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3 Actions Under Way to Mitigate Burdensome Practices
3 Actions Under Way to Mitigate Burdensome Practices
Pages 19-26
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and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) headquarters, the DOE Inspector General, DOE's Office of Enterprise Assessment, NNSA field offices, program offices at NNSA and in other federal agencies, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Government Accountability Office (GAO)
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. That SEAB Task Force report flagged seven oversight processes as unnecessarily burdensome: processes to approve contractors' employee compensation plans, labor negotiations, benefits packages, pension contributions, engagement of outside legal counsel, and conference participation and processes for reviewing large requests for quotations and contract awards.
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. That report notes an indicator of the needed change would be when "internal management reforms have substantially reduced excessively burdensome budgeting detail and transactional oversight, and have led to substantial staff realignments and a performance-based approach; a federal staff right-sizing plan is in place and being executed" (p.
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Ongoing work to establish an enterprise risk management culture within DOE may help in this regard. The following recommendations address the theme of mitigating burdensome practices: Augustine-Mies Recommendation 16.1: The Secretary and Director should direct a reduction in the number of audits, inspections, and formal data calls, and better synchronize those that remain.
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to identify those Safety Management Programs (SMP) and security reviews that will be performed each fiscal year … a consolidated schedule across all field offices and with resources assigned based on expertise and functional area." 19 DOE, 2016, Governance and Management, pp.
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To address the burden from excessive specific management processes identified by the SEAB Task Force, the implementation plan describes how those practices have been, or are being, revised. 24,25 21 DOE, 2016, Governance and Management.
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Several senior NNSA officials interviewed by the panel believe that the number of unauthorized data calls declined noticeably following an August 2016 memo from William (Ike) White, NNSA Chief of Staff and Associate Principal Deputy Administrator, which clarified limits on such calls.
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The NNSA Administrator should develop and promulgate criteria to help the nuclear security enterprise understand when a process is adding burden that is not commensurate with its value and establish feedback loops so that burdensome practices are recognized. The nuclear security enterprise can then more rationally determine which practices to re-engineer through working groups that bring together the affected parties.
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