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OMB and Agency Responsibilities
Section 515(a) of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations
Act, FY 2001 (P.L. 106-554), directed the Director, Office of Management
and Budget (OMB), to issue guidelines that provide policy and procedural
guidance to Federal agencies for ensuring and maximizing the quality,
objectivity, utility, and integrity of information (including statistical
information) disseminated by Federal agencies in fulfillment of the purposes
and provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act. OMB issued its final guidelines
on September 28, 2001. Subsequent guidance was issued by OMB on February
22, 2002 (67 FR 8452). These guidelines require agencies subject to the
Paperwork Reduction Act, including the NRC, to
- Issue their own information quality guidelines ensuring and maximizing
the quality, utility, integrity, and objectivity of information disseminated
by the agency;
- Establish an administrative mechanism allowing affected persons to
seek and obtain correction of information maintained and disseminated
by the agency that does not comply with these guidelines; and
- Report annually to the Director of OMB the number and nature of complaints
received by the agency regarding compliance with these guidelines concerning
the quality, utility, integrity, and objectivity of information and
how such complaints were resolved.
The OMB guidelines further establish the following schedule:
May 1, 2002
- Publish the draft report in the Federal Register requesting public
comment that provides NRC's information quality guidelines and explaining
how these guidelines will ensure and maximize the quality, utility,
integrity, and objectivity of information disseminated by the NRC. The
NRC must also post the draft report for public comment on the NRC Web
site.
August 1, 2002
- Submit to OMB for review the agency's revised quality guidelines that
reflect public comments.
October 1, 2002
- Publish in the Federal Register a notice of availability of
the final NRC guidelines and post the guidelines on the NRC public Web
site.
- Ensure that information covered by these guidelines and disseminated
for the first time by NRC on or after this date has undergone reviews
for quality.
January 1, 2004 and each January 1 thereafter
- Submit to the Director of OMB a report on the number and nature of
complaints received by NRC regarding NRC's compliance with these OMB
guidelines and the resolution of complaints received.
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