8 understanding of the causes of water quality conditions and provide consistent information about water quality for Federal, state, and local managers. Overall, other research of the Survey has a lower priority, resulting in a net decrease of $23 million in 1989. Receipts for Sport Fish and Wildlife Restoration: For 1989, receipts from taxes authorized for the Sport Fish Restoration program of the Fish and Wildlife Service are estimated to continue to increase sharply to $195 million, an increase of $34 million over the 1988 level of $161 million, and most significantly, an increase of $157 million over the 1985 level of $38 million. For the Service's Wildlife Restoration program, receipts from taxes for 1989 are estimated to be $119 million, an increase of $4 million above the 1988 level of $115 million, and an increase of $33 million above the 1985 level of $86 million. Sharing of Net Receipts: State shares of onshore mineral leasing revenues (generally 50 percent; Alaska 90 percent) and Western Oregon timber receipts are currently computed on a gross basis, without taking into account the costs of obtaining and distributing these receipts. These administrative costs are now borne entirely by the Federal Government. In keeping with the 1988 Budget Summit Agreement, the 1989 budget does not propose to change this method of distributing receipts; however, the budget assumes that beginning in 1990, Federal costs of managing and administering onshore mineral leasing and Western Oregon forest management will be deducted from total revenues and that receipts will be shared based on the resulting net amount. Safety of Dams: The 1989 budget continues to emphasize Department-wide priorities that address the most critical needs for improving the safety of dams on Interior lands. The 1989 request includes $85 million for the Bureau of Reclamation, the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This is a reduction of $11 million below the 1988 level, primarily because of the completion of the most costly aspects of work on two Bureau of Reclamation dams (Fontenelle and Jackson Lake) in 1988. Compact of Free Association Implementation: The 1989 budget reflects continued implementation of the Compact of Free Association. Implementation of the Compact for the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) began during 1987, and Compact implementation for the Republic of Palau is expected during 1988. The 1989 budget includes $34.9 million for continuation of certain mandated Federal programs and services for the Marshall Islands, FSM, and Palau, an increase of $1.3 million above the 1988 estimate. All other Compact funding was permanently appropriated in 1986. In 1989, permanent appropriations for the Compact will decrease as scheduled by $146.9 million, from $291.1 million in 1988 to $144.2 million. Payments in 1988 were considerably higher than proposed for 1989 because of up-front funding of $84 million in investment development funds for the Marshalls, FSM, and Palau, along with certain one-time grant payments for Palau. Klamath River Basin Restoration: The 1989 budget includes a $1 million increase for the Fish and Wildlife Service for the Klamath River Basin Restoration program for initial program development, studies, and ineaan of and fanagement Recreation ind "alturai ASOURCE9: The 1989 100 he request it :24. D -angers :rovides a 388 for is weil is "roviding :dditional nopetal recreation areas. DT 389 acijde continued. irens. ИСП 15 the Your Corners - pa je -- JAN AQOMEnt s'orities 1anagement .mprovements the Jayawi mant 146 sare ed sat and is retively wrsuing a wide range of all go to at mad at moriseing the off cience in affeesiveness of ts sonid like to summarize some of -haga Zinancial integration Review for fanagement. The maget for the plementation atagrat on Raid for tenagement Rit: watem. This jeon de satram reconnt ng tata má nanagement information. uma Summary mas les mated as the Jepartments Lead agency for tha areata tion and implementation 16 a single mistrative accounting སྲོལ་༼ལོ༣བྲིས། ། བྷོར་ལོ་སྡོ on ༨ཕ ཞོ Jaring 1988, the jurvey and the „atar:or vreaus [my) amant de ing 19 The 100 operam for these two mureaus is scheduled for མི ༧ ༧,, ཤཝཾ 033 The following addicional mureaus #ill be brought into the 120 and have included funds for this purpose in their Buran st and Management 11.3 milion. F.sh and A. 14a Barrica (30.5 million), National Park Service 11 5 anllion, and Bramy of Minee (30.5 million, in addition, the bureau of Indian Affaire new facindad ĝi million to initiate conversion activities in 1939 office of Construction Management: Following the lead of this Sincommi***a, an emphasis on improved management of the Bureau of Indian Aftatem facilities program will continue in 1989. The Office of boner pantion Managemant (00M), with a budget of $1.8 million in 1989, bas 10 developed a plan to address five key Congressional concerns with the facilities program. First, efforts are now underway to increase obligation and procurement rates in the facilities improvement and repair program through improved planning procedures, cost estimating, and monitoring. Second, plans to reduce excess space in the Bureau's facilities will be pursued through cooperative efforts of program managers and property management staff. Third, a final draft of Comprehensive Education Plan is scheduled for tribal and Congressional review this year. Fourth, during 1988, OCM will implement a reorganization of the Bureau's Office of Facilities Management in order to gain more efficient and responsive management. Finally, a formula is being developed to allocate Bureau operations and maintenance funds which considers actual utilization and is based on educational and financial data. Productivity Enhancement Funding: The Department has initiated a program to finance innovative, low-cost, high-payback projects to improve the efficiency, quality, and timeliness of operations The first request for proposals resulted in more than 140 submissions, 21 of which have been approved. These projects involve employee-developed innovations which will save $11 million over the next three years, for an average up-front investment of less than $40 thousand project. The 1989 budget proposes $500 thousand for a Departmental fund to match bureau investments in new projects. This will double the capacity of this year's program and provide a greater incentive to increase participation. Reducing Overtime Costs: The Department recently launched an effort to reduce overtime costs that began with a detailed analysis of overtime expenditures totalling about $52 million each year. Of this total, approximately $10 million was for fire suppression, which is an uncontrollable overtime expenditure. Following the analysis, the Department developed overtime goals and increased monitoring of overtime expenditures. As a result, the Department reduced overtime by $4.1 million in the first year of the program, even with a $3 million increase in overtime for fire suppression. Without the fire suppression increase, the Department's reduction would have been more than $7 million. Better Management of Workers' Compensation Costs: Workers' Compensation costs the Department about $25 million each year. The Department recently initiated efforts to control and reduce these costs. A rehabilitation/rehire program has been pilot-tested and will require a restructuring of jobs to match the available skills of people injured on the job with work they can do in order to provide them meaningful employment. This will return people who want to work to the Department's rolls and is expected to save between $1 and $2 million annually in these costs. Unemployment Compensation: During 1985, the Department became aware that more effective management of its unemployment compensation process was necessary. After an analysis of the process and the evaluation of the alternatives to improve that management, it was decided to utilize the services of an existing contract awarded by the Department of Agriculture. Utilizing this contract allowed Interior to move quickly DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1989 SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS D. NEAL SIGmon, Kathleen R. JOHNSON, JOCELYN HUNN, and ROBERT S. KRIPOWICZ, Staff Assistants PART 9 Secretary of the Interior Office of Surface Mining Bureau of Mines Minerals Management Service Office of the Secretary Office of the Solicitor Office of the Inspector General United States Geological Survey Office of Territorial and International Affairs Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations 84-150 O U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office Page 1 165 291 427 685 785 819 839 995 |