U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-12-472, Federal Advisory Groups: DOT and DOE Can Take Steps to Better Assess Duplication Risk and Enhance Usefulness. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2012. http://www.gao.gov/assets/590/589748.pdf (accessed 18 April 2012).

This report reviews the extent to which the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) and Department of Energy’s (DOE) assessment process helps ensure advisory group efforts are not duplicative and what challenges, if any, exist in assessing potential duplication. The report also reviews to what extent DOT and DOE advisory groups are useful in assisting their respective agencies in carrying out their missions and how the groups’ usefulness could be enhanced.