§17503 Data collection

Summary

Agency leaders must set up a system to find, collect, and study all costs their agency has for running, fixing, buying, and getting rid of motor vehicles. This covers vehicles the government owns or leases and private cars used for official work, and it must track obligations and outlays (money promised and money actually paid). The Administrator of General Services, working with the Comptroller General of the United States and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, must write rules on how agencies create and run these systems, what cost and use data to collect, and how to submit the data. Those rules must follow the accounting principles and standards from the Comptroller General, and every agency must follow them.