For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 11, 2001
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
SUBJECT: Implementing Government Reform
Throughout the campaign and in my Budget, I have called for "active, but limited" Government: one that empowers States, cities, and citizens to make decisions; ensures results through accountability; and promotes innovation through competition. Thus, if reform is to help the Federal Government adapt to a rapidly changing world, its primary objectives must be a Government that is:
Citizen-centered -- not bureaucracy centered;
Results-oriented -- not process-oriented; and
Market-based -- actively promoting, not stifling, innovation and competition.
In order to establish and implement Government reform throughout the executive branch, I hereby direct the following:
1. Establish Chief Operating Officers.
Each agency head
shall designate a Chief Operating Officer, who shall be the senior
official with agency-wide authority on behalf of the Secretary or
agency head. The Chief Operating Officer, the equivalent of
the Deputy Secretary, shall report directly to the agency head and
shall be responsible for:
(a) implementing the
President's and agency head's goals and the
agency's mission;
(b) providing overall
organization management to improve agency
performance;
(c) assisting the agency head
in promoting Government reform,
developing strategic plans, and measuring results; and
(d) overseeing agency-specific
efforts to integrate performance and
budgeting, expand competitive sourcing, strengthen their
workforce, improve financial management, advance e-government,
apply
information policy and technology policies, and other
Government-wide management reforms.
2. Implement
Additional Agency Reforms. Each agency head shall identify and
implement additional changes within the agency that will promote the
principles of government reform.
3. Establishment of President's Management Council. In
order to advise and assist the President in ensuring that Government
reform is implemented throughout the executive branch, I hereby
establish the President's Management Council
("Council"). The Council shall comprise:
(a) The Deputy Director, Office
of Management and Budget;
(b) The Chief Operating
Officers from the following agencies:
(1) Department of State;
(2) Department of the Treasury;
(3) Department of Defense;
(4) Department of Justice;
(5) Department of the Interior;
(6) Department of Agriculture;
(7) Department of Commerce;
(8) Department of Labor;
(9) Department of Health and Human Services;
(10)
Department of Housing and Urban Development;
(11)
Department of Transportation;
(12)
Department of Energy;
(13)
Department of Education; and
(14)
Department of Veterans Affairs.
(c) The following central
management agency representatives:
(1) Director of the Office of Personnel Management;
(2) Administrator of General Services;
(d) Chief Operating Officers of
the following agencies:
(1) Environmental Protection Agency;
(2) National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
(3) National Science Foundation;
(4) Social Security Administration; and
(5) Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(e) Chief Operating Officers of
three other executive branch agencies
designated by the Chairperson, in his or her discretion;
(f) Assistant to the President
and Cabinet Secretary;
(g) Deputy Assistant to the
President for Management and
Administration; and
(h) Deputy Chief of Staff to
the Vice President; and
(i) Such other officials of the
executive departments and agencies as
the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget or I may,
from
time to time, designate. The Deputy Director of the Office of
Management and Budget shall serve as Chairperson of the
Council. The Chairperson of the Council may appoint a
Vice-Chairperson from the Council's membership to assist the
Chairperson in conducting affairs of the Council.
The functions of the Council shall
include, among others:
(a) improving overall executive
branch management, including
implementation of the President's Management Agenda;
(b) coordinating
management-related efforts to improve Government
throughout the executive branch and, as necessary, resolving
specific interagency management issues;
(c) ensuring the adoption of
new management practices in agencies
throughout the executive branch; and
(d) identifying examples of,
and providing mechanisms for,
interagency exchange of information about best management
practices. The Council shall seek advice and information as
appropriate from nonmember Federal agencies, particularly smaller
agencies. The Council shall also consider the management
reform experience of corporations, nonprofit organizations, State and
local govern-ments, Government employees, public sector unions, and
customers of Government services. Agencies shall cooperate with the
Council and provide such assistance, information, and advice to the
Council as the Council may request, to the extent permitted by law.
4. Independent Agencies. Independent agencies are
requested to comply with this memorandum. 5. Revocation
and Judicial Review.
(a) the memorandum of October
1, 1993, entitled "Implementing
Management Reform in the Executive Branch" is revoked.
(b) this memorandum is for the
internal management of the executive
branch
and does not create any right or benefit, substantive or
procedural, enforceable by a party against the United States, its
agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or employees, or any
other
person. 6. Publication. The Director of the Office of
Management and Budget is authorized and directed to publish this
memorandum in the Federal Register.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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