United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1998-04-30 monographic deposited born digital 21 p. GA 1.13:RCED-98-138 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-138 P0b002ee180386424 f:rc98138 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-138 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-138 RCED-98-138 Federal agency reorganization Cost control Federal downsizing Reductions in force Projections Cost analysis Letter Report RCED Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the results of two of the Department of Transportation's (DOT) streamlining efforts--the field office Colocation Task Force and the Federal Highway Administration's (FHwA) Organization Structure Task Force.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) DOT's colocation effort will not result in the substantial restructuring of its field offices; (2) the 21-month colocation effort narrowly focused on developing an inventory of DOT's office space in the field and identifying opportunities for DOT's field offices to share space; (3) few colocations have occurred as a result of the colocation effort, and additional colocations will take years to accomplish; (4) morever, colocating offices will likely result in limited short-term dollar savings, if any; (5) FHwA's proposal to restructure its nine regional offices into four resource centers does not identify any long-term budgetary savings, and estimates are that in the short-term, the proposal might cost the agency more than $10 million to implement; (6) in addition, the proposal leaves many unanswered questions about the differences between the roles and responsibilities of current regional offices and the roles and responsibilities of the four new resource centers; (7) for example, the agency's report notes that most of the regional offices' responsibilities can be delegated to the agency's 52 division offices; (8) however, the agency envisions that the new resource centers will provide training, technical assistance, and supervision similar to that which the current regional offices provide; and (9) in addition, the agency will not complete the details on its restructuring efforts until June 1998 and projects that these efforts will take 3 to 5 years to complete. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-138/html/GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-138.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-138/pdf/GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-138.pdf GAO/RCED-98-138 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-98-138 Letter Report GAO/RCED-98-138; DOT's Restructuring: Limited Progress in Streamlining Field Office Structure; Federal agency reorganization Cost control Federal downsizing Reductions in force Projections Cost analysis