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(1) improving the information base required for determining the effectiveness of new programs by such means as pilot testing, survey research, and other experimental and analytical techniques; (2) improving analytical and systematic evaluation of the effectivess of existing programs; (3) establishing maximum and minimum time limitations for program authorization; and (4) developing techniques of human resource accounting and other means of providing noneconomic as well as economic evaluation measures. Periodic (b) The Committee on the Budget of each House shall, from time ports to C orneg-r e s s. to time, report to its House the results of the study carried on by it under subsection (a), together with its recommendations. (c) Nothing in this section shall preclude studies to improve the budgetary process by any other committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate or any joint committee of the Congress. TITLE VIII—FISCAL AND BUDGETARY AND CONTROLS

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AMENDMENT TO LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION ACT O F 1970

SEC. 801. (a) So much of title II of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (31 U.'S.C. chapter 22) as precedes section 204 thereof is amended to read as follows: "TITLE II—FISCAL AND BUDGETARY A N D CONTROLS

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" P A R T 1-—FISCAL, BUDGETARY, AND PROGRAM-RELATED DATA AND INFORMATION " FEDERAL FISCAL, BUDGETARY, AND PROGRAM-RELATED DATA A N D INFORMATION SYSTEMS

"SEC. 201. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of the 3i use iisi. Office of Management and Budget, in cooperation with the Comptroller General of the United States, shall develop, establish, and maintain, for use by all Federal agencies, standardized data processing and information systems for fiscal, budgetary, and program-related data and information. The development, establishment, and maintenance of such systems shall be carried out so as to meet the needs of the various branches of the Federal Government and, insofar as practicable, of governments at the State and local level. "STANDARDIZATION

OF T E R M I N O L O G Y, DEFINITIONS, CLASSIFICATIONS,

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CODES FOR FISCAL, BUDGETARY, AND PROGRAM-RELATED DATA A N D INFORMATION

"SEC. 202. (a)(1) The Comptroller General of the United States, in ^i use iisa. cooperation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, shall develop, establish, maintain, and publish standard terminology, definitions, classifications, and codes for Federal fiscal, budgetary, and program-related data and information. The authority contained in this section shall include, but not be limited to, data and information pertaining to Federal fiscal policy, revenues,

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