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RCED-84-128 1 (1984-05-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnjn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 May 4, 1984 4 OoPCZS, COMMUNITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION B-21 4617 RELEASED The Honorable Philip R. Sharp Chairman, Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels 124279 Committee on Energy and Commerce House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Information on Budget Reductions in Energy Information Administration Programs (GAO/RCED-84-128) As requested in your May 19, 1983, letter and modified in subsequent discussions with your office, this report provides an overview of the Energy Information Administration's (EIA's) budget reductions that occurred from fiscal year 1981 through fiscal year 1984 and information on their effects on six EIA programs. The six programs are the Residential, Nonresidential Buildings, and Industrial Energy Consumption Surveys; the State Energy Data System; the Energy Emergency Management Information System; and the Middle Distillate Monitoring Program. EIA was established in the Department of Energy in 1977 to provide an independent, unbiased source of energy data collection and analysis for public and private sector decisionmakers. Since fiscal year 1981, EIA's budget steadily decreased from $90 million in fiscal year 1981 to $56 million in fiscal year 1984. Concur- rent with budget reductions, EIA's authorized staffing levels were reduced. EIA adjusted for budget and staffing reductions in its overall operations by consolidating or eliminating some of its programs. Of the six programs we reviewed, the Energy Emergency Manage- ment Information System was replaced and the Middle Distillate Monitoring Program was terminated. Budget reductions were not, however, a factor in the replacement and termination of these pro- grams. in the four remaining programs, budget reductions have resulted in reduced data reliability and the elimination or sus- , oZ two survys which were primary sources of information for one of the programs. (308902)

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