FEDERAL MANAGEMENT REORGANIZATION AND COST CONTROL ACT OF 1986: S. 2230

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: June 6, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Office of Congressional Affairs
Director, Office of Information Services
Federal Management Reorganization and Cost
Control Act of 1986: S. 2230
1. The Office of Information services' review of the
legislative recommendation contained in S. 2230, Title VI,
concerning Federal information policy, reveals some significant
changes from previous legislation that could impact adversely on
the Agency if we were required to comply with the legislation.
In comparing the proposed legislation with the existing law,
there is a change in organizational responsibility for Federal
information policy oversight as well as additional
responsibilities assigned.
2. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), currently has the
authority and function to develop and implement Federal
information policies. The proposed legislation (S. 2230) would
remove the office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from the
Office of Management and Budget and place it in a new office,
the office of Federal Management (OFM). The Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs would still continue Federal
information policy oversight. The additional Federal agency
responsibilities contained in Section 3506 could impact
adversely on the Agency if we were required to report to the
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on the Agency's
resource management policy and practices. Given the scope of
the bill, the reporting could be burdensome and possibly affect
areas of operational sensitivity.
3. We have discussed this proposed legislation with
representatives of the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) to determine how it might affect records
management functions within Federal agencies. NARA's initial
response was "business as usual."
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4. We suggest the Office of General Counsel also review
the language in S. 2230 and provide an opinion, after comparing
it with the exclusion contained in Title 44, USC ? 3502,
paragraph (2), (A), relating to intelligence activities. The
exclusion is not being changed in the proposed legislation, but
may warrant some further review as to its impact given the
provisions of the current bill. The exclusion could exempt the
Agency from any reporting required by the law, but this needs to
be clarified. any questions concerning S. 2230,
please contact Ch' rmation Resources
Management Division, OIS, on
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DDA/OIS/IRMD/IMB
(06 June. 1986 )
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D/OIS
LA/OIS
I don't feel intimate with this bill, but since the time is up,
was apparently expecting an answer on the 20th, I risk being
uninformed and but speaking nonetheless.
I find the whole idea of this bill offensive. The government is
apparently going to be driven and managed by bureaucrats concerned only
with the efficient processing of information; while the government's
objectives and accomplishments become incidental, only a context within
which to become efficient.
In the specific language of the statute, intelligence activities
are exempted to the extent such activities involve use of "automatic data
processing". The language does not clearly exempt other activities from
the supervision and oversight of the new office of Federal Management
such as the effective and efficient allocation of resources for
intelligence collection and production.
Since information is the heart and soul of the intelligence
business, it could easily be argued that we are staring straight at the
cow-catcher of a future where intelligence operations will be governed by
the people that process and store the information; A little bit like
arguing that the working principles and procedures of OIS should be the
governing priniciples for the CIA.
I agree with IRMD, we ought to do our best to insure that the
Agency is exempted from all provisions of this act.
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