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CED-82-26 1 (1981-12-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabctb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACcOUNT!NG CFFICE \ '/-2 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 December 17, 1981 COMMUN ITY ANO ECONOMIC DELVZLOPMNT DIVISION B-205850II I I HI The Honorable Steny H. Hoyer 117100 House of Representatives Dear Mr. Hoyer: Subject: Proposed Relocation/Consolidation of the Soil Conservation Service's Cartographic, Employee Development, and Information Staffs at Fort Worth, Texas (CED-82-26) This report is in response to your July 15, 1981, letter asking us to review the Department of Agriculture's proposed relocation of certain Soil Conservation Service functions from Lanham, Maryland, to Fort Worth, Texas, as well as alternatives to the move. The relocation is part of a proposed overall Serv- ice reorganization, consolidation, and employee reduction plan dated October 19, 1981, which also would affect several Service offices in Washington, D.C.; Nebraska; Oregon; and Pennsylvania. We reviewed the Service's October 19, 1981, proposal and examined the backup material provided us in support of the planned consolidation and relocation of its cartographic, em- ployee development, and information staffs to Fort Worth. We interviewed Service and General Services Administration officials in Nebraska, Texas, and Washington, D.C. Also, we requested the Service to make an analysis showing the results of consolidation without relocation. As a result of our review, we have-concluded th t neither the Service's October 19 proposal nor its supporting data pro- vides an adequate basis for judging the merits of the proposed move to Fort Worth. Without concluding whether such a move can ultimately be justified, we believe that the October 19 proposal is sufficiently flawed to render it inadequate as a basis for decision. We expressed our concerns orally to the Department's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and to it's Director of Personnel and followed this up with a letter to the Director on December 10, 1981. A copy of that letter, and some of the material provided with it containing a more detailed discussion of the types of questions and concerns we have, is enclosed. In general terms, our questions and concerns have to do with: (021990)

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