Assess whether to delay a rule or publish with a weaker RIA (b91032)

SITUATION A department writing an RIA under a tight clock cannot treat an IG draft that will go public Thursday as incidental context on performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems. Grant-compliance officer must close to delay a rule from that extract under Government / Policy and Grants.

DECISION Grant-compliance officer 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 an IG draft that will go public Thursday.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems reads as To delay a rule once an IG draft that will go public Thursday is maps to the same Government population. 2. Performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems is closer to Publish with a weaker RIA after an IG draft that will go public Thursday; To delay a rule would over-claim this Policy and Grants extract. 3. A dual reading is still live in performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems for grant-compliance officer in a department writing an RIA under a tight clock. 4. Performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems is missing the fact grant-compliance officer needs after an IG draft that will go public Thursday; stop this Government close.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Trace the audit trail grant-compliance officer would produce for oversight. 2. Map eligibility, appropriation, and program rules in performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems after an IG draft that will go public Thursday. 3. Name the statutory hook that performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems does or does not support. 4. For this Government Policy and Grants file, read performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems against an IG draft that will go public Thursday and write the one fact that would move to delay a rule for grant-compliance officer.

RECOMMENDATION Choose To delay a rule / Publish with a weaker RIA on this Government / Policy and Grants packet (performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems after an IG draft that will go public Thursday). The follow-on Policy and Grants action is what grant-compliance officer 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 grant-compliance officer - Hypothesis scorecard against performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems: supported / rejected / untestable - Owner and next date for grant-compliance officer in a department writing an RIA under a tight clock - What changes to delay a rule if an IG draft that will go public Thursday is later withdrawn