An ad hoc steering committee will be appointed to organize a 1-day, public workshop to comment on existing high-level guidelines for federal program evaluation and consider issues in developing a broader document, which might follow the model of the CNSTAT publication, Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency. The steering committee will commission papers to review and comment on existing agency policies for federal program evaluation, which generally reference such principles as rigor, relevance, transparency, independence, and ethics, as well as objectivity, clarity, reproducibility, and usefulness. The steering committee will develop an agenda for the workshop, including sessions that discuss the commissioned papers, consider ways to build on existing documents, including drawing lessons from CNSTAT's experience in developing Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency, and identify issues for agencies to consider should they decide to develop a P&P for federal program evaluation or take other steps to bolster the integrity and protect the objectivity of the evaluation function. A rapporteur will prepare a summary of the workshop consistent with institutional guidelines.