SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

FedCenter has been a great tool from an environmental compliance standpoint for Federal Agencies. I would strongly encourage using a similar site for occupational safety (OSHA) compliance standpoint.

As there is this big push to get out of regulating business. Let's get rid of the Patent & Trademark Office. If business is so good at self regualting and policing, let them handle these issues themselves as well! This is not something the government should be involved in.

Everyone's attention is focused on "fixing the Tax Code". However, I believe that many Federal laws and regulations are so illogical or enacted for strictly political purposes that merely complying with them either adds unnecessarily to our deficit or hamstrings agencies' efforts save a meaningful amount of money. I think that Congress should empanel a group of independent regulatory and economic experts to review all... more »

it seems the threshold for value added vs fraud waste and abuse avoided was crossed years ago. the expense of laws, regulations and directives regarding federal acquisition designed to prevent fraud waste and abuse are likely far exceeding the benefits. we could perhaps regulate simply by having tougher penalties for fraud waste and abuse, penalties that are surely motivators to prevent it, as well as rewards for highlighting... more »

Make all agencies immediately change to USAJOBS for the application process. The regulation requiring all agencies to change to USAJOBS was passed in 2008. It's 2011, and there are still Agencies that have their own hiring application platform. It's time to enforce the regulation.

When a landowner or government agency wants to get a permit to dredge or fill a wetland, is it really necessary to have 4 or 5 government agencies review the project? I think a lot of times there is too much overlap in environmental regulation. The amount of government time spent reviewing the smaller scale impacts can be overwhelming and very costly when you consider the number of people involved in the permit review... more »