Title 31, U.S. Code (Selected)

31 U.S.C § 1125

Subtitle II—The Budget Process

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

§1125. Elimination of unnecessary agency reporting

(a) Agency Identification of Unnecessary Reports.—Annually, based on guidance provided by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Chief Operating Officer at each agency shall—

(1) compile a list that identifies all plans and reports the agency produces for Congress, in accordance with statutory requirements or as directed in congressional reports;

(2) analyze the list compiled under paragraph (1), identify which plans and reports are outdated or duplicative of other required plans and reports, and refine the list to include only the plans and reports identified to be outdated or duplicative;

(3) consult with the congressional committees that receive the plans and reports identified under paragraph (2) to determine whether those plans and reports are no longer useful to the committees and could be eliminated or consolidated with other plans and reports; and

(4) provide a total count of plans and reports compiled under paragraph (1) and the list of outdated and duplicative reports identified under paragraph (2) to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

(b) Plans and Reports.—

(1) First year.—During the first year of implementation of this section, the list of plans and reports identified by each agency as outdated or duplicative shall be not less than 10 percent of all plans and reports identified under subsection (a)(1).

(2) Subsequent years.—In each year following the first year described under paragraph (1), the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall determine the minimum percent of plans and reports to be identified as outdated or duplicative on each list of plans and reports.

(c) Request for Elimination of Unnecessary Reports.—In addition to including the list of plans and reports determined to be outdated or duplicative by each agency in the budget of the United States Government, as provided by section 1105(a)(37), the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may concurrently submit to Congress legislation to eliminate or consolidate such plans and reports.

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COUNSEL NOTES

Section 1125 was set forth by Section 11(b) 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 11. Reducing duplicative and outdated agency reporting

This section amends title 31, United States Code, to provide a process to eliminate or consolidate duplicative and outdated agency plans and reports.

This section requires each agency’s COO to compile a list of all plans and reports the agency produces for Congress, either by law or as directed in congressional reports, and to identify those plans and reports that are outdated or duplicative of other required plans and reports. Each agency’s COO is then to provide this information to the Director of OMB. This section further requires that the President is to include in each budget of the United States Government the list of duplicative or outdated plans. In addition, the section authorizes the Director of OMB to submit proposed legislation to Congress to eliminate or consolidate such plans and reports.

Finally, this section requires that during the first year of implementation of this section, each agency’s list of outdated and duplicative plans and reports must comprise at least 10 percent of all plans and reports identified. In subsequent years, the Director of OMB will determine the minimum percentage to be listed by agencies as outdated or duplicative.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY NOTES

PUBLIC LAWS

Pub. L. 111–352, §11(b), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3881 (enacted as the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010) established this section. 

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