The Urban and Community Impact Analysis Program, if Retained, Will Need Major Improvements
GGD-81-85
Published: Jul 23, 1981. Publicly Released: Jul 23, 1981.
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Highlights
The Urban and Community Impact Analysis (UCIA) program was established in 1978 by an Executive order and the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) implementing Circular A-116. The purposes of the program are to: (1) identify the likely effects of proposed initiatives on cities, counties, and other communities; and (2) inform decisionmakers of proposed agency actions that may run counter to the goals of the President's urban policy. Circular A-116 requires executive agencies to submit UCIA's on all major legislative, budgetary, and regulatory initiatives. GAO surveyed the UCIA program to determine how well the program had achieved its intended results and to identify and recommend any needed improvements.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
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| Office of Management and Budget | The Director, OMB, should strengthen the management of the UCIA process by institutionalizing the process in OMB through stabilized organizational and staffing arrangements. |
Closed
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| Office of Management and Budget | The Director, OMB, should strengthen the management of the UCIA process by establishing a systematic procedure for monitoring agency compliance and providing agencies feedback. |
Closed
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| Office of Management and Budget | The Director, OMB, should strengthen the management of the UCIA process by monitoring agencies' preparation of UCIA's on regulatory initiatives. |
Closed
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| Office of Management and Budget | The Director, OMB, should strengthen the management of the UCIA process by seeking amendments to Executive Order 12074 that (1) reflect realistically the White House domestic policy staff's intended participation in the process; and (2) formally require the staff to cause UCIA's to be prepared on major presidential initiatives. |
Closed
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| Office of Management and Budget | The Director, OMB, should improve the timeliness of the process by systematically and promptly following up on missed due dates. |
Closed
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| Office of Management and Budget | The Director, OMB, should improve the timeliness of the process by advancing the timing of UCIA activities into the spring budget review, to the extent possible. |
Closed
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| Office of Management and Budget | The Director, OMB, should improve the timeliness of the process by amending OMB Circular A-116 to delete reference to Executive Order 12044 (revoked) and incorporate preparation of regulatory UCIA's into regulatory impact analyses prepared under Executive Order 12291. |
Closed
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| Office of Management and Budget | The Director, OMB, should improve the timeliness of the process by forming a small interagency task force to advise and assist in designing program improvements which all participants, both UCIA suppliers and users, can support. |
Closed
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| Office of Management and Budget | The Director, OMB, should amend OMB Circular A-116 to clearly include program reauthorizations in the UCIA process. |
Closed
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| Office of Management and Budget | The Director, OMB, should amend Circular A-116 to include base programs in the UCIA process. |
Closed
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| Office of Management and Budget | The Director, OMB, should prepare UCIA's, or revised UCIA's, on major OMB changes in agency budget initiatives. |
Closed
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| Office of Management and Budget | The Director, OMB, should seek independent regulatory agencies' participation in the UCIA process. |
Closed
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| Office of Management and Budget | The Director, OMB, should, if the UCIA program is continued, make UCIA's available to Congress and the public no later than when budgetary and legislative proposals are sent to Congress. |
Closed
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