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Inflation Reduction Act: Opportunities Exist to Help Ensure GSA Programs Achieve Intended Results
GAO-25-107349
Apr 29, 2025
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3 Open Recommendations
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General Services Administration The Administrator of GSA should ensure that the Commissioner of the Public Buildings Service develops a decision-making framework with criteria for evaluating and selecting high-performance green building projects to help ensure GSA makes sound capital investment decisions for its high-performance green building program. (Recommendation 1)
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General Services Administration The Administrator of GSA should ensure that the Commissioner of the Public Buildings Service establishes interim targets with time frames for each of GSA's IRA performance goals. (Recommendation 2)
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General Services Administration The Administrator of GSA should ensure that the Commissioner of the Public Buildings Service publishes all of GSA's IRA performance goals, along with periodic updates on GSA's progress toward meeting the goals, in a single source, such as GSA's IRA website, that is readily available to the agency's stakeholders, including Congress and the public. The statement of each performance goal should include a quantitative target and a time frame for achieving the target. To the extent that GSA has established interim targets with time frames, the goal statements should also include those. (Recommendation 3)
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Administrative Burden: OMB Should Update Instructions to Help Agency Assessment Efforts
GAO-25-107239
Apr 21, 2025
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1 Open Recommendations
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Office of Management and Budget The Director of the Office of Management and Budget should update OMB's supporting statement instructions for information collection requests to fully incorporate all of the elements of its burden reduction guidance.
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Regulatory Flexibility Act: Improved Policies for Analysis and Training Could Enhance Compliance
GAO-25-106950
Apr 10, 2025
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6 Open Recommendations
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Small Business Administration The Administrator of SBA should develop and implement policies and procedures for complying with the Regulatory Flexibility Act. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of Health and Human Services should revise HHS's Regulatory Flexibility Act policies and procedures to more fully incorporate elements recommended by the Office of Advocacy, OMB, and GAO for conducting certification and regulatory flexibility analyses, such as considering beneficial and indirect impacts on small entities. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Energy The Secretary of Energy should revise Energy's Regulatory Flexibility Act policies and procedures to incorporate statutory requirements and elements recommended by the Office of Advocacy, OMB, and GAO for conducting certification and regulatory flexibility analyses, such as considering beneficial and indirect impacts on small entities. (Recommendation 3)
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Environmental Protection Agency The Administrator of EPA should revise EPA's Regulatory Flexibility Act policies and procedures to more fully incorporate elements recommended by the Office of Advocacy, OMB, and GAO for conducting certification and regulatory flexibility analyses, such as considering beneficial and indirect impacts on small entities. (Recommendation 4)
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Office of Advocacy The Chief Counsel of the Office of Advocacy should develop and implement policies and procedures for providing training to agencies on Regulatory Flexibility Act compliance, including mechanisms to identify agencies most in need of training and agencies that have not received it for an extended period. (Recommendation 5)
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Office of Advocacy The Chief Counsel of the Office of Advocacy should develop one or more performance goals that more clearly link with its strategic objective of training rulemaking officials throughout the government. (Recommendation 6)
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Passport Processing: State Department Should Identify Milestones and Resource Needs for Its Plans to Avoid Future Delays
GAO-25-107164
Mar 27, 2025
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs defines milestones for all Transformation Roadmap projects to enable the tracking of progress in implementation. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs determines the resources needed to implement the Transformation Roadmap. (Recommendation 2)
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