Making Further Continuing Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2003, and for Other Purposes
Title | Making Further Continuing Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2003, and for Other Purposes PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
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Pages | 1512 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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House Report 108-10. Also known as: Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003. 108th Congress, 1st Session.
MAKING FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2003, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES... REPORT 108-10... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES... 10
Title | MAKING FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2003, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES... REPORT 108-10... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES... 10 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House |
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Release | 2003* |
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Making Further Continuing Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2003, and for Other Purposes: Conference Report to Accompany H.J. Res. 2, February 13 (Legislative Day February 12), 2003
Title | Making Further Continuing Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2003, and for Other Purposes: Conference Report to Accompany H.J. Res. 2, February 13 (Legislative Day February 12), 2003 PDF eBook |
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Publisher | Government Printing Office |
Pages | 1512 |
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Calendars of the United States House of Representatives and History of Legislation
Title | Calendars of the United States House of Representatives and History of Legislation PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House |
Publisher | |
Pages | 608 |
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Genre | Legislative calendars |
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Title | Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1884 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Legislation |
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Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Federal-aid Highways
Title | Federal-aid Highways PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Government Accountability Office |
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Pages | 60 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Federal aid to transportation |
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The federal-aid highway program provides over $25 billion a year to states for highway and bridge projects, often paying 80 percent of these projects' costs. The federal government provides funding for and oversees this program, while states largely choose and manage the projects. Ensuring that states effectively control the cost and schedule performance of these projects is essential to ensuring that federal funds are used efficiently. We reviewed the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) approach to improving its federal-aid highway project oversight efforts since we last reported on it in 2002, including (1) FHWA's oversight-related goals and performance measures, (2) FHWA's oversight improvement activities, (3) challenges FHWA faces in improving project oversight, and (4) best practices for project oversight. FHWA has made progress in improving its oversight efforts since 2002, but it lacks a comprehensive approach, including goals and measures that guide its activities; workforce plans that support these goals and measures; and data collection and analysis efforts that help identify problems and transfer lessons learned. FHWA's 2004 performance plan established, for the first time, performance goals and outcome measures to limit cost growth and schedule slippage on projects, but these goals and measures have not been effectively implemented because FHWA has not linked its day-to-day activities or the expectations set for its staff to them, nor is FHWA fully using them to identify problems and target its oversight. FHWA undertook activities in response to concerns raised about the adequacy of its oversight efforts that have both promising elements and limitations. For example, while FHWA now assigns a project oversight manager to each major project (generally projects costing $1 billion or more) and identified skills these managers should possess, it has not yet defined the role of these managers or established agencywide performance expectations for them. While FHWA issued guidance to improve cost estimating and began collecting information on cost increases, it still does not have the capability to track and measure cost growth on projects. Finally, although FHWA received direction to develop a more multidisciplinary workforce to conduct oversight, it has not fully incorporated this direction into its recruiting and training efforts. FHWA faces challenges to improving its oversight that are in large part rooted in the structure of the federal-aid highway program and in FHWA's organization and culture. As such, they may be difficult to surmount. For example, because the program does not link funding to states with the accomplishment of performance goals and outcome measures, it may be difficult for FHWA to define the role and purpose of its oversight. Also, FHWA's decentralized organization makes it difficult to achieve a consistent organizational vision. Human capital challenges affecting much of the federal government have affected FHWA, particularly in its need to transform its workforce to meet its evolving oversight mission. FHWA faces an increased oversight workload in the years ahead as the number of major projects grows and if provisions Congress is considering to increase FHWA's responsibilities become law. Questions exist about FHWA's ability to effectively absorb these new responsibilities, overcome underlying challenges, and improve its oversight. We identified selected best practices that could help FHWA develop a framework for a comprehensive approach to project oversight. These include establishing measurable goals to objectively and quantifiably assess progress, making oversight managers accountable for the effective implementation of these goals, providing professional training, and collecting and transferring lessons learned.
House Reports
Title | House Reports PDF eBook |
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Publisher | Government Printing Office |
Pages | 1634 |
Release | 1924 |
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