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BY THE' COMPTROLLER GENERAL



Report To The Congress


O  F  THE    UNITED      STATES                             IIIiI I III IIIliilll
                                                                 LM116918




A Systematic Management Approach Is

Needed For Congressional

Reporting Requirements



The Congress levies reporting requirements on
Federal agencies and others to obtain infor-
mation on Government programs and activi-
ties. In fiscal year 1980, 2,680 reporting re-
quirements produced approximately 4,000 re-
ports at a reported cost exceeding $80 million.

These reporting requirements are not being
managed in a way that achieves the objectives
for which they were created. They are man-
aged by several organizations acting independ-
ently of each other with little or no coordin-
ation among them. As a result, perfomance of
tasks overlaps and functional and informa-
tional gaps exist.
GAO recommends that a systematic manage-
ment approach be developed to insure that re-
ports are timely, that they are distributed to
those who can make the most productive use
of them in fulfilling their responsibilities, and
that both the reporting requirements and re-
port documents reflect the needs of the Con-
gress in its decisionmaking process.

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    4CCOUI <e                                               NOVEMBER 25,1981

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