 These
guidelines pertain to descriptive information about USDA, its
component agencies and offices, and their administrative processes. Examples
include the agencies' history, functions, and legislative authorities;
their organization charts, the offices within the agencies and
their functions; the agencies' strategic and performance plans;
and information pertaining to the agencies' administrative processes. The
information quality criteria included in USDA's General Information
Quality Guidelines comprise the quality standards that USDA agencies
and offices will follow in developing and reviewing organizational
information and disseminating it to the public. These supplementary
guidelines focus largely on making the information useful to
the public.
- Information should be comprehensive.
The information should include all pertinent information to
allow the public to understand the agency's legislative authorities,
mission, activities, organization, strategic plan, performance
plan, and performance accomplishments.
- Information should be timely and reflect the most current
information available.
- Information sources should be documented.
Where appropriate, users should be provided with additional
documentation or with method(s) to access supporting documentation
by reference (e.g., citations) or by electronic means (e.g., "links").
- Information should comply with applicable public laws,
rules, regulations, and departmental directives, instructions
and guidelines.
All information should comply with current departmental policies
and guidelines that govern dissemination of administrative materials
to the public. The information also should comply with the requirements
of applicable public laws, such as the Government Performance and Results
Act of 1993.
- Information should be accessible.
Make the information easily accessible to the public, make
it available in media-print, electronic, visual, audio, etc.-,
which are appropriate to accomplish that objective.
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