[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 6 (Monday, February 15, 1993)]
[Pages 165-166]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12837--Deficit Control and Productivity Improvement in 
the Administration of the Federal Government

 February 10, 1993

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the Budget and 
Accounting Act of 1921, as amended (31 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.), and section 
301 of title 3, United States Code, and in order to assist in the 
control of the Federal deficit and improve the administrative 
productivity of the Federal Government, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. All executive departments and agencies shall include a 
separate category for ``administrative expenses'' when submitting their 
appropriation requests to the Office of

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Management and Budget (OMB) for fiscal years 1994 through 1997. The 
Director of OMB (Director), in consultation with the agencies, shall 
establish and revise as necessary a definition of administrative 
expenses for the agencies. All questions regarding the definition of 
administrative expenses shall be resolved by the Director.
    Sec. 2. The purpose of this order is to achieve real reductions in 
the administrative costs of Federal agencies. In order to accomplish 
that goal, agencies shall submit budgets that reflect the following 
reductions from the fiscal year 1993 baseline:
    (a) For fiscal year 1994, all agencies shall submit budget requests 
that reflect no less than a 3 percent reduction in administrative 
expenses from the amount made available for fiscal year 1993 adjusted 
for inflation;
    (b) For fiscal year 1995, all agencies shall submit budget requests 
that reflect no less than a 6 percent reduction in administrative 
expenses from the amounts made available for fiscal year 1993 adjusted 
for inflation;
    (c) For fiscal year 1996, all agencies shall submit budget requests 
that reflect no less than a 9 percent reduction in administrative 
expenses from the amounts made available for fiscal year 1993 adjusted 
for inflation;
    (d) For fiscal year 1997, all agencies shall submit budget requests 
that reflect no less than a 14 percent reduction in administrative 
expenses from the amounts made available for fiscal year 1993 adjusted 
for inflation.
    Sec. 3. The Director shall review agency requests for administrative 
expenses. The Director shall ensure that all agency requests for such 
expenses are reduced in accordance with section 2. To the extent that 
any agency fails to comply with the mandates of section 2, the Director 
is authorized to reduce the request for administrative expenses in that 
agency's budget to achieve the appropriate reduction.
    Sec. 4. All independent regulatory commissions and agencies are 
requested to comply with the provisions of this order.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
February 10, 1993.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:33 p.m., February 10, 
1993]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
February 12.