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UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY


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April 17. 30]?

OFFICE OF
THE ADMINISTRATOR

EMORANDUM

SUBJECT: Relorming the Federal and Reducing the Workforce

   
    

FROM: Michael Flyni
Acting Deputy Admmistrato

T0: General Counsel
Assistant Administrators
Inspector General
Chiefliinancial Of?cer
Chief of Staff
Associate Administrators
Regional Administrators

On April 2017. the Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum that
provides Uuidancc on implementing a comprehensive plan for reforming the federal government
and reducing the workforce. The guidance requires the lollowing four deliy'erables by .lune 3t}.
2017:

Draft Agency Reform Plan:

Draft Agency FY 2-018 2022 Strategic Plan;
Draft ?t?v?orkforee Reduction Plan: and

Plan to Maximize limployec Performance.

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Final plans for the first are due in September with the OMB budget submission. The
guidance outlines a number ofdifferent requirements and speaks to the interrelationships between
the different plans.

A workgroup recently was tormed to begin scoping out an approach to dey'eloping an
Agency Reform Plan. The April 12 OMB memorandum also addresses the requirement issued
earlier to reduce the size ofthc federal workforce. While this memorandum ends the 
wide hiring freeze. each agency must determine based on its situation if a hiring freeze should
continue.

Given our resource situation. we will eontinu a freeze on external hiring. Very limited
exceptions to this external hiring freeze may be permitted on a case?by-case basis with approval

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by the Acting Deputy Administrator. Internal reassignments may proceed where appropriate. but
Senior Resource Of?cial approval will be required it'the reassignment is across NPMs or regions.

The 0MB guidance also requires all agencies to begin taking immediate actions on near-
term workforce reductions. In light olithis guidance. we will begin the steps necessary to initiate
an early outfbuy out program. Our goal is to complete this program by the end of
FY 2017?.

I appreciate vour patience as we work through the details of the guidance and will work



with you as we more forward.

cc: Administrator
Deputy Assistant Administrators
Deputy Regional Administrators
Assistant Regional Administrators