PRESIDENT'S PRIVATE SECTOR SURVEY ON COST

CONTROL

REPORT OF GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

AND

Posle

1982 a

COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE

WILLIAM D. FORD, Michigan, Chairman MORRIS K. UDALL, Arizona

EDWARD J. DERWINSKI, Illinois WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY, Missouri

GENE TAYLOR, Missouri PATRICIA SCHROEDER, Colorado

BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York ROBERT GARCIA, New York

TOM CORCORAN, Illinois MICKEY LELAND, Texas

JAMES A. COURTER, New Jersey GERALDINE A. FERRARO, New York

CHARLES PASHAYAN, JR., California DONALD JOSEPH ALBOSTA, Michigan WILLIAM E. DANNEMEYER, California GUS YATRON, Pennsylvania

DANIEL B. CRANE, Illinois MARY ROSE OAKAR, Ohio

WAYNE GRISHAM, California CHARLES E. SCHUMER, New York

FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia
STENY H. HOYER, Maryland

WENDELL BAILEY, Missouri
RONALD V. DELLUMS, California
RON DE LUGO, Virgin Islands
GUS SAVAGE, Illinois
THOMAS A. DASCHLE, South Dakota

William B. WELSH, Staff Director

ROBERT E. LOCKHART, General Counsel
PATRICIA F. RISSLER, Deputy Staff Director and Chief Clerk

JOSEPH A. FISHER, Minority Staff Director

SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS

WILLIAM D. FORD, Michigan, Chairman WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY, Missouri

EDWARD J. DERWINSKI, Mlinois MORRIS K. UDALL, Arizona

CHARLES PASHAYAN, JR., California ROBERT GARCIA, New York

WAYNE GRISHAM, California
ADRIENNE FIELDS, Staff Director

CONTENTS

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Testimony of:

Felix E. Larkin, member, Executive Committee of the President's Private

Sector Survey on Cost Control, accompanied by J. P. Bolduc, Chief

Operating Officer of the survey.

Sy Pranger, Project Manager, Personnel Task Force, President's Private

Sector Survey on Cost Control .....

Rosslyn S. Kleeman, Associate Director, Federal Personnel and Compen-

sation Division, General Accounting Office ...

Irving P. Margulies, Deputy General Counsel, Department of Commerce...

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Material compiled by the subcommittee for the record:

Transcript of President Reagan's Press Conference..

Executive Order 12369 creating the President's Private Sector Survey on

Cost Control in the Federal Government

White House Fact Sheet on the PPSSCC

U.S. Department of Commerce charter.

U.S. Department of Commerce agreement..

Bylaws of Foundation for the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost

Control, Inc.....

Letter of September 23, 1982, transmitting list of Executive Committee

members ......

Letter of October 1, 1982, from the President's Private Sector Survey on

Cost Control regarding the survey's "mandate"

Letter from the survey transmitting balance sheet and income statement

for the Foundation for the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost

Control, Inc......

Draft of the fundraising letter for the Foundation for the President's

Private Sector Survey

Letter from committee requesting survey workplans.

Letter from survey transmitting task force workplans

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General Accounting Office material submitted to the committee:

General Accounting Office report on the President's Private Sector

Survey on Cost Control, documents and charts.............

List of contributors by August 18, 1982......

Balance sheet-July 31, 1982 ..

Survey budget-July 31, 1982.

IRS determination on the Foundation's tax status, April 15, 1982..

Foundation's Articles of Incorporation....

OMB Circular A-63, Advisory Committee Management..

Commerce Committee Management Handbook

18 U.S.C. 201-209......

Executive Order 11222.....

Office of Government Ethics memo on advisory committees and con-

flict of interest, July 9, 1982...

Memo from Fred Fielding (White House Counsel) to Executive Com-

mittee members on personal data statements

Personnel data base sheet which task force members submit....

Memo from Fred Fielding to Executive Committee members on con-

flict of interest with Commerce's Standards of Conduct attached,

June 14, 1982

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