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RCED-92-254R 1 (1992-08-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackcr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United State General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-238361i1 fl H i HH August 7, 1992 147317 The Honorable Glenn English Chairman, Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter responds to your July 7, 1992, request for our views on issues affecting the consolidation of field offices within the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Soil Conservation Service (SCS). Specifically, you asked us how we thought the benefits of SCS's technical assistance and other services should be evaluated and to what extent certain workload indicators should be considered in developing plans to consolidate the field offices. In summary, we believe that issues affecting the consolidation of SCS's field offices need to be examined within the larger context of USDA's mission and goals. Over the years, USDA has acquired responsibilities in certain aspects of environmental quality and international trade, and its client base has grown, yet its large, decentralized, multiagency organization- -including its vast network of farm service agency field offices--has remained largely unchanged. To meet its current responsibilities and assist its clients effectively, USDA needs to first review its mission and goals and then design an organizational structure to achieve them. Opportunities do exist for USDA to streamline its field structure, which may currently require farmers and others to deal with different offices, employees, and administrative procedures. In our series of reports on the management of GAO/RCED-92-254R, Soil Conservation Service Reorganization

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