Improving Administrative Management in the Executive Branch

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Part VII

The President

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Executive Order 13048--Improving Administrative Management in the
Executive Branch

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Title 3--
The President

Executive Order 13048 of June 10, 1997

Improving Administrative Management in the
Executive Branch

Improvement of Government operations is a continuing
process that benefits from interagency activities. One
group dedicated to such activities is the President's
Council on Management Improvement (PCMI), established
by Executive Order 12479 in 1984, reestablished by
Executive Order 12816 in 1992. In the intervening
years, some activities of the PCMI have been assumed by
the President's Management Council, the Chief Financial
Officers Council, and the Chief Information Officers
Council. These organizations are also focussed on
improving agencies' use of quality management
principles. Other functions have been assigned to
individual agencies. Nonetheless, remaining
administrative management matters deserve attention
across agency lines.

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America and in order to improve agency administrative
and management practices throughout the executive
branch, I hereby direct the following:

Section 1. Interagency Council on Administrative
Management.

(a) Purpose and Membership. An Interagency Council
on Administrative Management (``Council'') is
established as an interagency coordination mechanism.
The Council shall be composed of the Deputy Director
for Management of the Office of Management and Budget,
who shall serve as Chair, and one senior administrative
management official from each of the following
agencies:
1. Department of State;
2. Department of the Treasury;
3. Department of Defense;
4. Department of Justice;
5. Department of the Interior;
6. Department of Agriculture;
7. Department of Commerce;
8. Department of Labor;
9. Department of Health and Human Services;
10. Department of Housing and Urban Development;
11. Department of Transportation;
12. Department of Energy;
13. Department of Education;
14. Department of Veterans Affairs;
15. Environmental Protection Agency;

16. Federal Emergency Management Agency;
17. Central Intelligence Agency;
18. Small Business Administration;
19. Department of the Army;
20. Department of the Navy;
21. Department of the Air Force;
22. National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
23. Agency for International Development;
24. General Services Administration;
25. National Science Foundation; and
26. Office of Personnel Management.

Department and agency heads shall advise the Chair of
their selections for membership on the Council. Council
membership shall also include representatives of the
Chief Financial Officers Council, the Chief Information
Officers Council, the Federal Procurement Council, the
Interagency Advisory Group of Federal Personnel
Directors, and the Small Agency Council, as well as at-
large members appointed by the Chair, as he deems
appropriate. The Chair shall invite representatives of
the Social Security Administration to participate in
the Council's work, as appropriate. The Council shall
select a Vice Chair from among the Council's
membership.

(b) The Council shall plan, promote, and recommend
improvements in Government administration and
operations and provide advice to the Chair on matters
pertaining to the administrative management of the
Federal Government. The Council shall:

(1) explore opportunities for more effective use of
Government resources;

(2) support activities and initiatives of the
President's Management Council, the Chief Financial
Officers Council, the Chief Information Officers
Council, the Federal Procurement Council, and the
Interagency Advisory Group of Federal Personnel
Directors designed to develop, review, revise, and
implement Governmentwide administrative management
policies; and

(3) identify successful administrative management
practices, including quality management practices, and
assist in their Governmentwide dissemination and
implementation.

Sec. 2. Responsibilities of the Chair. The Chair or, if
the Chair chooses, the Vice Chair shall:

(1) convene meetings of the Council;

(2) preside at formal council meetings;

(3) establish committees or working groups of the
Council, as necessary for efficient conduct of Council
functions; and

(4) appoint, to the extent permitted by law and
consistent with personnel practices, other full-time
officers or employees of the Federal Government to the
Council as at-large members for specific terms, not
exceeding 2 years, to provide expertise to the Council.

Sec. 3. Responsibilities of Agency Heads. To the extent
permitted by law, heads of departments or agencies
represented on the Council shall provide their
representatives with administrative support needed to
support Council activities.

Sec. 4. Judicial Review. This order is for the internal
management of the executive branch and does not create
any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable by a party against the United States, its
agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or
employees, or any other person.

Sec. 5. Revocation. Executive Order 12816 (creating the
President's Council on Management Improvement),
Executive Order 12552 (establishing the executive
branch productivity improvement program) and Executive
Order 12637 (revising the executive branch productivity
improvement program) are revoked.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

June 10, 1997.