As part of the strategic plan to carry out the President’s Management Agenda initiative to shift from lower-value to higher-value work, federal agencies are to review the administrative burdens they impose on themselves and are to regularly report on progress they are making to reduce that burden.
“Along with requirements from OMB and other central management offices, agencies also put in place their own administrative requirements that impose burdens on their bureaus and programs, and too often these requirements are not regularly reviewed and streamlined,” says a document posted on performance.gov.
“In addition, individual programs can have processes and organizational structures that have not been optimized for efficiency, requiring costs to be diverted from mission delivery and sometimes imposing costs on the public,” it says.
It says that guidance will be coming to agencies in the months ahead on setting burden-reduction targets, to be followed by an initial set of targets, an initial progress update, and quarterly updates afterward.