OMB Director
Executive orders directing the OMB Director · 17 in Reagan · 112 all terms.
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17 shown · Reagan
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.