Assess whether to delay a rule or publish with a weaker RIA (17094b)

SITUATION Oversight and Records work in a city after an IG report on contracting now turns on to delay a rule because a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year put regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence in play. Performance-management analyst should say what regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence proves.

DECISION Performance-management analyst in a city after an IG report on contracting must choose To delay a rule / Publish with a weaker RIA using regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence after a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. The population in regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence is the one a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year named, so To delay a rule follows for this Oversight and Records file. 2. The population in regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence is adjacent only to a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year; Publish with a weaker RIA is the honest Government call. 3. A city after an IG report on contracting already contained a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year before regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence arrived; no new Oversight and Records path. 4. Provenance on regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence after a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year is broken; do not pick To delay a rule or Publish with a weaker RIA yet.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Trace the audit trail performance-management analyst would produce for oversight. 2. Map eligibility, appropriation, and program rules in regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence after a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year. 3. Name the statutory hook that regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence does or does not support. 4. For this Government Oversight and Records file, read regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence against a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year 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 / Oversight and Records packet (regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence after a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year). The follow-on Oversight and Records 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 regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence, then the action for performance-management analyst - Hypothesis scorecard against regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence: supported / rejected / untestable - Missing page in regulatory-impact cost model with thin evidence after a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year, if any - Regulatory or exam hook Oversight and Records would cite