Assess whether to delay a rule or publish with a weaker RIA after a grant

SITUATION A department writing an RIA under a tight clock has performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems in hand following a grant condition OIG says was never monitored. Performance-management analyst must determine whether to delay a rule or publish with a weaker RIA for this Government Budget and Performance file.

DECISION Performance-management analyst in a department writing an RIA under a tight clock must choose To delay a rule / Publish with a weaker RIA using performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems after a grant condition OIG says was never monitored.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. A grant condition OIG says was never monitored is noise around an already-controlled Budget and Performance process in a department writing an RIA under a tight clock, given performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems. 2. A grant condition OIG says was never monitored is the event in performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems that forces To delay a rule for performance-management analyst under Government. 3. Performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems shows a one-file miss after a grant condition OIG says was never monitored, not a Budget and Performance program failure. 4. Performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems cannot decide to delay a rule yet after a grant condition OIG says was never monitored; hold is the only Government close a department writing an RIA under a tight clock can defend.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Map eligibility, appropriation, and program rules in performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems after a grant condition OIG says was never monitored. 2. Name the statutory hook that performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems does or does not support. 3. Test a single-case exception versus a control gap in a department writing an RIA under a tight clock. 4. For this Government Budget and Performance file, read performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems against a grant condition OIG says was never monitored and write the one fact that would move to delay a rule for performance-management analyst.

RECOMMENDATION Choose To delay a rule / Publish with a weaker RIA on this Government / Budget and Performance packet (performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems after a grant condition OIG says was never monitored). The follow-on Budget and Performance action is what performance-management analyst does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Government option on to delay a rule, then the evidence in performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems, then the action for performance-management analyst - Hypothesis scorecard against performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems: supported / rejected / untestable - What changes to delay a rule if a grant condition OIG says was never monitored is later withdrawn - Named option among To delay a rule, Publish with a weaker RIA and the fact that kills the others