[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 116 (Thursday, June 16, 2011)]
[Presidential Documents]
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Vol. 76
Thursday,
No. 116
June 16, 2011
Part III
The President
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Executive Order 13576--Delivering an Efficient, Effective, and
Accountable Government
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 116 / Thursday, June 16, 2011 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 13576 of June 13, 2011
Delivering an Efficient, Effective, and
Accountable Government
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to cut waste, streamline
Government operations, and reinforce the performance
and management reform gains my Administration has
achieved, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. My Administration is committed to
ensuring that the Federal Government serves the
American people with the utmost effectiveness and
efficiency. Over the last 2 years, we have made good
progress and have saved taxpayer dollars by cutting
waste and increasing the efficiency of Government
operations by curbing uncontrolled growth in contract
spending, terminating poorly performing information
technology projects, deploying state of the art fraud
detection tools to crack down on waste, focusing agency
leaders on achieving ambitious improvements in high
priority areas, and opening Government up to the public
to increase accountability and accelerate innovation.
The American people must be able to trust that their
Government is doing everything in its power to stop
wasteful practices and earn a high return on every tax
dollar that is spent. To strengthen that trust and
deliver a smarter and leaner Government, my
Administration will reinforce the performance and
management reform gains achieved thus far;
systematically identify additional reforms necessary to
eliminate wasteful, duplicative, or otherwise
inefficient programs; and publicize these reforms so
that they may serve as a model across the Federal
Government.
The implementation of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) (Recovery
Act) has seen unprecedented transparency. The Recovery
Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB) has
developed innovative technologies and approaches for
preventing and identifying fraud and abuse that have
the potential to improve performance across all of
Government spending.
Sec. 2. Accountable Government Initiative. (a) On
September 14, 2010, in a Memorandum to the Senior
Executive Service, my Administration introduced goals
for the Accountable Government Initiative (Initiative).
The mission of the Initiative is to monitor and promote
agency progress in making Government work better,
faster, and more efficiently. To hold executive
departments and agencies (agencies) accountable for
obtaining results consistent with this mission, the
Vice President shall convene periodic meetings in which
Cabinet members and the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) report to him on
improvements implemented under their direction.
(b) The Federal Chief Performance Officer (CPO),
who also serves as the Deputy Director for Management
of OMB and the Chair of the President's Management
Council (PMC), shall work with the PMC to support
agencies' performance and management reform and cost-
cutting efforts. The CPO will lead OMB and the PMC in
identifying practices that should be adopted across
agencies and in facilitating reforms that require
cross-agency coordination and cooperation. The CPO
shall work with agencies to ensure that each area
identified as critical to performance improvement has
robust performance metrics in place, and that these
metrics are frequently analyzed
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and reviewed by agency leadership. Agencies shall
update these metrics quarterly, as appropriate, on the
website performance.gov.
(c) In accordance with the GPRA Modernization Act
of 2010 (31 U.S.C. 1115 et seq.), each agency's Chief
Operating Officer (COO) shall be designated as the
Senior Accountable Official responsible for leading
performance and management reform efforts, and for
reducing wasteful or ineffective programs, policies,
and procedures. In discharging this responsibility,
this official shall be accountable for conducting
frequent data-driven reviews of agency progress toward
goals in the areas that OMB identifies as being
critical to performance improvement across agencies or
that the agency head identifies as top near-term
priorities. These goals may include reforming
information technology, reducing improper payments,
leveraging the Federal Government's purchasing scale,
reducing high-risk contracting practices, improving the
management of Federal real estate, enhancing customer
service, and achieving agency and Federal Government
priority goals identified pursuant to the GPRA
Modernization Act of 2010.
(d) The Director of OMB shall provide guidance to
agencies as part of the Fiscal Year 2013 budget process
for identifying areas of program overlap and
duplication within and across agencies, and for
proposing consolidations and reductions to address
those inefficiencies.
(e) The Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) at all
agencies shall be responsible for achieving agency cost
savings. This will include each agency's share of the
$2.1 billion in administrative cost savings identified
in my Fiscal Year 2012 Budget, and for achieving those
savings as quickly as possible. The CFOs are encouraged
to realize these cost savings by targeting wasteful
practices and by reducing, and identifying alternatives
to, discretionary travel, the use of consultants, and
other administrative expenses. The Federal CFO Council
shall provide a monthly report on these efforts to the
PMC, with relevant findings and progress reported on
performance.gov.
Sec. 3. Government Accountability and Transparency
Board. (a) There is hereby established a Government
Accountability and Transparency Board (Board) to
provide strategic direction for enhancing the
transparency of Federal spending and advance efforts to
detect and remediate fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal
programs. The Board shall be composed of 11 members
designated by the President from among agency
Inspectors General, agency Chief Financial Officers or
Deputy Secretaries, a senior official of OMB, and such
other members as the President shall designate. The
President shall designate a Chair from among the
members. Building on the lessons learned from the
successful implementation of the Recovery Act, the
Board shall work with the RATB to apply the approaches
developed by the RATB across Government spending.
(b) Not later than 6 months after the date of this
order, the Board shall submit a report to the President
that identifies implementation guidelines for
integrating systems that support the collection and
display of Government spending data, ensuring the
reliability of those data, and broadening the
deployment of fraud detection technologies, including
those proven successful during the implementation of
the Recovery Act.
(c) The Director of OMB, in consultation with the
Board, shall be responsible for assisting executive
agencies in achieving objectives in the guidelines
identified in subsection (b) above.
(d) The Chair of the Board, in consultation with
the Director of OMB, shall provide monthly updates to
the Vice President on the progress obtained under this
order.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) authority granted by law to a department or agency, or the head
thereof; or
(ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
related to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
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(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 13, 2011.
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