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The Postal Service must send a strategic plan of its program activities to the President and Congress by September 30, 1997. The plan must cover at least five years from the fiscal year it is sent and be updated at least every three years. It must include six things: a mission statement describing its main jobs; general and results-focused goals; how the goals will be reached, including needed processes, skills, technology, people, money, information, and other resources; how performance goals fit with the general goals; outside factors it cannot control that could affect success; and the program reviews used to set or change goals with a schedule for future reviews. Any separate performance plan must match the strategic plan and cannot cover a fiscal year that the current strategic plan does not include. When making the plan, the Postal Service must ask for and consider input from people or groups who might be affected or interested, and must tell Congress what is in the plan.

Title 39, §2802

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(a)No later than September 30, 1997, the Postal Service shall submit to the President and the Congress a strategic plan for its program activities. Such plan shall contain—

(1)a comprehensive mission statement covering the major functions and operations of the Postal Service;

(2)general goals and objectives, including outcome-related goals and objectives, for the major functions and operations of the Postal Service;

(3)a description of how the goals and objectives are to be achieved, including a description of the operational processes, skills and technology, and the human, capital, information, and other resources required to meet those goals and objectives;

(4)a description of how the performance goals included in the plan required under section 2803 shall be related to the general goals and objectives in the strategic plan;

(5)an identification of those key factors external to the Postal Service and beyond its control that could significantly affect the achievement of the general goals and objectives; and

(6)a description of the program evaluations used in establishing or revising general goals and objectives, with a schedule for future program evaluations.

(b)The strategic plan shall cover a period of not less than five years forward from the fiscal year in which it is submitted, and shall be updated and revised at least every three years.

(c)The performance plan required under section 2803 shall be consistent with the Postal Service’s strategic plan. A performance plan may not be submitted for a fiscal year not covered by a current strategic plan under this section.

(d)When developing a strategic plan, the Postal Service shall solicit and consider the views and suggestions of those entities potentially affected by or interested in such a plan, and shall advise the Congress of the contents of the plan.

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Strategic Planning Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(f) [title VI, § 662(d)], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–314, 3009–381, provided that: “(1) Office of inspector general of the united states postal service.—“(A) In general.—Strategic plans shall be prepared under this paragraph addressing staffing requirements, general goals and objectives for major functions and operations of the Office of Inspector General of the United States Postal Service, and how goals and objectives of the Office are to be achieved, including a description of operational processes, skills and technology, and the human, capital, information, and other resources required to meet those goals and objectives. “(B) Specific requirements.—Plans under this paragraph—“(i) shall be prepared by the Inspector General of the United States Postal Service; “(ii) shall each cover a 5-year period (the beginning and ending dates of which shall be specified in each such plan); and “(iii) shall be included, as part of the annual budget required under section 2009 of title 39, United States Code, at least every 3 years. “(C) First submission.—The first plan under this paragraph shall be prepared in time to be included with the annual budget under section 2009 of title 39, United States Code, next due to be submitted after the end of the 6-month period beginning on the date of the appointment of the first Inspector General to be appointed pursuant to the

Amendments

made by this section [amending section 102, 202, 204, 410, and 1003 of this title, section 5315 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, and section 8G of the Inspector General Act of 1978, Pub. L. 95–452, formerly set out in the Appendix to Title 5, and renumbering another section 8G of the Inspector General Act of 1978 as 8H]. “(2) Postal inspection service.—The Chief Postal Inspector shall, with respect to the Postal Inspection Service, prepare a strategic plan similar in content to that required under paragraph (1)(A) with respect to the Office of Inspector General of the United States Postal Service. Such plan shall be prepared in time to be included with the annual budget under section 2009 of such title 39 next due to be submitted after the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act [Sept. 30, 1996].”

§2802 Strategic Plans

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Title 39, §2802

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