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November 17, 2000
DO-00-043
MEMORANDUM
TO: Designated Agency Ethics Officials, General Counsels
and Inspectors General
FROM: Amy L. Comstock
Director
SUBJECT: Program Plan of Agency Reviews for Calendar Year 2001
Attached for your information is the program plan of agency
ethics reviews scheduled by the Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
for calendar year 2001. This is to inform you of our schedule for
the year and to allow you time to make revisions to your program as
may be necessary. There will also be an opportunity for you to
meet with OGE staff to discuss our program review objectives and
procedures.
We are sensitive to your increased workload during the coming
transition year. We have scheduled military units and agencies
with fewer political appointees in the first half of the year,
leaving most departmental reviews for the second half. The
Designated Agency Ethics Official (DAEO) will be contacted by phone
approximately one month prior to our entrance into the agency. If
our review would unduly disrupt your transition workload, please
call Ed Pratt, Chief, Program Review Division, at 202-208-8000,
extension 1115, to discuss rescheduling.
We will attempt as much as possible to follow the schedule set
forth in the attachment. However, as past experience has shown,
the schedule may change due to complex issues that occur during
reviews, transition workload, or other priority work within OGE.
If reviews from the first quarter are rescheduled, we may pull
agencies from later quarters and review them earlier. Certain
reviews that were not completed last year are included for review
early in 2001.
To assist those of you who wish to become more familiar with
our program review procedures, our analysts will hold two brown-bag
luncheons to discuss procedures and answer any of your questions.
If you are interested in attending one of these luncheons on either
Wednesday, January 10, or Thursday, February 1, 2001, please call
Ilene Cranisky on 202-208-8000, extension 1218. Attendance is open
to all agencies, whether or not the agency is scheduled for review
in 2001.
One element we will be examining this year is whether all
public financial disclosure reports for Presidential appointees
have been filed, reviewed and certified, and where applicable, have
been transmitted to OGE. This will include past annual and
termination reports filed in the prior year (2000), as well as
reports for new officials. We also will examine whether new
Presidential appointees have received their initial ethics
training.
Our usual practice, once a review has been completed, is to
send a report to the DAEO with recommendations for improving the
program. We ask that the DAEO respond to our recommendations
within 60 days as to the actions he/she has taken or plans to take.
We do not send our reports to the Congress, but occasionally a
Congressional committee will request a report of an agency under
its jurisdiction. These requests are granted and the agency DAEO
is informed that we have received such a request.
We do not send copies of our reports to the news media, nor
issue press releases concerning the reports. Periodically, we do
release reports to the news media in response to Freedom of
Information Act requests.
We are continuing our program review evaluation form for you
to complete after you receive the report. We ask that you take a
few moments to provide us with feedback on the usefulness of our
reviews and reports, and identify areas for improvement. Thank you
for all the comments you gave us this past year; they have been
extremely useful in modifying our review techniques.
We hope that this answers some of your questions concerning
our program review process. Should you have any other questions,
please call Jack Covaleski, Senior Associate Director for Agency
Programs, at 202-208-8000, extension 1120.
Attachment
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OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS
CALENDAR YEAR 2001
PROGRAM PLAN OF AGENCY REVIEWS
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PROGRAM REVIEW SCHEDULE
JANUARY - MARCH 2001
1. Appalachian Regional Commission
2. U.S. Army - Aberdeen Proving Ground (MD)
Test and Evaluation Command
Chemical and Biological Defense Command
Garrison
3. Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)
4. U.S. Army - Fort Irwin (CA)
National Training Center
Garrison
5. Robins Air Force Base (GA)
Air Force Reserve Command
Air Logistics Center
6. Social Security Administration
7. National Security Agency/Central Security Service
8. McGuire Air Force Base (NJ)
305th Air Mobility Wing
Air Mobility Warfare Center
21st Air Force
9. Federal Emergency Management Agency
10. Department of the Navy Activities (Jacksonville, FL)
Navy Public Works Center
Fleet Industrial Supply Center
Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair
Naval Region Southeast
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PROGRAM REVIEW SCHEDULE
APRIL - JUNE 2001
1. Federal Housing Finance Board
2. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
3. Department of the Navy Activities (WA)
Naval Submarine Base Seattle (Bangor)
Naval Engineering Field Activity Northwest (Poulsbo)
Fleet Industrial Supply Center (Bremerton)
4. Trade and Development Agency
5. Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AZ)
355th Wing
12th Air Force Headquarters
Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)
6. Commission of Fine Arts
7. Federal Trade Commission
8. Inter-American Foundation
9. American Forces Information Service (AFIS)
10. Kelly Air Force Base (TX)
Air Force News Agency
San Antonio Air Logistics Center
Air Intelligence Agency
Joint Electronic Warfare Center
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PROGRAM REVIEW SCHEDULE
JULY - SEPTEMBER 2001
1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Commerce)
2. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Secretary
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Food and Nutrition Service
Agricultural Research Service
U.S. Forest Service
3. Consumer Product Safety Commission
4. Department of the Army
Office of the Secretary
Office of the Chief of Staff
U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Command
5. Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (AZ)
6. Department of the Air Force
Office of the Secretary
Air Staff
Air Force District of Washington
7. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
8. African Development Foundation
9. Department of the Treasury
Office of the Secretary
U.S. Mint
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
Financial Management Service
10. Patent and Trademark Office (Commerce)
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PROGRAM REVIEW SCHEDULE
OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2001
1. Department of the Navy
Office of the Secretary
Naval District of Washington
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Naval Facilities Engineering Command
Strategic Systems Program Office
2. Department of Defense
Office of the Secretary
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense Science Board
Office of Inspector General
3. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
4. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
5. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Labor)
6. Federal Election Commission
7. Defense Intelligence Agency
8. Bureau of Prisons (Justice)
9. National Institute of Standards and Technology (Commerce)
10. Department of Transportation
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Federal Railroad Administration
Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
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SPECIAL PROJECTS
1. Review of agency use of 18 U.S.C. § 208(b)(1) and (b)(3)
waivers, and the consultation process with OGE.
This review will be an overall assessment of the waiver
process, including OGE's role. We will examine criteria for,
and agency concerns with, the issuance of waivers. We will
examine unique problems agencies encounter when issuing
waivers for advisory committee members. While we will review
some waivers, this is not an attempt to determine the
appropriateness of agency waivers, but an in-depth look at the
process and how it can be improved.
2. Review of ethics issues surrounding the 2001 transition
process.
In this review we want to interview ethics officials to
determine what unique issues they faced during the transition
process and how the process may be improved. This will
include not only the nominee financial disclosure process, but
also the collection of termination reports from the outgoing
administration, the initial ethics training of new
Presidential appointees, and other issues.