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PAD-83-43 1 (1983-06-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmzt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 12. UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 4Cous PROGRAM ANALYSIS DIVISION B-202447 JUNE 14,1983 The Honorable James R. Jones Chairman, House Budget Committee House of Representatives 121664 Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Status Report on the Administration's Proposals for Budgetary Savings in Fiscal Year 1983 (GAO/PAD-83-43) During 1982, the Administration proposed nine management initiatives to reduce the Federal debt. These initiatives cover a broad range of administrative and management improvement ef- forts and have been incorporated into each agency's budget. As yet, the agencies have not had enough time to carry out all the programs. Therefore, it will be late in fiscal year 1983 before most savings begin to accrue. Achievement of these estimated savings, however, will depend on aggressive action by each agen- cy and the ability of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to monitor the agencies' programs. OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY The Administration proposed saving $20.3 billion during fiscal year 1983 by carrying out nine management initiatives: prevention of fraud, waste, and abuse; improved debt collection; Federal employment reduction; Federal property disposition; accelerated outer continental shelf leasing; Federal pay re- straint; improved asset sale management; revised Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance payments; and improved tax collection and enforcement. We are providing information that highlights the current status of these initiatives and have updated the Administration's estimates of the potential fiscal year 1983 savings. We compared the goals established in the fiscal year 1983 budget with the progress reported in the fiscal year 1984 budget. In the 1983 budget, each initiative was identified and government-wide savings were projected. This was not always the case in the 1984 budget. So we were supplied the needed information by the agency or by OMB. The attachment to this letter summarizes the revisions to the savings estimates. We did not perform a comprehensive evaluation and analysis of the (974781)

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