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Senator MACK. In light of that article in the Post this morning, I thought maybe you were just going to hand me your statement on a disk here this afternoon.

Mr. DIMARIO. Well, that would have been convenient. We do have a few CD-ROM's here to show what we are doing for other agencies and for the Congress. We do extensive CD-ROM work and are moving very, very rapidly in the electronics arena. I think that you will see that from our presentation.

COST REDUCTION

Our major thrust in cost reduction has been the extensive utilization of technology over the years as a means of reducing staffing levels and also to keep the office as a modernized structure.

I think much of the criticism that has been about GPO is really based on a lot of information from the past, as opposed to current information about what GPO is really doing and where it is headed.

I would invite you and all members of the subcommittee to GPO to see the level of activity that we have initiated in terms of the modernization of the office.

75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 1995 and 1998 are Projected Estimates

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As you can see from the chart that we have exhibited, from 1975 through a projected 1996 figure, we have moved from approximately 8,500 full-time equivalent employees to 4,000 FTE's.

That is an achievement that we have undertaken through attrition and not by any extraordinary means except for last year's buyout.

A recent survey of the electronic capabilities of depository libraries vast majority now have personal computers, CD-ROM capability, Internet. Eventually, these capabilities will allow anyone to conne home, or office to GPO's Access service databases, the storage tronic locator via a depository gateway.

Other Distribution Programs.-The Superintendent of Doc sections 1710 and 1711 of Title 44 to index and classify G and prepare the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Pub authoritative descriptions of Government documents. Acc body of publications printed by GPO is especially imports mission. This program is funded by the S&E Appropri 1994 was $3.2 million.

Under various sections of Title 44, the Superinten to distribute certain publications free of charge to These include the Congressional Record (the CP&P of printing copies of the Congressional Record fo Appropriation pays for distributing them). This Appropriation. Funding in fiscal year 1994 was Under international treaties, which were su Title 44, U.S. Government publications such tributed to foreign libraries in exchange for ments, which are shipped to the Library of program and GPO distributes the publicat Appropriation. Fiscal year 1994 funding v

Section 1701 of Title 44 authorizes the publications on behalf of Federal agen cies. This is a reimbursable operation publishing agencies. There is no dire largest reimbursable operation is th which is run by GPO on behalf of distributes free and low cost con GPO generated total revenues of ties, yielding a net income of $2

Mr. Chairman and Member statement. I trust this inform eration of GPO. Again, my st Subcommittee, and I would'

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which is a followup, it will see from 1990 how we have that I took over as the Acting

thority by Congress to offer a of Personnel Management for auduced the staff at that time by

attrition. We are down by some 722

at trend to downsize consistent At the same time, we have to be est Congress demands.

the increased use of technology and aston of our processes on an ongoing basis. ent reviews, and we are, I think, following we could move into our second set of charts,

GPO FUNCTIONS

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s that 80 percent all confined to the part of the you are doing it for other agencies of the Federal opposed to your responsibilities with respect to the e bills and so forth?

RIO. Yes, sir; the bulk of our contracting out is for the ranch. However, there are some executive branch prodwe do internally because we think it is the better way of And the agencies concur.

example, we do all U.S. passports in-house. That is not a ased product. It is a high-security document. We have, over years, built the technology necessary for the production of pass

rts.

In fact, with respect to the bindery line, I am not aware of any operation in the United States that could, in fact, produce the passports currently. Although, there are some foreign manufacturers of passports.

The paper itself is a high-security document. There are certain security features built into the products. The State Department and other agencies responsible for security generally have supported the in-house production of the passports.

We also are producing postal cards in-house, which have a monetary value, just like stamps do. We have done that for many, many years. That is an executive branch product.

We produce the Federal Register in-house, as well as the Code of Federal Regulations products that are spun off from the Federal Register. Like the Congressional Record, the Federal Register is a daily publication.

So those products are done on a regular basis in-plant. The Commerce Business Daily is done that way, which must get out information rapidly and equitably. And that again has some consequential data that, if it is released on an early basis, could give someone an economic advantage. So there is a sense that it is responsible to produce the Commerce Business Daily in-house.

With respect to other products, many are just purely discretionary. They come into the office from the agencies. We look at the product with respect to whether or not we can utilize it to offset

temporary declines in workload, primarily congressional workload, and utilize it on our existing equipment.

Not all printing jobs can be utilized cost effectively in that way. So we do use some in-plant executive branch work to balance the congressional work. We do the U.S. Budget in-plant, as an example.

That is a very large job. And again, it is a sequestered kind of document until it is released and requires a high degree of security. But most publications are not like that. When they come into GPO, we make those kinds of decisions. If it lends itself to being procured, we will go out that way, because we will get a better price for it.

The nature of the work in the agency is such that we give a high priority to congressional work and the demands of Congress because Congress is our primary customer. The same with the Office of the President. We give those two offices the highest support.

REVOLVING FUND PROGRAMS

Senator MACK. All right. Well, let me let you go ahead and continue with your statement.

Mr. DIMARIO. Well, in terms of the chart, you were asking about the various programs, I indicated the in-plant function, and we have fairly well covered that.

We have $549.7 million in purchased printing compared to inplant printing of $194.5 million.

In addition, we have regional printing. You can see that smaller segment. That represents the small printing plant capability that we have in the regions, $7.4 million.

Sales of publications through the Office of the Superintendent of Documents represents $81.6 million. I will skip the others.

What is not represented on this chart is the salaries and expense appropriation for the Office of the Superintendent of Documents. which funds the depository library program and the international exchange program.

It also allows us to do the cataloging and indexing of those publications, all required by law. That is part of the appropriation that we request. Congressional printing and binding is in title I, and the salaries and expenses appropriation of the Superintendent of Documents is in title II.

Senator MACK. Title II being the what?

Mr. DIMARIO. Title II of the legislative branch appropriations bill.

Senator MACK. OK.

Mr. DIMARIO. Following this chart, there is another revolving fund chart that indicates the comparison of in-house and commercial printing and binding. In the previous chart, the total was $862.3 million.

In this chart, because it is only dealing with the printing and binding, it does not include the sale of publications and other programs. It is $775 million in rough figures.

That breaks down to $549.7 million in procured printing and inhouse production of $201.8 million. The other revenues represent the sale of paper.

We buy paper for other agencies of Government in the Washington area, and we sell that paper to them.

We have another chart following this, which breaks down the plant printing. There is no procured printing on this. This now is only looking at the central office plant. It does not include our regional plants. It is only our central office plant. And as you can

Senator MACK. And the regional is very-$7 and some million. Mr. DIMARIO. Yes, sir; as you can see, this chart is virtually split down the middle between agency printing and congressional printing. Of the agency printing, that is the work I indicated, the Federal Register, passports, postal cards, the Code of Federal Regulations.

You can see congressional printing is roughly one-half of all central office plant printing.

WORK FLOW

I think you might be interested in how we operate internally. We make these decisions on the number of copies needed for distribution and how everything flows through the office. We have a chart that illustrates that.