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The '''Program Assessment Rating Tool''', or '''PART''', was a program run through the United States [[Office of Management and Budget]] to rate the effectiveness of all federal programs, PART was instituted by President [[George W. Bush]] in 2002. It was discontinued by the [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama Administrationadministration]].

PART was spearheaded by OMB Director [[Mitch Daniels]]. OMB staff designed PART and set the final evaluation assigned to a program.

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==History==

PART was introduced in the 2004 Fiscal Year Federal budget. The [[Presidency of George W. Bush|Bush Administrationadministration]] claimed that PART built upon previous efforts of American presidents to make sure federal programs were accountable and achieved results.<ref>{{cite web |author =| title=FY 2004 Budget Chapter Introducing the PART: Rating the Performance of Federal Programs | publisher=whitehouse.gov | date= February 7, 2005 | url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/part/| access-date=2008-09-17 |url-status =dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080616222524/http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/part/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2008-06-16}}</ref> PART grew out of an early Bush administration blueprint for administration called the President's Management Agenda, which set a goal of integrating performance data with the federal budgeting process.

==Implementation==