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Corporate Creators:
United States General Accounting Office
Subject/TRT Terms:
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Budgeting Federal Government Federal Government Agencies Organizational Planning Organizations Reorganization Restructuring
Publication/ Report Number:
GAO/RCED-98-138
Resource Type:
Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:
United States
TRIS Online Accession Number:
00761125
Corporate Publisher:
United States. General Accounting Office
Abstract:
The report characterizes two ongoing efforts in the Department involving our analysis of opportunities to collocate field offices on an intermodal basis, and FHWA's examination of its regional office structure. Although many aspects of our efforts are accurately portrayed in the draft, we have several significant issues for consideration in preparing the final report. In particular the report could better recognize that the driving force behind both the collocation effort and FHWA's intermediate field structure reorganization was to improve program delivery and customer service and to streamline field organization, and was not exclusively limited to short term budget savings. While cost reduction was not a primary consideration in these efforts, economies may be achieved as a result of both efforts. In particular, FHWA cost analyses indicate that long term savings can be realized. Finally, expectations regarding the scale of any further space reductions need to be tempered by understanding that the Department has already reduced staffing commensurate with National Performance for Review (NPR) goals, and has reached an overall staffing level it considers appropriate for providing high quality customer service.
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PDF
Collection(s):
US Transportation Collection
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:162d869fcc4eef24e52835d710c83ae34b01d3c5967e63e4a756e570cc73f24c
Download URL:
https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/13482/dot_13482_DS1.pdf
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