Assess whether the RIA would survive OIRA and litigation from FOIA

SITUATION A storm that will exhaust the current allocation model put FOIA search-term and exemption log in front of grant-compliance officer in a reorganization that moves programs across bureaus. This Government / Budget and Performance decision is the RIA would survive from FOIA search-term and exemption log, and the live options are Pay or continue, Recoup, Deny.

DECISION Grant-compliance officer in a reorganization that moves programs across bureaus must choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold using FOIA search-term and exemption log after a storm that will exhaust the current allocation model.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Grant-compliance officer can defend Pay or continue from FOIA search-term and exemption log after a storm that will exhaust the current allocation model in a Government challenge. 2. Grant-compliance officer cannot defend Pay or continue from FOIA search-term and exemption log; Recoup is what the extract actually supports after a storm that will exhaust the current allocation model. 3. A storm that will exhaust the current allocation model never reached the population in FOIA search-term and exemption log — reopen intake, do not close the RIA would survive. 4. Two facts in FOIA search-term and exemption log after a storm that will exhaust the current allocation model conflict for grant-compliance officer; hold this Budget and Performance file.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Check notice and appeal timing around a storm that will exhaust the current allocation model. 2. Trace the audit trail grant-compliance officer would produce for oversight. 3. Map eligibility, appropriation, and program rules in FOIA search-term and exemption log after a storm that will exhaust the current allocation model. 4. For this Government Budget and Performance file, read FOIA search-term and exemption log against a storm that will exhaust the current allocation model and write the one fact that would move the RIA would survive for grant-compliance officer.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold on this Government / Budget and Performance packet (FOIA search-term and exemption log after a storm that will exhaust the current allocation model). The follow-on Budget and Performance 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 the RIA would survive, then the evidence in FOIA search-term and exemption log, then the action for grant-compliance officer - Hypothesis scorecard against FOIA search-term and exemption log: supported / rejected / untestable - What changes the RIA would survive if a storm that will exhaust the current allocation model is later withdrawn - Named option among Pay or continue, Recoup, Deny and the fact that kills the others