WASHINGTON – The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued new guidelines last week for federal agencies that directs them to wait to replace a vehicle at a minimum of 60,000 miles or at least three years.
The OMB added that it has already identified millions of dollars in savings by purchasing bulk fuel, reducing the fleet’s size, and adding hybrids.
The OMB also set new travel rules, ordering federal agencies to reduce spending on travel by 30%, requiring Deputy Secretaries to review any conference where an agency’s spending could exceed $100,000, and prohibiting agencies from spending more than $500,000 on a conference unless the agency’s Secretary approves a waiver.
The travel limits come in the wake of outrage over a GSA conference in 2010 where that agency spent roughly $800,000 on an event in Las Vegas for 300 GSA employees (you can see a video from the GSA's Acting Administrator Dan Tangherlini explaining what happened here).
