Title 31, U.S. Code (Selected)

31 U.S.C § 1121

Subtitle II—The Budget Process

Chapter 11—The Budget and Fiscal, Budget, and Program Information

§1121. Quarterly priority progress reviews and use of performance information

(a) Use of Performance Information To Achieve Federal Government Priority Goals.—Not less than quarterly, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, with the support of the Performance Improvement Council, shall—

(1) for each Federal Government priority goal required by section 1120(a) of this title, review with the appropriate lead Government official the progress achieved during the most recent quarter, overall trend data, and the likelihood of meeting the planned level of performance;

(2) include in such reviews officials from the agencies, organizations, and program activities that contribute to the accomplishment of each Federal Government priority goal;

(3) assess whether agencies, organizations, program activities, regulations, tax expenditures, policies, and other activities are contributing as planned to each Federal Government priority goal;

(4) categorize the Federal Government priority goals by risk of not achieving the planned level of performance; and

(5) for the Federal Government priority goals at greatest risk of not meeting the planned level of performance, identify prospects and strategies for performance improvement, including any needed changes to agencies, organizations, program activities, regulations, tax expenditures, policies or other activities.

(b) Agency Use of Performance Information To Achieve Agency Priority Goals.—Not less than quarterly, at each agency required to develop agency priority goals required by section 1120(b) of this title, the head of the agency and Chief Operating Officer, with the support of the agency Performance Improvement Officer, shall—

(1) for each agency priority goal, review with the appropriate goal leader the progress achieved during the most recent quarter, overall trend data, and the likelihood of meeting the planned level of performance;

(2) coordinate with relevant personnel within and outside the agency who contribute to the accomplishment of each agency priority goal;

(3) assess whether relevant organizations, program activities, regulations, policies, and other activities are contributing as planned to the agency priority goals;

(4) categorize agency priority goals by risk of not achieving the planned level of performance; and

(5) for agency priority goals at greatest risk of not meeting the planned level of performance, identify prospects and strategies for performance improvement, including any needed changes to agency program activities, regulations, policies, or other activities.

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Counsel Notes

Section 1121 was set in law by Section 6 of the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-352).  The Senate report on the substitute to H.R. 2142 (111th Congress) included the following description the section:

Section 6. Quarterly priority progress reviews and use of performance information

 This section amends title 31, United States Code, by adding a new subsection 1121, “Quarterly Priority Progress Reviews and Use of Performance Information.”

This section lays out a process for reviewing progress towards the federal government priority goals on a quarterly basis at minimum. The Director of OMB, with the support of the PIC, is required to review with the appropriate lead government official the progress achieved during the most recent quarter, overall trend data, and the likelihood of meeting the performance target, among other things. Officials from relevant agencies, organizations and program activities are to be included in the review, and the reviews are to assess whether the agencies, organizations, program activities, regulations, tax expenditures, policies and other activities are contributing as planned to each federal government priority. In addition, the Director of OMB, with the support of the PIC, is required to categorize the federal government priority goals by their risk of not meeting their performance targets, and for those at greatest risk, identify strategies to improve performance.

This section also requires that, at each agency, the head of the agency and the agency’s COO, with the support of the agency PIO, conduct an analogous quarterly review to review priority goals with the appropriate goal leaders.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY NOTES

PUBLIC LAWS

Pub. L. 111–352, §6, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3875 (enacted as the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010) established this section.

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