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U.S. Department of Agriculture: Administrative Streamlining Is Expected to Continue Through 2002

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Dec. 11, 1998
Report No. RCED-99-34
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Summary:

From 1993 through 1998, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cut its departmentwide administrative staff for four functions--human resources, budgeting, accounting and auditing, and acquisition--by 15 percent, from 10,300 to an estimated 8,800. USDA estimates that the number of administrative staff will decrease by an additional 250 by the end of fiscal year 1999. As of November 1998, USDA had not yet begun to implement its plan to consolidate and streamline administrative functions at the state office level. USDA has no plans to develop performance measures to determine the economies and efficiencies realized as a result of its departmentwide streamlining actions. Without additional performance measures, such as those that examine the quality of service delivery, USDA will not know the extent to which it has achieved greater efficiency, effectiveness, and economy in its programs and activities.

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