SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS (OBJECT CLASSIFICATION 26), $283,000

This estimate is for the purchase of normal office supplies and additional work materials, such as legislative bills, reports, enacted legislation, and periodicals. This request level is approximately the same as that which was expended in 1978 and is $66,000 (19%) less than what was expended in 1981. The additional request ($13,000) will be used to fund normal price increases for office and ADP supplies.

EQUIPMENT (OBJECT CLASSIFICATION 31), $400,000

This request covers purchase of office equipment, including calculators, typewriters, terminals, central processing units (CPU's) and related peripheral equipment. These funds will also be used to replace older, used machines, whose replacement has been deferred over the past two years. It will also be used to purchase leased equipment when it becomes more cost effective to buy rather than continue to lease. Due to funding constraints we do not anticipate any equipment purchases in 1983. In real terms our 84 request is 49% below the 1981 operational level.

V. Statement of Functions and Workload

The variety and complexity of the work of the Office of Management and Budget in functioning as staff to the President is enormous and cannot easily be summarized in a brief statement. Continuing workload responsibilities in 1983 and priorities for 1984 are set forth below.

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR

The Office of the Director consists of the Director, Deputy Director, Associate Director, Executive Associate Director for Budget, and their assistants and support personnel. The Office also includes the staff of Economics and Planning, Legislative Affairs; General Counsel; Civil Rights; Public Affairs; and Administrative units. A brief description of each staff office follows:

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR ECONOMICS AND PLANNING

The Associate Director for Economics and Planning assists the Director in developing overall fiscal and monetary policies and represents OMB in the development of Administration economic policies. The office makes economic forecasts, analyzes the economic impact of Federal policies and programs, reviews tax proposals for fiscal and specific effects, and reviews tax expenditures. The office also integrates OMB's contributions to Cabinet Council activities, analyzes long-term government-wide policies, and prepares fact sheets and other explanatory documents.

LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS

The Office of Legislative Affairs coordinates all OMB activities that relate to the Senate or House of Representatives. The office works with Congress to enact portions of Federal budget and other key Presidential legislative and management initiatives; maintains working relationships with members, committees, and staff of Congress; provides policy advice to the Director and his key policy associates; maintains liaison with the White House Legislative Affairs Office; alerts agency congressional liaison officers to legislative problem areas and works with them to resolve the difficulties; and coordinates responses to congressional requests for information.

GENERAL COUNSEL/CIVIL RIGHTS

The Counsel's Office provides legal advice to the Director, and the OMB staff, clears proposed Executive Orders and proclamations, participates in the development of policy and

legislative proposals to be sponsored by OMB or which affect the performance of OMB's own functions, and performs any additional legal functions assigned by the Director. The Office of Civil Rights provides staff support for the development of policies related to civil rights by the Director and policymaking officials, and coordinates with other units of OMB and the Federal departments and agencies to assure that decisions on budgetary, regulatory, legislative, and management initiatives are in accord with those policies. The Office identifies potential problem areas and recommends management initiatives based on its ongoing analysis of agency resources devoted to civil rights and their results.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS

The Assistant Director for Public Affairs deals with the information media and key public/private sector groups, and coordinates information efforts with other government agencies. In addition, the office serves as liaison between OMB and the White House Press Office.

DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR ADMINISTRATION

As the principal assistant for office management, the Deputy Associate Director for Administration oversees OMB's internal management activities and serves as liaison between OMB and the Office of Administration regarding, personnel, fiscal, administrative support, and other central staff services. This office prepares and executes OMB's budget; prepares internal accounting reports and provides financial guidance and assistance to the divisions. The office also reviews and clears OMB issuances; coordinates OMB action on GAO reports; oversees organization, staffing, and security; insures compliance with the Ethics in Government, Freedom of Information, and Privacy Acts; and serves as Executive Secretary to the Senior Executive Service, Executive Resources and Performance Review Boards.

MAJOR WORKLOAD IN 1983

The major tasks of these offices include:

The overall management responsibilities for the Office of Management and Budget.

- Short- and long-range economic forecasting, economic analyses, fiscal analyses, and special economic studies; representing the OMB in the Administration's economic planning councils.

- Providing a central inquiry and referral point for thousands of Congressional inquiries. both written and oral.

- Representing OMB on Capitol Hill in support of the Administration's economic and budgetary recommendations, with a particular focus on the Congressional budget process.

-Providing legal advice to OMB officials and staff, coordinating and clearing proposed Executive Orders and proclamations; assisting Department of Justice attorneys in representing OMB in litigation; reviewing legislative proposals as requested; and providing Government-wide assistance on the implementation of many statutes

- Participating in legislative and budgetary reviews of agency civil rights budget submissions, Monitoring a computerized data base of Federal civil rights programs to measure productivity and to assess the effectiveness of civil rights activities; and assisting in the coordination of major civil rights activities throughout the Executive Branch.

Specific actions include:

Acting upon proposed Executive Orders and proclamations.

• Approving all appropriations language in the 1983 and 1984 Budgets, supplemental estimates, amendments, rescissions and deferral packages.

• Assisting the Department of Justice in responding to lawsuits and discovery motions.

• Assisting in the response to Freedom of Information Act requests and appeals.

• Assisting in the enforcement of the Ethics in Government Act and reviewing financial reports of senior OMB employees for potential conflicts of interest.

• Providing legal drafting services to all divisions in OMB.

- Handling thousands of inquiries from the press and general public regarding OMB activities and publications; preparing speeches; organizing briefings for visitors and press officials; preparing general descriptive materials about the agency's operations.

- Establishing and monitoring personnel, budget, accounting, procurement, publishing, office space allocation and other administrative systems necessary to the daily OMB operations. Specific activities include:

• Developing procedures, methods and instructions for the preparation and execution of the Office's $39 million budget, administering the President's Unanticipated Needs Fund and the Management Improvement Fund.

• Participating in the hiring of permanent and temporary staff including processing all security clearances related to their employment.

• Managing a computerized Director's Correspondence system which handles over 2,000 documents per week.

• Establishing procedures for reducing the number of bulletins and circulars.

EXPECTED EMPHASES FOR 1984

In addition to continuing the support staff activities described above, workload emphases in 1984 will include:

– Improving coordination and management procedures throughout the Agency through the oversight of an Associate Director.

-Substantial emphasis on close coordination with House and Senate leadership and committees through a reorganized Legislative Affairs office.

- Coordinating legal advice on the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (P.L. 96–511), in addition to handling expanding legal workloads in all 1983 activities.

- Establishing enhanced computerized word processing capabilities within the agency to promote more efficient handling of text and text revisions, and to permit automated transmission and cross-sharing of data within the OMB Divisions.