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089514 1 (1973-09-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacvno0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D C 20548 RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION SEP 2 6 1973 Mr. Sylvester Pranger Director, Office of Personnel Department of Agriculture Dear Mr. Pranger. We have completed our review of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's (APHIS) Incentive wards Program as part of our Government-wide review. A draft of our overall report - he Congress on this review has been forwarded to the Civil Service Commission for comment. The report itself is primarily a summarization or overview of the results of our work at several Government installations. The recommendations in out report are addressed to the Civil Service Commission and should help to improve awards programs throughout the Government, howevrer, the recommendations will not specifically address our findings at APHIS. For this teason, we thought it would be useful to bring to your attention several specific suggestions which we feel would improve the awards program of both the Department of Agriculture and APHIS. Department and APHIS incentive awards representataves have been advised of our suggestions. To the extent that our observations on the APHIS awards program parallel condi- tions in the other agencies of the Department, we hope that any corrective actions taken will include them also. Our review was primarily concerned with the fiscal year 1972 incentive awards program at APHIS. Because APHIS had recently been reorganized and did not have incentive awards regulations of its own at the time of our review, we considered the applicable AgrIculture Research Service (ARS) and Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) regulations in effect at that time. Opportunities to improve program uniformity As you know, it is currently the Department's policy to delegate to the agencies the responsibility for developing incentive awards implementing instructions. We believe that this has led to differences in the agencies' programs which could be construed by employees as I equities.

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