§ 305. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE STATUS REPORTS.

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(a)For the purpose of this section, “agency” means an Executive agency, but does not include—

(1)a Government controlled corporation;

(2)the Tennessee Valley Authority;

(3)the Virgin Islands Corporation;

(4)the Atomic Energy Commission;

(5)the Central Intelligence Agency;

(6)the Panama Canal Commission; or

(7)the National Security Agency, Department of Defense.

(b)Under regulations prescribed and administered by the President, each agency shall review systematically the operations of each of its activities, functions, or organization units, on a continuing basis.

(c)The purpose of the reviews includes—

(1)determining the degree of efficiency and economy in the operation of the agency’s activities, functions, or organization units;

(2)identifying the units that are outstanding in those respects; and

(3)identifying the employees whose personal efforts have caused their units to be outstanding in efficiency and economy of operations.

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 380; Pub. L. 96–54, § 2(a)(2), Aug. 14, 1979, 93 Stat. 381; Pub. L. 96–70, title III, § 3302(e)(1), Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 498; Pub. L. 97–468, title VI, § 615(b)(1)(A), Jan. 14, 1983, 96 Stat. 2578.)

Subsection

(a)is based in part on former sections 1081 and 1082, which are carried into section 5102.

In subsection (a)(1), the exception of “a Government controlled corporation” is added to preserve the application of this section to “corporations wholly owned by the United States”. This is necessary as the defined term “Executive agency” includes the defined term “Government corporation” and the latter includes both Government owned and controlled corporations. Thus the exclusion of Government controlled corporations, which are distinct from wholly owned corporations, operates to preserve the application of this section to wholly owned corporations.

The exception for the Inland Waterways Corporation in former section 1082(13) is omitted on authority of the Act of July 19, 1963, Pub. L. 88–67, 77 Stat. 81. The exceptions for Production Credit Corporations and Federal Intermediate Credit Banks in former section 1082(18) and

(19)are omitted as they are no longer “corporations wholly owned by the United States”. Under the Farm Credit Act of 1956, 70 Stat. 659, the Production Credit Corporations were merged in the Federal Intermediate Credit Banks, and pursuant to that Act the Federal Intermediate Credit Banks have ceased to be corporations wholly owned by the United States.

In subsection (a)(7), the words “Panama Canal Company” are substituted for “Panama Railroad Company” on authority of the Act of Sept. 26, 1950, ch. 1049, § 2(a)(2), 64 Stat. 1038.

Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.