The Clinton Administration's fiscal 1998 budget proposal will call for restructuring up to nine federal agencies, The Washington Post reported yesterday.
The request, said two Clinton Administration officials who spoke to the Post on the condition they not be identified, will be similar to the one the President submitted last year urging the creation of "performance-based organizations."
Agencies designated to be PBOs would be freed from a variety of civil service and procurement regulations. They would hire chief executives on fixed-term contracts, and the executives' pay would be tied to the organizations' performance.
On the campaign trail last fall, President Clinton and Vice President Gore said PBOs would be the centerpiece of the reinventing government effort in the second Clinton term.
According to The Blair House Papers, the Administration's new guide to reinvention, the nine candidates featured in the proposed fiscal 1998 budget are the National Technical Information Service, the Patent and Trademark Office, the St. Lawrence Seaway Corporation, the Government National Mortgage Association, the Federal Housing Administration, the Federal Retirement and Insurance Service, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the U.S. Mint, and the Defense Commissary Agency.
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