; (13) providing component heads with input on the management of their respective FOIA offices, including recruiting and hiring component FOIA officers, budget formulation, and organizational placement within each such component; (14) identifying and eliminating unnecessary and duplicative actions taken by the Department in the course of processing requests for information under such section 552; (15) preparing an annual report to Congress that includes— (A) a description of the activities of the Department that affect privacy during the fiscal year covered by the report, including complaints of privacy violations, implementation of section 552a of title 5, United States Code (popularly known as the Privacy Act of 1974), internal controls, and other matters; and (B) the number of new technology programs implemented in the Department during the fiscal year covered by the report, the number of such programs that the Chief Privacy Officer has evaluated to ensure that privacy protections are considered and implemented, the number of such programs that effectively implemented privacy protections into new technology programs, and an explanation of why any new programs did not effectively implement privacy protections; and (16) carrying out such other responsibilities as the Secretary determines are appropriate, consistent with this section. ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: (f) Reassignment of functions Notwithstanding subsection (a)(10), the Secretary may reassign the functions related to managing and processing requests for information under section 552 of title 5, United States Code, to another officer within the Department, consistent with requirements of such section. .