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B-163628 1 (1979-08-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjgw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICEl WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 to wl f~t~l to pldIOlsa.' Orre OF GE.EnAL. COUNSEl 0 U. B-163628 Augcust 24, 1979 The Honorable John C. Culver United States Senate Daar Senator Culver: This refers to your request for my comments on S. 262, S. 299, S, 755 and S. 1291, the major regulatory reform legislation currently under consideration by the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, At the request of your staff, we have already sent testimony by the Comptroller General and various General Accounting Office (GAO) officials on S, 262, S. 755, and S. 3330, 95th Congress, the predecessor to S. 299. Although we have not previously testified on S. 1291, the com- ments we have made on the related bills would be applicable to the Admin- istrative Plactice and Regulatory Control Act of 1979 as wyell, Since I have nothing to add to these statements, I will limit my comments'to the specific questions you raised on the proposed changes to the Administra- tive Conference of the United States (ACUS). I do not favor the restructuing of ACUS to become an exeutive agency with full executive powers, as proposed in S. Z62. ACTJS now offers a unique resource to the executive branch and Congress 'by providing a forum in which representatives of Federal agencies, with the assistance of a broad range of outside experts, can study mutual problems, exchange ideas, and formulate recommendations to promote greater efliciei~cy and fairness in Fed,.:ral regulatory activities. The proposed nine-member advi- sory commission could probably not offer the wide range of experience and perspectives now available to the Government through the 91-member ACUS Assembly. Furthermore, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) would probably he in a better position than the Administra- tor of ACUS to serve as the focal point for determining and enforcing executive depa'rtment implementation of Conference recommendations. Also, as the Comptroller General noted in his testimony before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, '0. 262 includes in the oversigLtxA respon- sibilities of ACUS areas already assigned in the bill to the Congressional Budget Office and which we recommended be assigned to GAO. I I

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