANALYSIS DIVISION B-2 01214 The Honorable John B. Anderson House of Representatives 114016 Dear Mr. Anderson: Subject: Esing Congressional Reporting Requirements in the Budget Process7(PAD-81-24) In your March 27, 1980, letter, you asked us to find out whether specific due dates for congressionally mandated reporting requirements are in synchronization with the budget process and whether executive agencies chronically miss statu- tory reporting deadlines. As you pointed out, if either or both of these conditions are true, then the Congress is being deprived of the full use of many of the reports it receives from the executive branch. We share your concern about the potential value of these reports. Most of them are intended to provide the Congress with essential information about Federal programs, activities, projects, and budgets. Without this information, it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the Conge ss to make rational decisions about governmental activit' s. To answer the questions you posed, we review-e-and analyzed data from several sources that maintain information on congressional reporting requirements, including our own reporting requirements file, the Clerk of the House of Repre- sentatives' report system, and the Library of Congress' SCORPIO 1/ system. In general our findings reveal that: report due dates are, for the most part, synchronized with the budget process; a significant number of reports transmitted by the executive branch are late; and 1/SCORPIO is an acronym for Subject-Content-Oriented Retriever for Processing Information On-Line. (972893)

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