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Accessing The National Performance Review: Revised Instructions
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 11:08:08 -0500
To: Clinton-News-Distribution () campaign92 org Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 17:50-0400 From: The White House <75300.3115 () compuserve com> Reply-To: Clinton-Info () campaign92 org Subject: Accessing The National Performance Review: Revised Instructions Supersedes: <19930907175920.0.MAIL-SERVER () CLINTON AI MIT EDU> A copy of this document can be retrieved from: npr () ace esusda gov VICE PRESIDENT GORE'S REPORT ON REINVENTING GOVERNMENT The National Performance Review, Vice President Gore's task force on reinventing government, announces the release of _>From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government that Works Better and Costs Less_. On March 3, 1993, President Clinton asked Vice President Gore to lead the first real quality revolution of the federal government. The National Performance Review (NPR) was launched to analyze every federal agency and expenditure. Now the task force has produced a report with specific recommendations not only for cutting waste and reducing costs, but also for changing the very way the government works to make it more responsive and more effective. In his remarks at the ceremony releasing the report this morning, President Clinton encouraged every concerned American to read this report. In the interest of making the report as widely available as possible, _>From Red Tape to Results_, the 180-page overview report, is being made available in print, on CD-ROM, and in an electronic edition. An executive summary, 30 pages in length, will also be made available. In addition to these summary reports, there will be 38 monograph reports focusing on cross-cutting issues and on specific agencies. As they are released during September, these reports will be distributed in a manner similar to _>From Red Tape to Results_. PRINT COPY AVAILABLE The print report may be ordered from the Government Printing Office by calling 202-783-3238. Cite stock number 040-000-00592-7 when ordering the overview, and stock number 040-000-00591-9 for the executive summary. The print report may also be purchased at GPO bookstores. An alternative source for a high quality reproduction print is available from NTIS. They can be contacted at (703) 487-4650 ELECTRONIC ACCESS Any user who has access to Internet electronic mail can retrieve the full text version of the National Performance Review documents by following these simple steps. 1. Send a message to: almanac () ace esusda gov. 2. In the body of the message, include the following text: send npr nprintro send npr npr01 send npr npr02 send npr npr03 send npr npr04 send npr nprconc send npr nprend send npr nappenbc In addition, the following documents are also available through the almanac () ace esusda gov electronic mail server. send npr help - This document send npr nprcomments - Remarks from the President and Vice President on the NPR send npr npr_background - NPR Background Briefing send npr otr_brief - Osborne & Sharp OTR Briefing For users with access to gopher, these same documents can be accessed through the esusda.gov gopher. Menu item number 12 is National Performance Review. Open menu item number 12 and browse the White House / Vice President Gore documents. _>From Red Tape to Results_ may also be retrieved via anonymous file transfer from the Department of Commerce Internet system. To get the report, type the following commands: ftp cu.nih.gov Userid> anonymous Password> your email address cd usdoc-oba-info ascii get nprintro.asc get npr01.asc get npr02.asc get npr03.asc get npr04.asc get nprconc.asc get nprend.asc get nappena.asc get nappenbc.asc bye _>From Red Tape to Results_ is also available via ftp, WAIS, Gopher, World Wide Web, and Mosaic on the SunSITE server at the University of North Carolina (sunsite.unc.edu or 152.2.22.81). For anonymous ftp, look in pub/academic/political-science/National-Performance-Review For WAIS clients, get National-Performance-Review.src from the directory of servers. For gopher, point your client to SunSITE.unc.edu and select menu option 13, National Performance Review For WWW and Mosaic, multimedia hypertext access can be found beginning at: hhtp://sunsite.unc.edu/unchome.html Users without WAIS or gopher clients may telnet to sunsite.unc.edu and login as gopher. SunSITE also supports ftpmail access; send a mail message of HELP to: ftpmail () sunsite unc edu for details. _>From Red Tape to Results_ will also be distributed by the Commerce Department's Economic Bulletin Board (EBB) beginning September 7, 1993. We anticipate that the NPR monographs will also be available on the EBB as they are issues. EBB subscribers may obtain the complete overview report for less than $5.00. Nonsubscribers may subscribe for $35 and receive full access to the report for no additional charge and obtain access to over 2,000 files covering current economic and business news issues by the U.S. Government. Call 202-482-1986 for more information. Free telnet access is also available to EBB (telnet ebb.stat-usa.gov and use TRIAL as userid). _>From Red Tape to Results_ may also be downloaded from the FedWorld Bulletin Board, maintained by the National Technical Information Service. Set software parameters for N-8-1 and dial 703-321-8020. FedWorld accomodates baud rates up to 9600. FedWorld is also accessible via telnet using the address fedworld.doc.gov. White House papers are located in the W-house library of files. To access this library from the FedWorld menu, enter <f> <s> <w-house>. Files are named with the release month and day as the first four digits. Hence _>From Red Tape to Results_, release on September 7, is file 0907NPR.TXT, the 30-page executive summary is 0907NPR2.TXT, and the 3-page press release is 0907NPR3.TXT. Further information about FedWorld can be obtained by calling (voice) 703-487-4648. CD-ROM The overview report will also be available for archive and research purposes on the National Economic, Social, and Environmental Data Bank (NESE-DB) CD-ROM produced by the Department of Commerce. _>From Red Tape to Results_ will be available on the August 1993 issue of NESE-DB. We anticipate that the complete report including all monographs will be available on the November 1993 issue. NESE-DB may be purchased for $95 per issue or $360 per annual subscription (issued quarterly). The CD-ROM is also available for free public access in 860 federal depository libraries located througout the country. NESE-DB may be ordered by contacting: Office of Business Analysis Room H4884 Department of Commerce Washington, DC 20230 Telephone: 202-482-1986 Fax: 202-482-2164 COMMERCIAL SERVICES Several commercial services have also indicated an interest in posting NPR documents and in hosting a series of NPR topic focus-area conferences. This list is offered for your assistance but is not intended to recommend or promote any of these commercial services. America Online: On America Online, compressed versions of the entire National Performance Revicew documents are easily accessible by going to keyword: WHITE HOUSE, or by locating the White House Forum in the News & Finance Department. The files are available for downloading in the White House Forum's download library. CompuServe: GO WHITEHOUSE and GO DEMOCRATS GEnie: THE WHITE HOUSE ROUNDTABLE on GEnie(R) The White House RoundTable is your connection to the OFFICIAL Electronic Press Releases and announcements from the White House Office of Media Affairs, including the newly released National Performance Review Report. To access White House RoundTable, type "WHITEHOUSE". To download the National Performance Review Report, type "MOVE 1600;3" from anywhere on GEnie, and use menu option #6 to download file# 628 NPR90793.ZIP. (This is a compressed ASCII text file that expands to 530K) For GEnie connect information, call voice 800-638-9636. The WELL: Type: "whitehouse" MCI: type "VIEW THE WHITEHOUSE" On Peacenet or Econet: See pol.govinfo.usa Thank you for your interest.
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