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...staff or by Workgroup members and produced reports that assess the feasibility of implementing administrative consolidations. The Workgroups were extremely successful in objectively assessing the feasibility of administrative consolidations, and in many cases actively support consolidations. Workgroup Role - Most Workgroups viewed their task as exploring the feasibility of administrative consolidations, not recommending the consolidations. Consequently, individual Workgroup members sometimes expressed reservations about the wisdom, value, and benefits of a particular consolidation while conceding that the consolidation could feasibly be implemented. HHS Workgroups succeeded in identifying feasible administrative consolidations Consolidation Defined - In this material, the term "consolidation" means to establish a single line of authority, or point of management control, for a function within the HHS enterprise. For example, consolidation of oversight and management control of the Human Resources function would yield a single manager for the HR function who would direct policy and operations across all enterprise agencies as well as the e...