Office of Management and Budget
Executive orders directing the Office of Management and Budget · 29 in Reagan · 483 all terms.
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29 shown · Reagan
Implementing the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 and Related International Trade Matters
This executive order delegates presidential authorities under the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to various cabinet officials and agencies, establishes sanctions against Toshiba and Kongsberg for illegal technology transfers, creates an Interagency Group on Countertrade and a National Commission on Superconductivity, and mandates a report on semiconductors, fiber optics, and superconducting materials for the FY1990 budget.
Delegating authority to provide assistance for the Nicaraguan Resistance
This executive order delegates presidential authorities to executive branch officials regarding the transfer of unobligated defense funds to support the Nicaraguan Resistance (Contras). It authorizes the Secretary of Defense to designate and transfer funds, in consultation with USAID's Administrator, and gives OMB's Director authority to approve personnel details to USAID.
The President's Committee on Employment of People With Disabilities
This executive order establishes the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, replacing a 1969 predecessor committee. It creates a three-tier advisory structure (Committee, Executive Committee, and Advisory Council) to advise the President on maximizing employment opportunities for people with physical disabilities, mental retardation, and mental illness.
Productivity improvement program for the Federal Government
This executive order establishes a government-wide program requiring all executive departments and agencies to improve productivity by 3 percent annually in functions that provide services to the public, with full coverage required by 1991. Agencies must submit annual productivity plans to OMB, include quality and timeliness goals in manager performance appraisals, and report progress through a structured review process.
Governmental actions and interference with constitutionally protected property rights
This executive order requires federal agencies to evaluate whether their regulatory and administrative actions could constitute a "taking" of private property under the Fifth Amendment's Just Compensation Clause. It mandates new review procedures, establishes guidelines for assessing takings risks, and requires reporting of past and pending compensation claims to improve fiscal accountability.
Integrity and Efficiency in Federal Programs
This executive order establishes the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency as an interagency committee to coordinate government-wide efforts against fraud, waste, and abuse in federal programs. It also creates a Coordinating Conference to extend these efforts to additional agencies with audit and investigative resources, while revoking the previous EO 12301 from 1981.
Federalism
This executive order establishes internal executive branch guidance to limit federal overreach and protect state authority under federalism principles. It requires agencies to assess policies for federalism implications, restricts preemption of state law, and mandates consultation with states before imposing national standards.
The Family
This executive order requires federal agencies to assess policies and regulations for their impact on family stability, parental authority, and family finances using seven specified criteria. It establishes a reporting and coordination structure through OMB and the Office of Policy Development, with mandatory written certifications for proposals affecting families.
Coordination of economic policies for Sub-Saharan Africa
This 1987 executive order creates an interagency Coordinating Committee for Sub-Saharan Africa, chaired by USAID and co-chaired by Treasury, to align U.S. economic programs and policies toward ending hunger in the region through economic growth, policy reform, and private sector development. The Committee coordinates aid, food assistance, business outreach, and a unified congressional budget justification, while State and Treasury jointly submit an annual report to the President on regional progress.
National Drug Policy Board
This executive order establishes the National Drug Policy Board, chaired by the Attorney General with the Secretary of Health and Human Services as Vice Chairman, to coordinate all federal drug abuse policy functions across executive departments. It creates two coordinating groups for enforcement and prevention/health, and consolidates duties previously held by the National Drug Enforcement Policy Board.
Superfund Implementation
This executive order delegates presidential authorities under the Superfund law (CERCLA and SARA) to specific federal agencies, establishing the National Response Team structure with EPA and Coast Guard leadership, and assigning responsibilities for hazardous waste cleanup, enforcement, liability, litigation, and Superfund budget management across the executive branch.
Management of the Compact of Free Association With the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau
This executive order establishes the U.S. government structure for managing relations with the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau under the Compact of Free Association. It assigns primary diplomatic responsibility to the Secretary of State, economic and financial assistance coordination to the Secretary of the Interior, creates an Interagency Group and Office of Freely Associated State Affairs, and delegates specific congressional reporting and oversight authorities.
Debarment and Suspension
This executive order establishes a government-wide system to debar and suspend participants from federal assistance programs due to fraud, waste, or abuse. It requires agencies to share exclusion information, follow uniform criteria and due process procedures, and creates an Interagency Committee and lead agency to maintain a centralized list of excluded parties.
Federal Real Property Management
This executive order establishes a government-wide framework for federal real property management, designating the Domestic Policy Council as the policy approval forum and assigning oversight roles to OMB and GSA. It requires all executive agencies to develop annual improvement plans for their real property holdings and directs Agriculture and Interior to improve management of public lands and National Forest System lands.
Conversion of appointments
This executive order allows certain Office of Management and Budget employees serving under Schedule A appointments in paperwork reduction and regulatory review positions to convert to career or career-conditional civil service status by April 1, 1985, if they meet service, performance, and qualification requirements. Employees who are not converted must be separated when their current appointment expires.
Protection of semiconductor chip products
This executive order establishes the procedural channel for extending U.S. semiconductor chip design protections to foreign entities under the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984. It directs that requests for presidential proclamations must flow through the Secretary of Commerce, who will issue implementing regulations after consulting the Secretary of State.
Regulatory planning process
This executive order establishes an annual regulatory planning process requiring executive agencies to submit draft regulatory programs to OMB, which then reviews, compiles, and publishes a unified Administration Regulatory Program. It centralizes presidential oversight of rulemaking, mandates consistency with administration priorities, and creates mechanisms to block or return regulatory actions that deviate from the published plan.
Management Reform in the Federal Government
This executive order creates the President's Council on Management Improvement, an interagency body chaired by OMB's Deputy Director to develop and oversee government-wide management reforms, formulate long-range plans, identify cross-cutting agency improvements, and resolve interagency management problems. The Council includes senior administration officials from 22 agencies and offices but is explicitly prohibited from interfering with existing lines of authority.
Assignment of national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications functions
This executive order establishes the National Communications System (NCS) to coordinate federal national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications. It assigns specific responsibilities to the Secretary of Defense as Executive Agent, creates a Committee of Principals from key federal agencies, and designates roles for the National Security Council, OSTP, OMB, and other departments in wartime and non-wartime emergency communications planning.
Reports on international organizations
This executive order delegates presidential reporting functions on U.S. contributions to international organizations to the Secretary of State. It also requires the OMB Director to share agency reports with State and delegates additional State Department authorization act functions.
Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs
This executive order establishes a framework for state and local governments to review and coordinate proposed federal financial assistance and direct federal development. It requires federal agencies to consult with affected state and local elected officials, utilize state-developed review processes, and replace previous OMB Circular A-95 procedures with new implementing regulations.
Multinational Force and Observers reports
This executive order delegates to the Secretary of State the President's reporting function under the Multinational Force and Observers Participation Resolution, and requires interagency consultation with OMB, Defense, Arms Control, National Security Advisor, and other agencies as appropriate.
Federal procurement reforms
This 1982 executive order directs federal agencies to reform procurement practices by reducing administrative burdens, strengthening competition, simplifying small purchases, ensuring timely contractor payments, and creating professional procurement workforces. It mandates completion of a unified Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) by year-end 1982 and assigns coordination roles to OMB, OPM, and the Defense/GSA/NASA triumvirate.
Water resources projects
This executive order requires all federal agencies to submit water resources project reports, proposals, and plans to the OMB Director before sending them to Congress. The OMB Director must review them for consistency with presidential policy, planning guidelines, and applicable laws, and agencies must include OMB's advice when submitting materials to Congress. It also revokes the previous executive order on this topic (EO 12113).
River Basin Commissions
This executive order terminates six river basin commissions established under the Water Resources Planning Act, with five closing on September 30, 1981 and the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission closing on December 31, 1981. It directs federal agencies to cooperate in orderly transitions to member states, transfers federal assets to states with OMB approval, and revokes the original executive orders establishing each commission.
Statistical policy functions
This executive order transfers statistical policy functions from the Secretary of Commerce to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, with further redelegation to the Administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. It revokes Executive Order 12013, transfers related records, property, personnel, and funds, and preserves existing rules until modified under the new authority structure.
President's Economic Policy Advisory Board
President Reagan established the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board as a Federal Advisory Committee Act-compliant body to advise on domestic and international economic policy. The Board works with the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs, operates without member compensation, and was originally set to terminate on December 31, 1982.
The Foreign Service of the United States
This executive order delegates presidential authority under the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to the Secretary of State, establishes pay grades for the Senior Foreign Service, creates two boards (Board of Examiners and Board of the Foreign Service), and sets procedures for interagency coordination on personnel matters and retirement system alignment.
Federal Regulation
This executive order establishes a centralized regulatory review process requiring federal agencies to conduct cost-benefit analyses for major regulations and submit them to the Office of Management and Budget for review before publication. It creates the framework for presidential oversight of rulemaking that would influence regulatory policy for decades.